BS: The great Squirrel Chase

Subject: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: olddude
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 11:53 AM

Well it is very unusual to have this warm weather in March, so I left the sliding glass door open on my deck. Well you know I have 4 dogs, 3 are wiener dogs and one is a fat black bear dog. My town is filled with squirrels and not the human kind either. Well ya got it, a big grey wandered into my house.

Dogs went nuts, squirrel went nuts, jumping on everything, climbing up the curtains. Chaos ensued .. to say the least. My Mrs is off to a play and I am home alone. Trying to get the dogs outside, catch the critter from room to room.

finally I nailed him with a fishing net. It was right out of the Chevy Chase Christmas vacation movie ...

now I gotta straight out all the knocked over stuff, including my coffee cup ... Good morning olddude

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 11:59 AM

Don't forget to clean up all that squirrel and dog crap.

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 12:01 PM

I'd pay to see a dachshund climb a curtain!

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: gnu
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 12:03 PM

You DID get video eh?

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 12:08 PM

The last time I went thru that, I got him in a trash can then slid a cookie sheet under and ran outside (in my nightie) to toss the little guy out. Of the course the door locked behind me and there i was in the middle of the street half dressed and trying to wake my son up to let me in.
My squirrel ate his way in thru a screen to get at a bowl of fruit.
Fun, No? Dude?

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: olddude
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 12:23 PM

Sins, I would pay good money to see that one ... Laughing OMG and I thought I had trouble ...

Richard I thought the min wiener dogs were going to take flight. They were pulling at the curtain total Choas. My 130 lb fat black dog was on a mission to eat the squirrel .. What a morning .

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: olddude
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 12:29 PM

Rap
forget the dog and squirrel crap, gotta change my own unders
dang thing, I should have ate him instead of leaving him go ... crazy animals ... such is my life

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: number 6
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 12:33 PM

Our greyhound CoCo the Beeno hates squirrels.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: Bettynh
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 02:30 PM

The best squirrel story ever is here. Click on "Act two: squirrel cop."

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 03:27 PM

We've got a flying squirrel hanging out somewhere in the kitchen. I talked at him the other night. Tom's the only one of us to figure out the Hav-A-Heart and he, alas, won't be home for awhile.

The cats are useless. I think Rufus is keeping the squirrel as a pet. Sabine has retired from being Sheena Queen of the Jungle and Scourge of Flying .

What's the world coming to?

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 03:55 PM

Yup Linn, use a fishing net if you find him ... those critters are darn fast ... I chased him from room to room as he ran over everything in the house

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 03:56 PM

at one point he took off under my couch, I grabbed his bushy little tail and nearly got nailed before I let go ... he was kinda upset

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: gnu
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 05:04 PM

Well, when got em by the tail, there is a way to stop them from biting you but I ain't gonna post it. Might be some squirrel huggers read it.

Linn... ya try Google or You Tube for using the trap?

Squirrels are rats with bushy tails.

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: Janie
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 05:11 PM

Betty that story had me rolling in the floor!

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: Deckman
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 05:18 PM

But ... they sure taste good!

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: gnu
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 05:20 PM

I can't get "Act two: squirrel cop." to play.

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: Bettynh
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 05:28 PM

Arggh, can you hear the entire thing (click on play at the top)? I'm sick of this business of NPR shutting out non-Americans. If you can play the entire podcast, act 2 starts at about 19 minutes.

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 11:41 PM

When you grabbed the squirrel's tail, you forgot the old saying "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." You just grabbed the wrong part.

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 11:55 PM

so true Rap, so true

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 12:39 AM

So this is what you do on your time off!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 12:54 AM

YUP :-)

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 10:09 PM

A young squirrel got into our house once. What a to do! The cat shot back and forth, back and forth at high speed, yelling "Let me at it!" while the squirrel shot all around the house.

Finally it took shelter behind the wardrobe near the front door. We tossed the cat into a room and closed the door, and my husband took a walking stick and tried to nudge it gently toward the door. It mistook that for an attack, and screamed the most piteous screams of terror and pleading. Then it suddenly saw the open door and shot out of the house.

I hope the people who make horror movies never hear that sound, because if they used it in a movie, no viewers would ever sleep for quite a while.

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 11:12 PM

Betty,

Yes, you CAN listen to the whole thing from outside the US (hurrah!).
Great link! Thanks...

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 26 Mar 12 - 10:46 AM

"Squirrels are rats with bushy tails."

No, they aren't. Squirrels won't come in your dwelling and bite your baby. They don't gnaw through everything, including concrete.

I wish the squirrels would leave my tomatoes alone, but I wouldn't trade them for rats, nosirree.

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 09:30 AM

Squirrels taste better, too.

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: ranger1
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 10:33 AM

Don't insult rats by comparing them to squirrels. Rats are extremely intelligent and squirrels are pretty stupid. And while I'm not overly fond of the run of the mill sewer rat, I do like the domestic ones that can be found in pet stores.

Subject: RE: BS: The great Squirrel Chase
From: Greg F.
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 10:40 AM

Squirrels stupid? Ya wouldn't know it from the way they're able to evade and/or figure out every ploy I've tried over the years to keep 'em out of my bird feeders.

But I've got nothing against rats.