Going Squirrely

[TheGreyRonin]

 Saw this article and RJ was the first person that came to mind, along with the other squirrely folks around here.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061211/ap_on_re_us/city_squirrels

[ITOS]

Depressing article... there is an 80% chance that RJ (or any other squirrel here) will die in a car accident.

[Aridas]

But RJ's got muffins, and the other squirrels have... other stuff, to fend off cars and things.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Depressing article... there is an 80% chance that RJ (or any other squirrel here) will die in a car accident.

... only if she's been tagged with a radio collar...

[thegayhare]

"Look look I found my nuts"

Oddly I've discovered the perfect way to keep squirrels out of the bird feeders.

You stretch a rope between two trees
you then compleatly thread the rope threw plastic rollers ( I used the platic cores from the rolls of recipte paper from work)
You have to make sure the rope is fairly taunt but you then hang your feeders in the middle.  Making dure the feeders are far enough from any trees that squirrels can't get at them from there.

basicly this way the squirrels can't keep there balance on the rollers so they can't get to the feeders

[RJ]

Darn you, Mr Scientist! Did you REALLY have to do all that just to prove that I have no road sense!?

*chases an acorn into the path of an incoming semi-trailer*

[Zedd]

Say RJ wanna bring some revange? Hm? Ya wanan join Jame and Mikia?

[RJ]

Say RJ wanna bring some revange? Hm? Ya wanan join Jame and Mikia?

As long as we don't agree to meet on a highway again...  That last time was a close one.

[Zedd]

Say RJ wanna bring some revange? Hm? Ya wanan join Jame and Mikia?

As long as we don't agree to meet on a highway again...  That last time was a close one.

Belive me...Were going to experment on their children 

[Shadrok]

"Look look I found my nuts"

Oddly I've discovered the perfect way to keep squirrels out of the bird feeders.

You stretch a rope between two trees
you then compleatly thread the rope threw plastic rollers ( I used the platic cores from the rolls of recipte paper from work)
You have to make sure the rope is fairly taunt but you then hang your feeders in the middle.  Making dure the feeders are far enough from any trees that squirrels can't get at them from there.

basicly this way the squirrels can't keep there balance on the rollers so they can't get to the feeders

I think I saw something like that on Funniest Animal videos once and the squirrel did make it to the feeder.

DMFA squirrels + car =                    

Squirrelly wrath.

[Miaka]

Say RJ wanna bring some revange? Hm? Ya wanan join Jame and Mikia?

As long as we don't agree to meet on a highway again...  That last time was a close one.

I will never be the same.... *shudder*

[KarlOmega1]

*carries the squirrels to a safe place to meet*

Remember, Stay outta the streets...   

[Zedd]

Say RJ wanna bring some revange? Hm? Ya wanan join Jame and Mikia?

As long as we don't agree to meet on a highway again...  That last time was a close one.

I will never be the same.... *shudder*

There there...Have a sammich

[Valynth]

My parents have some pecan trees in our yard that they occasionally harvest.  Naturally this means we're at a declared war with the local squirrel population.  Our main weapon of choice is the standard cage trap, squirrel goes in for the bait nut, hits the lever and the door comes down.  We then transport the squirrel a good distance and over a river and release it.  We also have placed defenses on our trees typically called "squirrel baffles."  These ingenious devices are created by taking a smooth surface of some sort and attaching the top to the tree while spreading out the bottom to create a cone, the squirrels climbing up see the baffle and  circle endlessly, unable to find a way around or get a foothold on it.  These devices, however, can easily be thwarted by a nearby un-baffled tree.

The squirrels have also been retaliating, though our intelligence suggest this is an outside group, a squirrel perpatrated the attempted assassination of my mother as she took her daily walk.  Apparently a rotted piece of tree was place over her walking path where the squirrel would walk out on the piece and fall where the bit of tree would hit my mother and look like an accident.  Fortunately, the squirrels have a bad sense of timing and the tree went off moments after my mother was outside the striking range.

The retaliation will be swift and brutal....But not lethal or torturous.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

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