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Subject: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: gnu Date: 02 Feb 13 - 05:02 PM CBC news in about two hours... The Nature of Things "Nuts About Squirrels (First Aired: Nov. 8, 2012) Through the use of robotic squirrels, GPS tracked acorns and scientists, the world of urban squirrels is revealed." Missed this one first time around. I shall tape it for reference. The more I can learn about the little rats, the better. They are cute when they are scampering about in the great OUTDOORS but they ain't so cute when they ain't. Inside my house, they are rats and subject to termination with EXTREME prejudice. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: pdq Date: 02 Feb 13 - 05:14 PM I will never forive them for tunneling repeatedly through my new asparagus bed. I can't even water it because the water disapears down dozens of holes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: gnu Date: 02 Feb 13 - 05:31 PM Mustard powder in the water and led in the barrel. It's them or the asparagus. I am sure some of the 'Catters here have a recipe for rat and asparagus. Waste but waste not, want not, I always say. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: GUEST,999 Date: 02 Feb 13 - 05:36 PM Along with ownership goes responsibility. I like the bushy-tailed little creatures, right next to the mashed potatoes. However, before the snow fall I relocated six of them. Live trap, and they are so stupid there is no need to disguise the trap, destroy human scent, etc--just toss a few peanuts in and within five minutes in they went then off they went to the woods. Took me six trips, but if the cost of meat goes up much more they will end up between the peas and carrots. That's it, that's all. Bon appetit. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: Dorothy Parshall Date: 02 Feb 13 - 05:46 PM You won't believe this, 999, but during the 2ndWW, my dad, a crack shot, occasionally augmented our diet with squirrel stew. I really do not have a problem with that as they were dinner. (four made a meal for us - 2 adults and two kids) It is the senseless killing for the sake of that gets me. But, you were very kind to trap and release. Hope you took them a long way and not in someone else's back yard! |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: pdq Date: 02 Feb 13 - 06:19 PM I have been told that this is a serious piece of equipment... The Squirrelinator |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: GUEST,999 Date: 02 Feb 13 - 06:27 PM They went to a wooded area on the other side of the creek where the Veterans' Memorial is. Two in the park and four south of the water tower. I gave up killing things for the heck of it when I was a teenager. Never done it since. Food is a different thing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: Little Hawk Date: 02 Feb 13 - 08:11 PM Phooey on you lot. I like squirrels. I'll go farther than that and say I LOVE squirrels! I feed them and I encourage them in every way I can. Squirrels are cool. Squirrels are smart. Squirrels are fun. Long live squirrels! |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: GUEST,999 Date: 02 Feb 13 - 08:26 PM In future I'll drop 'em at your place. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: JennieG Date: 02 Feb 13 - 08:32 PM I quite like squirrels too.....but there aren't any in Oz! They are funny little fellers. Cheers JennieG |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: Little Hawk Date: 02 Feb 13 - 08:38 PM Yeah, do that, Bruce. ;-) And bring your guitar when you do. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: GUEST,999 Date: 02 Feb 13 - 08:41 PM Ya might give this a look, Jennie. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: Janie Date: 02 Feb 13 - 09:25 PM Tree rats. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: JennieG Date: 02 Feb 13 - 09:42 PM Good grief, there are sqwerls in Oz! But there shouldn't be. I won't be lining up to buy one. Cheers JennieG |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: GUEST,999 Date: 02 Feb 13 - 09:58 PM They are neutered, but all it will take to mess it up is a single pregnant female getting missed. Rabbits all over again. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: Janie Date: 02 Feb 13 - 10:30 PM Or in the Everglades, pythons and anacondas. Started with escaped or freed pet snakes. No natural predators, diseases or parasites. The fauna equivalent to the introduction of kudzu. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: gnu Date: 02 Feb 13 - 11:55 PM Rabbits. Rats with long ears. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: Little Hawk Date: 03 Feb 13 - 01:24 AM I've noticed that people go everywhere too...and they breed like rabbits! They've taken over habitat and driven out many other species! They MUST be stopped!!!!!!!!!!!! They're nothing but semi-hairless apes wearing clothes. Fellow squirrels and other animals, unite before it is too late and stamp out the human scourge! |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: Janie Date: 03 Feb 13 - 01:59 AM Exactly, LH. Us or Them! |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle Date: 03 Feb 13 - 04:50 AM When you think about it - deers are rats with antlers, elephants are big rats with trunks, and giraffes are rats with long necks...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 03 Feb 13 - 06:14 AM Glad to read that, LH. I too love squirrels and feed them. They're only trying to survive, Lord love them. And I agree about the human race, there are far too many of us and we cause more damage and grief to the natural world than all the other species put together. One day, the only 'species' that can decimate us will do it - Viruses. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: Leadfingers Date: 03 Feb 13 - 07:17 AM Squirrels OUTDOORS fine and great fun to watch , Inside a house , NO Bloody Way ! My local Greys discovered a dodgy patch in my roof , and caused mayhem in my loft area , and over a thousand ponds for Roof repairs . |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle Date: 03 Feb 13 - 07:57 AM 'My local Greys discovered a dodgy patch in my roof ...' I bet the giraffes told them about it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: ragdall Date: 04 Feb 13 - 05:26 AM 999, It was very kind of you to relocate the squirrels. Your act of kindness reminded me of this sign that a nature reserve in a small BC town erected to discourage kind people like you. http://www.flickr.com/photos/diffuse/5695659680/ rags |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: gnu Date: 04 Feb 13 - 08:16 AM Hounds okay? |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: GUEST,999 Date: 04 Feb 13 - 08:19 AM Hey, Rags. The squirrels took those signs down. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 05 Feb 13 - 06:30 AM I'm intrigued by the comments re tunnelling through an asparagus patch. AFAIK, UK squirrels don't burrow, but live in hollows in trees. One of my uncles wouldn't call them anything but tree rats, but I must admit I like them. Years ago, I used to go for walks in Holland Park in London, always with a pocket full of peanuts. They would climb on to your shoulder and sit there nibbling and chattering by turns. Nobody bothered them and they were totally unafraid. Don T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: Little Hawk Date: 05 Feb 13 - 05:14 PM Like I said, Bruce, bring 'em all to my place. I love squirrels. I have a big woodlot out back that can house plenty of them. They will, of course, start quarreling with the squirrels who already live here, but squirrels live to quarrel about property rights, I think they enjoy it in a way, so that shouldn't matter much. They'll sort it out as they always do. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: Ebbie Date: 05 Feb 13 - 05:15 PM In Alaska the only squirrels I have seen is the small (just a bit bigger than the chipmunk) red squirrel. In Oregon they have the large greys. I like them. As for tunneling- rats and moles and gophers tunnel. I don't think squirrels do. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: gnu Date: 05 Feb 13 - 08:34 PM "AFAIK, UK squirrels don't burrow, but live in hollows in trees." "As for tunneling- rats and moles and gophers tunnel. I don't think squirrels do." That's what they want you to think. They do so when other accommodation's are inaccessible or inconvenient. They do what they have to. And they do it well. Not as well as a weasel... and that is a bad thing... for the rats. I don't care for weasels either. I was taught to kill em on sight. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 05 Feb 13 - 08:56 PM If I wasn't an interested party, I think I'd probably prefer squirrels to humans. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: gnu Date: 05 Feb 13 - 09:05 PM The humans you know must never bathe! Bushy tailed rats stink BIG TIME! |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 05 Feb 13 - 09:39 PM But would a neutral observer prefer the human aroma? Very questionable. |
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Subject: RE: BS: RATS with bushy tales! Squirrels CBCTV From: Little Hawk Date: 05 Feb 13 - 10:23 PM We had a pet squirrel living in our house for several years, gnu, and he didn't stink at all. Seriously. I never noticed any odor coming off that squirrel. He was also friendly, fun, and didn't destroy anything in the place...all around the cleanest and least destructive pet my family ever had. |
