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We've heard about squirrels tampering with electric line. (those little buggers)

My mom's phone went dead for more than 24 hours.(GTE) When I spoke with her this morning, she told me that Woodchucks caused it.

Take that Squirrel Man.

-- (ohms@zap.com), October 08, 1999

Answers

The Woodchuck is the largest member of the Squirrel Family.

Take THAT, ohms.



-- K. Stevens (kstevens@ It's ALL going away in January.com), October 08, 1999.


Were you not Warned yesterday!?!Foolish Monkey-Man!!!You will all pay!!!This is but another small sample!!!Perpare yourselves!!!Long Live the Rodent Revolution!!!

-- The Squirrel King (Still Nuts@upina.Tree), October 08, 1999.

Were you not Warned yesterday!?!Foolish Monkey-Man!!!You will all pay!!!This is but another small sample!!!Prepare yourselves!!!Long Live the Rodent Revolution!!!

-- The Squirrel King (Still Nuts@upina.Tree), October 08, 1999.

You ain't seen nothin' yet.Wait 'til Squirrel King gets his flying brethren organized into an Air Force.

Suppose there are any amphibious rodents capable of marine sabotage?

-- Sam (Gunmkr52@aol.com), October 08, 1999.


Do not mess with the Squirrel King. We forest inhabitants stick together.

-- Killer Bunny (KillerBunny@henhouse.com), October 08, 1999.


GTE is not compliant. They are screwing up all over the place. That sorta attracks the woody chuckles ... the Squirrel Zap strikes again.

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), October 08, 1999.

Silly. You've never heard of muskrat and nutria?

How about beaver and otters?

How about water shrews? Ok, they're awfully small, but ferocious for their size.

Be afraid. Be very, very afraid........ [BG]

-- mushroom (mushroom_bs_too_long@yahoo.com), October 08, 1999.


That reminds me,as an ongoing process of introducing my wife to shooting sports,we're going squirrel hunting this weekend.We will eat the flesh off their bones.

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), October 08, 1999.

...then as the furless-ape called 'zoobie' and his mate pass underneath the tree, I want you and you to...OOPS!!!*AHEM*Wrong forum!!!You will all perish!!!Long Live the Rodent Revolution!!!

-- The Squirrel King (Still Nuts@upina.Tree), October 08, 1999.

"Suppose there are any amphibious rodents capable of marine sabotage?"

Yes. Beavers. I have first-hand experience with them. Should they decide to start building a dam, they don't give up. If, you're looking for a cheap way to dredge a pond, they'll clean the edges of your pond from muck, leaves, twigs, water lillies and then heap it onto their dam or use for food.

If you want them to leave, blowing away their dam doesn't work; they'll work all night building a new one. I don't need to go to the gym anymore to work out :-)I just walk out back and undo their work, haul brush and other debris aside.

Whoever invented the term "busy as a beaver" wasn't kidding...

-- Tim (pixmo@pixelquest.com), October 08, 1999.



YES Ashton and Leska,

GTE is not compliant. Our phone(GTE) was out for a day and a half a few weeks back. I didn't even bother to ask the cause. My dear mother is convinced it was woodchucks, BECAUSE THEY SAID IT WAS SO! :) Those hairy rodents had tunnels all over the place according to GTE.

-- (ohms@zap.com), October 08, 1999.


Tim, there are beaver bafflers you can make and install cheaply--made from PVC pipe. I don't have the information any longer, but do a search on the web, see if you can find them. It allows beaver to have their dam and eat it too. Erm, I mean, the water will flow through but the beavers will be happy.

As for nutria, better not cross them. They're the pit bulls of the squirrel family. A pair was imported from Russia in the 20s, down at Avery Island, Louisiana, where they were going to see if they would be good for a nutria pelt business. Along came a hurricane and--voila! Today, thousands of nutria are a terrible problem. In the highly populous suburb of Metairie, just outside New Orleans, parties of deputies go out and shoot nutria in the canals running alongside Veterans Highway, a main artery to and from New Orleans. I believe these large, magnificently-toothed animals are omnivorous, too, so tread carefully.

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), October 08, 1999.


My biggest problem with squirrels is how little meat you get for the amount of time it takes to skin the buggers,tasty lil'tree rats but the flesh is a bit tough for roasting.;-)

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), October 08, 1999.

Oregon/Washington streams, ponds, lakes, rivers, etc are SWARMING with nutria! Everywhere! They seem to get along well with the ducks and Canadian geese. And (whoops, wrong thread)

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), October 08, 1999.

zoobs,

poach the poached.

-- flora (***@__._), October 08, 1999.



Zoobie,

If you let their tails get good and crispy, they make great toothpicks.

-- (ohms@zap.com), October 08, 1999.


Courageous zoobie!!!After we have finished you and your mate off, would you prefer to be Roasted?!?Or perhaps Marinated, then Grilled?!?You will be honored by stuffing the gullets of our Nutria allies!!!Death the Furless-Ape-Monkey Men!!!Long live ectectect...Y'all know it by now!!!

-- The Squirrel King (Still Nuts@upina.Tree), October 08, 1999.

I'm not making this up!

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and eating squirrel brains; Kentucky Doctors Warn Against Regional Dish: Squirrels' Brains; Doctors probe squirrel-eaters; Squirrel burgoo recipe (serves 25);

Squirrels: a natural reservoir for TSEs?

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), October 08, 1999.


Two of my favorite memories: 1) The woodchucks eating crabapples in the orchard when I was a kid. 2) The rockchucks at Glacier Nat'l Park, also a childhood memory, family vacation.

Rockchucks are marmots. Info here:

http://estes.on-line.com/rmnp/articles/marmots.html

Marmots

-- Donna (moment@pacbell.net), October 08, 1999.


Rockchucks are also mean as heck. I have tooth marks on the end of my rifle barrel from one that wasn't quite dead after being shot. No kidding. Squirrels are also often carriers of rabies. No doubt, "the King's" problem. So, don't ever eat a foaming squirrel zoobie. You really need to get out in the country. Someplace where the game's a little bigger. Tree rats, indeed!

:)

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), October 08, 1999.


I think I'd be biting too if somebody was shooting me and putting a rifle barrel in my face. :-)

-- Donna (moment@pacbell.net), October 08, 1999.

Squirrels were wisely baned from our fair islands hundreds of years ago...

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), October 08, 1999.

How much meat can you dig out of the brainpan of a squirrel?Thanks for the warning but I'd not go to the trouble of bothering.Just skinning the pesky little things is almost more trouble than it's worth,but my father was bitten as a child so my family has it's own little vendetta against the tree rats.NEVER TO FORGIVE!!NEVER TO FORGET!!

-- ZOOBIE (ZOOBIEZOOB@YAHOO.COM), October 09, 1999.

Squirrel King,

Your faithful servant wishes to report that we have the furless monkeymen worried. The are now more worried about our attacking their lines more than anything else.

(Sorry link impaired, but the address is: http://enquirer.com/editions/1999/10/08/loc_state_leaders_start.html and at the bottom of the page there is a link to an article about a judge throwing out a gun lawsuit in Cinncinati.) your faithful subject

-- ground squirrel (me@me.com), October 09, 1999.


Will, my son was bitten by a squirrel and had to go through the old rabies shots, the month-long series of a daily shot in the stomach. You can understand, then, how furious I was when I was told later by the chief health guy for NC that a squirrel can carry rabies but can't transmit the disease.

Note to Squirrel King: my son, aged seven, was trying to bring a sick squirrel home to Mom to fix. Some of our best friends are squirrels.

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), October 10, 1999.


What kind of squirrel recipe can feed 25?

But what do you do? I assume the ingredient list begins with:

"Get one VERY BIG squirrel (or 250,000 regular squirrels ...)

---

Also, I would assume anybody getting within rifle-barrel-eating-range of a squirrel either is a either stealth "zoobie", or is approaching a deaf, dumb, and blind squirrel. (Of course, how can you tell whether a squireel is deaf, dumb, and blind? You can't ask, he can't tell, and it's not smart enough to read lips. Maybe if you "signed him" the question.....

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), October 11, 1999.


From the 'brain easting article' mentioned above:

... evaluation of a zoonotic hypothesis ....

what (who) could they be talking about

-- BH (silentvoice@pobox.com), October 11, 1999.


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