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From: "John Sessoms"
Subject: OT: I REALLY hate squirrels
Just spent 2 hours in the dark because a squirrel got the wrong way on the
transformer out on the power pole. Tripped a main breaker 4 blocks away
and knocked out power for 7 blocks.
I really hate squirrels.
We never had a problem with squirrels, but then the city passed an anti cat
ordinance 15 or so years ago. Now we keep squirrels as "pets".
If you feed them well, they play less havoc with infrastructures.
Unfortunately, like Tribbles, feeding them has an immediate and ghastly
effect on their population if there are few natural predators.
Eventually, they form little squirrel gangs, and they hang around your car
waiting for you to come out so that they can curse and swear at you and
throw acorns at your head in an attempt to ransom more food from you.
They sit in the tree beside your dog run and taunt your very excitable dogs
by swearing at them and throwing things at them.
One of them had Bella acting like a slavering idiot the other day.
Bella is what is called a "redirect biter". If she is going off at a
squirel, she is noisy enogh that the police will be called by someone, since
it sounds like she is being run through a mangling machine.
She cannot be distracted by anything if she's on a squirrel, and she WILL
bite if you engage her directly.
Anyway, I share your loathing of the little beasts, though I dare not write
stuff like this with the blinds open in case one of the little bastards is
looking in the window with the binoculars it and it's little gang of heathen
squirrel thugs relieved me of the other day.
And God help anyone who runs one of the little buggers over.
The squirrels follow those poor saps home and then eat their houses while
they are at work.
It's mean streets I tell you.
At least you can make friends with a cat most of the tme.
William Robb
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