Coyotes and THE HAWK! On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 7:49 PM, paul stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Jan 16, 2010, at 8:07 PM, William Robb wrote: > >> >> ----- Original Message ----- 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. >> > You need coyotes. We had a lot of squirrel and rabbit problems up until a few > years ago. Up until the coyotes moved back into town. Now all is well. > Paul > >> William Robb >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. >
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