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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,653

    Squirrels are the cute poster children for beasts of the rodent persuasion.

  • Stryder87Stryder87 Posts: 899
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Squirrels are the cute poster children for beasts of the rodent persuasion.

    True.

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066

    Squirrels are my mortal enemies... Over the years they have chewed up thousands of dollars worth of equipment... Anything made of vinyl, light rubber or urethane elastomers is apparently delicious to them. I had to switch to copper or PVC lines for my fountains because they chew up any flexible hoses and lines... Have to shield wires from them using steel wool or copper barriers... They get into the junction boxes and electrocute themselves dining on the insulation.

    We had two huge apple trees... They managed to kill one by constantly gnawing almost all the buds off it early in the spring, the other they strip of apples the moment they start to form... They don't eat them, they take one bite, taste it and drop it, try another and reject it and keep doing it until there are no more... Same with my friend's peaches and nectarines... They don't eat any of them, they just destroy them to see what each one is like, probably looking for some magical one that is tasty to squirrels.

    They also have an annoying habit of hollowing out young sassafras tree and nesting in them... If they are lucky the tree makes it through the winter intact, if not... it snaps in a windstorm where they weakened it, usually killing them and sending the tree top flying. Even if the tree survives the winter the damage they cause kills it before the summer is over.

    They also decimate local bird (mostly robins and small birds) nests because they find the chicks very tender and tasty.

    Its hilarious to see them try it on grey mockingbirds... The male and female usually both attack... They will literally hunt them down relentlessly, pecking them and harassing them until they completely vacate the area... Squirrels are not used to enemies who can fly and to whom hiding in a tree is meaningless.

    They are welcome to frolic in the park... But around here they are just tree rats.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    their tails are like not-secret periscopes in the leaves

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,653
    edited November 2016
    McGyver said:

    Squirrels are my mortal enemies... Over the years they have chewed up thousands of dollars worth of equipment... Anything made of vinyl, light rubber or urethane elastomers is apparently delicious to them. I had to switch to copper or PVC lines for my fountains because they chew up any flexible hoses and lines... Have to shield wires from them using steel wool or copper barriers... They get into the junction boxes and electrocute themselves dining on the insulation.

    We had two huge apple trees... They managed to kill one by constantly gnawing almost all the buds off it early in the spring, the other they strip of apples the moment they start to form... They don't eat them, they take one bite, taste it and drop it, try another and reject it and keep doing it until there are no more... Same with my friend's peaches and nectarines... They don't eat any of them, they just destroy them to see what each one is like, probably looking for some magical one that is tasty to squirrels.

    They also have an annoying habit of hollowing out young sassafras tree and nesting in them... If they are lucky the tree makes it through the winter intact, if not... it snaps in a windstorm where they weakened it, usually killing them and sending the tree top flying. Even if the tree survives the winter the damage they cause kills it before the summer is over.

    They also decimate local bird (mostly robins and small birds) nests because they find the chicks very tender and tasty.

    Its hilarious to see them try it on grey mockingbirds... The male and female usually both attack... They will literally hunt them down relentlessly, pecking them and harassing them until they completely vacate the area... Squirrels are not used to enemies who can fly and to whom hiding in a tree is meaningless.

    They are welcome to frolic in the park... But around here they are just tree rats.

    Squirrels may be cute poster children but as you point out, cute doesn't always mean harmless.  Gremlins for example.   Do NOT feed the gremlins!!!!!! 

    Or tribbles.

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,260
    Chohole said:

    laugh  laugh  laugh  laugh  

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213
    MistyMist said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...that's Trance Gemini. She goes through a bit of a change as the series progresses.

     

    i hope she keeps her cuteness.  

    "hee hah,  hee hah"

    "i'm glad one of us is enjoying ..."

    ..I love that series. Gene Roddenberry created it.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,529

    Wait what am I supposed to do with Matt who is my newest friend.  He keeps staring at Regina who also is my friend.  Cannot tell if they are enemies or flirting

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    latte du jour, chestnut praline cheekysmileyyes

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    got to get that gate open, moat monster swimming his rounds.

     

    can Santa squeeze down that fireplace chimney?

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    what's for lunch?

    something on a tray?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Sir Reginald Pikedevant esquire does the best fingerwag i ever seen 

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,973
    Chohole said:

    So what does that make cannibals?

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,602
    Taozen said:
    Chohole said:

    So what does that make cannibals?

    Or zombies?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    What? ??

     

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,529
    Fixmypcmike said:
    Taozen said:
    Chohole said:

    So what does that make cannibals?

    Or zombies?

    Does that mean I am a chicken since I am eating chicken?

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    Fixmypcmike said:
    Taozen said:
    Chohole said:

    So what does that make cannibals?

    Or zombies?

    Does that mean I am a chicken since I am eating chicken?

    Do you run around the room clucking?

  • hphoenixhphoenix Posts: 1,335
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    Fixmypcmike said:
    Taozen said:
    Chohole said:

    So what does that make cannibals?

    Or zombies?

    Does that mean I am a chicken since I am eating chicken?

    He's a chicken I tell you!  A giant chicken!

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    buk buk BIGGAKK 

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,529
    Chohole said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    Fixmypcmike said:
    Taozen said:
    Chohole said:

    So what does that make cannibals?

    Or zombies?

    Does that mean I am a chicken since I am eating chicken?

    Do you run around the room clucking?

    nope I do not go arround like that so guess I am not a chicken yet.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    eek i saw naked trees.  trees wild party >.<

  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    edited November 2016
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Wait what am I supposed to do with Matt who is my newest friend.  He keeps staring at Regina who also is my friend.  Cannot tell if they are enemies or flirting

    Are your alters fighting or trying to get down?  Mine do that all the time.   wink

    Tell 'em to have at it.  Just don't watch.

     

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,529
    Jan19 said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Wait what am I supposed to do with Matt who is my newest friend.  He keeps staring at Regina who also is my friend.  Cannot tell if they are enemies or flirting

    Are your alters fighting or trying to get down?  Mine do that all the time.   wink

    Tell 'em to have at it.  Just don't watch.

     

    They have no contact with each other but they can see each other.   I tried to put a to do list in between them but they can still see each other.  by the way they are not my alters but my pets.  I would have them at it but I am not ready to take care of their babies nor am I ready to see another dead fish.

  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    Jan19 said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Wait what am I supposed to do with Matt who is my newest friend.  He keeps staring at Regina who also is my friend.  Cannot tell if they are enemies or flirting

    Are your alters fighting or trying to get down?  Mine do that all the time.   wink

    Tell 'em to have at it.  Just don't watch.

     

    They have no contact with each other but they can see each other.   I tried to put a to do list in between them but they can still see each other.  by the way they are not my alters but my pets.  I would have them at it but I am not ready to take care of their babies nor am I ready to see another dead fish.

    Ok. smiley  Sorry.  My mistake.

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    7 more hours to 4-day weekend. 

     

    woot paid a day early, federal holiday tomorrow. 

    i been socking away 50bucks a week toward ebay dual xeon special. up to 6 weeks worth.
    my new ups shipped, went for an APC 1500

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    sugar pron  

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    officially summer over, turning on the heat. my room 62f

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    neecheean assasin lady stepped on Trance's tail.  meanie

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    blush  misread success as succubus

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