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Sometimes, you feel like a nut.

Posted by Ben Varkentine

7 comments:

  1. Utah Savage4/4/10, 5:01 PM

    Sometimes you feel like a gun.

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  2. Teeluck4/4/10, 8:04 PM

    Guns??? I'm getting out of here...

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  3. Utah Savage4/4/10, 11:41 PM

    I'm overrun with squirrels. They run across the roof and upset the dogs. The throw things at me when I go outside. They're like rats with fancy tails. I hate the little bastards. If I could hire an owl or hawk to pick them off I would.

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  4. jazzolog4/5/10, 4:30 AM

    A couple years ago we had a family of raccoons discover the luxury of our deck. I caught 6 with a have-a-heart trap, one night after another, and released them some miles away in a nature preserve. You might try one of them, to save on ammunition. You either can release each one on the land of a neighbor you don't like...or pop them into the freezer for stew later on. Of course, chocolate-covered squirrel on a stick is good too.

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  5. Utah Savage4/5/10, 11:52 AM

    I've caught at least six over a winter in my attic in a have-a-heart trap, one after the other. I've taken them miles away and released them in a park. Only after a week or so another family moves in. This has been going on for 15 or 20 years and seems to get worse every year. I have a large backyard with lots of mature trees. I have no walnut trees. But my neighbors on either side have only one tree and it's a walnut tree. My walkways are littered with walnuts and walnut fragments. And the squirrels really do throw tree debris down on anyone sitting on the deck or patio. They really do sound much bigger when they run across my studio roof chasing each other, no doubt to mate endlessly breeding. Just like flying rats with fancy tails. And since I live in an urban neighborhood, I can't blast them with a gun. Bugger!

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  6. Bartender4/12/10, 12:00 PM

    I am wondering what ever happened to Katrocket.

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  7. Quinty4/12/10, 1:17 PM

    The squirrel ate her.

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