Originally posted by AcolyteThey're amazingly nice; much less wary than the ones in New York and positively touchy-feely compared to your basic Portland (Maine) pigeons and vastly more pleasant than the gulls which infest my haunts at home.
Ah, London's famous winged rats. The reason there's such a huge number of them there is that the tourists keep throwing them bread and the like.
Originally posted by jimmyb270lol..sorry i couldn't help but laugh...theres a lovely place near me called 'marieLouise park'...the squirrels in there are so tame they just come right up to you for food...squirrels with attitude
The grey ones are real little buggers over here (UK). The far cuter red squirrel has disappeared from all but a few places, all because of it's alien grey cousin.
My friends Nan was mauled by a grey squirrel. She was driving along and saw one in the road. Thinking it might be injured, she got out for a closer look, and the little git savaged her hand.
I don't like grey squirrels 😠
Originally posted by jimmyb270that happened to me years ago with a cat that had been run over. i was in the car behind the one that ran it over (and didn't stop). we stopped, and i got out and followed the trail of blood into the long grass at the side of the road. found the cat - back half was pretty badly smashed up, and it was dragging itself along by its front legs. i tried to pick it up to take it to the vet, and i guess it was mad with pain, cos it did a number on my hand. still have faint scars many years later. there was a fairly horrifoc scene with me shaking my arm about wildly, trying to dislodge this blood covered animal from my hand.finally it dropped off, and i thought about smashing its head in with a rock, just to end its misery, since it was pretty obvious now a vet wouldn't be able to help it. couldn't find anything though, so we left it and called a vet and told him where it was.
My friends Nan was mauled by a grey squirrel. She was driving along and saw one in the road. Thinking it might be injured, she got out for a closer look, and the little git savaged her hand.
EDIT: in the light of wucky3's subsequent post (see below), perhaps i should 'disambiguate' that phrase: i mean, the cat tried to rip my hand to shreds with teeth and claws. 😕
Australia is full of dangerous fauna. Redback spiders, sharks off the coast, and I've heard that kangaroos can disembowel a man by standing on their tails and ripping at him with their hind legs.
Where my father works in Cincinnati, they had an Australian come out to work for a year or two. Cincinnati's animals are, in general, less dangerous than those down under.
Well, this Aussie was out jogging when, above him, he heard a 'zap' noise. Not an uncommon noise, it was the sound of squirrel being electrocuted as it ran along power lines above the street. I've heard that noise many times, and I've seen electrocuted squirrels fall from those power lines.
This Australian guy, however, was not so familiar with the sound. He looked up to see what it was.
SMACK!
The zapped squirrel was directly overhead, and when it fell from the power line it landed right on our protagonist. With his face upturned, his nose was broken by the impact.
What is ironic is that he came all the way from Australia, with all its dangerous wildlife, to Ohio, only to have his nose busted by a squirrel.
After his return to Australia, my father and his co-workers mailed a hat to the Australian. To the hat they had sewn a toy squirrel 🙂
Originally posted by Crowley😀
One can only hope she doesn't have a headache then ... 😉
Mind you, she typically, erm, 'enjoys the moment' shall we say, eight different times in that one day. Not all of them with the same partner either.
PS: I fear I may be giving the impression that I'm overly interested in squirrel sex 🙁
Originally posted by royalchickenOi! Sunshine! Whilst your seemingly pro-squirrel sentiment IS a welcome addition to an already brilliant thread, you can take your pigeon-praising prattle and shove it up your Nelson's column.
I've only just begun to appreciate the bushy-tailed rats. The one's that wander around the church behind where I live a very tame, unlike the ones in Maine, and nice to watch when I walk in that direction. I'm beginning to take a liking to pigeons as well.
Originally posted by T1000erm.....well....I didn't want to say anything....but you do seem a bit....excited by the whole idea of squirrel sex......😀
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Mind you, she typically, erm, 'enjoys the moment' shall we say, eight different times in that one day. Not all of them with the same partner either.
PS: I fear I may be giving the impression that I'm overly interested in squirrel sex 🙁
i've just moved into new accommodation, and one of the first things that happened, while i was still moving my stuff inside, was that a squirral appeared right in front of me. it stopped, i stopped, we regarded each other for a moment, then it decided it had things to do, and ran off. it's still a bit of a novelty for me - don't think i'd ever seen an actual live squirral before i came to Britain.