I have a squirrel problem - those evil little things are always up to no good. I recently discovered one of them has been going up into the engine of my car and cracking nuts in there. After shining a flashlight down under the hood I discovered a ton of nutshells everwhere, all eaten. I have to vaccum to get them out and now I have this fear it's going to start chewing on wires or find a way to get INSIDE the car (there's a morning commute nightmare I don't even want to imagine)
Ok, i don't want to harm him but can nothing be done? Sometimes i feel it's only a matter of time before all these rodents rise up against us....
I have 2 of them that live in the tree just beside my balcony.
If I leave the windows open they'll wake me up with that Donald Duck squawking sound they make!
It's starting to get cold here in Iowa and they've grown quite fat so I expect they'll be moving soon.
Yeah..they might be moving IN...with you
LOL!
Now that would make for a good B-movie!
It could be like "Of Unknown Origin" only with squirrels instead of a giant rat.
I could imagine myself blowing holes in my walls with a double barrel shotgun like Bruce Campbell in "Evil Dead 2" yelling "Gotcha ya little suckers!"
"Ol' double barrel here!! Blow your butts to kingdom come!!!"
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I can see how it would begin, a dark night..the curtain blows and you think you saw a shadow. But you pull the covers close, closer up to your chin, then your nose as you peer over the bed and try to see...see....that maybe something is in the room with you. You pray it's not a furry tailed rodent, so cute and innocent by day but where do squirrels go at night? Something nobody knows, they are flesh eaters preying on sleeping victims. Deep within is an evil that cannot be paralleled, an evil that exists behind those dark and doll-like eyes that roll into the back of it's head like a great white shark as it begins to gnaw your face off!!!
We have a wood stove in our backroom and squirel last spring went down my chimney and couldn't get out. So I didn't want to open the doors and was hoping it would climb back out. Well after not hearing it for a couple days I opened the doors up just a little and a little squirel head popped out between the door. Well I jumped abit not wanting to get bit and slammed the door. I called chimney guy to put a kind of chimney cover that will keep them out and let the smoke out. When we opened the door there was a dead squirel inside. I actually thought it had left out the chimney since I hadn't heard it for a while, but didn't want to open the door to soon. In the past they have left without any help, but this one went to far and couldn't get out. That's my squirel tale for today.
I was trying to think of any films that have scenes with squirrels and "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" sprang to mind.
The scene with the squirrel jumping out of the Christmas tree at Chevy Chase was great!
He says, "Where's Eddie? He usually eats these things."
Catherine says, "Oh he used to but he heard they were high in cholesterol."
LOL!!
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Sorry Susan the thought of you vaccuming your engine cracks me up! When my cat would put her nose where it didn't belong I would sprinkle Tabasco sauce around. But the mental picture of you sauc'in your motor would be way to funny!Good luck!
I had a similar hilarious vision of Susan vaccuming her engine!
I can just picture her hanging over the engine with the hood up using the hose of a shop-vac cursing over the loud noise made by it.
The sound: VVVVRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
"You little son's a b***hes! I'll get you!!!
"You little bastards!"
And there would be that clinking noise of all the nut shells being sucked up.
LOL!!!!!!
Aren't we all so helpful, Susan
Well I couldn't go leaving all those nutshells in there, you should have seen how many there were. I just went 2 days without using the car and you'd think he was living there since the summer of sam.
>>"You little son's a b***hes! I'll get you!!!
"You little bastards!"<,
were you there? lol, that sounds like me alright. I was definately having a hestin/planet of the apes moment
"damn you! god damned you all to hell!"
Ok, the tobasco pepper idea might be out. I have an even worse mental image of my engine firing up that stuff and my vents blowing it into my eyes...
yes you guys have been real helpful..hardy har har
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How about that stuff that you're supposed to spray on rugs to keep pets from peeing on them? My mother had some and it smelled like Anbesol. Didn't really work for keeping the dog from peeing on the rug, but she wouldn't even go near areas sprayed with it.
My friend Todd was having a problem with squirrels tearing up his little garden (some vegetables growing in pots on his deck - he lives in Brooklyn). I thought about giving him two gifts.
1. A squirrel have-a-heart trap.
2. A large bucket.
You fill the bucket with water and them drop the trap in. A minute later there is one less squirrel in the world. He looked at me a little surprised when I suggested this, but then started warming to the idea after the furry bastards attacked and killed Ed.
(Ed was a palm that I had given him as a gift two years ago.)
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That stuff doesn't really repell animals - in fact I often wondered what's worse, the smell of urine or the smell of some of that bottled repellent. Sounds like she should have just bought doggie diapers, maybe a little humiliation would have learned that dog a thing or two about peeing on mom's rug. ;-)
>>after the furry bastards attacked and killed Ed.
(Ed was a palm that I had given him as a gift two years ago.)<<
So those things are just pure evyil? Personally I just think they're overglorified rats with fluffy tails. I once heard someone say they bury hundreds of nuts and remember where each one is. What a crock, i've seen those things diggin, it's like the kid in "stand by me" who buried the pennies and forgot where. They remind me more of that rodent in "ice age".
Now i'm intrigued, what's the story behind the plant having a name?