squirrel appreciation day

chiquimonkey

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/2 ... 59626.html

The Juggler

thought that was last week?

chiquimonkey

The Jeagler wrote:

thought that was last week?

that was muskrat appreciation week. keep your rodents straight. GEEZ!

strummers

norm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ikH9ZRcF2Q

chiquimonkey

norm wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ikH9ZRcF2Q

hehe i want to feel like that squirrel

Travelar

Poncier

florence151

There are a lot of black squirrels in Amherst.
They really show up running on the white snow there.

justam

I wish I had a picture of the squirrel my husband and I saw this afternoon. He was triumphantly standing on the garbage bin. He had chewed his way through one of the bags and it was too cold for me for run out there and chase him off!!

(So, we just laughed and made noise to startle him.)

mindi

Kind of a funny I thought of when I saw this thread.
We were at the hospital last week to get one of my daughter's blood checked. I posted about this last Oct, she was hospitalized for weird bruises all over her and ended up she had ITP. So she has to have her platelets checked once a month.
So we were in the waiting room, waiting. They have an awesome play area since this is a childrens hospital. So Jane and her dad were over looking at the games trying to decide what to play. And Jane looks at all the games and says I want to play Hitting Squirrels. Sooooo just guess what game she wanted to play?????? OMG it was just so funny, I was laughing so hard I was crying. She wanted to play Whack a Mole.


Squirrels around here are crazy, they sit up in the trees and throw nuts down on you and they laugh! :?

decides2dream

chiquimonkey wrote:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/2 ... 59626.html

awesome!



of course, i must proterst that squirrel waving only an american flag...b/c clearly then he is being biased against all other nations in the world! :evil: :twisted: ooops, sorry...too much time in the MT.


OMG!

Poncier wrote:

even better!
hahahahaha...fantastic!

Red_Dot

I just got back from America, and I took soooo many photos of squirrels. Probably about 20. They crack me up!
(we dont have them in australia, so they are a novelty)

chiquimonkey

decides2dream wrote:

chiquimonkey wrote:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/2 ... 59626.html

awesome!



of course, i must proterst that squirrel waving only an american flag...b/c clearly then he is being biased against all other nations in the world! :evil: :twisted: ooops, sorry...too much time in the MT.

hey hey HEY i can't help it if the squirrel loves his country :evil:









love the pics people are sharing! and i didn't realize squirrels weren't in oz!

vedderfan10

We have a big fat grey one that sits in the trees and teased my mutts...they go crazy!! Stupid cheeky thing... one of the trees it shares with a raccoon, so we have some pretty wild mornings here sometimes, much to the chagrin on the neighbourhood....

However, I think squirrels are just about the cutest thing on the planet...and omg, they are SOOOO funny when they fight...It's hilarious!!

Terryible

I love Squirrels, if i could introduce them into New Zealand I would.
Red squirrels are my favourite they are so fecken cute, but very rare around the UK now, managed to find some in Isle of Wight, bloody hard to take a photo of



Here is grey one from christchurch, not as cool as red but still cute

Jennytree

I have 2 pet degu squirrels at home. They love chewing on wood and runnin' on their wheel all day long They're highly entertaining and easy to care for if anyone was thinking of getting one or two

decides2dream

Vedderfan10 wrote:

We have a big fat grey one that sits in the trees and teased my mutts...they go crazy!! Stupid cheeky thing... one of the trees it shares with a raccoon, so we have some pretty wild mornings here sometimes, much to the chagrin on the neighbourhood....

However, I think squirrels are just about the cutest thing on the planet...and omg, they are SOOOO funny when they fight...It's hilarious!!

squirrels are total teases! totally drive our dogs nuts. they will run along the fenceline, and then just sit there, seemingly staring down the dogs like 'eh, stupid mutts....you can't get me.' they are hysterical to watch, and really...so unbelievably graceful as well. the way they leap and bound around, like trapeze artists. they LOVE our yard b/c we have so many trees, and most especially, a gigantic black walnut tree. no need for a per squirrel, we've got yard-full of free squirrel entertainment.

rival.

squirrels are overrated.

Cinnamon Girl

http://fuckyoupenguin.blogspot.com/2008 ... ctive.html

My new favorite website

http://fuckyoupenguin.blogspot.com/

norm

decides2dream wrote:

Vedderfan10 wrote:

We have a big fat grey one that sits in the trees and teased my mutts...they go crazy!! Stupid cheeky thing... one of the trees it shares with a raccoon, so we have some pretty wild mornings here sometimes, much to the chagrin on the neighbourhood....

However, I think squirrels are just about the cutest thing on the planet...and omg, they are SOOOO funny when they fight...It's hilarious!!

squirrels are total teases! totally drive our dogs nuts. they will run along the fenceline, and then just sit there, seemingly staring down the dogs like 'eh, stupid mutts....you can't get me.' they are hysterical to watch, and really...so unbelievably graceful as well. the way they leap and bound around, like trapeze artists. they LOVE our yard b/c we have so many trees, and most especially, a gigantic black walnut tree. no need for a per squirrel, we've got yard-full of free squirrel entertainment.

so the other day i was leaving the house for work and norm is running circles around the tree in the back yard...looking up and barking...in general going a little nuts...he's treed a squirrel...so for fun i grab a couple tennis balls and toss them at the squirrel...never got close to hitting him but i did manage to make it move...at this point norm is confused and thinks it's gone to the side of the house...next thing i know, the squirrel goes for it...runs to the end of a branch, jumps to the ground and runs toward the side of the house...right at norm...before norm can react, the squirrel jumps over norm, onto a tree, from the tree to the roof...craziest thing i've seen

decides2dream

norm wrote:

decides2dream wrote:

Vedderfan10 wrote:

We have a big fat grey one that sits in the trees and teased my mutts...they go crazy!! Stupid cheeky thing... one of the trees it shares with a raccoon, so we have some pretty wild mornings here sometimes, much to the chagrin on the neighbourhood....

However, I think squirrels are just about the cutest thing on the planet...and omg, they are SOOOO funny when they fight...It's hilarious!!

squirrels are total teases! totally drive our dogs nuts. they will run along the fenceline, and then just sit there, seemingly staring down the dogs like 'eh, stupid mutts....you can't get me.' they are hysterical to watch, and really...so unbelievably graceful as well. the way they leap and bound around, like trapeze artists. they LOVE our yard b/c we have so many trees, and most especially, a gigantic black walnut tree. no need for a per squirrel, we've got yard-full of free squirrel entertainment.

awesome!
:cool:


squirrels have sone serious cajones.
:P

so the other day i was leaving the house for work and norm is running circles around the tree in the back yard...looking up and barking...in general going a little nuts...he's treed a squirrel...so for fun i grab a couple tennis balls and toss them at the squirrel...never got close to hitting him but i did manage to make it move...at this point norm is confused and thinks it's gone to the side of the house...next thing i know, the squirrel goes for it...runs to the end of a branch, jumps to the ground and runs toward the side of the house...right at norm...before norm can react, the squirrel jumps over norm, onto a tree, from the tree to the roof...craziest thing i've seen

libragirl

squirrels are awesome..but not when they freeze in front of your car :P

chiquimonkey

being on a college campus i see many squirrels. i saw one sitting on a telephone wire swaying back and forth barking. and 3 boxing each other. that was AWESOME

Rygar

I was going to bring up the issue of having a Will Ferrell appreciation thread, yet none for squirrels.

I am glad the discrepancy has been corrected

chiquimonkey

Rygar wrote:

I was going to bring up the issue of having a Will Ferrell appreciation thread, yet none for squirrels.

I am glad the discrepancy has been corrected

you're welcome

libragirl

chiquimonkey wrote:

being on a college campus i see many squirrels. i saw one sitting on a telephone wire swaying back and forth barking. and 3 boxing each other. that was AWESOME

I do remember walking out of work one day and saw these squirrels playing hide and go seek. At least that's what it looked like to me. I thought that was pretty cool.

norm

a squirrel stole my snickers bar on a golf course once....bastard!! :evil:

Yellow Ledbelly

The squirrels at my college were ornery little bastards..would run right up to you and bark at you and when some fool would run they would chase them.

One of my college roomies had a trick he called the Dead Squirrel....probably best for another topic though, quite disturbing

libragirl

norm wrote:

a squirrel stole my snickers bar on a golf course once....bastard!! :evil:

ha...

justam

Today the squirrels were trying to establish the Squirrel Cafe in the back yard. There were three of them attempting to get something good out of the trash. I disconcerted them by putting everything out in front. (It's garbage day.) They spent at least a half hour studying the spot where it had been. It was funny because they were chattering to each other and running around with that look "I KNOW it was just here. Jim did you see? It's vanished!"



It's fun to confuse the squirrels!