Right, Pete. On both counts.

...and I been thinkin' ICE projectiles...

Wedding humor...... a whole new post !!!

The little guys in my yard get in to my engine compartment and eat the wiring........ my 2000 truck acts like my old healey.!!!!

doc, last friday i heard several rather loud bangs eminating fron my ground floor patio door sounded as if someone was trying to break in, armed with a 21 ounce estwing one piece steal shank hammer i ran around back to see what was going on when i find a squirrel flyng through the air and smashing against the glass door, a couple of steps closer and there it goes again a couple of more steps and now i can see under the patio table "tweety" our cat grabs the squirrel as it tries to escape and toses it against the door again, the cat was playing a one sided game of pingpong using the poor squirrel as the ball, the cat has by now noticed me and before i could get any closer and fearing i might remove his toy "tweety" had that poor thing totaly dismemberd in an instant, no ammo required!, it is a rather bloody mess though.

ooh,ooh,ooh, just remembered, how bout one a these? prolly whone kill em, but he might move out da hood. its my original since i was 10 years old.

You'll shoot your eye out with that!

From time to time, I'll hear them scampering about on the roof of my garage & they'll sit on the railing of our sleeping porch & make noises early in the morning.

'Photo-Crashing Squirrel'.
Its been a hot web-craze for a couple of months.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/technology/2774851/Photo-crashing-squirrel-the-latest-web-fad

Doc, I'm warning ya; don't pi$$ these guys off....

gliderman,

My brother has 5 squirrels living in the trees (front and back) of his house. These are three cottonwoods that are pushing over 80 feet easily. We refer to these critters as the "Squirrel Mafia". If you leave them some "protection peanuts" they don't bother you. They never sabotaged any of the British cars, but they used to wreak havoc on my brothers 2001 Dodge truck. They used to climb into the engine bay and eat the wiring. Only on the truck though. When I lived there they used to leave a whole peanut on our 1600GT Cortina, between the drivers side mirror and the vent window. They would occasionally leave a whole peanut on my TR8 as well. If we removed the peanut from the Cortina, it would be back with in a day. When I worked on my TR6 in the garage with the garage door open, some of them would sit outside the garage, just outside the door frame, and watch me. That was a little weird.

Red Ryder... yahoo... we go to the Red Ryder rodeo in Colorado each year.
"You betcha there little beaver"
I remember that old show.
Of course "DOC"... Red Ryder never killed his enemies.... then again squirrels can't be locked up fur long !!!

swift6, i know alot bout these little creatures, i survived off them while bow hunting elk in idaho, they kept me alive, snow stormed in while scouting for three days, climbing up and down those mountains will get you hungry, i think i ate one of my boots as well!, some say "the lord will provide", you just goddah know how to use em,

Can't find it now, but a couple of years go there was a video of the guy who built a LARGE sling shot on his deck, baited the pouch with nuts, and waited for the squirrel to enter. Shot that bad boy way off into the woods.

I gotta give 'em credit. They're amazing problem solvers.

I find if I stuff three to four peas in th' blowgun at a time it gives a "shotgun effect" and they scatter from th' area.

Ant'ny, th' Red Ryder has a downrange implication we needn't invoke... not that I ain't TEMPTED. And th' cats are strictly indoor. Tho they are HIGHLY interested in all this sudden outdoor activity.

And th' photo Elliot posted is about right: these are street smart varmints. I'm lookin' fer red tail hawk eggs now. And a bargain on an incubator.

Maybe the cats want to earn their claws!

Doc- This might be what bgbassplyr was reffering to.
In any case, I'm sure in a flash you too can have your very own.....


Edit: doc, I know you can improve on the launching system. Something with a flame coming out of the exhaust possibly?

Oh yeah........ I like that, Send them to the neighbors 4 houses down....

You guys are mean to these nice critters. While I was camping along the Hungry Horse Resevoir in Mt. I had a squirrel who used to wake me up in the morning. He would sit outside my tent and chatter until I came out and started coffee. While I was drinking the 1st cup of the morning he would sit on a log an watch me intently. If I put some cole coffee in a cup and set on the other side of the fire he would wander over and have a bit. This was the morning ritual for the 2 weeks I stayed on this site.He had become so used to humans he had no fear.


I have to agree though. A mess of fried squirrel would be a tasty treat. I am not a complete tree hugger.

We've had good ones and bad ones here for years. One of the progenitors of this bunch was half trained by my neighbor. He coaxed it from the time it showed up to take a peanut from his hand... then to climb his pantleg and hold on to his belt to receive the nut. When the beast mistook me for the neighbor it got a shock. It became more discriminating with the "trick" after that.

My brother found a very young one on the ground a few years ago and took care of it until it was adult. They bite, are hyperactive indoors and CHEW about anything. He hung a bunch of tree limbs from the ceiling and had a squirrel gymnasium in his house for a while. It drove his Jack Russell absolutely crazy, too. "This place is a ZOO!" was an understatement. I kept tellin' him I could fix his "problem" if he'd just hand me a tennis racket.

He recitivised it by placing the cage outside with door pinned open and off the ground near a tree. Thing would sleep in the cage and forage the trees. It finally forgot th' cage when it found another squirrel.

EDIT: And when the thing was caged for the night indoors, the CAT would sleep in top of the cage. When it was outside the confinement the cat didn't seem to care. She would just sit and watch th' dog go goofy. Weird household menagerie my brother has.

That video is great - wonder what the little sucker thought when he went flying through those trees?