Posted on 01/11/2013 8:58:37 PM PST by JouleZ
If I were he and he were me,
And he led me into the freezing White river
I’d bite myself for making
My own liver quiver.
The will to live is strong. The squirrel I killed took three hits to the head before it died. Two were at point blank range, the first knocked it out for about 30 seconds and seemed to paralyze its rear.
Honestly, I felt bad. It’s not something I’d do again unless I had to eat it for food.
Ducks and geese make the cold water a non-issue.
Good story. : )
Your use of the hoe was timely. Last year I was trapping squirrels to stop the midnight basketball games they were playing in out attic. One male was particularly aggressive and got out of the trap that was on the back porch prior to my relocating him to another habitat. Anyway, he was going berserk running up and down the screens. I didn’t want to shoot him and I didn’t want to get anywhere near those teeth so I used some bacon tongs to grab that hyper rodent and put back in the trap. That took several attempts and he did manage to scratch me, but he is now enjoying life in a park across town (maybe).
If he were my beloved chocolate lab (RIP) maybe.
You know why dogs lick their private parts?
Cute story. You done good.
Haflingers are fun. I know and love them. Is yours actually a horse?
Rats fed ginseng swim 30% longer before drowning. Fact.
Feed my Parrot get a Thank you from her and then she bites you.Learnin lots from this thread.
Lubrication?
Haflingers are the best and all my animals are real. Not imaginary. Not even the squirrel.
Maybe a couple of frangible rounds close by the head will drive an appreciation of not biting the hand that feeds you.
Because they can.
LOL! If only that had happened the story would be really good!
ROFL! Best reply!
Boyhood friends rescued a baby squirrel, raised it, then turned it loose. The squirrel though returned for handouts and to play — using a hole that it chewed in the eave of the house. Their parents indulgently allowed this, which meant that visitors might see a squirrel scurrying about the house, even hopping up on the furniture to get a better view of guests.
All this talk of saving the squirrel. Here on the farm in Florida, we would have let it drown. Squirrels are nothing more than rodents, rats with longer fur. On our rural property, we trap them and shoot them because they are such pests. They damage our pecan harvest, eat through the livestock and chicken feed bags, attracting other insects and pests, gnaw on our garden plants and destroy the vegetables, ruin the citrus on the trees, gnaw on hoses and electrical insulation, dig up the flower beds and generally make real nuisances of themselves. They are unwelcome critters, not some furry little pets to be admired. We have a Rottweiler that serves that role.
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