Squirrel at Mich. cemetery wraps nest in Old Glory

Idaho Press Tribune ^ | 05/31/09

[freespirited]

Sorry, no photo with story.

[freespirited]

Found elsewhere:

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Wow, it really has gotten bad if the newspaper doesn’t have the money for a camera. This is a story that screams for a photo. I hope someone gets a picture of this, better yet, a video of the squirrel taking the flags.

[rintense]

They're pretty smart critters. I leave all the soft fur brushed out of my dog in the woods for them to line their nests. It was a hunch and didn't get confirmation it worked until a storm blew a squirrel nest from my trees. I thought it was a dead animal when I first saw it, but it was a nest lined with soft, Belgian Sheepdog undercoat fur.

A few summers ago, I mistakenly left my garage door open, and a bird built a nest on top of my leaf blower attachment. What was unusual about the nest was the bird use pieces of scotch tape on the outside of the nest. Where the tape came from, I'll never know.

[scooter2]

Cool. A patriotic squirrel.

[manic4organic]

Rats with fluffy tails. A pellet gun works nicely.

[Robert A Cook PE]

The squirrel is showing more respect for the flag than Obama’s weatherman/terrorist “just-a-neighbor” is ....

[mojito]

That squirrel has more patriotic feeling than most ‘rats.

[Secret Agent Man]

Squirrel just exhibited about 5000% more patriotism than O-hole ever has or will.

[stylecouncilor]

ping

[EnquiringMind]

Ugh

[Cicero]

Yes, I was wondering whether to call the squirrel a vandal or a patriot, but I lean toward patriot.

[Professional Engineer]

Good morning ladies and gents. Flag-o-Ping.

[manic4organic]

Ugh

That's the sound I make when they chew up my property and eat the seed I put out for songbirds.

[Liberty Valance]

*squirrel ping*

[conservativegramma]

See? Just goes to show that even a squirrel has more patriotism than Zero or your average Congress critter.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Mrs. Slim left out some fuzzy cloth for squirrel nesting material (and birds too)... They got a bit too used to it and ate the legs out of a pair of my jeans that I was drying by hanging on the back of a patio chair.

[magslinger]

Port Huron, MI.

[BlackElk]

Port Huron was the birthplace of the ultra radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) which also involved Obortion’s buddies Bill Ayres and Bernadine Doehrn. SDS’s founding statement of “principles” is the Port Huron Statement (1962) written by Tom Hayden, the former Mr. Jane Fonda.

[colorado tanker]

Well, PE I think this is your most unusual flag ping! LOL!