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Squirrels stash more than 200 walnuts under hood of car
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| Oct. 9, 2019 / 1:33 PM
| By Ben Hooper
Posted on 10/10/2019 9:37:14 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
That’s funny. Of course it isn’t MY car.
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posted on
10/10/2019 10:09:52 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: Red Badger
A .177 cal. lead hollow point pellet is a whole lot less likely to ricochet than a copper BB.
To: Red Badger
True story
I took out a red squirrel with a slingshot and a rock when I was 9 years old
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posted on
10/10/2019 10:10:02 AM PDT
by
advertising guy
(When they told Jerry Nadler he had a flesh eating disease , they gave him 87 years to live)
To: Red Badger
Walnuts roasting on my engine block....
To: dfwgator
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posted on
10/10/2019 10:21:43 AM PDT
by
real saxophonist
(Yeah, well, y'know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
To: Red Badger
Had a squirrel storing dog food nuggets around my engine once. Definitely some weird smells with that one.
To: Yardstick
We had a dryer that was in the garage break down. Hubby pulled it out to fix it and it was full of dog food pellets. Field mice. Checked under the car hoods and there were dog food pellets under the hood of his truck.
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posted on
10/10/2019 10:39:05 AM PDT
by
sheana
To: Red Badger
I had the same thing happen with acorns in a snowmobile once.
I took it to get tuned up and ready for winter in October.
I brought it home and waited for that first snow which we got over Thanksgiving weekend. I pulled the cover off and glad I opened the cowl(hood). It was full of acorns, including in the fan housing. If I had started it, many would have been sucked into the and the fan and engine block area. It would have been even worse of a mess.
I sucked them all out with the shop vac. From then on, any other time I always put moth balls inside a sleeve of old ladies nylons. I do this with my lawn tractor too under the hood. It keeps the mice out too.
To: Red Badger
Early (2013+) Ford Escapes have an air door right in the middle of the firewall. It has a light spring to keep it shut. Chipmunks and mice can push it open to get in, but then they can't get out. Oh the hillarity that ensues. The nuts make a lovely sound when they get caught in the blower fan (and there's a good reason it's called a squirrel cage). We used glue traps to catch them some place where they were easier to dispose of when they died and stunk up the car, only to find that mice are little cannibals when the need arises. I eventually fabricated a wire mesh screen to keep the little suckers out after laying on my back for two hours to get the blower assembly out (you're supposed to remove the entire dash first, but a few mirrors, magnets and extensions can get around that) There's nothing quite like having dead rodents, nuts and bedding rain down on your head.
The little devils also chewed the wiring harness for the rear differential in multiple places, disabling 4wd, traction control, and ABS. I had to splice in a foot of wire to fix it because there were so many chew marks.
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posted on
10/10/2019 10:56:02 AM PDT
by
chrisser
To: chrisser
Here in FL we have a problem with little green tree frogs getting stuck in the AC Vents and dying, then the car smells horrid for a month..................
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posted on
10/10/2019 10:59:28 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
To: dp0622
>>>Poor fellas did all that work for nothing<<<
If you feel that bad about a squirrel, I bet you go into hysterics over poor spiders that spend the whole night building a house only to have it swept down by a broom.
:)
Jes’ kiddin’
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posted on
10/10/2019 11:18:27 AM PDT
by
Pilgrim's Progress
(http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
To: Red Badger
We had a whole bunch of dried whole corn in our air filter on the car one year. Probably mice.
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posted on
10/10/2019 11:29:57 AM PDT
by
MomwithHope
(Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
To: Red Badger
A man brought in his Isuzu pickup for an oil change. The tech guys opened the hood and were greeted by a hissing possum. Truck has been sitting up for a while.
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posted on
10/10/2019 11:34:05 AM PDT
by
Texas resident
(Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
To: Pilgrim's Progress
I HATE spiders!!
Only felt bad about the squirrel for as long as it took to type :)
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posted on
10/10/2019 12:33:45 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
To: Red Badger
I started my snowmobile a few years back. Took more pulls than usual. It started and ran rough and I soon smelled the odor of roasting nuts. I pulled the head and sitting on top of the pistons were walnuts. The chipmunks crawled up the tailpipe and made a nest in the engine.
To: sheana
Hm, maybe this was a field mouse then. I never saw the perp...
To: dp0622
My dog hates tree rats also. He is so proud of himself for making everyone of them run up trees in utter terror of his ferociousness. He thinks he’s the baddest chihuahua on the block.
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posted on
10/10/2019 12:52:43 PM PDT
by
Pilgrim's Progress
(http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
To: Pilgrim's Progress
LOL
It’s easy to like squirrels and deer and anything else when you live in a city and they are no bother to you.
I would imagine in some areas they can be a nuisance
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posted on
10/10/2019 12:54:28 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
To: Red Badger
I always found it amusing that girls think squirrels are "cute" but will scream and get up on a chair if they see a rat or a mouse.
It's their bushy tails!
Without the bushy tail, a squirrel looks no different than a rat.
To: SamAdams76
Tree Rats......................
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posted on
10/10/2019 1:05:09 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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