i knew my parents were nuts...apparently the squirrels do too
(late elementary time)
squirrel #1
a lil baby in the warm spring time gets in runs up and down curtains im at school, mom fends off on her own.....happy ending? mom bashes out screen in her bedroom screaming and shooing the lil thing out the window where it got on a brick pillar and proceeded to yell at her for scaring it.
(middle school/very early highschool)
squirrel #2
a larger much more intellegent one, found walnuts in the basement, after primary food source was removed, cat food made a good enough replacement. decided the warmer dry basement looked much better then the cold wet fall looking weather outside. squirrel is sitting on first basement landing where the cat food is...looks up at mom and then looks back downstairs and walks down there knowing it can return to the ample food source....happy ending? well we did get the squirrel out of the house...eight ball corner pocket? yea after the bee bee gun didnt work he got a pool que to the head...
(today, around noonish time)
squirrel #3
upstairs minding my own buisness...mom walks into kitchen to take plate in...SCREAMS. squirrel throws rock at mom or perhaps when she screamed it scared the lil thing so much that the rock fell when it ran for its life. i run downstairs to mom screaming more and eventually gettin the word squirrel out of her mouth. seeing that it is just a lil critter the thoughts of my mom was dying or being made dead are out of my head and i yell at her to close off the dining room and living room doors so we can keep it somewhat contained. go upstairs get shoes. come back down...she lost it. it eventually makes it onto the front porch after scaling our walls a few times and scurrying around the bottom of the christmas trees....front porch it runs and runs and runs and climbs...and eventually makes it out the front door completely clearing the front steps and only taking about 10 steps to get across the yard to a safe and familiar tree.
3 times in the last 10 years? who else has a track record like that? i mean, come on. honestly?
squirrel #1
a lil baby in the warm spring time gets in runs up and down curtains im at school, mom fends off on her own.....happy ending? mom bashes out screen in her bedroom screaming and shooing the lil thing out the window where it got on a brick pillar and proceeded to yell at her for scaring it.
(middle school/very early highschool)
squirrel #2
a larger much more intellegent one, found walnuts in the basement, after primary food source was removed, cat food made a good enough replacement. decided the warmer dry basement looked much better then the cold wet fall looking weather outside. squirrel is sitting on first basement landing where the cat food is...looks up at mom and then looks back downstairs and walks down there knowing it can return to the ample food source....happy ending? well we did get the squirrel out of the house...eight ball corner pocket? yea after the bee bee gun didnt work he got a pool que to the head...
(today, around noonish time)
squirrel #3
upstairs minding my own buisness...mom walks into kitchen to take plate in...SCREAMS. squirrel throws rock at mom or perhaps when she screamed it scared the lil thing so much that the rock fell when it ran for its life. i run downstairs to mom screaming more and eventually gettin the word squirrel out of her mouth. seeing that it is just a lil critter the thoughts of my mom was dying or being made dead are out of my head and i yell at her to close off the dining room and living room doors so we can keep it somewhat contained. go upstairs get shoes. come back down...she lost it. it eventually makes it onto the front porch after scaling our walls a few times and scurrying around the bottom of the christmas trees....front porch it runs and runs and runs and climbs...and eventually makes it out the front door completely clearing the front steps and only taking about 10 steps to get across the yard to a safe and familiar tree.
3 times in the last 10 years? who else has a track record like that? i mean, come on. honestly?