Rama, I've been pondering long and hard about your quag.

This whole dilemma reminds me of the Wizard of Oz. The Squirrels = Flying Monkeys
and you have your choice among Dorothy, Scarecrow and Tinman.

BTW, as others mentioned I love your style "Brevity is the soul of wit."

I have "Friended" you.

Good Luck and alert us of any updates.

I look forward to future posts.

Kind Regards...KK

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Squirrel Sighting! (In an unfortunate circumstance...)

Considering the amount of Squirrels that I described seeing prior, this will seem a bit weak: I just saw one! To tell you the truth it looked extremely fragile; it's little body was all skinny and it seemed unable to do anything but crawl along the ground. As I watched it it slipped through a metal grate thing to this 'open basement' thing at the base of a tower block.

I am currently wondering whether that is somewhere that they go regularly or whether the little guy just wanted to get away from my advancing frame. At any rate that area is full of skips and bins so we'll see.

As one always says, "Where there's one there's more!". This could be the breakthrough that I have been waiting for so impatiently from four in the morning to ten at night (well, obviously I'm not watching the garden for all that time).

I am hoping that (if this dreadful weather holds up) the little things'll be wrecking my garden veeeeery soon so that I can get it up on here for you all! I got so excited when I saw it crawling along that I started talking to it and all that. "Where 'av ya bin mate? Ooh this is sweet!".
I was bounding after the little thing and it was taking about ten seconds to traverse the width of each paving stone! So really I was bounding on the spot!

You see I don't know whether its weakness was a sign of death or whether it just couldn't be bothered to move but- nevertheless -it was there! Breakthrough? Or will they break their backs on those paving cracks? We shall see.

Ramadwarf on being exceptionally happy

Oh and it was an unfortunate circumstance because I didn't have my laptop with me to film it.

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Well, I hope that I can catch a squirrel in the act of burying its nuts; then I can put a bin over the spot or something and the little guy won't know what the hell's going down!

Ooh that's going to be sweet (but uh, I can't really see it happening like that. Unless it's in a dream of course!) On that note a squirrel turned up in a dream the other night: I was eating bricks with this dwarf and one ran past with a bow and arrow.

Ramadwarf on nut fiddling

Hmm it's been a while hasn't it! Well, I think that the ol' boys might be coming back cause I had three of them in the garden today (of course, after however long it's been, I got so excited by their presence and made too much noise as I grabbed the laptop and stuff, but I did get the camera on them in time, just that it didn't take the picture until I turned it round to see whether I got them in or not and it took a shot of my face...

Still I think we've got Rats now which isn't good at all. And my sideburns were a bed for some moths the other night... Guh... But I reckon I'm still on course for that proof I said I'd get and I ain't gonna forget it neither! It's just the way they disappeared when I made their presence known to the world that gets me . Maybe I should have taken the photo before I made the thread or something, but I'm still aware that I made a promise and every day I've been at that back door watching for two hours in the morning. Well, sometimes one...

Ramadwarf on an absence of squirrels leading to an adundance of rats and no joy for the thread

weird, hadn't seen one in ages but i saw a squirrel this morning, i thought of this thread and here today are new posts, crazy stuff.

the squirrels should be settling down for the winter shortly. you might have a few around the next few days.

rats is not good.

This is brilliant, the highlight of my summer on ATS is back from the past!

Did the squirrel problem get fixed?

XXXN3O on summer and TSTB

Edit: I see its now rats OMG!

XXXN3O on rats, God and Editing





[edit on 2-10-2009 by XXXN3O]

OK Rama, so now we are dealing in rats. No worries. If I can quote myself without being accused of self-flagellation (whips aaside, of course)
I had offered this advice in my very first post of this thread on pg 4.

Originally posted by kinda kurious
Step 7: Do not be lulled into thinking these are cute, cuddly creatures. Remember a Squirrel is just a common domesticated rat in a little fur suit.

So not much new to offer for advice until you can cough up some photographic evidence or tissue samples so that I might ascertain some skeletal clues as to the genetic makeup of these diminutive distractions.

Squirrels, rats, mice, elephants (just checking to see if anyone is actually paying attention) they're all the same varments.

Domo arigato...KK.




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