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09-26-2013, 08:02 PM | #1 |
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Chipmunk & Squirrel Suicide...
...I saw 1 squirrel that succeeded (not by me), and, had 4 squirrels and 1 chipmunk try to make me a murderer, all within 3 miles North on RT3 coming out of Meredith. Quite bizarre.
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09-27-2013, 06:17 AM | #2 |
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I'm thinking those are really "Yankee Lemmings." They're too lazy to walk to the ocean. Instead they just repeatedly cross the road until they meet their fate.
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09-27-2013, 06:55 AM | #3 |
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Actually, they are pretty vicious and wanted to run you off the road by having you swerve to avoid them. A cconspiracy?
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09-27-2013, 07:03 AM | #4 |
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I have found 3 chipmunks doing death laps in our toilet the last couple of weeks. I'm not sure if the chipmunks sneak in and do a suicidal cliff dive into the toilet bowl or the cats are taking them to the porcelain death arena as an offering to the kitty gods.
I'm happy to report although cold, exhausted and soaking wet...these resilient little rodents always seem to survive their cat encounters. Of the dozen or so "gifts" our cats brought home this summer, all lived and scampered back to their holes with little more than a story to tell. The cats don't even chase them after they bring them home. I wonder how many of the captors are repeat visitors? This picture of Pam bringing us a gift shows a chipmunk who played dead and then ran away unharmed. |
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09-27-2013, 08:08 AM | #5 |
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My Bella likes to bring me chipmunks too. The other day she and her sister Sunny had one they were playing with outside, when I went to save the poor little bugger, I noticed he was very slow moving and saw a big cut on his side. My cats couldn't have done it, it actually looked like he had gotten scraped by a car.
The best was when she brought one in the house, it was playing dead like yours and then he started to run around. Hubby caught it in a plastic container and my son wanted to keep it as a pet. |
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