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20 years ago there were no squirrels here and now they are running amok destroying our parks and decimating our song birds. There are many stories as to why we now have squirrels but the one that seems to have gained the most steam is that a farmer in Saanich saw the cute little fluffy tailed squirrels in England and just had to have a couple for himself. The story goes that he illegally brought back half a d
ozen of the rodents and squirrels being squirrels did their thing and before long he had way too many squirrels and being the genius that he was decided to let them go. They have no natural predator to keep the numbers down. Just another example of man messing with nature and screwing it up in grand style.I have to count myself lucky because I have friends that when they got squirrels the sneaky little rats ate through their electrical wiring causing much damage with an expensive get fixed pricetag.
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We have lots of squirrels around here, but they're pretty harmless.
"Squirrel" was one of the first words my son Adam learned. When we'd walk to the grocery store or laundromat, he'd see one and yell "Squiiiiiirrrrrreelllllll!" and point to it excitedly. Of course, he did this with dogs, cats, and all other animals, calling them all "squirrels."
Computers will kill us, I swear.
We never used to see the black Ontario squirells in the prairies either, but now they are common. They travel well, I guess.
u are lucky. see this http://loriflorida.wordpress.com/2007/03/10/super-squirrel/
Forget whose quote this is, but I can remember someone lamenting that squirrels were just rats with better P.R.
We're being overrun by rabbits here...same thing, people get them then dump them because they don't want them.
Johnny Yen, that's such an adorable image of your son yelling squirrel.
Barbara, only if I don't kill it first!
Boo, thank you! That picture of the superman squirrel just killed me.
Whitenoise, rats with better P.R. that's good. I'll have to remember that one.
Deb, we have that too. People dump them on the hospital grounds and at the university. At the university they're so cute but at the hospital needless to say they are causing a lot of problems. So then the city came up with this genius idea: let's shoot them! So one night they tried but the police were swamped with phonecalls about gunfire from the hospital grounds. I don't even think they managed to kill a single bunny but they sure as heck got a swamp load of bad press.
The way we got squirrels reminds me of the way North Saanich got that bloody Scotish Broom ... so moron decided he missed the fricken stuff and brought some over from Scottland. Now everyone who live there all get worse hayfever then they did.
Small town teacher, what is it with people? I had not heard that one before. That bloody broom just flourishes and there's no stopping it.
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