Pickles by Brian Crane for June 12, 2022

you tell Sylvia that, Opal

I’m quite fond of squirrels. In a previous life I was a squirrel.

No, wait. It’s in my current life that I’m a squirrel. Fancy me forgetting that!

She feeds HIM doesn’t she?

My wife feeds them vast quantities of bird seed and suet cake, although they aren’t the intended targets for those foods.

She always was squirrely

This is how Opal gets her entertainment.

My stepfather loved chipmunks. We had a cottage at the beach and before we entered it we would wash our feet of the sand by dipping them in a bucket of water by the door. One weekend we came up and sadly found a chipmunk lying on the bottom of the pail. It had fallen into the pail and drowned. So he built a little ladder and put it in the pail so that if another chipmunk fell into the pail it could climb out. On the outside he had been a rough and tumble gruff kind of guy but that little act of thoughtfulness betrayed that exterior and showed his true heart.

How dare Opal assume that Earl cant tell one squirrel from another?

They love my chestnuts. I thought when I planted THAT many trees they could never eat enough to affect my haul. I was wrong. Maybe I just need to plant another 50.

(or 100?)

Cookies aren’t made on top of a stove. They’re mixed cold and baked.

Buy the traps. Squirrels make a good stew.

Have lots of squirrels here, but most of them do not last long, there is a road they like to cross and…!

She’s assuming he only saw one squirrel at a time. He might have seen several each time

I think it was 64 squirrels, and he was only counting half the time.

Earl get the traps ! Remember Squirrels and Chipmunks are just another form of Rodent ;-)

Same thing happened here. So I made the family squirrel stew. They LOVED it – I told them it was chicken & pork. (They bought it!)

For a time I used a cage trap for squirrels. Released the catch in some woods about 5 miles away and across an interstate. A neighbor who had done that said they probably beat him back home by several minutes, but he couldn’t be sure, considering their clone-like appearance. Said likely the same thing with my critters. Eventually tired of the ‘fun’ and dumped the trap. Just too many to bother with.

Awwww! I have squirrels in my yard and on the patio everyday….eating fallen bird seed. Also chipmunks, raccoons, rabbits, deer, etc.

The squirrels keep him occupied for hours on end, and out of my way.

We have oak trees, therefor we have squirrels.

We had a cat who was very good at catching squirrels. She’s sit at the base of the tree and chirp back at the squirrels, enticing them to come down to their doom.

I had an very old aunt who asked me to go and visit her friend who had a cat problem. Cats were ripping the screens and always trying to get in the house. She had no cat of her own. When I got there, she had about 12 cats in the yard, bowls of food everywhere for them, a shelter set up, and she said “I can’t get rid of them”. I told her to get a dog.

I love to watch squirrels in my backyard, and I used to not understand why bird watchers consider them pests. Then I tried putting out a bird feeder to attract more birds to the yard. It turns out, bird seed is very expensive, and squirrels can clean out a feeder of an entire two pound bag in less than a day.

Squirrels chewing holes in the trim boards, getting in the house and we’ll see Pearl change her tune.

If it walks, flies, waddles or hops, we’re probably going to feed it. Birdseed, carrots, lettuce, suet..what are things on Brad and Barbaras’ shopping list?

If you feed them, they will come – more and more and more …

They’re just rats with tails

I used to feed the squirrels until I saw a rat eating the corn.

Gaslighting can be fun even when no money is involved.

Ahhh HA..!!!!!!!!!!!!! – I KNEW it..!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only Mark Rober is allowed to feed squirrels.

Personally, I’d prefer mother’s (RIP) home-made brownies with walnut-pieces (which my daughter’s picked out).

stupid tree rats

This is “benign” gaslighting, no?

I love having squirrels running around in the backyard because they entertain my cats

That is why so many squirrels, Opal loves to irritate Earl.That is what we do not want to feed squirrels. Some time ago when my mom was a live a squirrel found is way to her attic could hear it move around also built a nest. Brother-in-law found out how it got in and fixed that also go rid of that nest. Became quiet in that attic.

Dad once put a bird feeder on a horizontal support cable for the telephone pole in front of our house. Naturally the squirrels would climb the pole and jump onto the feeder. So he did what any sensible person would do: he electrified the perch. When he saw a squirrel there, he would go into the garage and plug it in. One of the critters vaulted to the top of the pole. Eventually they figured out that when Dad moved past the windows to go to the garage, it was time to run. Now picture a grown man ducking under the windows so the squirrels won’t see him!

Easiest way to catch a squirrel? Climb a tree and act like a nut!

Decades ago my wife loved to feed the squirrels, in fact we would order 50# bags of raw unshelled peanuts from the feed store. Trouble is the next door neighbor had a German Shepard and unfortunately the squirrels would drive the dog crazy. So the neighbor bought live traps and would take the squirrels out of town. He never could keep up with the number of squirrels. They finally moved out of town to a new home on a golf course. We don’t feed the squirrels anymore because we’re snowbirds.

‘Squirrels are just rats with boufant hair styles’ David Letterman.

Too much of a nuisance, and it’s MMM-HMM! Brunswick Stew.

I love squirrels, even though one chewed a hole in an outdoor cushion, and several of them have found some of my cacti rather tasty. I’m willing to put up with some of their less-endearing qualities in exchange for the happiness they bring me.

Sounds like a win win to me. Squirrels are happy, opal is happy, Earl gets cookies

She’s trying to drive Earl NUTS with SQUIRRELS!

I like to watch squirrels, and all ours are different colors. There is now a pure white baby one.

Aw, nuts!

And they are really fun when they get in your attic!