Seller's remorse

[drbassman]

Thanks heavens that guy wasn't smuggling squirrels!!! 

[Highlander]

Imagine putting your hand through a sewing machine, except the sewing machine has 4 needles - 2 up & 2 down & each one about 2.5mm - 1/10" in width...

This, in wildlife handling circles, is called "mishandling the squirrel"...

Would you put a squirrel up your trouser-leg...? 

[drbassman]

Ouch, Kenny!!!!  I hope you didn't do that!  Or did you???

As for squirrels, I don't trust the little tree-dwelling rodents.  I was camping years ago and sitting in my lawn chair drinking a beer.  One of the little flea-infested critters ran up my pant leg (on the outside thank heaves) and tried to grab my beer!  Naturally, my cave dwelling instincts kicked in and I saved the brew and sent him flying.  Never liked them ever since!   

[Dave W]

I only know peaceful squirrels, thank goodness. Maybe they're teetotalers.

[Pilgrim]

Ouch, Kenny!!!!  I hope you didn't do that!  Or did you???

As for squirrels, I don't trust the little tree-dwelling rodents.  I was camping years ago and sitting in my lawn chair drinking a beer.  One of the little flea-infested critters ran up my pant leg (on the outside thank heaves) and tried to grab my beer!  Naturally, my cave dwelling instincts kicked in and I saved the brew and sent him flying.  Never liked them ever since!   

OMG!!!!   Beer-stealing squirrels!  Clearly, the apocalypse is upon us!

[drbassman]

Never trust a rodent with a furry tail.  It's a disguise!    They're really just rats in fuzzy costume!  If he had asked politely, I would have shared one with him.

[Highlander]

Most of our visitors are peaceful (5 "kittens" - proper name for baby squirrels - presently visit our garden from the summer dreys, but a cat nearly got one today), and a few we visit on a regular basis, in a local park, will sit on our knees, or run up a trouser leg to be fed; one we knicknamed "Mama", because as wild squirrels go, she is OLD, will allow my daughter to stroke her whilst being fed...

Oh, and yes, Bill, I have "misshandled the squirrel"... 

We started getting interested in them after many years of trying to stop them getting at the bird-feeders, and watching their antics at trying to get past the barriers we put up... each to their own...

You wouldn't want our "feed" bill...

[Pilgrim]

There ya go - a new band name:

Mishandling the Squirrel.

[Dave W]

If you don't stop mishandling the squirrel, you'll go blind.

[Pilgrim]

Strokin' the Squirrel?

Chokin' the Chipmunk?

Mashing the Marmot?

Flailing the Ferret?

[uwe]

Kenny, aren't all your squirrels the bloated illegal alien type that your Yank allies brought over with their over-indulgent food rations in 1943/44?

Regarding the beer attack: Did the squirrel at least have a brown paper bag with it?!!!

[Lightyear]

......
Flailing the Ferret?

There's great band name for you The Flailing Ferets - has a nice ring and a certain "angstyness" about it

[clankenstein]

at least you cant see his budgie smugglers.

[Pilgrim]

There's great band name for you The Flailing Ferets - has a nice ring and a certain "angstyness" about it

I think I like "Angstyness" as a band name even better!  

Although "Budgie Smugglers" may have them all beat.  That sounds like a British band.

[Highlander]

Someone beat them to the cover, Al...



Present band's vocalist once had a band called "Slap the Fish"...

"Sciurus Carolinensis" in GB well predates, "Over-paid, over-sexed, and over-here", Uwe, and we can blame the English Aristocracy (The Duke of Bedford) for bringing them over, reputedly first in 1876...

There are still some "S. Vulgaris" outposts, though...

"Wring That Neck"...