PSA: If a witch ever turns you into a squirrel

[Exterous]

you should find a college campus to live on. So far it seems pretty universal for squirrels on campus to be obese and their complete lack of fear speaks well of their position in the food chain. (I had one run across my foot a couple of months ago)

 

[maddogchen]

they put on the freshman 15 too.

 

[Kaido]

 

[Charmonium]

Squirrels around here have gotten a graphic reminder of their place in the food chain with the return of raptors like hawks and falcons. They used to scurry around my back yard with complete abandon. Now, you rarely see them out in the open and rarely more than one or two at a time.

 

[Exterous]

Squirrels around here have gotten a graphic reminder of their place in the food chain with the return of raptors like hawks and falcons. They used to scurry around my back yard with complete abandon. Now, you rarely see them out in the open and rarely more than one or two at a time.

No raptors around here so they scurry around the campuses like they own it

 

[zinfamous]

yeah, they are super fat and quite aggressive on any college campus. The worst ones that I have seen were at Berkeley. There is a heavily-trafficked area outside of the building where I worked, in the eucalyptus grove, with several squirrel families/colonies...whatever. Those bastards don't just come up to you--they jump on your legs, run up your jacket, and some will jump on you from behind demanding food. Always tourists stopping to feed them and take photos of how cute they are, creating these savage little monsters.

Squirrels around here have gotten a graphic reminder of their place in the food chain with the return of raptors like hawks and falcons. They used to scurry around my back yard with complete abandon. Now, you rarely see them out in the open and rarely more than one or two at a time.

When I was actually in school, i was walking through the main brickyard when a red tail swooped down and nabbed a squirrel off the top of a trashcan. It didn't fly away, though. He landed on the ground near people and ripped it apart first...much to the terror of onlookers. It was glorious.

 

[BurnItDwn]

The fiancee throws peanuts to the squirrels almost every day here, If I became squirrel, I would simply live in one of the trees in my own back yard, no need to move away.

 

[BoberFett]

yeah, they are super fat and quite aggressive on any college campus. The worst ones that I have seen were at Berkeley. There is a heavily-trafficked area outside of the building where I worked, in the eucalyptus grove, with several squirrel families/colonies...whatever. Those bastards don't just come up to you--they jump on your legs, run up your jacket, and some will jump on you from behind demanding food. Always tourists stopping to feed them and take photos of how cute they are, creating these savage little monsters.

So the squirrels at Berkeley are entitled twats that fit right in with the students? 😛

 

[ElFenix]

dang squirrel stole a roach coach eggroll from me one day on campus

 

[Drako]

Pure Michigan

 

[Ruptga]

yeah, they are super fat and quite aggressive on any college campus. The worst ones that I have seen were at Berkeley. There is a heavily-trafficked area outside of the building where I worked, in the eucalyptus grove, with several squirrel families/colonies...whatever. Those bastards don't just come up to you--they jump on your legs, run up your jacket, and some will jump on you from behind demanding food. Always tourists stopping to feed them and take photos of how cute they are, creating these savage little monsters.

😵 It's a wonder someone less forbearing didn't lay mouse poison all over that area.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I miss this one place I used to camp at during most of the summer, there were lot of squirrels and chipmunks, they were fun. We'd go through lot of bags of peanuts.

No squirrels on my college campus though when I went, it is right by the highway, and there was a lake behind.

 

[Crono]

There was a squirrel outside my workplace who would root around the trash. Zero fear. It got pretty fat... haven't seen him (her?) in a year, not sure if it's still alive.

 

[Red Squirrel]

lol that's hilarious. I remember when I was in Toronto they had black squirrels there, saw one getting some loot from a trash can. Those suckers are big, almost like a cat.

 

[fralexandr]

 

[Charmonium]

No raptors around here so they scurry around the campuses like they own it

Give it a few more years. It took decades to get raptors breading and repopulating the area and that was with help from a raptor preservation group. Now you can even see them in NYC. A couple of years ago there was even a nesting pair somewhere on the Park Ave Met Life building.

As long as they keep reproducing successfully, they should make a comeback in every state.

When I was actually in school, i was walking through the main brickyard when a red tail swooped down and nabbed a squirrel off the top of a trashcan. It didn't fly away, though. He landed on the ground near people and ripped it apart first...much to the terror of onlookers. It was glorious.

Similar thing happened here. I was looking out the kitchen window and there was a squirrel out in the open on the grass. Woosh. Falcon I think came down and snatched his furry little butt. But I guess since it was
close to the house, he decided to move to a more secluded area on a log in the far back. Then it was nom, nom, nom.

 

[MongGrel]

There were may black squirrels in Southern Indiana where we used to camp out a lot in the summer, when my dad would just roam around squirrel hunting are the ones he went for. They tend to run all the others off in areas they populate I guess. They do get large.

Yeah, red tails will just eat things on the ground a lot of the time. Have the screened in patio in the back we let the cats lounge around the pool in a lot of the time, they do not just roam free. Had a red tail swoop in looking to grab one a few years ago, he bounced off the screen on the side, walked around the yard a few seconds, then flew off 😛

Are quite a few raptors down here of various types, even Bald Eagle/Osprey online cams. Some guy got busted taking out an Eagle nest here a few years back.

Have camped a few places in Michigan around Mackinaw Island in the past where the Racoon population felt they owned the joint, once or twice had them even walk past a campfire, jump on the table while we were sitting there like "I don't give a crap", and just start eating food off the table in front of us. Surprised me, I didn't even think they would get near a fire.

 

[midnight growler]

The University of Texas even founded the Albino Squirrel Preservation Society.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

If you ever want revenge on a squirrel and a good laugh, make him an open face peanut butter sandwich. They like the peanut butter best so they eat it first then, they eat the bread while you watch them stuff their cheeks. Next, you watch them roll around on the ground pushing on their cheeks with their hind feet trying to swallow. 😀 Squirrels aren't very bright so, you can get the same squirrel the next day.

 

[Charmonium]

The University of Texas even founded the Albino Squirrel Preservation Society.

F***ing racists. I'll bet they have them burn little white crosses under the nests of the black squirrels. :sneaky:

I like the peanut butter sandwich idea. Not sure I have the patience for it but something to keep in mind. :thumbsup:

 

[IronWing]

Two friends from college had dogs that they would occasionally let run on campus. The dogs were deadly hunters of squirrels. If you ever want to get people pissed off, let your dog eat a campus squirrel.