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First rule is, never get involved in a land war in Asia.

The second, slightly less known rule, is never mess with the garden, when Katherine is on watch!

Squirrel, it's what's for dinner. Does Katherine know how to make dumplings?

Opus the Poet wrote:Squirrel, it's what's for dinner. Does Katherine know how to make dumplings?

Considering how capable a person she has turned out to be, I'm sure that she does.

The real question is, are the dumpls ready to be harvested yet? Even Kath can't do much with unripe dumpls.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! That look on Kath's face in the last panel!!!

Castela: "Awww mom!!! Not Squirrel again!!!"

Although calling it a Squirrel in Kath's eyes is being generous... Yard Rat being the most likely phrase for them in her vocabulary...

DilyV wrote: . . . Although calling it a Squirrel in Kath's eyes is being generous... Yard Rat being the most likely phrase for them in her vocabulary...

Tree Rat.

--FreeFlier

FreeFlier wrote:

DilyV wrote: . . . Although calling it a Squirrel in Kath's eyes is being generous... Yard Rat being the most likely phrase for them in her vocabulary...

Tree Rat.

--FreeFlier

Anyone cares to try their luck with the wretched things, I have several dozen of the that travel through my back yard on a regular basis. Between them, the birds, the turkeys, groundhogs, raccoons and the occasional mangy fox...it’s not a quiet place.

Leave the hummingbirds alone, though.

Just Old Al wrote:
Anyone cares to try their luck with the wretched things, I have several dozen of the that travel through my back yard on a regular basis. Between them, the birds, the turkeys, groundhogs, raccoons and the occasional mangy fox...it’s not a quiet place.

Leave the hummingbirds alone, though.

It takes four or five of the wretched things to fill a plate- I use my .22 Gamo air rifle, as it is the cheapest to operate and will kill them rather nicely. They do well with teriyaki...

Sgt. Howard wrote:It takes four or five of the wretched things to fill a plate- I use my .22 Gamo air rifle, as it is the cheapest to operate and will kill them rather nicely. They do well with teriyaki...

Ah - a celebrity in the kitchen! Rocky, the frying squirrel!

I don't mind the red squirrels . . . the california gray squirrels, OTOH . . .

Wolf-who-Watches wrote:Tasty crunchy flufftails! /licks chops/

Go for it.

--FreeFlier

Dave wrote:

Sgt. Howard wrote:It takes four or five of the wretched things to fill a plate- I use my .22 Gamo air rifle, as it is the cheapest to operate and will kill them rather nicely. They do well with teriyaki...

Ah - a celebrity in the kitchen! Rocky, the frying squirrel!

Batter up!

Chomp, chomp, chomp...PTOO! Damn goggles...chomp, chomp...

I have a friend in Missouri who tells me they taste like hazelnut. Sounds yummy.

Drakkenmensch wrote:I have a friend in Missouri who tells me they taste like hazelnut. Sounds yummy.

Must have a hazelnut grove nearby.

Up here they tend to taste like pine.

--FreeFlier

I wonder how she's managing to terminate them. Unless they''re morons or tamed, squirrels just don't stand there as humans approach. And they CAN move fast.

eee wrote:I wonder how she's managing to terminate them. Unless they''re morons or tamed, squirrels just don't stand there as humans approach. And they CAN move fast.

I had an uncle that thought he wounded a squirrel when we were out hunting and chased it down and snapped its neck. When we were field dressing the animal we looked really hard for where it was shot and there were no holes in the hide, he had chased down a healthy squirrel that had missed a step with all the excitement and fallen from a tree unharmed.

Two words: packing heat.

Squirrels aren't smart.

Also, as I understand it, one of the problems squirrels have with cars is that they can't really see them . . . nothing in a squirrel's world moves that fast! (This is also how some birds of prey catch squirrels.)

--FreeFlier

I can attest to that; I had one run out in the edge of the two lanes going in my direction,
stop,
and just as we passed by- dashed under the car to get his head smooshed by the rear tire.

I couldn't have timed it any better.

I felt pretty bad about it too... If he had just stayed pat, he'd have been OK.

I don't know, some of the squirrels around here will actually turn around and run when a car approaches.

Ground squirrels, gophers, and the like run for their nearest hole - even if that means running into the path of the vehicle that they want to hide from.

Deer are generally smart enough to figure out that those big noisy things stay on the hard path with no plants, so if THEY are NOT on said path they are safe. (There are an estimated 3,000 deer - mostly mule deer, which are one of the larger varieties - living inside Missoula city limits. I've only seen five in the past month.)