I feel sorry for the poor things. I know they just want to eat and live. Drowning them seems cruel (but takes only 20 seconds and they are mostly just confused).. So I considered the options in their lives. It's not like squirrels often die of old age:
1. Grabbed by hawk talons for several minutes and then get ripped apart while still alive.
2. Same with owls...
3. Hit by cars and die of injuries slowly on the side of the road.
4. Starve to death slowly.
5. Freeze to death in very cold winters.
6. Grabbed by dogs and shaken into oblivion after terrible bites.
7. Poisoned or snap-trapped by liscenced people getting them out of attics.
8. Pecked to death by crows.
There are probably others I can't think of but it doesn't really matter. There is (was) this group of squirrels that destroyed most of my garden and I think I got the last one (the trap will remain set until no squirrels attack my vegetable plants).
After reducing (hopefully eliminating) the East Grove Gang who had, as a group, learned to attack gardens, I have had 12 heirloom tomatoes harvested ripe and there are 12 more getting there. Last year, with the East Grove Gang undisturbed, I got 2 tomatoes the whole year.
It is good to be at the top of the food chain.
On the gaming front, I had stayed away from Risk for a week. But tonight I joined a game of 5 players, 2 outpointing me by WAY LOTS. I won. I was shocked because I don't generally do well in multiplayer games and especially I don't do well against VERY more experienced players. But some games just go well. I played carefully. I played well. I attacked when it was best to attack and I defended my borders well.
And Oh my goodness, Ayla has been playin fetch with the old worn-out "softy-mouse" she loves so much. She has brought it back to me a dozen times as I type. Its SO old. There is nothing of the nip in it and it is nothing but the original cloth body. But she loves it so much.
I think I will just spend the next couple hours tossing it to her until she gets tired of it. Ayla doesn't love many toys, mostly plastic milk rings. But as long as she wants to grab softy-mouse, I will toss it to her.
It was a Good Day!
3 comments:
Yaaay - celebrate the good ones Mark.
Megan
Sydney, Australia
Isn't it amazing - we spend $$$ and $$$ on fancy toys and they like old worn out nip mice and milk jug rings - go figure.
Glad you got your car started & were able to do your errands - nothing worse than having lots to do and no car.
The Shepherd finally put a fence around his corn and it seems to have worked - hopefully the ebil raccoons will leave it alone so we can have lots and lots of ears to eat. :-) I'm hoping to be able to put some in the freezer for the winter.
Good weekend to you - (although to you retired types, every day is a weekend, huh?) T.
Haven't visted the Lair in a while. Cars and squirrels can certainly cause grief. I just put out peppery safflower seed and only in the morning and well, I don't grow veggies so I'm ok there. Coco has a favorite toy, too. It's a cheap corduroy Xmas stocking, the kind that come in those very cheap net stockings you see in pet stores at Christmas with gross toys from China. I have tried replacing it a few times with something I hoped she'd like better, to no avail.
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