My mom has had generations of psycho squirrels.
Posted By: MslaMT on 2007-10-08
In Reply to: squirrels - ER MT
They eat a hole in the porch wood every year. They eat the putty, the paint, the cayenne pepper, the Tabasco sauce, the lemon, the squirrel scoot, the deer scoot and anything else we've ever tried. This has happened for YEARS and nothing works. They don't even really run from us anymore. Squirrels are not our friends. ;-)
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Well found out 4 generations in my family noninvasive
Just spoke with my aunt and asked if my grandmother ever knew/asked when her daughters having theirs (3 girls in all)- she said never, my mother never, my daughter never. I guess some families more trusting in certain regards.
psycho
Sounds like he is a nut job!!! If he does not stop bugging you I would call the police you don't want to end up in the news for the wrong reason!!
Thank goodness she's getting away from that psycho. nm
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I have come to the conclusion that she is psycho!
We don't have kids, but we have 2 dogs and 4 cats and we have changed the lock on the front door, which she had a key to. It's even worse because she only lives about 5 minutes from our house! I really, really want to reply to that email, but I'm not going to. If she does try to contact us again or shows up at our house, we will tell her that we want nothign to do with her and tell her that if she shows up at our house again like this, we will report it to the police department. I'm still in total shock about the comment she made about us "overextending ourselves" and being "finacially irresponsible." That's just ludacris! I have honestly never seen anyone act this psychotic in such a state of desperation!
1978 Halloween and 1960 Psycho....
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I once had a psycho boss at a small community -
hospital I worked at. Our transcription dept. consisted of just 3 of us, and we sat in a far corner of the medical records dept., next to the microfilm guy. The boss ('P'), and I were the only full-time MTs; the other MT only worked half-days, and she and I shared a desk. She worked from 8-12:30, I worked from 1-9:30 pm. This boss gave me the longest, most ridiculous oral 'transcription' test I've ever taken anywhere. Oddly, no typing test. So, I was hired.
The other MT told me no matter what you do, don't do more work than P, or she'll get insanely jealous. ?? So one fateful day, I made the mistake of typing more reports than she did. She changed to several different shades of red and purple, and I never saw anyone's lips get so thin in my entire life! Her mouth became just a pencil-thin straight line. After that day, she made my life a living he11. Always picking apart my work, trying to say I'd skipped out of work early one day and missed the life-flight helicopter bringing patients to the ER. (No, I was there, and I typed their H&P's).
She also had a running feud going on with the entire MR department, and instructed me that I wasn't allowed to speak with ANY of them. I was friends with the microfilm guy, and others in MR, and so I very politely told her that although I wouldn't chit-chat with them while I was WORKING, that what I did on my breaks and my own time was my own business, and that no one tells me who I may or may not associate with.
Would you believe this b___ch would actually feign leaving work for the day (her shift ended at 5 pm), and then would sneak back anywhere from 15 minutes to 5 hours later, just to peep in the window from outside and see if I was talking to anyone? She was a real piece of work, that one.
I eventually took another job (with a service that she occasionally sent our overflow work to). The new boss didn't want me telling her where I was going (which I wouldn't have, anyway - she was a very vindictive person), so when she asked where I was going to, I made up a doctor in the city - an impossible to pronounce, Chinese-sounding name. I told her it sounded sort of like 'Chiaong', but I had no idea how it was spelled. I also told her that because of his very thick accent, he was going to pay me twice what I was making at the hospital. Boy, did she ever turn dark RED when I told her THAT!
A few days later, my other co-worker (obviously on instructions from P), was trying to squeeze the name and address of the new 'doctor' out of me, but I just told her I knew where the building was, but that I'd walked there from an underground parking lot and didn't know the address, just that it was on the 9th floor. I just KNEW P. wanted to find this doctor and try to get the job for herself (which I learned is how she got the MT job at that hospital). So, I'm sure she spent hours perusing the downtown phone book, looking for Dr. 'Chiaong'!!! I also wouldn't have put it past her to go off in search of this mythical medical building I made up.
Sometimes mean people can be fun to jerk around. ;)
squirrels
I would definitely say something to her to let her know what you saw. People like that are just plain cruel. I'm sure she'd run over a cat or dog too if she could. She is just a mean person.
squirrels need to eat too
I don't think it's fair to put out food and say only this, this and that can eat, but you can't. If you don't want the squirrels to eat your birdfood try putting out a container of peanuts just for them. That's what I do. But they still snack on the birdfood once in a while. Guess they like variety too. But I don't mind, cause they are really fun and cute to watch.
I have the peanuts in a squirrel feeder with a lid on, and it's so cute how they just climb up the tree, lift up the lid and take out a peanut. Took them a day or 2 to figure it out, but now they're experts at it.
squirrels
Since the squirrels are everywhere this time of year, zig-zagging in front of our cars with their mission to hoard as many acorns as they can, I am passing on this little tip I learned from experience. If you see one headed in front of your car, hit the horn and the zig-zagging stops abruptly and they usually run back to the side of the road. I've saved quite a few from being hit this way. I've only ever hit one squirrel a few years ago and I felt really bad. 
squirrels
sounds like there a quite a few around you. how do you keep them from killing your plants?
I do feed the squirrels a mix with peanuts
and seeds and sprinkle it on the ground. Unfortunately they bury the peanuts instead of eating them. I've had as many as 20 squirrels in my yard before when I spread food out on the ground for them. They're pigs and it's quite ridiculous, but yes, I do put food on the ground and in a plastic bowl in an attempt to get them to stay on the ground. They have broken 2 nice feeders already, and for those reasons, many people like to keep them off the feeders.
Squirrels are creative, aren't they?
They can figure out a way to get into most birdfeeders. True acrobats!
I feel the same - I feed the squirrels too
they are fun to watch. Clever little devils. I have a peanut feeder with a lid on and they lift the lid up and take out the peanuts. I have a pair of crows that come to eat too. I have my own little wildlife sanctuary. Now my neighbors probably aren't too happy, they're not animal people. The guy across the street puts out those poison peanuts - so mean.
squirrels. Diamonds or pearls?
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That reminds me!!! Last year, the squirrels
got a hold of our outdoor cushions. I walked by the big window one day and looked out to see a squirrel tail sticking out of a cusion swishing back and forth. I made some noise and the squirrel popped and looked at me with a huge amount of cushion stuffing in it's mouth - he looked like santa claus. Needless to say, if you look way up in the tree, our squirrels have a really, really nice cushioned home!
My kitty has her own video, with birds, squirrels, etc. - sm
She gets a real kick out of it, especially the moths and the chipmunks. She always trys to reach out and grab the chipmunk!
Now that it's summer, though, I've got bird seed and hummingbird feeders outside the window, so she can watch the REAL THING all day long.
Star Trek!! Squirrels or Raccoons?
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groundhogs,squirrels, wild turkeys, rabbits, raccoon, goat and deer meat..sm
Some folks just take for granted that they can walk into a market and shop for meat...We've done the same for similar reasons as you and nothing was wasted. At least you're self sufficient!!! And, I bet you've put up/canned/frozen all the vegetables from the summer/fall harvest.
Didn't mean to be flippant in my earlier post...whack it, hack it, pack it and stack it...  Cat
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