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This actually happened today in Frick Park, and was something that I found incredibly funny. It really did happen, though why an animal would be so mindbogglingly stupid is beyond me. Oh well, to the anecdote, which was so weird and darkly funny that I felt the need to share it.

Anyway, I was walking my dog, Joey, in the park today, which is a generally daily occurence for me. I arrived at the park and I meet up with Amanda, one of the cuter ladies who also walks her dog in there. We were heading through the forest down to Falls Ravine and were having a good time talking, and there was a den in the trees above us. In the trees, 3 squirrels were having a tussle (it's that time of year, I guess). Now, Joey is a herding breed, but for some reason, he loves chasing and barking at squirrels. So he ran up to the base of the tree and was barking loudly at the squirrels, as they chased and wrestled with each other, as did her dog.

Now, I don't know what is was. One of the squirrels must have been crazy or stupid or rabid or something, because it stopped fighting. I don't know why, but it ran down the limb it was on and beelined straight down the treetrunk. At about ten feet, it leapt...

...right into Joey's jaws, who leapt vertically and caught the damn thing. Then Joey started shaking it violently and the other dog caught an end, and were tugging on it when I finally got in there and got the nasty mess away from them (with Amanda was standing 12 feet away wide eyed and horrified). Needless to say, one of my bags for cleaning up after Joey was donated to the task of transporting the mangled mess until I found a trash can to place it in, with a pair of other dogwalkers being more than a little bothered about the bloodied muzzles of our dogs and the plastic bag I was disposing of.

Anyway, we and Amanda parted company, as she was taking her dog to the vet in a hurry because she wasn't up on her dogs rabies shots (Joey's were up to date). Reflecting on the incident, I've come to the conclusion that the squirrel species is now just a little bit better, for that one squirrels dramatic exit of their gene pool.

Could the squirrel have been on rabies?

Shinova wrote:Could the squirrel have been on rabies?

Possibly. In hindsight, I should have taken the mangled body to a park authority for them to have it tested for rabies.

heh heh heh. . . -rereads- heh heh heh. . .

squirrels arent meant to attack.

That's like leaping off a helicopter into Godzilla's jaws. You just don't do that. It's not good for you.

Stupid squirrels.

Maybe it was that squirrel from that Geico commercial?

Did you hit on the girl?

It was clearly an Islamic Fundamentalist Suicide Squirrel. The black helicopters will now abduct you and take you to Cuba for failing to report this attack to Fearless Leader and his cronies.

One day, many years ago, a ferret had gotten into my parent's back yard. My parents owned a Great Dane at the time, and he went absolutely nuts. My mom, choosing between letting the dog go through the sliding glass door or open it for him, opened it.
He made a beeline straight for the ferret, who could have escaped underneath the fence. But, sadly for the ferret, it decided to make a stand, rearing up on it's hind legs. It was a mess, as I'm sure you can imagine.
Lesson, ferrets should NOT fight Great Danes!

neoolong wrote:Did you hit on the girl?

I've only ever very casually flirted with Amanda, because I'm in a relationship and I'm 67.8% sure that she is from Planet Rugmunch.

THough on the other hand, I can think of nothing more romantic than hitting on a girl than over the savaged and brutalized corpse of a squirrels that our dogs played tug of war with. Perhaps I should of.

weemadando wrote:It was clearly an Islamic Fundamentalist Suicide Squirrel. The black helicopters will now abduct you and take you to Cuba for failing to report this attack to Fearless Leader and his cronies.

I should have known by the tiny turban and the large grains of rice strapped to its chest.

Gil Hamilton wrote:

neoolong wrote:Did you hit on the girl?

I've only ever very casually flirted with Amanda, because I'm in a relationship and I'm 67.8% sure that she is from Planet Rugmunch.

THough on the other hand, I can think of nothing more romantic than hitting on a girl than over the savaged and brutalized corpse of a squirrels that our dogs played tug of war with. Perhaps I should of.

Yeah it dimishes any allure for chicks.

Plus the whole possible Lesbian bit isn't too much in your favor to add the cherry to the sundae.

Sounds rabid. I would have your dog checked, just to be on the safe side.

While I would say get your dog checked for rabies if he was bitten, the squirrel wasn't most likely rabid. Squirrels aren't extreemly known for carrying rabies, but, they are a rodent and can have it from time to time. I would be more afraid of worms that rabies in this situation, as I assume that the digestive tract area was pretty demolished.

Squirrels actually do do that act that you said though, they will get about 10 ft from the base of a tree and jump off to evade predators that are at the base of the tree. Usually, they will get on the opposite side of the tree and the leap gives them a nice running start to a new tree.

Heck, I have been squirrel hunting before and missed, hitting the limb, knocking the squirrel off. It fell approx. 40 ft, landed on its back, flipped over, ran off, and climbed another tree. They are quite resilient little animals.

I'd actually doubt the thing had rabies, if it jumped like that it must have been feeling fairly well and was probably hoping to jump over the dog and run off.

Here in Chico, we have squirrels everywhere. There is also a ferrel cat that hangs around my apartment complex. I call him "Hannibal" because he has a tendency to catch squirrels, and eat its brains. Anyway, once I looked out my window and saw Hannibal chasing a squirrel. The squirrel shit up a tree, but not before Hannibal lept into the air and caught it halfway up the trunk! He then carried the squirrel off by the scruff of its neck.

Ooops, I mean SHOT up a tree. SHOT.