"At least three people on East Street in Bennington say they?ve been attacked by a squirrel over the last few weeks. Kevin McDonald said he was shoveling snow recently when a squirrel jumped onto him. "All of a sudden I felt something on my back and shoulders, scratching," McDonald said."
[...]"McDonald said the day after he was attacked he saw a neighbor battling a gray squirrel. He later learned that another person on the street had also been attacked."
What has your posting about these attacks by little squirrels got to do with alt.home.repair, Oren? No wonder the Vietnamese kicked the shit out of you.
RABIES, shoot the squirrel.
RABIES, shoot the squirrel.
I was told after being bitten and climbed on by a squirrel I was trying to relocate, I was surprised to learn that squirrels are rarely carriers of rabies:
My doctor said I wouldn't need rabies shots and since that was a few years ago, I guess he was right! The oddest thing about the bite was how many bites per second he got off on me. It was exactly like getting your finger stuck in a sewing machine. They have these huge, razor sharp yet incredibly thin teeth that curve into their jaws like scimitars. Bit my hand, ran up my arm, onto my head and off into the distance. Now I take extra precautions when transporting them to new homes.
-- Bobby G.
I read once that squirrels could have rabies but wouldn't transmit it to people. That still strikes me as change, but I'm not going to go googling to see if it's true.
As to the attacks in Vermont, insurgent Canadian squirrels have been trying to ally with Vermontian squirrels. If successfuly, they intend to march west and take over southern Canada and the northern US.
Uh, no.
The conflict with the North Vietnamese was concluded by a peace treaty (for which Kissinger was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize). The last American combat troops left the South a year before North Vietnam occupied Saigon.
We didn't "lose" the war; we declared the war over and left.
Andy comments: I shoot squirrels and cook them regularly. Squirrels can transmit to humans any disease they have by biting or bodily fluid infections. . Rabies is very rare, since the squirrel is fairly defenseless against any rabid animal that attacks it ( skunks, raccoons, etc). However tularemia (rabbit fever) is more likely. The first thing I do when dressing out a squirrel is to check it's liver. If it doesn't look healthy, I discard the animal, even tho cooking would kill the bacteria..... I just don't want to mess with diseased animals.
If you were holding, or messing with the squirrel, the biting was a last ditch self defense effort. If you were strolling along and a squirrel blocks your path and challenges you, walk away. Something is bad wrong.
Andy
You must be the only one in the world that believes that.
u must be the only one in the world that believes what u just stated.
Awwwww come on, it was the absolute defeat. The best equipped army in the world lost.
That's quite possible. Every one else gets their "facts" from the left-leaning news organizations. I get mine from having been one of the last to leave.
Jan 27, 1973 - Cease fire treaty signed in Paris March, 1973 - Last American combat troops leave South Vietnam April 30, 1975 - North Vietnamese army captures Saigon
Yes. No "battling" with little squirrels. Battling with a squirrel ffs!
That whole friggin neighborhood is nuts, is it any wonder the squirrels are attacking?
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Watch out for Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes.
"K. Lance" wrote in news:im0iqq$s6t$ snipped-for-privacy@news.eternal-september.org:
the squirrel was "scratching",but didn't BITE him? then it wasn't an "attack",just a landing. A squirrel's feet on one's back would feel like scratching. I'll grant that it would have been disconcerting to have a squirrel leap onto my back. although I almost had one trained to climb up my pants leg(while seated,leg extended) for a peanut.
Did you see the video of the rat on the subway(NYC?),running down the aisle of the subway car,climbing up a sleeping guy's leg,all the way to his neck? and then trying to get IN his parka?
Neighborhood? It's VERMONT! The whole friggin' state is nuts!
Andy comments: Perhaps that accounts for the hungry squirrels.......
Andy in Eureka, Texas
You must be right. The hungriest squirrels move there because it has the most nuts.
American lives lost 39k
Vietnamese 1.1 Million.
Jim
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