squirrel Monday
Five squirrels in the garden today dashing about being nutty and scrapping with each other. Wonder if I should feed them before they launch themselves on the next door neighbour’s cat? We need the next door neighbour’s cat because he does rat patrol in the area where said rodents have been sighted. They don’t seem to be in the house but are skulking around too close for comfort. Apart from endangering the other wildlife, rat poison seems problematic because dead rats would be even nastier to have lying around than alive ones. On the other hand, rat babies… ewww.
December 12th, 2005 at 5:01 pm
going out on a limb here, but it may not be that you find dead rats so deplorable, but that you find your available options for disposing of dead rats deplorable. Who wants a dead rat decaying inside one’s waste bin until garbage day? There’s a decent chance the city of Austin has a free service which can help you out by disposing of dead animals. They certainly don’t want decaying carcasses laying around Austin for days on end.
This reminds of a children’s story called “The King, the Mice, and the Cheese.” The king brought in cats to get rid of the mice, then dogs to get rid of the cats, then lions, then elephants, then he brought the mice back to get rid of the elephants. Your squirrels might get rid of the cats, if they weren’t slacker squirrels. I don’t know what would get rid of the squirrels, unless you eliminated the welfare state and forced them to get jobs.