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Opsimath
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Disney has made a fortune by personifying all things vermin.
Nuuska
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She might quite well have done that. There are some video evidents of her not being always that majestically calm person, but a human being with sense of humor. . .
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I've been hand feeding shelled peanuts to a couple squirrels that come in my yard regularly over the past couple years. They just cautiously creep up to my extended hand....snatch it quickly, and run away.When I was a kid (4-12) we lived in Woodland Hills CA and we had huge trees out by the parkway by the street. The squirrels love to run around and they were fairly tame and used to humans. One day someone saw Charlie (my favorite) and said, "OMG! Why is that squirrel so FAT?" I told them I fed him and he'd get food out of my hands when I sat in the front yard. They said, "What the hell do you feed him?" "Chocolate chips" I replied. "Well no wonder he's so fat!!"
He liked them as much as I did and I always shared with Charlie. I never tried to hug him, though. Thank goodness!!
They are extremely inquisitive little creatures. I remember watching a program on PBS maybe 15-20 yrs ago where a man made a 10 stage "confidence course" for a squirrel which had a little dish of feed corn as a prize at the end of each stage. Each stage had things like trap doors and swings where the squirrel would guarantee to fall off and have to start the whole process all over again. It had to learn AND remember each stage just to advance to the next. When it fell on stage 2, it would have to do 1 and 2 again. When it fell on stage 3, it would have to do all three again, and so on until it made it through all 10 in a single try. Now HERE's the kicker. Allthewhile, there was a 2nd squirrel in a nearby cage that was observing the first squirrel learning all these stages over the course of close to an hour by trial and error. He then let that 2nd squirrel out and it did all 10 stages on the first try!!! It was amazing to watch!!
Years ago I had a house with an avocado tree in the front yard. Whenever I could not find my Australian Shepherd he'd be under the bushes near that tree, waiting for a squirrel to come down with an avocado under a front paw. They would run up and grab one, and come down a couple feet at a time looking for my dog. As soon as they were within 12 inches or so of the ground, he'd charge out from under the bushes and they'd drop the avocado and scamper back up into the tree. Really entertaining on a Sunday morning after smoking a joint!I've been hand feeding shelled peanuts to a couple squirrels that come in my yard regularly over the past couple years. They just cautiously creep up to my extended hand....snatch it quickly, and run away.
They are extremely inquisitive little creatures. I remember watching a program on PBS maybe 15-20 yrs ago where a man made a 10 stage "confidence course" for a squirrel which had a little dish of feed corn as a prize at the end of each stage. Each stage had things like trap doors and swings where the squirrel would guarantee to fall off and have to start the whole process all over again. It had to learn AND remember each stage just to advance to the next. When it fell on stage 2, it would have to do 1 and 2 again. When it fell on stage 3, it would have to do all three again, and so on until it made it through all 10 in a single try. Now HERE's the kicker. Allthewhile, there was a 2nd squirrel in a nearby cage that was observing the first squirrel learning all these stages over the course of close to an hour by trial and error. He then let that 2nd squirrel out and it did all 10 stages on the first try!!! It was amazing to watch!!
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So yesterday after my shower I put on a Hawaiian shirt to go down to my shop to see if it was still there. My Manx Glashtyn took one look at me and ran.
No amount of coaxing would get him to approach me. When I returned the same thing--he ran and then stared at me as if thinking "Who the hell are you?
And why are you pretending to be cat dad?". So I had to remove the offensive clothing in front of him and put on the dirty Tee shirt I'd worn earlier
that morning. He finally came up to sniff my hand, allowed me to pick him up, but freaked again when I showed him the Hawaiian shirt hanging on the floor lamp. I have a feeling if I contact a pet psychic I'll be told he was Mr. Blackwell in a former life...
No amount of coaxing would get him to approach me. When I returned the same thing--he ran and then stared at me as if thinking "Who the hell are you?
And why are you pretending to be cat dad?". So I had to remove the offensive clothing in front of him and put on the dirty Tee shirt I'd worn earlier
that morning. He finally came up to sniff my hand, allowed me to pick him up, but freaked again when I showed him the Hawaiian shirt hanging on the floor lamp. I have a feeling if I contact a pet psychic I'll be told he was Mr. Blackwell in a former life...
Guildedagain
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This is cattyness I can relate to.
Our has been a source of Oxytocin and wonder, always doing some strange new thing, like cruising trees.
It turns out work and play are the same thing ;]
Can you imagine if it was twenty times your size?
Cruising the plum tree for problems.
Our has been a source of Oxytocin and wonder, always doing some strange new thing, like cruising trees.
It turns out work and play are the same thing ;]
Can you imagine if it was twenty times your size?
Cruising the plum tree for problems.
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Ha ha. Squirrels may be smart, but dogs are even smarter. My gf's golden would sit on her screened in porch and watch the squirrels in the trees, and she noticed how they had their own highway networks going from tree to tree and which trees were at the end of the road, so to speak, and would use to come down to ground level on. So, when her old golden would go outside, it would go lay quietly under said tree, even though the squirrels were 5-6-7 trees away....and just soak up the sun and wait. Maybe 3-4 times a year she would snatch one right off the side of the tree before the poor thing even knew what hit it.Years ago I had a house with an avocado tree in the front yard. Whenever I could not find my Australian Shepherd he'd be under the bushes near that tree, waiting for a squirrel to come down with an avocado under a front paw. They would run up and grab one, and come down a couple feet at a time looking for my dog. As soon as they were within 12 inches or so of the ground, he'd charge out from under the bushes and they'd drop the avocado and scamper back up into the tree. Really entertaining on a Sunday morning after smoking a joint!
Good ol' Molly Belle (RIP, passed last year. One of the best dogs I've ever met. Practically self trained (would go get the mail and newspaper (a 100 yard long driveway), something no one taught her...she just did it. And she trained all the other dogs!
Opsimath
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It seems quite a few our members write about buying guitars and hiding them from their wives. This made me very hopeful and although I have looked and looked I can only find the guitars that I hid.
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PreacherBob
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just be thankful you found them Cynthia. I just KNOW I had 15 last week
Guildedagain
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Living with the guilt will be your punishment, that and having too many guitars.
Opsimath
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What guilt?
PreacherBob
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He meant to say “living with the ‘Guild’…not ‘guilt’
Opsimath
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Ooooohhhhh.
Guildedagain
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The flowers in the old hay field are spectacular this year, so much rain this spring, but today it dawned on me, those colors, wow those two primary colors... Nature has spoken from across the world. Eventually I need to mow this down for fire reasons, but enjoying the jungle of colors for now.
Centaurea Cyanus and Brassica Rapa; Bachelor Buttons and Wild Mustard.
Centaurea Cyanus and Brassica Rapa; Bachelor Buttons and Wild Mustard.
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Guildedagain
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A very cool video.
Opsimath
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Wow! Thank you for sharing that.
Clair de Lun was one of my grandmother's favorites. When I was taking ballet I wanted to choreograph to it, but never did.
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Pretty cool. Definitely inspired by those guitar hero video games.
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If you get the right kinda critters all that'll be gone without you having to lift a hand. Sheep, goats, they all love that stuff!!The flowers in the old hay field are spectacular this year, so much rain this spring, but today it dawned on me, those colors, wow those two primary colors... Nature has spoken from across the world. Eventually I need to mow this down for fire reasons, but enjoying the jungle of colors for now.
Centaurea Cyanus and Brassica Rapa; Bachelor Buttons and Wild Mustard.
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Claire de Lune has always been one of my favorite pieces of music EVER!! Soooooo beautiful!!