Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 24, 2012

Squirrels – rats with furry tails!

HAMMY!!! stay out of the street

Typically the red squirrels are much larger than the greys. I’m just sayin.

maybe because they can’t see the cars, they can only feel the vibrations on the road and don’t know exactly where the car is

haha good one

heh, im assuming thats supposed to be a shovel. looks more like a gun, though, since its a little bent.

Quit a college philosophy course when the idiots in the class started asking about what animals thought.

I’ve done no squirrel research, I just have a limited bit of observation. I squirrel hunted quite a bit in MO back in the 70’s. Them little greys would see you a mile off and they’d run and hide. They were small and fast. But them big fat reds would climb up on a limb and bark at you. I had far more grey sightings than reds, and I’ve seen big reds chase off littler greys. Perhaps I was seeing only juvenile greys and adult reds, so I assumed reds were larger.It was probably just my imagination, but the reds seemed to taste better.

Don’t forget to run both ways when you cross the street, dear….

I’ve had to take more bullying from so called Christians in the name of God than have an atheist put me down. You got it right!

thanks you guys/gals.

Based on my short visit to Pennsylvania, it seems to me that the little red squirrels are usually the bullies, even though they’re smaller than the greys! . Enough of this religious argument. I don’t remember Nabuqu saying that Christians are perfect 100% of the time (nobody is), so don’t antagonize him.

Wolf – yeh, the little red squirrels are the bullies and will drive away the larger (and not as common) grays and fox squirrels.

My wonderful and quite tall husband told me that when he went out with buddies, he made sure he was with shorter friends. He says that invariably some shorty with an axe to grind would start in on him. Since he was so big, if he fought back, he’d be the “big bad bully”. If he didn’t, he was a “wimpy weakling”. So his short friends would help him deflect the little bully.

Bigness has no monopoly on bullying, and littleness has none on victimhood.

What I’m about to say isn’t from wiki. I’ve hunted mid Missouri since the late early 70’s, first small game like squirrels and rabbits, then mostly deer and turkey. I’ve spent a lot of time in the woods. The grey squirrels have mostly been smaller, friskier, and more skiddish. The red colored squirrels I’ve seen had no tufts of hair on their ears, and they were mostly considerably larger than the greys. I suppose they are called fox squirrels. So basically what I wrote earlier was mostly from my own observations. That doesn’t make me right, but that’s where I was coming from.

@Pacopuddy: No need to apologize, you weren’t very mean at all. If you’re in a spirited mood, then feel free to let your comments reflect that. And if I get sounding like a know-it-all, please put me in my place.In fact I probably sounded like a squirrel geek the way I went on and on about them.