Fine work Patriot the world is a safer place as a result of your bravery. The Skwerl menace is on the rise. Be vigilant.
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I sure hope the entrance hole is extensively patched, because when cast into the utter darkness, they will make heroic efforts to reenter where they were before; the alternative, for them, is death. This is what catch-and-release, don't-hurt-the-poor-thing-ism fails to take into account: squirrels are highly territorial, and for good reason fear other squirrels, whose territory may be invisible to us but is most likely only a few feet away, so much so that they will expend almost any amount of energy on reentering, on a merely physical barrier, rather than encounter another. My next door neighbor cut his tree down, thereby depriving a family of squirrels of their home. As a consequence, he has fought a running, ten-year battle with multiple generations of this family, who have broken into his garage, now with every square inch of what was once wood wainscotting covered in flashing: no matter, they rip the shingles off the roof to get in. My wife and I, she in the converted house her office at Northwestern is situated in, I in our own attic, have this past year waged epic battles with them. Ours were finally trapped out, and I went with the exterminator with the last trapped squirrel his truck. When he opened the gate, a charnal house of trapped animals was displayed, a nightmare vision.
It might have been better had Wreck killed your squirrel, for he will certainly try to reenter.
(cross-commented at Outtasite)

Excellent work, good sir. I am unable to decide which is mightier, your pen (er, Mac) or your sword (er, broomstick).

And Fritz one-ups me with the first comment. Skwerls. Only Shellac tops that.

This is probably why Wreck was so freaked out.

Alternatively, he might have misheard "attack the squirrel" as "attack this girl". A simple and honest mistake, really.

So, one lesson learned is to be very careful to enunciate clearly if for some reason you ever command Wreck to "bite the sky".

NB: Nothing in the above should be construed to be a comment on the relative merits of Jimi Hendrix vs. Stevie Ray Vaughn.

Another song.

That's why God invented firearms, my friend. When unwanted critters manifest themselves in my domain, I have at them with the atillery. This is how I learned what happens to drywall when you shoot it at close range with a 12 guage. (it disappears, in a neat circle)

I used to live in a farmhouse in Iowa, and we had snakes like crazy in the house. I awoke one morning to my dog barking like a demon posessed. Next I heard a loud hissing, eminating from my bookcase cabinet. I opened the cabinet and there was a 5'long ratsnake hanging down from the ceiling. So I did the natural thing- reached for my shotgun and BOOOOOM! Goodbye Mr. Snake. Also, goodbye Mr. large portion of my wall.

I blasted a 10" diameter hole all the way through the both sides of drywall, through the insulation, and into the adjoining bathroom (there was nobody else in the house of course). But the snake was still a twitchin', so I grabbed my .38 and hammered his head into the spine of "Janson's Art History" (sixth edition, I believe) with a hollowpoint. I believe I hollered something very mature at this point, along the lines of "what's up now, bitch!" In hindsight, this may have been a mistake. I think I still have the book with the hole in it. The landlord never mentioned the huge hole through the wall- which says something about the general state of the house we were living in.

Now don't cry for the snake. This was clearly self-defense. Er...he was very old and in a lot of pain...uh- okay it was murder. So I'm not the most politically correct guy. This was not the only snake to fall in combat in our house, though it was the only one I was responsible for. Of course, this would be an ill-advised method of pest control in the District.

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