Azura Skye
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help! dead squirrel, did I do the right thing?Went on a long bike ride, coming back, a little way before I was home, I spot a dead squirrel on the side of the road. No aparrent head wound, just squishy guts, no blood. Still soft.
I think, hmm squirrel is edible, ferrets will like this.
So with an old sock, I attach it to my handle bars, then it's tail broke, then I perservered and attached it again, in the mean time, scaring a bloke with a dog. Who said "Each to his own"
Anyways, after the palaver of tying it to my bike, and carrying the heavy bike over styles and getting squirrel in my face I'm thinking - please god, don't let this squirrel be poisoned.
Well i got home, shattered. Showed it to my ferrets who turned animal and started 'killing' it and pulled it right out of my hands -
they are now eating it
- please downsizers, tell me i did the right thing and am not poisoning my ferrets - please tell me that because it had squishy guts it either fell out of a tree or got hit by a car (it was under a tree on a road, near some houses)
i need water , pant pant pant
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Frewen Feltmaker
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I think you'll be allright AS - it was most probably hit by a car.
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vegplot
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I doubt if it's been poisoned. Time will tell.
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dpack
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yep sounds ok
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Mrs Baggins
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I shouldn't laugh... that's normally the kind of pickle I get myself in tho so I admit that I did. 
I bet it will all be fine. The ferrets sound like they had a right old feast on it and kudos to you for getting it home for them.
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Azura Skye
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thank guys! phew, because they had been eating it, but in the end didn't eat that bl**dy much of it after all that! Was funny though!
Actually I also scared a woman and then two children who screamed.
As if I was dragging a dead badger or something, cor! Ain't nobody seen a dead squirrel tied to handle bars with an old sock before?
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vegplot
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| Azura Skye wrote: | thank guys! phew, because they had been eating it, but in the end didn't eat that bl**dy much of it after all that! Was funny though!
Actually I also scared a woman and then two children who screamed.
As if I was dragging a dead badger or something, cor! Ain't nobody seen a dead squirrel tied to handle bars with an old sock before? |
Presume it wasn't in the sock then.
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Behemoth
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Did you appease the Squirrel Spirit before you fed the vessel of it's earthly presence to your animals. If you didn't, it's likely to be marginally worse than living on an old indian burial ground.
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Azura Skye
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I erm, tried stuffing it in the sock, but sock fibres and sharp claws, well it just don't work.
Lol at the picture 
So there we go, always carry a bag with you on your bike. I should have had my bike bag anyway, for bike kit and phone. not a, er, old sock.
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Azura Skye
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| Behemoth wrote: | | Did you appease the Squirrel Spirit before you fed the vessel of it's earthly presence to your animals. If you didn't, it's likely to be marginally worse than living on an old indian burial ground. |
I did thank the squirrel very briefly. I was actually more (and this is embarrassing) more worried that it was concussed and was going to jump up alive and try to wiggle out from the sock tied around its waist. Oh my - it's little eyes looking at me... maybe that will haunt me forever, just like what it must be like living on an indian burial ground.
Gosh i hate meat, you touch it with a knife and then I feel like everything is going to get stained with meat juice and we all will get ill. I'm so glad I'm vegetarian with clean veggies to chop.
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Brownbear
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| Azura Skye wrote: | | Behemoth wrote: | | Did you appease the Squirrel Spirit before you fed the vessel of it's earthly presence to your animals. If you didn't, it's likely to be marginally worse than living on an old indian burial ground. |
I did thank the squirrel very briefly. I was actually more (and this is embarrassing) more worried that it was concussed and was going to jump up alive and try to wiggle out from the sock tied around its waist. Oh my - it's little eyes looking at me... maybe that will haunt me forever, just like what it must be like living on an indian burial ground.
Gosh i hate meat, you touch it with a knife and then I feel like everything is going to get stained with meat juice and we all will get ill. I'm so glad I'm vegetarian with clean veggies to chop. |
I just feel sorry for all the poor cute bunnies and beautiful pigeon shot to protect those growing vegetables. I myself refuse to take part in such barbarism, so just stand out in the sun and absorb its life-giving energy directly.
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bodger
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You're just a ghoul AS  Perhaps we should call you the 'verginator' from here on in ?
I made sure that I was very careful with the way that I spelt this made up word. 
When I had my ferrets I used to scour the roads for food that had been squished. My ferrets fed extremely well and quite often even kaz would return from work with juicey morsels that she had picked up from the byeways and highways.
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Azura Skye
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bodger! I do declare that I'm blushing.
Anywho, yes I too pick up road kill bunnies any time I have the chance. As I don't drive I rely on the skills of safe stopping of whoever I'm with. Bf is always very good, even stopping on duel carriage ways, where I run barefoot to get a bunny and get tooted by the lorries.
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Mrs Baggins
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I have loved reading this thread. It has made me laugh out loud so it has.
Hope you escape the curse of the mutilated squirrel AS. If not angry for being fed to your ferrets, for being defiled by your old sock antics.
I just see its little eyes staring at you as it swung back and forth on your handlebars. Too sad.
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vegplot
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| Azura Skye wrote: | | I do declare that I'm blushing |
That declaration can unhinge a chap you know.
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Marts
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Of course you did right - recycling can never be a bad thing. And anyway what was the alternative? It stayed there and rotted slowly until it was recycled by the worms?
Plus you won major brownie points with the ferrets.
Quids in Azura
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Azura Skye
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glad it's given you a laugh Mrs Baggins! I've been laughing about it too.
Although I stopped laughing when my pampered ferrets played with it more than ate it. Ho hum!
Thanks Marts yes, it was recycling - cos I had to recycle back to pick it up when it fell orf - doh. heehee.
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