Crows and Squirrels

[shanmonster]

I watch them when I walk to work. I find them quite entertaining. Mostly, the crows are shy and keep their distance. But sometimes they stare at me sideways with their snooty patrician beaks and hop a little. The other day, one actually ran instead of hopped. He looked like a raptor from Jurassic Park, only not at all intimidating. It helped that he ran away. It also helped that he was less than a foot tall, and would have burst had I been so cruel as to kick him.

But I'd never do that. I like critters.

Squirrels, as everyone knows, are cheeky little buggers full of sass. They're cute and fluffy, and do all sorts of ballsy things. But I'd never seen one do what this one did the other day.

He charged a murder of crows.

At first, I thought it was a one-off. He charged the crows, they hopped aside gracefully, and went back to their crowlike business.

But then he charged them again. And again. And again!

I don't know what he had in mind, but he kept doing it over and over again until a car drove by and reset his brain. He stood in stunned silence, one paw up by his face, and went into screensaver mode. The crows got bored and flew away.

Comments

Perhaps

[sasha-khan.livejournal.com]

Perhaps your furry little pal was full of sass, and rabies?

Re: Perhaps

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I think he just wanted whatever the crow was pecking at, but who knows? Maybe it was interspecies love.

speaking of sass and rabies...

[duhastbees.livejournal.com]

Dude, you should come on up to the AK for a trip and check out the moose.

they're like squirrels. Only bigger. and uglier. and deadly.

But they're all over the place!

in parks, in my backyard... eating lilac bushes and being screamed at by locals. Tourists think they're cute. But really, they're just ugly and dumb. But the tourists... hoo, boy. They got some misconceptions regarding their moosy fate.

like, last breakup, this tourist was trying to FEED one and it knocked him down and mashed his face in! pulp from the neck up.
insta-dead.

Re: speaking of sass and rabies...

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I like meese. They're like big, homely horses. They're not very good at playing chicken with cars, though.

Re: speaking of sass and rabies...

[duhastbees.livejournal.com]

no, they're not.

and you'll most likely die if you hit one.
or total your car, at the very least.

Re: speaking of sass and rabies...

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I live in Mooseville, too. Everyone I know has been effected by moose accidents, or knows someone who has. It's like AIDS or cancer, only with big, furry animals. I still think meese are cute.

And I did pet one once, but it was a big, friendly cow moose at a zoo who'd been their since she was a calf. She was no different from a draft horse in temperament. That reminds me... My dad told me that he knew a guy who raised a moose in Newfoundland and trained it as a plow animal. It plowed all his fields every year.

Re: speaking of sass and rabies...

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

"Who'd been their."

Someone revoke my English degree.

Re: speaking of sass and rabies...

[f00dave.livejournal.com]

Not only that, the word is "affected". "Effected" is used when you induce, or cause, a change, not when you experience one.

And it's not "meese", but you knew that. -nosetap-

;-D

Re: speaking of sass and rabies...

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Arrgh. I always get those two mixed up.

Re: speaking of sass and rabies...

[duhastbees.livejournal.com]

I guess they'll make interesting pets... but you don't see them pulling santa's sleigh or anything like that... but a pet moose would be cool, if I had one as a little salf...

big, furry AIDS.

::laughs, hard::

Not a reinmoose...

[zombienought.livejournal.com]

...But a robomoose!

http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/tech/2005/11/18/macintosh.canada.robo.moose.ctv

Soon, people will be killed by these
things, too, when they go berserk.
Only, they will be harder to kill.
Apparently shooting at them does
*nothing*!

Re: Not a reinmoose...

[duhastbees.livejournal.com]

that's what you think.
we'll just get bigger guns, now won't we?

also, I (heart) your icon.

Re: speaking of sass and rabies...

[threemilechild.livejournal.com]

Blame it on Northern Exposure.

My mother tried to take a picture of a moose, once, at Yellowstone I think. She kept getting closer and closer -- wow, this'll be a great picture! -- until the smell hit her. Looking over the camera realised that she was a LOT closer to the moose than she'd thought she was and a lot closer to the moose than either of them was altogether happy with. She didn't get the picture, but she also didn't get mauled, so I suppose it all worked out fine.

Re: speaking of sass and rabies...

[duhastbees.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they stink. Reminds me of the only time I've ever smelled one. I'm sitting in my apartment with a friend of mine, (in the middle of town, mind you,) and been just chatting away and minding my own business, when outside the window I hear a horrendous scraping sound and smell something like dead animals. Now, we're smoking mad chronic, so we shouldn't be able to smell ANYTHING. We can hear the usual sirens and shit coming from the city through my six-inch open window, but when I walk over to the window and raise the shade only to be six inches away from a moosey eyeball, standing, chewing something moosey on the otherside of the windowpane, I screamed, and dropped the apple I was holding. It jerked and blinked, but otherwise continued to stare.

I love moose stories.

[zombienought.livejournal.com]

This post really put a smile on my face.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

And that is exactly where your smile belongs.

[zombienought.livejournal.com]

"I've got something in my pocket
It belongs across your face..."

[seraph-x.livejournal.com]

Poor Nikki Ray, went all nutso, maybe he had been traumatized by a crow as a wee one ?

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

You're alive and online!

[duhastbees.livejournal.com]