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

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.