Paul Rudd at Hollywood Life Magazine’s 7th Annual Breakthrough Awards (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I’m not sure why this is news, or even in existence on the web.
But, in the interest of keeping my readers informed, especially my lady friends, here’s an awkward squirrel encounter by actor/Jayhawk heartthrob Paul Rudd:
He just pulled out a flattened squirrel,” Rudd said, of his buddy finding a dead squirrel in his couch.
So Portlandia: Probably-stoned guy, with hot pink sunglasses, long hair, white tee…and a fluffy, friendly squirrel on his shoulder.
Duluth News Tribune outdoors columnist Sam Cook explains that while Twiggy the Water Skiing Squirrel is whiling away her winter in sunny Florida, he’s been driven to “full-skitter alert” for the sound of squirrels as they try to escape the sub-freezing temps and seek a little shelter in his house.
He’s not alone, he writes:
“I hope we are better off than one woman who wrote me after reading of our squirrel issue. She live-trapped squirrels or ground squirrels that presumably were getting in her house — and drowned 36 of them. Despite that, she still had squirrels in her house.”
According to the Telegraph, nurses who work in rural areas in the U.K. are under assault by squirrels, and are now being instructed to “walk in pairs” to avoid violent confrontations and to “make loud noises” to scare them off. (When has that ever worked?)
“One district nurse was left with “reddening of the scalp” after being attacked.
In her “squirrel attack report” she wrote: “On walking up farm access I was jumped upon by a squirrel. Then another landed on my head.” She rated the “severity of incident” as “insignificant to catastrophic”.
That’s quite a big range, no? Insignificant to catastrophic?
The article ends with an equally puzzling sentence:
“Last year, inventor Mike Madden suffered whiplash after a squirrel leapt on him as he tested a head-mounted bird feeding try in Huddersfield.”
(He put a bird feeder on his head? This is like holding out a bloody steak in your hand and then blaming a dog for biting you.)
The Daily Mail has an article today on Pete, a squirrel that hangs around a school in Hampshire, U.K.
What makes Pete so interesting is that he’s purple:
Read the article to find out what may be behind Pete’s purple coat! And here are more photos.
You can’t blame a squirrel for being tempted by all the junk food found in gas station convenience stores. Especially with a stiff winter chill blanketing the Midwest. But you’d think they’d go after the nuts or crackers — not so, apparently:
“As [Ohio cop] Sergeant Doug Hines was talking with a store employee, they heard a rustling coming from one of the aisles and found an adult black squirrel munching on some chocolate snack cakes.
Police say Officer Brandon McCray arrived to provide back-up, and there were some unsuccessful attempts to wrangle the animal out of the store — until the squirrel attached itself to McCray’s back.”
McCray ran outside, where the squirrel was brushed off his back, and escaped, unharmed, tummy full of cookies.
Red squirrels normally set up their nests far away from humans and other predators. But an oddball squirrel in Pennsylvania decided to make use of a Ford Explorer while the owners were away, reports the Centre Daily newspaper.
The article states “Under the hood, every nook and cranny of the engine compartment was filled with black walnuts, grasses, rope and even cotton as the squirrel built its nest there.”
Click the link above to see the amazing photo of the complicated nest.
