Fairly Odd Tales

[Cyriel]

Well, this thread actually came about after reading Animal Face-Off by Unborn Lord Xion. It got me thinking for some reason about my brother and odd happenings with a squirrel. Has anyone ever caught squirrel before? Well, my little bro did, and that was a first for me. He's 10 at the moment, and it's amazing to me how many interesting activities he seems to get himself into. Well, progressing onto the tale...

Basically, he had just gotten off the bus from school, and was walking home. Now, you have to understand that the squirrels around our area are...big. Very big. BIG. For heaven's sakes, they're as big as some of the crows, and even my cat is afraid of them. Anyways, he saw one, and I guess he ran after it. The squirrel then proceeded to climb one of the trees in our front yard. The problem? It was one of the scrawniest trees I've ever seen, and why any squirrel would ever pick that tree to climb up and escape the clutches of a child, I have no idea.

So my brother had treed the poor fat squirrel, and then basically shook the scrawny tree as much as he could. And...it worked, surprisingly. Who'd ever have guessed you could shake a squirrel out of a tree? It fell on him, and he basically tucked his shirt over it, and struggled to the front door, while the squirrel was viciously trying to scratch him and get out. And he rang the doorbell, yelling at us to hurry up and open the door so he could come inside with his trapped squirrel.

Now I ask you this: why would you bring a wild squirrel into the house? It's a good thing it escaped before we opened the door. I still can't believe it happened - I've never heard of anyone catching a squirrel with their bare hands, much less a 10-year old boy. But yeah...so, has anyone else had weird experiences with animals? Any good stories? Do share. :wigout:

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[color=darkviolet]A bird fell down my parent's chimney once and into the fire place.

My dad tried to get it out of our familyroom and into the backyard, but he forgot the dog was outsides and wanted to come in so when he opened up the back door the dog came in.

The dog saw the bird and she tried to chase it and the bird flew around and finally got outside after covering familyroom with soot. Later that day, my dog ate a live mouse from a glue trap my dad had set up outside. She didn't even chew, just swallowed the mouse whole

I'm sorry that this story isn't very long or intersting, but it's the only one I could think of at 0117 Good night![/color]

[Guest ScirosDarkblade]

Well, catching squirrels on my college campus is a joke. I've never done it, but that's because I don't feel like being scratched and I don't want to scare a squirrel to near-death. But it'd be pretty easy, seeing as they all figure your only reason for existence is to feed them.

Want to hear a squirrel story though? Once this squirrel appeared in our neighborhood that had the most peculiar behavior--it treated people as trees. It would just jump on people and climb all over them, not doing much else. It could hang onto your shirt for a while, then move on to your shoulder and sit there for a bit, then go on to the next person, and then go off somewhere. It turned out that the squirrel was a young 'un, and it somehow survived on its own even though its mother died before even getting a chance to teach it that people=treat with caution. So it didn't know any better. Well, we figured that a squirrel like that just might run into the wrong guy someday and pay for it, so we caught it (man was [i]that[/i] difficult ;) ), and handed it over to the human society. I suppose we could have kept it, seeing as it was already "domesticated" to a degree, but a house isn't the best place for a squirrel. Hopefully it ended up somewhere in the zoo, running all over patrons and amusing everyone. That's what I think happened.

Anyway, I have no real odd stories, but I have a funny one. It ranks an 8.5 on the Oosh-o-meter (my scale of ranking stupidity), and it involves my brother (who I frequently refer to as a monkey, so I think it qualifies for funny animal stories). He was putting a just-washed shower curtain up in one of our bathrooms, and he didn't know that the shower curtain already had holes in it (bounded by metal rings) so one could hang it onto its clip-type plastic suspension things (you know what I'm talking about, and I can't think of any better words at the moment). Yep, he didn't notice the holes on one end of the curtain. So guess what he did? He freaking punched holes in it with the plastic clips and hung it upside-down! Yep. I laughed so hard when I saw it. He's still embarrassed about it.

[IceWolfEyes]

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[Panda]

One of the joys of working in veterinary medicine! LOL

Since the thread started with a squirrel story I will continue with a squirrel story. I have several squirrel stories but I will go with the one that is probably the most unusual. Those stories are usually the most fun. :laugh:

One of our clients brought in a male squirrel to have him neutered. The squirrel had been living in a tree outside of her house and for some reason, saw her as his mate. Whenever she would go outside the squirrel would want to be with her and was very friendly. When her husband or any other man would go near the house, or her, the squirrel would go crazy and attack! It would make that annoyed squirrel chirp and chase guys down. If it caught them it woudl bite and scratch. Vicious little bugger.

Her hubby wanted to kill the little guy but she didn't want him to die since he was so sweet to her. So she brought him in and we neutered him. Let me tell you, you don't want to mess with a squirrel who is angry! I had a fun time trying to anesthetize him! The surgery definately took the wind out of his sails and he calmed down. Now he doesn't bother the guys anymore. Isn't it weird how some animals will attach themselves to a human. It happens alot with birds, but this is the first time I have ever heard of a squirrel!

On a side note I have a couple of unusual animal stories about my pets on myO page. You are more than welcome to go check them out. I got a million weird animal stories to share. I will probably be back later to post a few more.

[Merlin Matrix]

So it was about 3 a.m. in the morning and I hear this scream in my parents bedroom. Soon my mam and da where in my room; mam was shaking and da was looking for a tennis racket. I soon find out that there is a bat in my mam and da's room, that my mam's cat Pudge seems to be chasing round. Soon we all here a loud WACK and my da seemed to have backhanded the little bugger like Agasi, into little batty heaven or little batty :devil: . We never knew if it was or just unconscious because when da went to let the little guy free, it was eaten by our dog.

Peace Love Dope
Miquel Anthony Cremeans

Becky how come you never told me about the horse? How come you didn't tell me you jog :tasty: ?

[wiccansamurai]

While my family was away on vacation, my mom's best friend was watching our farm. Around that time, we had had a bit of a problem with a racoon eating our animals food. Being the person she is, Sue catches the over sized rodent. She gets advice from a friend how to put it out of its misery humanly. (Sue is the same woman, who in an attempt to get rid of a possum, shot off three of its legs and finally gave up trying to kill it O_o)

So she put the racoon in a cage. The cage went behind the car, with a blanket over it and the exhaust pipe. Sue turned on the car and left it like that. What her friend had failed to tell her was that you're supposed to put it on nuetral and step on the gas to get more fumes.

Sue, seeing the racoon not moving, figured it died. She began to load it on the back of a truck to put into a burn pile. Not even half way there, the racoon wakes up. Sue promptly gets out of the car and starts beating, tried to run it over, even. This not working all that well, she managed to get it to the pond and started to drown it.

As soon as the bubbles stopped coming up and the racoon was unconcious, Sue threw it in the truck, floored it to the burn pile and set it on fire.

So much for a humane death.

[Soliel]

[QUOTE] [B] Originally Posted by wiccansamurai[/B]
[I]While my family was away on vacation, my mom's best friend was watching our farm. Around that time, we had had a bit of a problem with a racoon eating our animals food. Being the person she is, Sue catches the over sized rodent. She gets advice from a friend how to put it out of its misery humanly. (Sue is the same woman, who in an attempt to get rid of a possum, shot off three of its legs and finally gave up trying to kill it O_o)

So she put the racoon in a cage. The cage went behind the car, with a blanket over it and the exhaust pipe. Sue turned on the car and left it like that. What her friend had failed to tell her was that you're supposed to put it on nuetral and step on the gas to get more fumes.

Sue, seeing the racoon not moving, figured it died. She began to load it on the back of a truck to put into a burn pile. Not even half way there, the racoon wakes up. Sue promptly gets out of the car and starts beating, tried to run it over, even. This not working all that well, she managed to get it to the pond and started to drown it.

As soon as the bubbles stopped coming up and the racoon was unconcious, Sue threw it in the truck, floored it to the burn pile and set it on fire.

So much for a humane death.[/I][/QUOTE]

[COLOR=GREEN] She didn't get charged on Animal Cruelty for that?
Anyways, I have two cats and four dogs who are [B]Always[/B] getting into trouble. One such instance was around Halloween. My younger basset hound, Sadie, was wandering around my door in my room, during a storm. She usually gets scared by the thunder and I guess she wanted to get something to eat. I let her into the kitchen and was getting some food for my self. It was dark and I didn't bother to turn on the lights, which I now regret. I was backing up away from the frig when I stepped on something soft and furry. It was my cat, Sandy, and man did she shreek. That caused Sadie to start barking and that woke the whole house up. :eek: [/COLOR]