Author: Pete Galati
Date: 14:50:27 07/19/00
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On July 19, 2000 at 15:50:11, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On July 19, 2000 at 15:36:23, Pete Galati wrote: > >>I can back Mark the Rat (or MTR as he's known) up on this one I think. A couple >>years ago, I pulled a (dead) Gray Squirrel out of my neighbors swimming pool >>with a pitch fork. They don't seem to know how to swim (but I think it was >>floating ok). > >It's not the first incident of that nature I've heard about, concerning these >squirrels in particular. A lot of the accidents is supposedly caused by lack of >alcohol consumption, which upsets the chemical balance in their ears and causes >them to drop down from trees, especially in Quebec around summertime. The best >explanation so far is an addiction to red wine imported from Bordeaux. > >Other than that there's quite a few nutcases among gray Squirrels in general I'm >told. BTW, what did the autopsy say? Did it drown? Or was it the water contact >that caused it to die of chock? Thirst? > >Best wishes... >Mogens The plastic bag (body bag) reports that it died of panic when confronted by a Knight fork while playing computer Chess in the tree. It was dead before it hit the water. Pete
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