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transient_orange) wrote2006-01-03 02:08 pm
transient_orange) wrote2006-01-03 02:08 pm
Things I didn't need to know...
Ok, so I go outside to get the mail and I hear this sound like a dying bird. I figure, hell, I'll ignore it, and walk back inside. The noise gets worse and is close by, so curiosity gets the best of me. I walk toward the sound, hoping I'm not going to find some mangled animal that I'm going to have to call the SPCA for.
As I get closer I hear chittering. There's this squirrel in the tree, wailing and chittering - going back and forth, back and forth between the two sounds. Ok, so I'm worried, what's wrong with the poor thing? Is it cold? Is it starving? Did something attack it? Are it's teeth growing up into it's palate? I talk to it and it looks at me for a moment and then goes back to it's whine-chirp call.
I come back inside, worried about the little gray fiend that seems to have a hand in taking over most of our fine town. More squirrels than birds and still I worry about it. I figure it's dying and there's not much I can do about it, but still I want to know.
So I google squirrel cries, and come up with crap. I finally try gray squirrel sounds after reading through an article.
She's in heat.
Squirrel mate around this time of year and I'm reading on of those handy-dandy info about animal sites. I read through, looking and so on, and then I find it. Females squirrels stake out a limb and then sit there and make this duck-like sound until some suitors come by. She sounded like a dying duck and I can't imagine for the life of me why a male squirrel would get all hot and bothered by that. I think the boys gang up on her to shut her the hell up. A horny female squirrel is not something you want outside your window.
I suppose that soon she will be adding to the squirrel population of our quaint little burrow. And to think, I thought she was dying.
As I get closer I hear chittering. There's this squirrel in the tree, wailing and chittering - going back and forth, back and forth between the two sounds. Ok, so I'm worried, what's wrong with the poor thing? Is it cold? Is it starving? Did something attack it? Are it's teeth growing up into it's palate? I talk to it and it looks at me for a moment and then goes back to it's whine-chirp call.
I come back inside, worried about the little gray fiend that seems to have a hand in taking over most of our fine town. More squirrels than birds and still I worry about it. I figure it's dying and there's not much I can do about it, but still I want to know.
So I google squirrel cries, and come up with crap. I finally try gray squirrel sounds after reading through an article.
She's in heat.
Squirrel mate around this time of year and I'm reading on of those handy-dandy info about animal sites. I read through, looking and so on, and then I find it. Females squirrels stake out a limb and then sit there and make this duck-like sound until some suitors come by. She sounded like a dying duck and I can't imagine for the life of me why a male squirrel would get all hot and bothered by that. I think the boys gang up on her to shut her the hell up. A horny female squirrel is not something you want outside your window.
I suppose that soon she will be adding to the squirrel population of our quaint little burrow. And to think, I thought she was dying.