Nov 3, 2009
My response to “Don’t worry, that animal is more afraid of you than you are of it.”
Like this post?
Even if that’s true, I’m still at a disadvantage: My fear doesn’t empower me to nimbly maul faces off when I’m cornered.
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No, but it does enable you to scream like a little girl and there’s something to be said for that.
True..screaming like a girl provides a certain element of surprise for both the animal and the boy. Neither saw it coming.
More squirrel problems, eh?
Actually, I’m happy to report that a thorough spraying of Great Stuff in the corner of our roof seems to have paused the eternal squirrel problem for the time being.
Great Stuff. What is it?
Great Stuff
We used this for mice one year,
and went from 17 mice one year,
to zero mice the next.
And it is fun to use.
Lowell
Amen.
This is why I simply can’t be near a cricket: my face means too much to me.
And, you can’t reason with an animal. Unfortunately, some humans are in the same category.
We’ve had those critters in our attic, too, and found that a live trap with peanut butter is irresistable to them. We caught 2 at the same time! A variation of “you can catch more flies with honey…”
P.S. Squirrels are very territorial, so if you don’t kill them, make sure you release them MILES and MILES away from your house or they will be right back. We painted the tail of one once, and the same one returned to our attic within the hour!
I read squirrels are very terroristic twice and had to read it a third time before I understood squirrels were not little fuzzy jihadists.
For some reason, I love the word maul. It is only used in particular contexts and I have very particular ideas as to what mauling actually entails. Although I’m sure I know less about language than you, Abraham, I don’t think mauling can be accomplished “nimbly.” Maybe I am defining the term in my own terms. But, to me, mauling implies a certain clumsiness. When I think of a bear or a dog (the animals probably most commonly thought “to maul”), I don’t think nimble. To be sure, their approach and attack might be nimble. But the actual mauling… I think it’s sloppy.
Yeah, but that was my favorite part of the post: the idea of being sloppy on purpose and with specific craft gives it the pairing (“nimbly maul” a particularly “hideous strength”.
If it ain’t broke….
But imagine if it did!
Right on! From a gal who’s Dad lost his friend to a Grizzly. What a great observation!
How come! Not wanting to be boastful about this. I just don’t understand people or man.
I am a woman and not afraid of anything like that except for abusive people or total stranger that came to my place in the dark as a saleman. I had to call the police to report that problem.
Spiders doesn’t bother me. Wild stray animals doesn’t bother me either. I had been bitten by a small yappy dog for no reason at all when I was on my way home from High School on my bike. I still have large dogs and love play with small dogs at my friend’s house. I also had been around 280 pounds dog which is twice my size. I love that dog.
When I see a snake, I just killed them if I know that they are poison snake. If not, I just ignore them.
I am surprise about man being afraid of spiders or croakroach at work. I seems to be the only one who have to take care of that and get rid of them.
Hungry to eat His Word,
‘Guerite ~ BoldLion