Russian squirrel pack 'kills dog' (sounds like National Enquirer)!!!

[Lady's Human]

I saw this article a week or two ago, and don't believe it at all. You have to make too many leaps of faith to believe it. One, the dog (a large dog) would just let the squirrels attack him? Suuuuure. Two, why would the squirrels attack the dog in the first place? They're in a park, there are probably people feeding them, leaving food around, etc.

[Allecto]

Squirrels hunt....... in packs? How'd they develop THAT survival strategy? I mean, that's some pretty sophisticated predatory behavior there.

[tz1]

dont believe it. squirrels are wayy too afraid of zero...they run away when he comes in the yard because he hunts and kills them

[areias]

I'm not sure if I believe it...but I did see a story one time of a squirrel that jumped on an elderly man and started biting him. But I think it had rabies or something...

[RICHARD]

Laugh if you will....

I took my dad camping at Leo Carrillo State Park.

A few years earlier a bunch of squirrels climbed up under the truck and chewed thru some of the electrics in his Blazer....So my dad and the squirrels were well aquainted.


I asked him if he wanted to go for a walk after lunch, he declined, so I got him him tuna fish, chips and pop---me and the GF went to the water.

When we came back my dad was in a lawn chair unconcious, there was a squirrel eating his sandwich, some under the chair rummaging for what fell, some on the table next to him deciding what to do.

As we approached I called to him, he woke up and all the fuzzies ran to escape the awakening giant. My dad looked up and started to laugh.


It was one of the funniest memories that I have of my dad....

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I guess we'll never know what kind of sandwich the dog was eating.....

[Don Juan's mom]

When I lived in Philadelphia and worked in Center City, we used to say that the squirrels in Rittenhouse Square would mug you for your lunch.

We thought it was a joke.

Liz