Squirrel Bridge

Larissa said:
i try to straddle small animals if that's an option but if i'm driving too fast to do anything, I'll just hit it. I hate that but I'm not about to have a wreck over a small animal crossing the road
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If you hit a moose you're shopping for a new car tomorrow - if your able to do anything. The pictures in the attached involve a small calf so you can imagine the consequence of hitting a full grown moose they can weigh up to 1100 lbs.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/moose.asp
 
I guess you have to understand that there is a shortage of squirrels in europe. A friend of mine was visiting England once back in the 70's and she came back and told me that they actually had "squirrel preserves" over there !!! :laugh: :laugh:

Here in NEW England...you can't drive 2 miles without 3 or 4 squirrels flying across the road at breakneck speed....only to turn back around the other way when they see you coming...usually resulting in a casualty.

They aren't the brightest nuts on the tree.....
 
No, the story just says it was a bull moose--that indicates gender, not size. The presence of horn buds isn't indicative either, since they all look that way as they grow in each year.
 
I live in Michigan, so its hard to imagine a place without squirrels :D !!! And trust me, I don't mean to swerve for animals, I would really rather hit a squirrel than hurt myself, but its just a reaction, it happens before I can even think about what I'm doing. I always joke around (although I guess its not very funny) that I'm going to die in a car accident someday so a stray dog can live.....
 
We hunt 1500+ lb moose quite ofeten up in northern BC. Imagine hitting one of them monsters.

Moose fact- Moose kill more people every year in North America than any other animal.
 
A friend and I walked right up on two rather large female moose while heading to a deer stand one early morning.....the 4 of us never even saw each other till we were only about 50 feet apart !! It's amazing how quiet a huge animal like that can be when charging through the undergrowth....Thank God they were both FEMALE and... headed in the opposite direction...lol...or I probably wouldn't be sitting here typing this out !

It was actually pretty funny for a short moment as we all stopped dead still and stared at each other for a moment before they swung round and took off. Those puny little shotguns we had would never have stopped them in time !


OH...this is about squirrels....so I'll tell my flying squirrel story...lol....

This same friend and I were camping on the Long Trail in Vermont one night and the misquitos were so thick that we pitched our tent that night. Just as we were settling in for the night something landed on the top of the tent. We both were a bit surprised...wondering what it was when we both decided it was a flying squirrel...(by the size of it and how it moved)....quietly snickering I got ready to "Pop" the little guy right off the tent as sort of a joke. So I took careful aim and did just that. We chuckled about what a surprise that must have been to him...when....."WHAP".....it was back again for a second trip !!! LOL.....we must have popped that squirrel and about a dozen of his friends off that tent most of the night !....lol.....they must have thought they stumbled onto an amusement park or something.....a group of teenage flying squirrels out for cheap thrills.... :laugh: :laugh:
 
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Emg said:
... ..... Just as we were settling in for the night something landed on the top of the tent. .... ..... ..
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And you "thought" it was a squirrel......







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