When Animals Attack
Jul. 8th, 2011 04:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
errantemberI was just attacked by a squirrel.
I was at Mozarts, and there was a cute squirrel dirt-bathing in a nearby planter. I got out a piece of walnut, and held it out. Sure enough, the squirrel approached cautiously, took the nut, and proceeded to do the adorable, patented, "squirrel eating nut beneath busy tail" routine.
That's when the horror began.
The squirrel, intrigued by this considerate new food source, decided to investigate more closely. Leaping to my table, it quickly home into the smell of the remaining walnut in my hand. It jumped over my laptop, landed in my lap, scrabbled up my arm, and tried to steal my nut. My impotent flailing narrowly prevented theft of the nut, but earned me a painful bite! I was then forced to shoo my assailant off of the table, which took substantially more intimidation than one would guess.
Brief research online suggests that getting rabies from a squirrel is pretty unlikely, and getting shots is only advised if the squirrel is clearly behaving strangely.
In this case, I asked for it.
I was at Mozarts, and there was a cute squirrel dirt-bathing in a nearby planter. I got out a piece of walnut, and held it out. Sure enough, the squirrel approached cautiously, took the nut, and proceeded to do the adorable, patented, "squirrel eating nut beneath busy tail" routine.
That's when the horror began.
The squirrel, intrigued by this considerate new food source, decided to investigate more closely. Leaping to my table, it quickly home into the smell of the remaining walnut in my hand. It jumped over my laptop, landed in my lap, scrabbled up my arm, and tried to steal my nut. My impotent flailing narrowly prevented theft of the nut, but earned me a painful bite! I was then forced to shoo my assailant off of the table, which took substantially more intimidation than one would guess.
Brief research online suggests that getting rabies from a squirrel is pretty unlikely, and getting shots is only advised if the squirrel is clearly behaving strangely.
In this case, I asked for it.
