Brutal squirrel attack leaves The Horse in the hospital.
By The Horse
@TheHorse (238388)
Walnut Creek, California
July 15, 2020 3:22pm CST
As many of you know, I try to be one with all things. Up in Montana, I planted some bulbs in memory of my graduate advisor, Dr. Daphne Bugental, who passed away almost two years ago. If those bulbs prosper, I will wax poetic, and feel her "spirit" with me at the cabin. (I'm serious! She was a wonderful woman.)
Last night or this morning, my first sunflower was brutalized by an evil squirrel that lives in the redwood tree by my balcony. At last I think it was the squirrel. Maybe it was a blue jay. The criminal took out more than half of the petals, not to mention most of the reproductive stuff (I don't want my post deleted for obscenity) in the middle. To damage my sunflower is to damage me.
Fortunately, as can be seen to the left, this sunflower's younger brother is showing yellow, and will soon bloom. I apologize if my assumption that "the squirrels did it" offends any "Liberals" out there (or Conservatives, for that matter). But I was involved in discussions of "prejudice" and "racism" this morning, and freely admit my ambivalence toward squirrels.
OK, I'm not really in the hospital. I'm at my computer sipping wine and smoking a f*g. But please send healing thoughts my way.
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) have two active nests now, hoping for the best. Pushing forward.
@crossbones27 (53005)
• Mojave, California
15 Jul 20
''I try be one with all things.' Always knew you were zen and a Laker fan.
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@crossbones27 (53005)
• Mojave, California
15 Jul 20
@TheHorse Its good read and hard to argue the actual peaceful philosophy.Squirrel should read.
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@TheHorse (238388)
• Walnut Creek, California
15 Jul 20
Hey, this is kind of cool. Andrew Bogut's then girlfriend, now wife, was in my class at Diablo Valley College, up here in the Bay Area. Her name is Jessica. She was an absolute delight, politically incorrect yet compassionate, like me, and took me to a playoff game. It was one of the years the Warriors did NOT win the championship. She's a "party girl," but was pregnant with Lucca (spelling?) at the time, so we couldn't get "sh*tfaced" together.
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@FourWalls (86940)
• United States
16 Jul 20
It’s a good thing I’m not home or the squirrels that sit on my garage roof would see your post and scream “squirrel lives matter!”
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@wolfgirl569 (136063)
• Marion, Ohio
16 Jul 20
Hope they leave the next sunflower alone.
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@wolfgirl569 (136063)
• Marion, Ohio
16 Jul 20
@TheHorse I havent seen that one but heard of it. You are a big pony compared to a squirrel. Go check.
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@TheHorse (238388)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Jul 20
@wolfgirl569 Here's the link. It's pretty funny. How The Horse views squirrels these days.
An innocent looking rabbit surprises a group of tourists looking for the Holy Grail. Download the entire movie in HD from ThePirateBay (link updated November...
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@LindaOHio (222896)
• United States
16 Jul 20
I'm so sorry about the attack on your sunflower. Next time don't scare us with that headline, OK? :-)
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@TheHorse (238388)
• Walnut Creek, California
17 Jul 20
@LindaOHio Blame Mark Twain.
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@BarBaraPrz (51839)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
16 Jul 20
Them's some sad looking sunflowers...
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@snowy22315 (209221)
• United States
16 Jul 20
Sorry about that! Lots of animal attacks around here too. This AM I noticed a deer wandering periously close to my tomato plant.
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@snowy22315 (209221)
• United States
16 Jul 20
@TheHorse Fortunately for her, she stuck to the leaves.
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@TheHorse (238388)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Jul 20
@snowy22315 Were there already some ripe tomatoes on the vine?
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@LadyDuck (502886)
• Italy
16 Jul 20
Sorry for your sunflower, the blue jays are surely innocent, they do not tear off petals from the flowers, they would have picked up the sunflower seeds... after the petals fall by themselves, may be it was a young deer. I suppose this photo is NOT your cabin in Montana.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
17 Jul 20
This is too funny other than your heartbreak over your sunny plant. Do you ever see rabbits in MT? I thought you lived in CA?
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
18 Jul 20
@TheHorse I only wondered because JJ hadn't seen any in his state this year.
@lovebuglena (52224)
• Staten Island, New York
16 Jul 20
Why is the sunflower backwards? By your title, I thought the squirrel really hurt you. Glad that wasn't the case, especially since a squirrel in Colorado tested positive for the bubonic plague.
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@TheHorse (238388)
• Walnut Creek, California
17 Jul 20
@lovebuglena Everything happens in California first. So I'll head up to Montana in a couple of days.
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@lovebuglena (52224)
• Staten Island, New York
16 Jul 20
@TheHorse Apparently so.
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@cherriefic (10399)
• Philippines
16 Jul 20
That's almost like a massacre. But I hope the sunflower will be fine.
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@Marilynda1225 (91201)
• United States
16 Jul 20
I'm glad you aren't really in the hospital but those squirrels can be destructive. Poor poor sunflower 
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@Butterfingers (66603)
• India
16 Jul 20
Haha good to know you're safe and Njoying coffee
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