Young girl walking around mall w/ a SQUIRREL on her shoulder at natl mall

[Anonymous]

I knew a guy who took his boa constrictor to a museum. All the kids gathered around to ask him questions. The guard had to make up some kind of rule to get him and the snake to leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP,

This was no doubt a pet squirrel. Squirrels are mammals. Do your research before you give your answers.

Bottom line: You're wrong! The people from out of town are right!

OK, PP - Since you're an obvious wild mammal lover, here's your next pet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qsclhKhAss

OMG pp...thanks for posting this video. My husband and I are peeing our pants! lmao

[Anonymous]

If it was hand-raised, maybe it doesn't have fleas but OP is right about squirrels being serious carriers of fleas. It's still a wild animal, though. Are you sure that it wasn't a sugar glider?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If it was hand-raised, maybe it doesn't have fleas but OP is right about squirrels being serious carriers of fleas. It's still a wild animal, though. Are you sure that it wasn't a sugar glider?

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I agree, it probably wasn't even a squirrel.

[Anonymous]

I had a pet squirrel as a kid. Hand-raised it as a baby when it was blown out of its nest. It was much nicer and more fun than my friends' pet rabbits; even nicer than our own cat. It didn't have fleas or rabies. After the first fall and winter indoors, it gradually became an outdoor pet, still friendly, just wanting to live outside. It hopped up on my lap every time I sat or played outside for a couple of years, but then it just didn't come back one spring. Don't know if it died of old age or was eaten by a hawk or fox or something.

Any, OP, MYOB. I think dogs are kind of icky (they eat dead things at every opportunity, they slobber, they smell) but I'm not giving dirty looks to dog owners and posting about it on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand people like the OP who cannot seem to live their life with a sense of curiosity. I love the great diversity of the human character. I would find that family fascinating, what awesome material for people watching. Just oberving this little girl and then the look on your uptight face would be priceless.

OP do yourself a favor and NEVER travel outside the sterile confines of the Western world. You would be simply appalled in India, you would not handle it well.

[Anonymous]

http://youtu.be/9Nn0UkdDArM

This particular type of squirrel makes a great pet.

[Anonymous]

People did keep squirrels as pets in the colonial era:

http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/a-boy-with-a-flying-squirrel-henry-pelham-34280

but seriously, as tame as you think squirrels on the mall are, none of them are docile enough to sit on a child's shoulder while she walks around. that animal had to have been domesticated and kept as a pet since birth.

[Anonymous]

PSA: squirrels don't carry rabies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP,

This was no doubt a pet squirrel. Squirrels are mammals. Do your research before you give your answers.

Bottom line: You're wrong! The people from out of town are right!

uh, pp, RODENTS ARE MAMMALS. What's your point? This has no bearing on the fact that they are noxious vermin.

[Anonymous]

it was probably a ferret.

[Anonymous]

Well. A parrot or a pigeon on her shoulder would have been worse, because I hate common birds. Squirrels should be run over by cars or poisoned when possible. They are useless vermin--a blight on the urban landscape.

[Anonymous]

You hate parrots - you are really missing out an a fascinating, intelligent, and sociable pet.

[Anonymous]

IT would have been awesome if it had crapped in her hair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well. A parrot or a pigeon on her shoulder would have been worse, because I hate common birds. Squirrels should be run over by cars or poisoned when possible. They are useless vermin--a blight on the urban landscape.

That is not true. And if it becomes true, Mother Nature will see to their extinction.