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Old 08/03/09, 02:43 PM
 
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Oh my gosh foxfire! I shouldn't laugh, I'm sure, but LOL!!
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Old 08/03/09, 04:08 PM
 
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Youtube has a video or two of drunk squirrels. Now all they need is a frat house.
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Old 08/03/09, 04:22 PM
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Is there a fruit tree nearby with over-ripe fruit? It might be drunk.

Just a thought.
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If you have lots of ground fall apples or other past-ripe fruit, it may simply be sloshed! The fruit ferments, the squirrels eat it, et voila!
My first thought too!

Having seen drink Porcipines and racoons from apples and plums I imagine squirrels would be easy to get drunk.
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The fruit ferments, the squirrels eat it, et voila!
Hmmmmm....wonder if that should be et vodka!?

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Old 08/03/09, 09:48 PM
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could also be a brain injury - young squirrels do fall and whack themselves sometimes
however I would shoot it (not in the head) and see if authorities wanted to test it
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Old 08/05/09, 01:46 PM
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The only good squirrel is a dead squirrel. Shoot it.
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Had one here doing that.I thought maybe it had Distemper I know I had a bunch of Coons around that year with the same.

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Friend of mine in the city has a plum tree and gets many drunk squirrels in her back yard every summer/fall. Heeeeeeee-larious! They act just as you have described.
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Im under the impression its drunk also.
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had one yesterday morning doing flips and cartwheels in the fresh turned manure, I almost cried laughing! I had a pet squirrel for 10 years that lived indoors (Joey Nibbles) and we traveled MANY miles together. ( I bought him tiny tee shirts to wear and he also had 2 gold rope chains cut down to fit him...it was the late 80's)
He never had a girlfriend (got him at a few days old) and a few days a year he would freak out and act crazy the same way.
Shoot first to be safe but he is probably a male marking /peeing his area.
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Drunk squirrels used to be an annual occurrence near the fruit trees since we used to let so much of it drop. Not just squirrels though, all kinds of animals get hammered and then just lay there or wander around all loopy. It's the right time of year for it to start.

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We noticed that while the neighborhood cats normally acted keen to get their claws in a squirrel, they *avoided* the drunk ones. The odd behavior triggered alarm bells in the cats. "Somethin ain't right with that one!" Good thing, too, since the squirrels were in no condition to defend themselves or escape.
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