The Trending Squirrel

~ Clarissa

Can somebody explain what happened regarding a squirrel? I got distracted for a few hours, and now all of a sudden nobody wants to talk about anything else.

It’s really hard to be a pundit round here because the newsfeed is torrentially fast.

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  1. In a nutshell:

    A NY man’s pet squirrel that he had rescued as a baby and raised for 7 years was seized and euthanized by state authorities because owning wild animals is illegal without a state permit. That’s what all the fuss is about.

    Dreidel

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      1. It’s even worse when you know he has permits for every single animal in his wildlife rehab center…except for his squirrel. Don’t really know how he managed to not register it when he opened the center.

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  3. Well, I have hunted and fished most of my life, but to take a life for no rational reason is sick, an obscenity.

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    1. The “rational reason” was that wild rodents like squirrels sometimes carry rabies without showing any symptoms, and the only way to test the squirrel for the disease is to kill it and examine its body.*

      So the state authorities were simply doing their duty. Government officials get paid to follow the written letter of the law, not to use their brains or their hearts

      Dreidel

      • Or you could have it bite a government official and wait to see if the official develops rabies, but that would take too much time.

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      1. Dreidel

        Hmmm, okay I can see the reasoning, but I disagree that it is rational, That squirrel was raised by a human for seven or eight years, it is not likely to access the disease. Afterall, that line of reasoning would also include other pets like dogs and cats.

        But I do agree with your alternative. And to ensure absolute public safety, I would suggest that the pet be allowed bite the arsehole that originally complained, as well any bureaucrat more concerned with process than common sense ;-D

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        1. Dude had posted a bunch of video of said pet on the internet– there are *always* malcontents out there who will definitely find the applicable city code and report, out of sheer spite. Have watched it happen on completely anodyne *gardening* videos, where somebody spots an “invasive species” in a video clip, and next thing you know, the vlogger is being invaded by code enforcement and compelled to remove the offending plants…

          World is full of completely batsh*t people. We used to have a neighbor like that: would walk around the block every day with a clipboard and a watch, write down time and address every time a dog barked at her. From inside a fence. Then she’d call animal control and code enforcement and any other city department that seemed relevant, multiple times, until somebody came out to harrass the dog owners. This all went down after her dog got taken away (Rascal was *always* out of the fence) because it attempted to eat another neighbor’s much-smaller dog, inside other neighbor’s yard. She was gonna avenge that on the whole neighborhood! After years of that, the neighborhood, through persistence and group effort, finally got every single city department to put a note by their phone saying “when this lady calls, just ignore”.

          The problem is, with the internet, it’s like you live in a neighborhood with the *whole world’s* insane problem neighbors. It’s definitely one of those things you have to keep in mind if you are posting video on the internet that includes your face, your house, the neighborhood where you live, anything that would let said bonkers people nail down your address and report you to your local authorities for any infraction, real or imagined.

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