12 April 09
You Know You've Been Standing In One Place Too Long
…when a squirrel runs up your leg. This happened during yesterday’s outing: I was finishing up this sketch of an azalea in front of the State Capitol at the time.
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Wow… that is pretty funny. Then again, you might have come across a squirrel with his own artistic ambitions?
The pressing question, of course is: inside or outside your pants leg?
Friend of ours had an intratrouseral chipmunk visitation while he was doing something underneath his van. Apparently this revealed previously unsuspected dancing abilities.
Both survived.
Ewugh!
I’ve had a few encounters with overly friendly rodents (squirrels and chipmunks) and my reaction is the same each time – “Aren’t you prey?” and worries about the lil critter being rabid.
I enjoy squirrels and the like… at a distance. Touching me? Not so much.
It was outside my pants leg. Fortunately.
It was interesting that the rabies decision tree that Pica got from her doctor after the cat bite had as one of the nodes “was it a rodent bite? — if so, no rabies treatment needed.”
Somebody has been feeding those squirrels :)
Hmm. Does this mean that rodents don’t get rabies?
Useful to know!
According to the CDC, Rabies is extremely rare in small rodents and not known to transmit the disease to humans. That said, I just read a report from 1972 of a rabid squirrel that attacked a 72-year-old woman in her backyard in San Leandro, CA.
Lutheran Surrealism has a good post up on not trusting squirrels.