Squirrels Need To Stay Away From the Roads!

Paladin1950

Paladin1950

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Nowadays I see a lot of more dead squirrels in the roads than skunks. Actually that isn't so bad since squirrels don't stink when they are dead. Almost every day as I'm going to work, I see a bleeping squirrel run across the road. So many times they stop in one of the lanes and just look around. It's almost like they aren't really sure where they want to go. My car is getting close and I'm cursing at the dumb critter and ordering it to get out of my way.

When a cat wants to cross the street, it runs like hell across the street. It knows how dangerous the roads are. But squirrels are totally clueless. A couple of days ago, one ran across the street and stopped on my side of the road. As I was getting closer in my car, the squirrel started looking back at where it came from, and then looked in the direction where it was headed, and then decided to continue going in the direction. Me? I'm cursing at it and telling it to get the bleep out of the road.
 
Cats are not that bright. I'm always having to stop and let one make up its mind to get out of the road. But I won't claim that squirrels are very bright either.

Both are hard-wired to do a few things well. The rest is mostly silly anthropomorphizing of simple creatures.

But I've noticed a lot less roadkill of all animals in recent years. Perhaps more scavengers moved into populated areas during the Covid lockdowns when travel was very light?
 
dilettante said:
Cats are not that bright. I'm always having to stop and let one make up its mind to get out of the road. But I won't claim that squirrels are very bright either.

Both are hard-wired to do a few things well. The rest is mostly silly anthropomorphizing of simple creatures.

But I've noticed a lot less roadkill of all animals in recent years. Perhaps more scavengers moved into populated areas during the Covid lockdowns when travel was very light?
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People aren't to bright either.

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — For the first six months of 2024, pedestrian deaths due to traffic crashes were up by 53% in Clark County, according to state records. In a release issued Monday, the Nevada Department of Public Safety said fatal pedestrian crashes in the state's most populated county totaled 52 from Jan.Jul 8, 2024
 
Awww, give the little critters a "brake".

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Paladin1950 said:
Nowadays I see a lot of more dead squirrels in the roads than skunks. Actually that isn't so bad since squirrels don't stink when they are dead. Almost every day as I'm going to work, I see a bleeping squirrel run across the road. So many times they stop in one of the lanes and just look around. It's almost like they aren't really sure where they want to go. My car is getting close and I'm cursing at the dumb critter and ordering it to get out of my way.

When a cat wants to cross the street, it runs like hell across the street. It knows how dangerous the roads are. But squirrels are totally clueless. A couple of days ago, one ran across the street and stopped on my side of the road. As I was getting closer in my car, the squirrel started looking back at where it came from, and then looked in the direction where it was headed, and then decided to continue going in the direction. Me? I'm cursing at it and telling it to get the bleep out of the road.
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I live surrounded by woodland and fields... Squirrels are a very common site on our country roads. and really they seem to be very vehicle conscious , and run fast across the roads without coming to harm... The stupidest wildlife here are Pheasants

They just wander out in front of vehicles like they have no eyesight or brain.. and our roads are littered with dead ones. What makes it more dangerous is , that sometimes they'll fly up just as the car is about to hit them, and they get hit by the windscreen instead, and has happened to me.. caught in the windscreen wipers if it's raining.

tht's a nightmare because it's impossible to see in the rian with the wipers with a large bird caught in them, and it's dangerous to stop on these narrow roads to get the bird off..

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The other animals regularly seen as road-kill here are Badgers, foxes and Muntjac...

The odd deer or horse is sometimes hit, but that's usually at night, in the dark where they've wandered into the road by accident...
 
I’ll brake for squirrels if I’m not being followed, and try to straddle them if I am. Squirrels are just not genetically programmed to deal with cars, so they either freeze or vary running in several different directions when your vehicle approaches.

Birds are bad, too. Almost every other year one will fly directly into my windshield, when if only they had flown a foot higher, they’d be safe.

Deer are the worst in my semi-rural area, especially during mating season or when flushed out by the mighty hunters. If you have an up-close encounter with a deer, you’re going to kill the deer and likely damage the vehicle…😿
 
I used to have this squirrel, who lived in the trees on my lot. I have no idea what I did to irk him. If he was there when I can out, he'd jump up and down, and make squeaky noises. I could let my cats out and other people could leave, and the squirrel just sat in a tree. I'd walk out and he be jumping and squeaking away...
I got to agree with Paladin950, you seem to find more squirrels on the side of the road than in trees.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I used to have this squirrel, who lived in the trees on my lot. I have no idea what I did to irk him. If he was there when I can out, he'd jump up and down, and make squeaky noises. I could let my cats out and other people could leave, and the squirrel just sat in a tree. I'd walk out and he be jumping and squeaking away...
I got to agree with Paladin950, you seem to find more squirrels on the side of the road than in trees.
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I think that squirrel was in love with you 😁
 
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