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My mother says that she hasn't any squirrels in the last three weeks. Usually they're all over the place. I live thirty miles away from her in Boston [Massachusetts], but I can't remember seeing any squirrels lately either.
Maybe this is a local situation. Do researchers in other places around the world have squirrels bothering their bird feeders or racing across roads in front of their cars?
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Posted May 10, 2012 by Bald Bloke
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We would quite happily send you some greys from over here.
The tree rats seem to be thriving in London
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Posted May 10, 2012 by Rosie
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No no no....have some of mine....I've got loads running around 'Up North' (UK)
... tree rats with good PR
The squirrels in New Jersey seem quite active.
They're all in my dad's garden. Nicking the food off the bird tables!
Thanks for all the offers.  Chances are, our local squirrels are on vacation somewhere, and will come back. 
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Posted May 11, 2012 by  Icy North
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Clearly the quirrels have slipped away quietly through wormholes in space to a world where they knew they could enjoy a uniquely squirreloid lifestyle, responding to highly squirrel-orientated stimuli, and generally leading the squirrel equivalent of the good life.
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Posted May 11, 2012 by Rod
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Ah nuts
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Posted May 11, 2012 by ITIWBS
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I saw a squirrel in the Perris Valley earlier this week.
That's an abnormally high count for a day in the Perris Valley.
The suggestion that they may exploring wormholes in space is a good one.
Perhaps they've discovered A. E. Van Vogt's terraformed Venus from the "World of Null-A" series.
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Posted May 11, 2012 by Orcus
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Well they're not in Camden for sure...
http://www.camdennewjournal.com/letters/2012/mar/where-are-squirrels
Mmm, I sense a conspiracy. nick them from one place at a time and.... 
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Posted May 11, 2012 by Rosie
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MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm...........SQUIRREL!!!!!
nom nom nom....
Tasty!!
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Posted May 11, 2012 by Bluebottle
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Red or Grey etc?
Yesterday morning on my way to work I saw a cat asleep in a tree surrounded by a family of squirrels not three feet away.
<BB<
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Posted May 11, 2012 by U94986
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Little bleeders are all over the place - can't walk the dogs through the woods without them dashing off trying to catch one or six!
Thanks for the link to that Camden newspaper article. I notice that there's a "goose control" company listed in that issue. We have no shortage of geese here  .
Well, the ways of squirrels are mysterious. They are what they eat, so it's logical that they would be nutters.
The ways and actions of squirils are indeed very mysterious, as they are one of the very few truely transdimensional beings. Theire existance within our own timeframe and dimensional plane, is but a mere intrustion of their existance across all dimensions, into the edge of that of our own. This is probably the main reason calculating how many squirils there actually are, is extremely differnt... Each differnt squirril may or may not represent a single squiril, or several manafestations of squirils in differnt physical frames, may be a single squirel represented in multiple instances of differnt exact coordinates within the dimension, physically and temporally concerned with that instance of a squirel. Plus, of course, they're terribly flitty little buggers...  
The only thing that stands in the way of their taking over the world is their inability to work together.
And their forgetful nature.
Forgetful?
I doubt that their attention span is very long.
That's true.
And they're forgetful.
I had forgotten that! 
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