Possinger's before and after shots.
Chris Possinger reports:
Watching my kid at the playground at Boynton and Hall St. in JP and heard a munching sound. Looked over and it was a squirrel munching on a large vertebrae. Called the Staties just in case, but I don't think it's human.
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probably after calcium, not meat
By Chris Jones
Sat, 08/28/2021 - 4:27pm
Squirrels gnaw on dear antlers for calcium, I expect that's why this squirrel was chewing a bone.
Squirrels have always been opportunistic meat-eaters…
By iamblued
Sat, 08/28/2021 - 6:26pm
We can’t blame this on 2021. Squirrels are omnivores but more specifically opportunistic meat-eaters as they typically stick to nuts and berries.
Don’t be afraid unless a blight kills their primary food supply. ;)
large vertebrae
By onelith
Sat, 08/28/2021 - 6:32pm
That was a squirrel's large vertebrae! They are growing to a huge size AND becoming cannibalistic! It was the Ivermectin that mutated the squirrels. And Trump will be returned to the White House in a few weeks.
WRONG
By iamblued
Sat, 08/28/2021 - 6:43pm
ThE iVeRmEcTiN kIlLs ThE lIbErAl MiNdWoRmS.
dO yOuR oWn ReSeArCh.
Beware of infected covid 19
By Kag Z
Sat, 08/28/2021 - 7:16pm
Beware of infected covid 19 BedBugs
Egg snatchers
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 08/29/2021 - 5:00pm
We think that is why Shitlist the Squirrel was on our local blue jay mob's shitlist - snatching eggs. Squirrels are well known for this.
Shitlist was on our shitlist due to chewing through our window screen - twice! - and stealing a Goldilox bagel. (we put up new screen and metal grating)
Well known
By perruptor
Mon, 08/30/2021 - 6:35am
As are bluejays, at least according to Audubon.
So not really watching his
By Notfromboston
Sun, 08/29/2021 - 12:30pm
So not really watching his kid. All for some stupid Twitter points.
Oh, FFS
By BobGoblin
Sat, 08/28/2021 - 9:16pm
Not from Boston, you’re a real jerk.
His kid’s vertebrae would
By hooks
Sat, 08/28/2021 - 9:19pm
His kid’s vertebrae would have been next!
Oh, give the squirrel a break!
By Lee
Sat, 08/28/2021 - 10:44pm
No parent is perfect. He’s just an ordinary squirrel.
C'mon
By APB
Sun, 08/29/2021 - 12:07pm
Squirrels are a thousand times more interesting than kids. The guy couldn't help it.
Perhaps
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 08/29/2021 - 5:01pm
You should consider watching yourself?
Naw. Fewer opportunities to be an asshole that way.
Yum yum
By Gnawton
Sat, 08/28/2021 - 9:13pm
I had squirrels chew and consume deer antlers I hung outside I suppose to wear down teeth and mostly to ingest essential minerals. They can't afford mineral supplements and always get chased out of CVS.
Of course it may be a serial killer.
Gotta get that calcium
By Tim Mc.
Sat, 08/28/2021 - 10:06pm
Bones don't last long in the woods because squirrels and mice chew them up for the calcium. And yeah, squirrels are not herbivores, and even "herbivores" are rarely vegetarian. Deer will happily snack on meat. So will rabbits. It's just an opportunistic thing. (This isn't meat, mind you -- it's more of a mineral chew.)
I do wonder what the vertebra is from. I don't *think* it's the right shape to be from a deer. It looks about right for a human, unfortunately, but I'm *absolutely* not an expert and there are probably plenty of animals with the same general shape.
(Incidentally, we did have a deer jaw bone show up on our back porch last year here in central Somerville, heavily chewed by squirrels. Not real clear on how that got there.)
It’s normal for a squirrel to knaw on bones.
By Lee
Sat, 08/28/2021 - 10:50pm
I’ve fostered orphaned squirrels and they need bones for calcium and also because being rodents, the bones help keep their teeth from growing too long.
Crave that mineral
By MrZip
Sat, 08/28/2021 - 11:05pm
n/t
Do the mayoral candidates
By anon
Sun, 08/29/2021 - 6:46am
Do the mayoral candidates have a position on this?
Magoo sez
By MisterMagooForYoo
Sun, 08/29/2021 - 9:13am
Magoo made squirrel stew once. In a pinch Magoo will make it again. Magoo.
So Magoo made Burgoo. Burgoo.
By anon
Sun, 08/29/2021 - 12:04pm
So Magoo made Burgoo.
Burgoo.
Stewed Magoo would be more
By Lee
Sun, 08/29/2021 - 8:37pm
Stewed Magoo would be more satisfying.
Beware the Bunnies
By Daan
Sun, 08/29/2021 - 5:28pm
As a kid I could tell that Squirrel Nation and humankind achieved detente eons ago. Sure once in a while a squirrely squirrel might make square hole in a round house but no detentes are perfect.
But bunnies. They proliferate just like...bunnies. There is no accord with them. There have never been SALT talks with them. They pretend to be afraid; but that is to fake out us humans. The bunnies I've seen stand their ground. They even become invisible when they stand still. They don't realize that I can see them but that is because I have visibility glasses that reverses their invisible posture.
That bunny in The Holy Grail was harbinger. They are here; the bunnies from Hades. They're not going anywhere.
And somehow the bunnies have even frightened off their natural predators. Where there are bunnies I do not see coyotes. Where there are coneys I do not see hawks.
What will be the next carnivorous invasive species that seeks to take over? Jackalopes!
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