[Leica] a couple new ones

[dpost at triad.rr.com (Dan Post)]

Jim-
Holy smokes! Your chipmunks must be humongous! either that or Massachusetts
cats are rather small! Our pitiful little chipmunks are small enough that a
couple could easily hide in a regular coffee mug!
:o)
Dan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Hemenway" <Jim@hemenway.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] a couple new ones


> As I type this message my cat, with bells around her neck btw, has
> trapped a chipmunk on the screen enclosed back porch.  The chipmunk is
> high on a screen, the cat is sitting on the porch making strange
> guttural sounds.
>
> I can't get close enough to the quarry to save/grab it so Snowshoes is
> about to get a bath from a pail of water.
>
> Chipmunks around here are about 1/4 the size of a cat, if it were a
> squirrel, about 1/2 the size of a cat, she wouldn't have taken it on.
>
> Jim
>
> Eastern Massachusetts
>
>
> sdp35 wrote:
>
> > Dan Post <dpost@triad.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >> One question- here in NC we call chipmunks ground squirrels---
> >
> >
> > 'round this part of NC (Raleigh/Durham) we call squirrels 'tree
> > rats'...have never seen a chipmunk around here...
> >
> >
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