If you crossed a squirrel with a ferret would it be a squirret or a fuirrel?
Either way, they'd be dangerous critters - carnivorous rodent kings of the canopies. If the squirrel used in the hybrid mutation was a flying variety they could terrorise whole tracts of land with the extended range their flight would allow. It could be carnage! Imagine being attacked by a flock of flying squirrets because you'd got too close to their nut store! Those f***ers would eat you alive before you could say "squirret or fuirrel?"
For the safety of man-kind, any squirret or fuirrel creature thus created must be domesticated and selectively bred for milk production. This could be the solution to the worldwide squirrel milk shortage but we must tread ever so carefully if we are not to tip the ecological balance too far in favour of these beady-eyed mutants.
I was only trying to watch out for ferrets at sea - *od the jellyfish.
Did see a few flying creatures, though. Thought they were bats, but now I'm having second thoughts.
All this cloning etc, it's getting me paraniod.
The thought of ocean-going squirrets sends a chill down my spine!
I have to say Lomu, you have a bizarre and twisted imagination - the mere suggestion of creating an ocean-going squirret belies deep seated psychological angst. But consider this: if you cross bred a flying squirret with a box jellyfish you would create an unstoppable killing machine that is comfortable in all environments on our planet. Equally at home eating plankton, Nemo, nuts and human flesh! That is exactly the sort of thing I meant when I mentioned tipping the balance too far.
However, I believe we are safe from this ultimate flying jelly-fuirrel abomination because the jellyfish genes would make it very difficult to produce milk from it and it would therefore be of no long term commercial value.
Tell me I'm safe.
Low flying sqirrels, ferrets that can swim - in salt water - box jellyfish that should stay at home off the northern part of Australia but seem to go anywhere they want these days without a visa. To hell with all these animal "activists". It's disgaceful.
A dawn chorus starting up outside my tin shack at just after 5am.
I'm confused.
Box jellyfish are not exactly renowned for their conversational abilities. So, I reckon it's about time for the big swim.
Unless some entrepreneurial meat-based product maniac (perhaps someone like Bernard Matthews) discovers that the flying jelly-fuirrel meat, when re-formed into patties and coated in floor swept breadcrumbs, makes a tasty, convenient and economical meal for todays busy mum to feed to her whelps.
If you see flying jelly-fuirrel burgers at Tesco Lotus then I think we could all be in very serious trouble.
Flying Jelly Fish is not a myth. The canopies above the tentacles of a Jelly Fish have evolved to allow them tp parachute from a great height. The Jelly Fish then has the ability to descend upon an unsuspecting flyingb squirell with out being seen and give it a nasty bite widh then causes the squirell to crahs land causing often fatal injuries.
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Jaime wrote:If you crossed a squirrel with a ferret would it be a squirret or a fuirrel?
Squirrels and ferrets are second cousins to cats Jaime . If you want to have some fun when here, walk up to your Thai friends and ask them to pronounce "squirrel". What you hear coming back will be hilarious. Pete
PS: Of course they play the same kind of games with us concerning certain Thai words.
Jaime,
I just have 2 questions (maybe 3 if you're really paying attention...)
1 You have a mangle? Just how old are you?
2 Do Rolf & the whole "Animal Hospital" team know you're feeding squirrets through it, just to make a unique sound?
Yours,
Disgusted, of Hua Hin
"The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?" - Jeremy Bentham, philosopher, 1748-1832
. If you want to have some fun when here, walk up to your Thai friends and ask them to pronounce "squirrel". What you hear coming back will be hilarious. 
Pete
