{"id":855,"date":"2011-07-14T01:50:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T01:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=855"},"modified":"2011-07-14T01:50:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T01:50:34","slug":"ingratitude-of-squirrels-prove-their-undoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=855","title":{"rendered":"Ingratitude of Squirrels Prove Their Undoing."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"39c6668e916543b4a7bf784d6ba1971d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2182508389013555\";\r\n\/* Med-Banner *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5485677463\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Petted in Evanston, They Bit the Hands That Fed Them, and They Are &#8220;In Bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Squirrels in Evanston-pampered, nut-fattened pets of the residents for many years-have become a nuisance and the protection which has been afforded them by city ordinances is to be withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Figuratively speaking, the bushytailed rodents have &#8220;bitten the hands that fed them,&#8221; by scampering over roofs and awakened their benefactors. They also are accused of eating birds&#8217; eggs, driving birds from the suburb, leaving insects to multiply until they are destroying the trees.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Twelve years ago Volney W. Foster bought several squirrels. They were ancestors of hundreds which now infest the city, protected by ordinances, and impudent by reason of fines imposed upon their enemies.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Mayor Smart has been receiving complaints, some saying that the rodents have gnawed holes in roofs and built nests in attics. Accordingly he instructed the corporation counsel to repeal the protective ordinance, and declare an &#8220;open season&#8221; on squirrels.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petted in Evanston, They Bit the Hands That Fed Them, and They Are &#8220;In Bad.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Squirrels in Evanston-pampered, nut-fattened pets of the residents for many years-have become a nuisance and the protection which has been afforded them by city ordinances is to be withdrawn. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Figuratively speaking, the bushytailed rodents have &#8220;bitten the hands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}