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Shu.Kurimu.Sensei

Shu.Kurimu.Sensei

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Good question, one difference I have noticed is that rats are often killed by cats, I wish our two wouldn't hunt the horrible things, but I have yet to see or hear of a cat hunting and killing squirrels.


Maybe squirrels are rats with a heightened sense of feline presence?

Brendan

Brendan

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Well the first difference is that squirrels are squirrels and rats are rats.


They?re both rodents but fill very different niches. Rats are scavengers and will eat anything whereas squirrels are quite selective about what they eat. Because of this, rats live naturally on the ground and in holes where rubbish gathers and squirrels live naturally in tree where they can find nuts.


For both these reasons squirrels are a lot less likely to sneak into your house and crawl up your drainpipe. Therefore we like squirrels and not rats.


Squirrels are also fluffy and unlike rats don?t always get type cast as villains in cartoons.

HonaloochieB

HonaloochieB

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Well in my chilhood days Tufty Squirrel used to teach us all about road safety, and how to look right, look left and right again before crossing.

If Tufty'd've been a rat we'd've all shat ourselves and just ran into the road in sheer panic and all been killed under lorries.

A whole generation dead because of the wrong choice of rodent.

It makes you think.

ratty

ratty

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But if Tufty Fluffytail had been child friendly Rat on the Road Roland Rat then maybe we would not have done this.


Also, I beleive the only Squirrel actually internatyionally renowned for it's discretion is Secret Squirrel!


Also, my name is not squirrely it's ratty


That's enough to be getting on with ffs!

Tony.London Suburbs

Tony.London Suburbs

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Frankly this is a ridiculous comparison.:X

When a rat can do the following then lets compare:-


Secret Squirrel served as a secret agent (his designation was "Agent 000"), taking orders from his superior "Double-Q." Secret was assisted in his adventures by fez-wearing side-kick Morocco Mole, a mole. The pair fought crime and evil enemy agents using cunning and a variety of spy gadgets, including a machine gun cane, a collection of guns kept inside Secret's coat, and a variety of devices concealed in his hat (which he almost never removed).


End Of.

Shu.Kurimu.Sensei

Shu.Kurimu.Sensei

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Top pictures here! I'd love to see a picture of Asset's cat squaring up against a (grey) squirrel! Haven't seen a red one for over a decade :(


Hmm, crouching squirrel:


http://hometown.aol.com/me2cl/images/crouchingsquirrel.jpg


vs Street Fighter Kitty


http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff87/nachosforever/Animals/shoryukenpunchkitty.jpg


a mashup made in heaven!


Maybe an unlockable character could be this badass muncher,...


http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2008-02/squirrel-on-two-trees.jpg

HonaloochieB

HonaloochieB

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ratty Wrote:

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> But if Tufty Fluffytail had been child friendly

> Rat on the Road Roland Rat then maybe we would not

> have done this.

>

> Also, I beleive the only Squirrel actually

> internatyionally renowned for it's discretion is

> Secret Squirrel!

>

> Also, my name is not squirrely it's ratty


>

> That's enough to be getting on with ffs!


I'm saying that's quite sufficient, unless we have amongst us a squirrel that can type, which I doubt, those lolloping nut-collecting interlopers can go and put the fruits of their labours up their bottoms.

I'm going with EDF's own Ratty, who I reckon would face down and send off the feistiest squirrel, with a hearty 'FOOK OFF'

#It's a rat trap Tufty....and you been... caught#

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