Saturday, April 10, 2010

Squirrel!

You would think, based on the way some people act around here, they've never seen a squirrel before. I was eating out on the patio today. There were two tables in front of me, one with three boys and another with three girls. The three boys were watching a squirrel, who was wandering around them, playing with napkins and whatnot. When the squirrel managed to get inbetween the two tables, one of the girls threw food to it. And then another one of the girls threw food to it a second time. And then, because I clearly wasn't angry enough, a third girl came outside just to feed the squirrel.
I'm so disappointed by that kind of behavior around here. Animals are not meant to be fed human food. It's not good for them. (Hell, it's barely good for us. What makes someone think that highly altered chemicals are good for a mammal that is designed to subsist on naturally-occurring foods that are high in fat and carbohydrates?) Squirrels can't digest everything we can for a reason, and giving it food that it'll eat is not helping.
Also, those girls are messing up the environment even more than usual. Squirrels in the area are only becoming more dependent on humans for food.
Mostly, I just feel that if you're in college, you have no excuse to be that stupid. By now, someone should have told you that treating wild animals like that hurts the animal that you apparently are fawning over.

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