SAFER FROM AGGRESSIVE LITTLE ANIMALS
In Foster City, California, throughout the years, the wild animal population was getting out of control: skunks, squirrels, raccoons, roof-rats, etc,--had a free rein in the city.
In the 1980s', roof-rats ran wild until they were cracked down on. Today, squirrels are running wild and they are being cracked down on: Foster City hired pest controllers to put blue, poison pellet containers along the city's levees: These little animals can damage the levees, which would cause a flood-risk and a health-risk to humans.
My daughter and I--when she was about three-years-old--had an experience, in the late eighties, with squirrels in the backyard of our house. I was baby-sitting her, on a Saturday while my wife was at work. When out of nowhere, I heard a big thug, or bang, against the back sliding, glass door. We ran to the door to see what happened.
Looking out the glass door, I could see a black squirrel laying on the patio. When we were standing there, watching the down squirrel, out the window, it stood up and shook it's little head, and again ran straight for the window. This went on for a few minutes. Meanwhile, another squirrel, gray in color, happened to be walking along the top of the back fence and past the house. Instantly, the black squirrel turned around and chased the other squirrel.
The next day, when I opened the curtains, a black squirrel was on the fence looking at me. He jumped down on to the patio, stopped, looked at me through the glass door window, turned around, and started to chase a gray squirrel that was running along the back fence.
I first thought that this little black squirrel could be rabid: affected with rabies. But since it was the only encounter that I heard about in Foster City, I forgot the whole thing: until I heard that several people where chased by squirrels. Most of the time, when a squirrel sees you, he would run away or up a tree. But these little black squirrels are very aggressive.
To get rid of these squirrels, the city had meetings, but hardly anyone attended them to discuss the squirrel problem. It was then decided to call in the pest controllers to cut down the squirrel population.
So, if you are in Foster City, California, you can be sure that you will be safe, in the near future, from these little aggressive animals.
