Mari Ness - It's far, far worse than we thought:

For some reason "Flying Kamikaze Squirrel" sounds like a fancy mixed drink with about eight kinds of liquor in it favoured by giggly college girls looking for a quick drunk.

Have I mentioned that the office I'm in now had been vacant for a while? And that I personally, have rounded up two different types of squirrels from inside the building?

The first was a large female grey squirrel that I encountered in the back hallway while doing the initial security sweep for the day. After I let her out, I found her three naked babies huddled on the carpet. We called the wild life people though by the time they got there late in the afternoon we were down to 1 1/2 babies.

The next was an adorably evil tiny adult flying squirrel who managed to infiltrate the teller line. He put up a good fight, intent on his objective which apparently was to take out our operating system. Getting a small rodent out of the servers for your company without 1. disturbing any of the wiring 2. letting said rodent disturb the wiring 3. getting bitten by said adorable rodents very pointy razor sharp savage teeth is exhausting work. Eventually, with the help of one of the tellers and a much folded jersey knit cardigan, I got a hold of the little bastige's tail and ran through the lobby to dump him outside.

A few days after that, I heard thumping from a locked closet in the back hallway, though whatever brand of squirrel it was had left by the time we got the key and a broom.

Yesterday, the critter catchers came and put a variety of humane traps up in the ceiling. Hopefully the squirrels attempt to undermine the financial sector of our society will soon be thwarted as the miscreants are rounded up.

If you fear them, then the squirrels have already one.

Noooo, you don't! You're the SqrrlMaster aren't you!?!

...damn, our Sqrrl Overlords are cute. ;)

Even more troubling are the responses to this article

I partcularly liked "He was promised 72 fresh acorns in squirelhalla to conflagrate the infidels!"

I think the Squirrel war would be better fought if we were allowed to have Hawk and Owl airforces. It benefits both us Hoomans and the Raptors - we get to have fluffy [owls] and they get to eat squirrels.