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天暖和，又到了与后院动物昆虫混战的季节 
A bridge too fur: Westboro squirrel exodus gets fast reaction
Westboro’s squirrels have hit the big time. The Citizen’s story on squirrel relocation has made the news as far away as Australia.
Photograph by: Mike Carroccetto , Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — When news broke that a few Westboro residents drive squirrels across the river to Gatineau, the world noticed.
The Citizen told the cross-border squirrel story Tuesday. It was on TV news in Toronto the next day, and reached Australia by Wednesday:
“Canadians illegally relocate squirrels,” SkyNews proclaimed.
“Residents of an upscale Ottawa neighbourhood have been spiriting unwanted squirrels across a river into Quebec province and dumping them there, a local newspaper reports.”
The Aussies had to stop and explain a feeble joke about the squirrels needing to learn French.
Meanwhile reaction in Ottawa was also quick. Here are some excerpts:
Here’s reader Denis Boucher, in Gatineau: “So that’s where they come from! Count on me, you’ll get them back, every single one.
“That’s insulting to shuffle your problem onto someone else.
“The Westboro uppercrust is in for a surprise. There will be a standing complaint at the Department of Natural Resources and le Ministère de la Faune du Québec.”
From reader Chris Hanlon, this email: “hummmmm, a coincidence, I have been hearing rumours for quite some time that the good folks of west Quebec are bringing their humanely trapped raccoons, squirrels and porcupines from west Quebec to Westboro — for years — must be in the tens of thousands by now — didn’t think the good folks in Westboro would mind.”
And here’s Marthe Ledoux, who doesn’t say where she lives but has a keen sense of humour: “HAHAHAHA I know a guy that deports squirrels from Quebec to Ottawa via the Champlain bridge and that since many years.....HAHAHAHA.”
Finally, Citizen reporter Chloé Fedio: “My friend’s mom (in Edmonton) once put out a traps to catch critters (probably skunks). She caught something and drove out to the woods near the river and opened the trap only to realize that she had released her neighbour’s cat — far, far from home. Whoops. If she lived in Ottawa I can’t help but think she probably would have driven to Gatineau.”
Meanwhile someone has started a Twitter account for the squirrels.
Typical entry: “We will never leave Westboro. We came for the organic free-trade acorns, we stay for the MAYHEM!”
Read more at ottawacitizen.com
A bridge too fur: Westboro squirrel exodus gets fast reaction
Westboro’s squirrels have hit the big time. The Citizen’s story on squirrel relocation has made the news as far away as Australia.
Photograph by: Mike Carroccetto , Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — When news broke that a few Westboro residents drive squirrels across the river to Gatineau, the world noticed.
The Citizen told the cross-border squirrel story Tuesday. It was on TV news in Toronto the next day, and reached Australia by Wednesday:
“Canadians illegally relocate squirrels,” SkyNews proclaimed.
“Residents of an upscale Ottawa neighbourhood have been spiriting unwanted squirrels across a river into Quebec province and dumping them there, a local newspaper reports.”
The Aussies had to stop and explain a feeble joke about the squirrels needing to learn French.
Meanwhile reaction in Ottawa was also quick. Here are some excerpts:
Here’s reader Denis Boucher, in Gatineau: “So that’s where they come from! Count on me, you’ll get them back, every single one.
“That’s insulting to shuffle your problem onto someone else.
“The Westboro uppercrust is in for a surprise. There will be a standing complaint at the Department of Natural Resources and le Ministère de la Faune du Québec.”
From reader Chris Hanlon, this email: “hummmmm, a coincidence, I have been hearing rumours for quite some time that the good folks of west Quebec are bringing their humanely trapped raccoons, squirrels and porcupines from west Quebec to Westboro — for years — must be in the tens of thousands by now — didn’t think the good folks in Westboro would mind.”
And here’s Marthe Ledoux, who doesn’t say where she lives but has a keen sense of humour: “HAHAHAHA I know a guy that deports squirrels from Quebec to Ottawa via the Champlain bridge and that since many years.....HAHAHAHA.”
Finally, Citizen reporter Chloé Fedio: “My friend’s mom (in Edmonton) once put out a traps to catch critters (probably skunks). She caught something and drove out to the woods near the river and opened the trap only to realize that she had released her neighbour’s cat — far, far from home. Whoops. If she lived in Ottawa I can’t help but think she probably would have driven to Gatineau.”
Meanwhile someone has started a Twitter account for the squirrels.
Typical entry: “We will never leave Westboro. We came for the organic free-trade acorns, we stay for the MAYHEM!”
Read more at ottawacitizen.com