Squirrel image: photoshopped or the real deal?

[The Great Sun Jester]

What do you think? Has this image (http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a216/InigoFMontoya/?action=view&current=squirrel.jpg) been photoshopped? I have my opinions but I'll wait for some experts to chime in before I put in my 2 cents.

[What Exit?]

I don't think so, I think someone with a warped sense of humor just posed a pair of GI Joes on a dead squirrel and snapped the picture. I saw no artifacts I would associate with an altered photo.

[The Great Sun Jester]

Go and get some coffee, then come back and do this right.

[Wakinyan]

I don't get either of your posts, Inigo. Why would it be photoshopped, and what did Exit do wrong?

[MovingTarget]

I don't think it's ps'd either. I think it's funny as hell, but not ps'd. I used to pose my GI joes and other figures with stuff all the time. Turtles, frogs, dead birds, etc. And I'm not sure what your second post was supposed to mean either. Methinks you might need some coffee as well, and please explain what "do this right" means in your context.

MT

P.S. and it's possible that it's actually a 400lb squirrel and those are just very, very botox'd guys in fatigues.
d&r

[Giles]

I agree that the easiest way to get a picture like this is to use model soldiers with a dead squirrel, and not to Photoshop it at all.

[What Exit?]

P.S. and it's possible that it's actually a 400lb squirrel and those are just very, very botox'd guys in fatigues.
d&r
Well I for one, DO NOT welcome our new 400lb Squirrel Overlords.

We'll fight them on the branches and on the wires. We'll fight them with giants cars and huge slingshots. But we shall never give in until the world is safe again for Steroid pumping, botox'd guys in fatigues.

[beowulff]

Lucky those army guys didn't try to attack this (http://www.wolfness.net/up/files/1189841563541.jpg) squirrel!

[Ferret Herder]

I don't get either of your posts, Inigo. Why would it be photoshopped, and what did Exit do wrong?
Allow me...


Inigo, clearly you've never heard of the giant squirrels that are making a comeback in some Midwestern states. Native Americans used to hunt them for meat and fur, until immigrant Europeans moved into their habitat and hunted them to near extinction. I would wager that this particular specimen scared the citizens of a more populated region - witness the recent terror in Chicago over a cougar wandering through town - and soldiers from the nearby base happened to be in the area when the beast menaced a small child. Quick thinking on their parts saved the day.

[Autolycus]

One squirrel (http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/3/32/1SuperMorSm.jpg) has already infiltrated our highest levels of national security.

[Happy Lendervedder]

I vote not photoshopped. Why would you photoshop two GI Joes onto a dead squirrel? Why not just photoshop two real soldiers then?

[The Great Sun Jester]

* getting it *
I tried to do this too early in the morning didn't I.

[Sunspace]

The link in the OP doesn't work!

[Mangetout]

Where the right soldier's boot meets the squirrel (there's a combination of words I never expected to use today!), the join looks just a bit too soft and fuzzy, but that might just be because the squirrel's fur is soft and fuzzy at that point.

Impossible to say for sure without a higher resolution image, and maybe not even then. But yeah. Unaltered photo of posed action figures with roadkill seems the most likely methodology.

[Wile E]

Allow me...


Inigo, clearly you've never heard of the giant squirrels that are making a comeback in some Midwestern states. Native Americans used to hunt them for meat and fur, until immigrant Europeans moved into their habitat and hunted them to near extinction. I would wager that this particular specimen scared the citizens of a more populated region - witness the recent terror in Chicago over a cougar wandering through town - and soldiers from the nearby base happened to be in the area when the beast menaced a small child. Quick thinking on their parts saved the day.

Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't believe they really exist.

[What Exit?]

Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't believe they really exist.
Dude, he is The Ferret Herder afterall. He should know about these things.

[Autolycus]

Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't believe they really exist.

Get 'em sweetums! (http://www.worldofrats.com/ROUSIndex.html)

[Flander]

Lucky those army guys didn't try to attack this (http://www.wolfness.net/up/files/1189841563541.jpg) squirrel!


That would be a cute invasion.

[Lobsang]

Why has nobody posted to say that they can tell by some of the pixels, and having seen a few shops in their time?

[Projammer]

Lucky those army guys didn't try to attack this (http://www.wolfness.net/up/files/1189841563541.jpg) squirrel!
Or this (http://www.oftenwrong.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/squirrel.jpg) one. He would have totally kicked their asses.

Or these (http://www.electricsquirrel.com/images/jedi_squirrels_41k.jpg).

Note: I'm pretty sure the second one was photoshopped. At least I hope it was.

[Harmonious Discord]

Rev. Billy Bob holds a revival. (http://www.flowgo.com/funny/1956_rev-billy-bobs-rodent-revival.html) It's a flash animation.

I think the original was not photo shopped.

[Ferret Herder]

Dude, he is The Ferret Herder afterall. He should know about these things.

(She, but that's ok, it's tough to determine gender around here...)

Anyway, *clears throat* ferrets are not rodents! They are members of the Mustelidae family and probably most closely related to the European polecat; other relatives include minks, martens, etc.

I'd tell you my ferrets are insulted, but, well... if I told the male about it he'd probably not get the insult, being clever in many things but not in this whole "instincts" business. He wanted to play with a terrier that was obviously eager to rip his throat out, and thought that a guinea pig (who was terrified of him) was an equally nice playmate choice. Our female is much better off when it comes to instincts as she got the answers to those questions right but in everything else... she's sweet but rock-dumb. If I tried to explain it... I mean, even with pictures, if she figured out what they meant, she'd probably think I was warning her of a squirrel invasion that she had to fight. (Not that squirrels do such coordinated things, no sir.)

Oh, and Inigo, I'm sure the military will agree with what I said previously, and it's definitely nothing to do with any experiments. Sheer luck they happened on the situation first. Really. Regular large squirrel, no mutations or deformities, nothing weird about it.

[What Exit?]

(She, but that's ok, it's tough to determine gender around here...)

Anyway, *clears throat* ferrets are not rodents! They are members of the Mustelidae family and probably most closely related to the European polecat; other relatives include minks, martens, etc.

I'd tell you my ferrets are insulted, but, well... if I told the male about it he'd probably not get the insult, being clever in many things but not in this whole "instincts" business. He wanted to play with a terrier that was obviously eager to rip his throat out, and thought that a guinea pig (who was terrified of him) was an equally nice playmate choice. Our female is much better off when it comes to instincts as she got the answers to those questions right but in everything else... she's sweet but rock-dumb. If I tried to explain it... I mean, even with pictures, if she figured out what they meant, she'd probably think I was warning her of a squirrel invasion that she had to fight. (Not that squirrels do such coordinated things, no sir.)
I really did know all that*, you can even ask D_Odds to verify that I know what Ferrets are, but you see acknowledging that knowledge would have ruined what little humor my quip managed to have.

It is worth notice that squirrels are in the same family as Marmots which of course includes Ground Hogs, meaning sadly that to properly destroy these Giant Squirrels we should be prepared to "Nuke them from Orbit".

So I assume that herding ferrets is tougher than herding cats, which is odd as I always ‘heard’ that the only thing tougher than herding cats was managing programmers.

Jim



* Well I knew about the Ferrets probably being polecats, not your gender, sorry about that part, but it is nearly impossible to keep track of these facts.

[FloatyGimpy]

What do you think? Has this image (http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a216/InigoFMontoya/?action=view&current=squirrel.jpg) been photoshopped? I have my opinions but I'll wait for some experts to chime in before I put in my 2 cents.

I'm almost positive that I saw an add with those guys in Soldier of Fortune Magazine.

Somebody obviously saw the add and hired them to take care of Giant Squirrel that had been terrorizing the neighbourhood.

[Cat Fight]

I was sure this would be linking to something from Sugarbush (http://www.sugarbushsquirrel.com/924643.html) (who, I've just learned, is a real live squirrel rather than a set of stuffed rodents. How its owner gets it to stand still while she's fitting it for tiny costumes, I have no idea).

[SkipMagic]

Closed at the request of the OP.