# Are Fat Squirrels A Sign Of Something? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 2, 2011, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-fat-squirrels-a-sign-of-something/604822 "2011-12-02T10:17:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-fat-squirrels-a-sign-of-something/604822/21 "2011-12-02T16:47:58Z")
> [@alfabex](#): > > (Bolding mine) > > What does her being black have to do with anything? Realy? You call the race card and leave “big ass” alone? ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-fat-squirrels-a-sign-of-something/604822/22 "2011-12-02T17:18:34Z")
Today on Dr. Oz, obese squirrels and the problems they face. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-fat-squirrels-a-sign-of-something/604822/23 "2011-12-02T17:47:09Z")
> [@alfabex](#): > > (Bolding mine) > > What does her being black have to do with anything? all her baby squirrely daddies? > [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Realy? You call the race card and leave “big ass” alone? ass as big as a pig! ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-fat-squirrels-a-sign-of-something/604822/24 "2011-12-02T18:47:52Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > Hey, we have a local pub called [The Fat Squirrel](http://www.fatsquirrelpub.com/)! Do they serve [Fat Squirrel Ale](http://www.newglarusbrewing.com/index.cfm/beers/ourbeers/beer/fat-squirrel)? ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-fat-squirrels-a-sign-of-something/604822/25 "2011-12-02T19:00:40Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Do they serve [Fat Squirrel Ale](http://www.newglarusbrewing.com/index.cfm/beers/ourbeers/beer/fat-squirrel)? Well, according to their “About Us” page, they serve “a namesake English style IPA that we contract brew with Turtle Mountain Brewing Company\*.” I haven’t tried it, I’m not a fan of IPAs. \*Turtle Mountain brews some fine beer. They’re located just down the street from the Fat Squirrel. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-fat-squirrels-a-sign-of-something/604822/26 "2011-12-02T19:08:08Z")
Bosda may have a point. What with this and the flying squirrels in hospitals this may be the first wave of The Squirrelpocalypse. Those of us with dogs will survive a little longer than the rest of you. ---
**Author:** ![joemama24\_98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@joemama24\_98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joemama24_98)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-fat-squirrels-a-sign-of-something/604822/27 "2011-12-02T20:19:57Z")
I knew a cute girl in college…we were starting to get along and move in a more romantic direction and it all came to a dead halt, because she asked me how my trip to Boston was, and I responded that the “squirrels were really fat.” I got a dirty look and cold shoulder from that point on. I found out months later that she thought I had said “the girls were really fat” and she did not want to date an asshole who would say something like that. Similar story (irrelevant to the OP), but I knew a nice cute very conservative girl in college…we were starting to get along and move in a more romantic direction, and it all came to a dead halt when I ran into her in the the courtyard one night and she asked me what I had been doing. I told her I was writing my paper for Advanced Exposition, which I found out weeks later she heard as “Advanced Sex Position.” ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-fat-squirrels-a-sign-of-something/604822/28 "2011-12-02T20:38:28Z")
I’ve noticed the same thing in my neighborhood. I’ve never seen the squirrels so fat. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-fat-squirrels-a-sign-of-something/604822/29 "2011-12-02T20:46:02Z")
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**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-fat-squirrels-a-sign-of-something/604822/30 "2011-12-02T20:47:08Z")
JoeMama, I want to know if you ever moved in a more romantic direction and it all _didn’t_ come to a dead halt. If not, tell more dead halt stories. Hey, have you all ever been to Canada? Their squirrels are not only fat, they’re huge! Like little cocker spaniels. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-fat-squirrels-a-sign-of-something/604822/31 "2011-12-02T20:57:47Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I got this error message for that link - > WTF, man? > > More on topic - I haven’t noticed my squirrels looking very fat. That’s YouTube’s error page for when they screw up. Usually you can just refresh and the video will work. Or, if you can’t, there’s a [Wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramatic_Chipmunk) about the video. ---
**Author:** ![joemama24\_98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@joemama24\_98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joemama24_98)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-fat-squirrels-a-sign-of-something/604822/32 "2011-12-03T01:16:28Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > JoeMama, I want to know if you ever moved in a more romantic direction and it all _didn’t_ come to a dead halt. If not, tell more dead halt stories. > > Hey, have you all ever been to Canada? Their squirrels are not only fat, they’re huge! Like little cocker spaniels. :eek: Lucky for me things have gone better since then (married 11 years after learning how to speak more clearly 🙂 I have been to Canada but did not notice the squirrels. I assumed they just got bigger in the winter (which we effectively do no have here in Florida) -I can’t quite imagine rodents that big! ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-fat-squirrels-a-sign-of-something/604822/33 "2011-12-03T01:39:12Z")
It’s funny the OP mentioned this. I just thought to myself the other day that the squirrel I saw running along the side of my building looked fatter than I’m used to seeing. Seemed still quite agile, though. The little bugger ran along a ledge and all the windowsills for length of the walkway I was taking, stopping and waiting for me while eating a nut he was carrying. Then continued to run around the corner to the end of the ledge, threw the shell of the nut he had been eating at me, and then leaped over my head into the tree across the sidewalk. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-fat-squirrels-a-sign-of-something/604822/34 "2011-12-03T01:42:00Z")
Huge Nuts makes them Fat. [![](http://cdn2.mamapop.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/squirrel-nuts-1-300x282.jpg) ](http://cdn2.mamapop.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/squirrel-nuts-1-300x282.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-fat-squirrels-a-sign-of-something/604822.md?page=1)