To be sure, it’s a squirrelly problem
– the little rodents are overrunning Christmas Hill Park digging
holes for softball players and Garlic Festival goers to fall
into.
To be sure, it’s a squirrelly problem – the little rodents are overrunning Christmas Hill Park digging holes for softball players and Garlic Festival goers to fall into.
Besides inviting all of “Bella’s” cousins out for a hunt – she’s a Jack Russell terrier with a nose for rodents – the option of giving folks from Western Kentucky a free flight through the Gilroy Visitor’s Bureau has been discussed.
And does anyone know if there’s a sequel in the works for Caddyshack? Throw a few golf balls into the ranch side of the park to go along with the hundreds of ground squirrels and you’ve got the makings for a classic scene. We can see Bill Murray now …
But lest we jest too much, suffice to say that the squirrels are out of control, that the city must intervene and, like many city issues, this is one of deferred maintenance.
“Bella” simply can’t take care of the problem herself. The squirrels love the soft grass at the deteriorating amphitheater, they enjoy the shaded areas under the beautiful trees where humans leave them morsels near the picnic benches and the wide open softball/soccer/Little League fields are simply fertile land to develop into squirrel condos. On the prolific scale, they’re happy to compete with rabbits.
One tale has the garbage can haulers at the Garlic Festival being instructed to cover squirrel holes to avoid injuring patrons.
Enough. The city needs to figure out how to reduce and control the population now before the mess gets any worse.
