RANT & CHAT - No Politics

[TonyMcFadden]

SHEESH!!!

http://www.marinij.com/Stories/0,1413,234~24407~1637202,00.html

An adventurous adult male chipmunk is being flown from Marin to Utah in a private plane today to rejoin rodents he left behind after he took a road trip to Terra Linda.

The chipmunk, known by staff at WildCare in San Rafael as "chipmunk 1344 from Utah," apparently didn't know he was hitching a ride when he hopped into Dixie Goldsby's Honda Insight while she camped in southeastern Utah a little more than a week ago.



$300 bucks to take the second cousin of a rat back to the wilds of utah, where in all likelyhood it will end up the meal of a peregrine falcon.

The chipmunk could not be released in Marin legally or ethically because he is not native and because ecosystem balance is important, Piazza said.

"It would be like taking a human (from the city) and dropping him off in the Adirondacks," Piazza said.



Take me!! Drop me off in the Arirondacks and see if I complain...would LOVE the opportunity to get out of the chipmunk, er, rat race for a spell...