Current mood:	OMGWTF
Entry tags:	animals, cute overload, not enough wtf in the world, pet wank, politics, stop sharing your thoughts, wank overload

Semper Fur
So, there's a country singer named Kelly Foxton who likes to dress up her pet squirrel in little outfits. Lots and lots of little outfits.

Now, Sugar Bush is no ordinary squirrel. She is a patriotic squirrel! Many of the pictures on the site are bizarrely militaristic, and frankly, just a liiiittle creepy. Here, for example, Sugar Bush inspects the gallows in preparation for Saddam Hussein's assassination.

The fun begins when the Sugar Bush Squirrel (TM!) page gets linked on Cute Overload.

There is plenty of the expected, "ZOMG, dressing up your squirrel is WRONG!" wank. However, the wank truly becomes golden when people begin hotly debating Sugar Bush's politics. Jamie kicks it off by remarking that the site is "Cute. But far too right wing." Several others chime in to agree with Jamie, but Squirrel lover is incensed:

Not to add into the commentroversy... but "too right wing"??? So, no one can have an opinion or outlook that may be different from yours? And people wonder why I don't respect so-called "liberals"

Loretta wants to know why Ms. Foxton is spending all of her time making squirrel outfits when she could be contributing to the betterment of the world!

pandasocks quotes a passage from Sugar Bush's website that is worth the price of admission all by itself:

"Sugar Bush has even attracted the attention of the enemy. 'I get e-mails from Arabs — I even sent one of them to the CIA,' Foxton says. 'I think for a while they've been intercepting my e-mails anyway.' According to Foxton, this particular correspondent claimed to know the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, but the CIA wasn't interested in following up the tip.

"'They should check every lead — don't fluff us off,' Foxton says. 'This guy has information about Osama, and he's willing to tell Sugar Bush.'

turkey bear is offended by the image of the squirrel as a Catholic priest!

fifi sums up the whole bizarre situation best:

the thing about the politics is...
really, what political message is sent by dressing up your squirrel in military garb?

It borders on the parodic, or the surreal.
Too aesthetically bizarre to be deemed mere partisanship--regardless of the conscious intentions of the artist.

It's a rodent-folk-art version of Cindy Sherman!

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	tiye 2008-06-06 06:21 am UTC (link)
	Apparently, the squirrel really is alive. This article briefly discusses what happens during the photography process. But yeah, the careful attention to the posing definitely amps up the creepy factor to 11. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

tehrin
2008-06-06 07:58 am UTC (link)

The ghost writing bit got me:

On the web, Sugar Bush is also one opinionated creature. In the "Sermon Squirrel" section of her website, Sugar Bush explains (with Foxton ghostwriting, naturally) that she's an avid proponent of prayer in schools and has sent President Bush a photograph of herself praying with a passionate plea to reduce the separation of church and state. She is antidrug and pro-family values. And, of course, she is 110 percent behind the War in Iraq.

Oh, Mother of Pearl. This woman LIVES practically for the needs of her squirrel.

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	sharps 2008-06-06 02:42 pm UTC (link)
	And back to the real world, the squirrel has an IQ of three and wouldn't know what a joint was if it smacked him/her/it in the back of the head. I read stuff like this and I'm just "It's a squirrel. It's a fucking squirrel. The deepest thought it's ever had is 'Mmm, nuts taste nice!'" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	florence_craye 2008-06-06 05:46 pm UTC (link)
	Word! It's a squirrel. As animals, they're pretty smart- but they're still squirrels. They are really only concerned about eating enough, having young, and keeping safe. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dandywolves 2008-06-07 03:57 pm UTC (link)
	Did I leave the gas on? No, I'm a fucking squirrel! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	aerobot 2008-06-07 09:58 am UTC (link)
	If that, and only if you're lucky. The only amount of intelligence they ever display is going through those neat obstacle courses to get to a nut, and even octopuses can do that. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sharps 2008-06-07 08:00 pm UTC (link)
	Goldfish can do that, too. Except they don't eat nuts. Although I once owned this incredibly stupid goldfish. I had three other goldfish in the same tank, so it was quite easy to tag the one that spent all night making tiny 'donk!' sounds as it swam determinedly into the side of the tank as the really, really dumb one. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

evening_rose
2008-06-08 05:56 am UTC (link)

Friend of mine had some goldfish she won at a fair, that, well, got HUGE. She had one that was sorta like your fish, except this one actually built up enough speed (three big goldfish in a ginormous tank) to splat himself on the side of the tank one night.

Lynda freaked righteously the next morning.

Also, your icon bothers me. It could just be the lack of sleep and the liquor, but...o.o

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	sharps 2008-06-08 04:42 pm UTC (link)
	Now it's funny that you should mention lack of sleep... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	evening_rose 2008-06-09 12:35 am UTC (link)
	Took me three tries to read this correctly. I kept replacing "sleep" with "sheep." Which I suppose makes sense. ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	aerobot 2008-06-08 08:38 am UTC (link)
	SPORF Aahahahahahahaha! Oh god, dumb pets are so much fun. XD (Reply to this)(Parent)

	eleutheria 2008-06-07 12:39 am UTC (link)
	I used to volunteer at the White House opening mail. I can only imagine the reaction to receiving that one-- the volunteers would be supremely grateful having such a great excuse to stop working, laugh their asses off, then show it around the room. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lindentreeisle 2008-06-07 02:04 am UTC (link)
	Honestly though, I am QUITE enjoying the notion of a hippie squirrel smoking a blunt. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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