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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	viralmemory 2008-06-06 09:55 am UTC (link)
	Sweet Zombie Christ that's got to be one of the ugliest websites I've seen since 1995. Except for the squirrel pics, there's nothing worth looking at. Boxes, bad text colors... just about every design sin ever. Good thing squirrels are cute enough to make up for an awful web design. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	florence_craye 2008-06-06 05:38 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I'm surprised it has its own url, not sugarbushsquirrel.tripod.com. XD "Just keep scroooooooooooooling doooooooooooooooown forever to see the pics!" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	evilsqueakers 2008-06-07 10:29 am UTC (link)
	Reminds me too much of Homestead, where there are some dog kennels that still use it to advertise their pups. I just. The mind boggles. I feel like popping all their hands and giving them my friend's email to get a more professional website. Running waterfall gifs are evil. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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