Furloughed Groundskeepers Return to White House Overrun With Woodland Creatures (thanks GOP!) [View all]

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Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2465257/Fu


Now that the U.S. government is back in business, it means the feast is over for White House squirrels who have overrun the first lady's garden.
When the government shutdown more than two weeks ago, most White House gardeners were furloughed and those that were allowed to stay on were only allowed to water the plants. Triming, fetrilizing, transplanting, mowing and harvesting were all off limits.
Without any human intervention, the White House squirrels went to town on the Obama's prized organic garden, muching on tomatoes and the rest of the produce just coming into harvest.


'The bushy-tailed residents are feasting on the ripe Sungolds on the vines, as well as on other tomatoes and peppers littering the ground,' Eddie Gehman Kohan wrote last week on her blog Obama Foodorama.
Kohan explains that squirrels have always been a problem in the garden, but once the gardeners were furloughed, they became 'kids in a candy store, gorging themselves'.


The shutdown also temporarily put on hold plans to capture a fox who invaded the property more than two weeks before the shutdown.
According to Kohen, the fox has been glimpsed several times around dawn and dusk.
While the fox has eluded photographers, one source sent the Huffington Post a picture of the fox on the White House grounds about a month before the shutdown.


No word yet on what will become of the White House fox, or how the squirrels have reacted to the end of their 16-day feast.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2465257/Furloughed-groundskeepers-return-White-House-overrun-woodland-creatures.html





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Can be we sure that Cruz and Bachmann weren't foraging the produce?