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Little critters

BentonTool said:
My pet grey squirrels (5):

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Classified as vermin here in the UK; responsible for the destruction of many of our native tree species and the demise of our native red squirrel. Those responsible for our woodlands cull them with traps etc...very good eating apparently and ought to be on the menu here. Doubtful though - Rob
 
Very good eating around these parts, right along with the groundhogs (or "woodchucks")...
I am trying to post a video with my red squirrels, but have been as yet unable to do so...
 
BentonTool said:
My pet grey squirrels (5):

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Like Rob, I cannot anthropomorphisise and call them cuddly. Disease-spreading, ecosystem wrecking, furbags. Sorry Benton, I watched them destroy our native reds here,and I am deeply minded to paraphrase a comment from WW2 re American servicemen: "over-paid, over sexed and over here" into "over-competitive, over-immune and over here".
I have this view on EVERY introduced species, including the pythons in Florida.
 
SamQ aka Ah! Q! said:
Like Rob, I cannot anthropomorphisise and call them cuddly. Disease-spreading, ecosystem wrecking, furbags. Sorry Benton, I watched them destroy our native reds here,and I am deeply minded to paraphrase a comment from WW2 re American servicemen: "over-paid, over sexed and over here" into "over-competitive, over-immune and over here".
I have this view on EVERY introduced species, including the pythons in Florida.
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The First Nations people of North America might say the same about Europeans since arriving. ;)

Can I add the various gophers to the list of little critters around here that would make me happy if they stayed a few hundred feet away from the house? Not enough hawks, owls, foxes, badgers and Coyotes to thin them out.

Pete
 

Eastern gray squirrel​

The eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), spelled as grey squirrel outside of the United States, is a species of tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus. It is native to eastern North America, where it is the most prodigious and ecologically essential natural forest regenerator. Widely introduced to certain places around the world, the eastern gray squirrel in Europe, in particular, is regarded as an invasive species.



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Clarkson was serving up Squirrel at a pub event on tv recently and a few complained about the smell. I’m not into eating things like that at all !
Saw a Squirrel the other day and the sunlight was coming through its tail, I was really surprised to see that the central core was more like something you’d expect to see in a feather, I had imagined it to be much stronger.
 
Inspector said:
The First Nations people of North America might say the same about Europeans since arriving. ;)
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Completely! The treatment of Indigenous Peoples across the North American continent has been inexcusable, and (to some extent) continues today. A parallel exists in Australia of course.
 
The invasive Gray/Grey squirrel in the UK is the carrier of a pox virus that the native Red squirrel has no immunity to:

Squirrel pox and other squirrel diseases

The squirrel pox virus, sometimes wrongly referred to as squirrel para-pox, is responsible for the disease known as squirrel pox which presents in red squirrels with a mange, scab or myxomatosis - like symptoms, leading to rapid loss of body condition and subsequently death.
www.daera-ni.gov.uk www.daera-ni.gov.uk

My OH likes to see them perch on the bottom and side fence tops... myself hate the dam things... nothing but tree *rats* that help distribute the birds seed from the feeder onto the lawn which then at some point, encourages Brown rats to scavenge for. The Border Terriers go barmy 'coz they can't catch them and I have to set a live trap for the rats - hoping the grey squirrel get in it so I can then dispose of them... as required by law!

They also keep planting the damn Hazel nuts in the lawn and garden plant containers - as well as some bonsai pots. To get tne things out I have to repot the roses and such... 😤😠
 
Woodbloke said:
Classified as vermin here in the UK; responsible for the destruction of many of our native tree species and the demise of our native red squirrel. Those responsible for our woodlands cull them with traps etc...very good eating apparently and ought to be on the menu here. Doubtful though - Rob
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I cull the ones round here that have run riot and unchallenged for years with my .22 rifle. The count is well into double figures. Trying to convince LOML that the deer that keep getting into the garden and eating her roses need the same treatment and that we will eat them.
 
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