Squirrels are cute! Don't kill them!

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Thanks, Dook, but the State game laws read differently, unless I misinterpreted them. Grays are legal on the west side, but I think fox squirrels are protected (they're likely registered as Democratic/deceased/imprisoned voters). However, I am sad to report a couple tragic, accidental squirrel deaths. Seems as if they fell out of my trees and the light-sleeping Lab evidently caught them. Ma Nature is a harsh mistress, but on the other hand, dead squirrels don't chew bark . . .
 
I believe they are tree rats also. I have eaten squirrel as a kid because I had no choice. It was what my grandmother fixed. Now they are just pest that chew through my roof and get into the attic and store pecans and acorns everywhere. I can't shoot them because I live in the city limits but the local lowes has provided me with a few live traps and I promptly dispatch them with a frog jig. Then to the dump they go. Just recently I planted some onions, broccoli and turnips they little rats dug up my onions. I am thinking about rigging the trees in my yard with electric fencing. Now thats will be a barbecue.
 
When I was a kid I used my trusty BB gun to shoot a squirrel that had taken up residence in our woodpile. My friend and I dressed it and skinned it and cooked it up on his BBQ grill. Before we could eat it his mom found out what we were doing and told us not to eat it.

Can't say that I felt too bad about her making that decision for us.
 
I think squirrels are just about the cutest animals. I love watching them while I am at work. There is one that will walk right up to you if you stand there still enough. If I could have any wild animal for a pet I would want a squirrel. Maybe one day I will find a baby one and I can raise it. But although I think they are adorable they do taste great, so I don't have any problem shooting them.
 
I have had the privilege of hunting distant big game with ridiculously powerful rifles.

ALMOST AS FUN is sneaking aroud in late Fall with an iron-sighted .22 pistol, trying to get close enough for a shot before the stupid squirrel stops barking at me and just vanishes.

And I always brake to avoid squirrels when I'm driving. But I won't swerve: there are limits to my kindness. :evil:
 
shave the fur off the tail, and let one loose in the house. she will be begging you to get rid of the rat! that is what squirrels are. rats, that live in tree's, and if given the oppertunity, your home. kill the little tree rats and get it over with! i have the same situation here. i wait till my wife goes out shopping, or takes the kids to school, etc. then out comes the sheridan and a hunting i will go! the neighbors are to close to shoot a 22, so i have to use the pellet gun. but my trusty sheridan does a good job on them rats.
 
5pt DeerHunter, there's a reason you don't see squirrels commonly raised as pets. They are cute when immature, but grown up they will destroy your house interior...as a friend of mine found out...almost as bad as raccoons, which are simply larger and more powerful.
 
The squirrels in our yard keep eating all the bamboo... I'm considering borrowing my friend's break-action pellet gun (shoots something like 1000fps) and punching a couple tickets on a lazy Saturday...:)
 
Or, you could just show her this...

--Shannon
 

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ELDIABLOE1, that is quite a Tail...OOps, I mean tale!

Something new...I'm at war!

Yesterday morning I noticed the insulated plastic cooler I store my birdseed in (safe from mice!) was damp inside and full of weevils.:uhoh: I dragged it into the middle of the yard and opened the lid to dry, figuring the birds would eat the weevils crawling all over the inside and lid.

In the afternoon I noticed a spray of seed coming from the cooler...investigated, and surprised a squirrel inside throwing pawfulls of seed into the air in wild ectasy! Said squirrel promptly departed, and I closed the lid.

This morning I went out to see if the inside was dry and the weevils gone...and discovered my hard plastic cooler is now like swiss cheese! :what: Perhaps a dozen holes chewed into it in various locations, shreds of plastic and foam insulation littering the ground!

Enough is enough! I got out my pellet gun and zeroed it, and am watching the cooler for signs of activity. It's time I had squirrel stew again...Past time!:evil:
 
It seems that womenfolk only like animals when they have no interaction with them. once chipmunks got into our garage, i've heard requests out the wazoo to "kill all them chipmunks you see" from everybody in my house
 
how will you eat them if you don't kill them first? they tend to run off your plate if still alive.
 
It seems that womenfolk only like animals when they have no interaction with them. once chipmunks got into our garage, i've heard requests out the wazoo to "kill all them chipmunks you see" from everybody in my house
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My wife was never really comfortable with me hunting. But she had some prize sunflowers. And one day I heard her screaming, "Get your gun! Shoot them! Shoot them!"

The squirrels were goging on her sunflowers.
 
When we moved to Ohio we began our on-going relationship with the ground squirrels. My wife first thought they were cute until they dug up her $10/ea bulbs, took one bite of them, and left the remainder on the ground to move onto the next one. Gopher bombs are the ticket.
 
Hunting is important to keeping animal populations down to a healthy level.
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Great arguments....

If the above statement is true, when will they legalize "human season"? I highly doubt that our population level is anywhere near "healthy".

Oh... I forgot... humans were created in the image of god right?

Yeah right. ;)
 
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"Go out to the dump shoot a big rat and skin it, then go into the woods and shoot a squirrel, skin it.

Lay them both side by side, see any difference? A little rat meat never hurt anybody!




So true...And besides, for those of you that like to frequent various eating establishments with any regularity, you might be surprised to find out some of the things you have eaten over the course of time...I promise they would make a squirrel seem very appetizing...:barf:
 
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