"Dave Hill" wrote in message
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On 18 Mar, 22:51, MadCow wrote:
In message .com, Dave
Hill writes



To paraphrase Mrs Beeton "First catch your Squirrel"

A friend's old dad catches them like this:

Fill a bird feeder with peanuts and hang it in a convenient tree.
Under it place a dustbin with a foot of water in the bottom.
Tie fishing line to the feeder and lead it indoors through a window.
When squirrel is busy on the feeder, give a sharp jerk on the line.
Ensure squirrel is completely dead before handling it.

For professional use, you can buy a variety of "humane" squirrel traps
from websites. Peanuts are a good bait. Place the whole trap in water
and drown squirrel as above.

Hang for 2-5 days depending on the weather.
Allow about one squirrel per person and use any good stew recipe -
they're excellent.

--
Sue ]

If you did follow the above advice to drown the squirrel you could be
in deep sh**. it's an illegal way of killing. You have to use a humane
method, such as shooting,

Except that the 'humane' method is more distressing, as, if you don't kill
it with the first shot, it suffers far more, whilst you shoot it, again and
again and again.

Then there is the problme of getting a gun in the first place, and how do
you get a licence to be able to use it?

Drowning is very quick and reliable, it takes ten seconds to die.

Alan