"James Fidell" wrote in message
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Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
James Fidell writes:
| MadCow wrote:
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| Once dead, grey squirrels are good eating: you can find recipes on
Yank
| foodie sites, try a Google on "Brunswick stew".
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| I find myself in two minds about this. Whilst I'm happy to believe a
| squirrel is edible, I find it hard to imagine that the little meat
| available on one makes it worth the effort of killing and butchering.

There's more than might appear. About as much as on a young rabbit.

Right then, I shall keep the air rifle handy for when I see them nicking
my raspberries and apples this summer.

I've never seen them at either raspberries or apples.

Alan

(Of grey squirrels) Alan Holmes wrote:

I've never seen them at either raspberries or apples.

I actually happened on one in the process of eating the raspberries
last year. As soon as it realised I was there it shot off across
the veggie plot and up a sycamore tree. Some time later I saw at
least three of them sitting on a fence not far from my office window,
having visited our apple trees, munching on apples they'd taken.

Like the rabbits and pigeons, I can almost live with them eating food
I've grown for myself, as long as I get to eat them afterwards

James

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In message . com,
fingers writes
Hi All,
The bloody squirrel has just destroyed all of my crocuses. It is the
last straw.
Where can I get a very inhumane trap that will kill the little B******
I saw a site last year that had recipes and lots of info against the
damn American T**** and links to very savage looking effective traps
but I can't find it at the moment.

Any answers?
p.s. I want something that will slaughter the damn yanks with extreme
prejudice.


www.deathtogreysquirrels.co.uk ?

My suggestions, both tried and tested:

1) Buy a "humane" cage trap for a tenner off the internet. Make sure it
protects your fingers when handling the trap with a squirrel in.
When you catch a squirrel, simply drop cage and squirrel into your water
butt.

Oh dear, oh daer, oh dear, let us hope that no one from the Screws of the
World reads this group, as you will be beaten to death by the reporters
who villified the gardeners at Buck House some years ago, when they were
depatching the damned things using this method.

But this is the way I deal with the buggers.

2) If that's not enough fun, hang a bird feeder with peanuts where the
squirrels can get at it. Stand a dustbin underneath with 18" water in
the bottom. Attach a cord to the feeder and in through a window.
When a squirrel's busy with the peanuts, jerk the cord so it falls into
the water.

That's a good idea, must try that one.

Once dead, grey squirrels are good eating: you can find recipes on Yank
foodie sites, try a Google on "Brunswick stew".

I must have despatched about 80 or so by now, but never really found one
with enough meat on it to make it worth while.

Alan


well, if these squirrels are as large as rabbits, there'll be enough meat on
them to have a good ol' Tree Rat stew.......and for those who've never seen
a tree rat munching on other things........my daddy had an Alberta peach
tree he grew from a peach pit he stobbed into the ground with the heel of
his foot that grew into a most remarkable tree that bore fruit that was as
large as huge mango's, free-stone, succulent, just tart enough, and so large
that my mother asked my dad to break out the handgun because she kept
finding HALF EATEN Alberta peaches lying on the ground!!! At that time, my
Great Aunt Kat and Uncle C lived in the downstairs apartment my dad had
built just for that purpose, and Aunt Kat being a person who didn't waste
the squeel on a pig........proceeded to pick up those half peaches, wash the
grass and dirt off, pare the peach flesh off that had touched "squirrel
lips" as she put it, cut it all up and made some of the best fried peach
pies you'd ever want to put into your mouth.................

and to add to that little nugget of experience............years nay decades
later when I myself was a growing veggie gardener over on the next street, I
had tomato vines of a variety called "Mortgage lifter". These tomato's were
bred because they were HUGE. I had TEN of these vines. All reaching 8 foot
or more, and LOADED with LOTS and LOTS of tomato's. The largest ones I kept
on half of the vines, harvesting the smaller ones and green ones for fried
green tomato's, and started noticing half eaten tomatos that were the size
of softballs. I questioned my young son's. They were clueless. I
questioned the many assorted variety of hippie/musician/college friend who
frequented our little abode......no luck. Eventually I was out back, lying
in the back yard, sunning my thinner, younger self and happened to hear a
suspicious sound.............you guessed it. A huge tree rat was feasting
on a humongous Mortgage Lifter tomato, ate his/her fill and dropped the
other half chewed half of hugeness onto the ground, flipped me off, stuck
out his tongue (the drugs might have been a factor in that last bit LOL) and
bolted up the enormous trunk of an ancient hackberry tree in the side back
yard at the property line.

Remembering my Aunt Kat's solution to such silly wastefullness, I picked up
the gigantic half, took it inside, trimmed off the part the tree rat's mouth
had touched, and had myself a 'mater sammich............

My solution to yer tree rat's evilness? My girlfriend has been shaking
ground cayanne pepper (from restaurant size cannisters from a bulk store), I
got her some putrid concentrated stink-0 stuff to spray around her bulbs,
and now, SHE'S resorting to borrowing my pellet air rifle. I told her a few
good shots in the ass and the squirrels would start associating pain with
HER yard. Like MY country, woods squirrels do now with me and my wrist
rocket and bag o' marbles. (and HER'S are enormous, as large as healthy
CATS!!!!!) Last resort will be my havahart trap baited with yummies they
can't resist. I suggested she bait it with Mexican food, as there are quite
a few of them moved into her immediate neighborhood, but we're still
debating the bait on the last resort after I loan her the air rifle)
madgardener up on the ridge, back in Fairy Holler overlooking English
Mountain in Eastern Tennessee where spring is busting out for REAL
now.......ramble soon!!!!

In article , madgardener wrote:


well, if these squirrels are as large as rabbits, there'll be enough meat on
them to have a good ol' Tree Rat stew.......

Very small rabbits.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

In message . com,
fingers writes
MadCow
deathtogreysquirrels.com sounds about right but i can't seem to get to
it with either the .co.uk or the .com

Sorry, it was .com and it seems to have been taken down.


They had a link to a very vicious trap with lots of teeth. From the
looks of it it was about the size of 6 vhs tapes together. The squirrel
puts its head in to eat the nuts and it shreds it off. About right
after how it shredded my crocuses.


Those might not be legal in the UK - try eBay if you want imports.
This site has legal grab traps:

http://www.trapandsnare.co.uk/products.asp?cat=100

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Sue ]

In message .com,
fingers writes
MadCow
This is not a little beast.
It is the size of a giant rabbit. Easily enough to feed a family of 4.
The gf turned pale when she first saw the little b******
Not as big as a dog but too big to be leaping around in our tiny
enclosed space.


Er, yes, you can feed a family for a week on one mad cow, but
like vampires we claim you for our own.

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Sue ];(

Someone in a group I was trolling called me a mad cow and the next thing I knew...