Yuppies discover squirrel meat

SWOHFAL · August 17, 2012, 19:19

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FAL freek · August 17, 2012, 21:40

Reminds me of two years ago when I had a family of the rodents that decided to turn a crawlspace into their domicile. They decided to bark at us from the rooftop with impunity whenever we came or went or just walked into the yard until one day they were scampering around on the patio. One day the pooch was going bonkers looking out the back door. Without a second thought I opened the back door and doggie proceeds to bolt out and trample the one that wasn't fast enough. Once the rodent is securely in the pooches mouth my dog decides to chomp down on the new play toy and after doing so spits the intruder in question out. The squirrel is flailing around with half it's body paralyzed and looked exactly like the alien that got shot in the head in the movie Aliens. Within a few short moments it breathed it's last breath. Was laughing so hard I was crying. Strangely after that the remaining member of the couple vacated their new found domicile. No more scratching around at 2 A.M. after that. Always trained the pooch exactly where the property boundary was and anything that crossed it was fair game. Guess the training stuck.

Always wanted to bag a couple of the unwanted guests as I heard the meat is quite good (if you get them young) but boney as all get out. Pooch seemed to have solved the need of some midnight hunting to eliminate the unwanted residents. Maybe some year there will be some new unsuspecting volunteers to try out my pellet gun hunting prowess on.

Thought I'd also throw in a tidbit of info about some squirrel hunter that during the 90s (when mad cow disease was all over the news) in the state north of us that always liked to scramble some squirrel brain in with his eggs for breakfast. Apparently he contracted some form of mad squirrel disease from the mixture.

hawk962 · August 18, 2012, 16:39

I hunted them a lot when I was younger. Still go some with a couple buddies. They are pretty tasty.

**W.E.G.** · August 18, 2012, 17:12

Quote:

Delmar O'Donnell: Care for some gopher?
Ulysses Everett McGill: No thank you, Delmar. One third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without bedding it down.
Delmar O'Donnell: Oh, you can have the whole thing. Me and Pete already had one apiece. We ran across a whole... gopher village.

rgregoryb · August 18, 2012, 21:34

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Originally Posted by FAL freek

Thought I'd also throw in a tidbit of info about some squirrel hunter that during the 90s (when mad cow disease was all over the news) in the state north of us that always liked to scramble some squirrel brain in with his eggs for breakfast. Apparently he contracted some form of mad squirrel disease from the mixture.

he went "nuts"?

homelandprotector · August 21, 2012, 05:12

We get some hugemongus squirrels around here, they are not the garbage eating ground squirrels either, grey and red squirrels as big as cats.

Maybe I should open a wild game dinner..........

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**Mebsuta** · August 21, 2012, 05:50

Why spend all that time f-cking with teh squirrel. Just go to Tom Thumb and get a protein bar.

**308bolt** · August 21, 2012, 08:03

I seem to remember KFC serving up some of those city squirrels with hairless tails some time back.
Yuppies will eat anything if you convince them it's in vogue.

Herr Walther · August 21, 2012, 09:46

I used to hunt them quite a bit when I was younger. The neighborhood I now live in has red squirrels half the size of a small groundhog. I don't know what they eat around here, but they sure are fat.

Bigger than the squirrels I used to see in the woods as a kid.

**308bolt** · August 21, 2012, 10:27

Red Squirrels also known as Pine Squirrels are little guys 2/3 the size of a Gray on their best day.
Sounds like what you have there is Fox Squirrels which are bigger than Grays.

Herr Walther · August 21, 2012, 10:37

That is what they must be. They are larger than the gray's around here. I've never seen one of those in the woods.

**308bolt** · August 21, 2012, 11:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by Herr Rentz

That is what they must be. They are larger than the gray's around here. I've never seen one of those in the woods.

Fox Squirrels, unlike Grays tend to be loners.
If you see a nut bearing tree out in the middle of a field somewhere and it's got a squirrel in it, it's usually a Fox Squirrel.
They seldom live in towns (at least around here in the Mid-west) but it's not unheard of. I imagine they have to adapt to their habitat shrinking just like anything else.
Grays are colonizers and often live right in the heart of cities.
Where I was raised in Chicago they were quite common around the neighbor hood. I never even heard of a Fox Squirrel until I moved to Wisconsin.
I've seen Red Squirrels aka Pine Squirrels right in the city of Waukesha.
It seems like any place there are pine trees is OK with them. They're like furry termites and often nest in people eaves enlarging the smallest breach into a entrance in no time at all.
South of here in a town in Illinois there's quite a large population of Black Squirrels (no, not on the South side of Chicago) that history says were brought here from Germany by a Naval officer. I don't know if that's true or not but it makes for a good story.

August 17, 2012, 19:19	#1
SWOHFAL Registered FALaholic #: 34346 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Obamunist-occupied America Posts: 8,371	Yuppies discover squirrel meat http://www.chicagoreader.com/gyrobas...wFullText=true __________________ Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

August 17, 2012, 21:40	#2
FAL freek Registered FALaholic #: 10400 Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: TN Posts: 7,178	Reminds me of two years ago when I had a family of the rodents that decided to turn a crawlspace into their domicile. They decided to bark at us from the rooftop with impunity whenever we came or went or just walked into the yard until one day they were scampering around on the patio. One day the pooch was going bonkers looking out the back door. Without a second thought I opened the back door and doggie proceeds to bolt out and trample the one that wasn't fast enough. Once the rodent is securely in the pooches mouth my dog decides to chomp down on the new play toy and after doing so spits the intruder in question out. The squirrel is flailing around with half it's body paralyzed and looked exactly like the alien that got shot in the head in the movie Aliens. Within a few short moments it breathed it's last breath. Was laughing so hard I was crying. Strangely after that the remaining member of the couple vacated their new found domicile. No more scratching around at 2 A.M. after that. Always trained the pooch exactly where the property boundary was and anything that crossed it was fair game. Guess the training stuck. Always wanted to bag a couple of the unwanted guests as I heard the meat is quite good (if you get them young) but boney as all get out. Pooch seemed to have solved the need of some midnight hunting to eliminate the unwanted residents. Maybe some year there will be some new unsuspecting volunteers to try out my pellet gun hunting prowess on. Thought I'd also throw in a tidbit of info about some squirrel hunter that during the 90s (when mad cow disease was all over the news) in the state north of us that always liked to scramble some squirrel brain in with his eggs for breakfast. Apparently he contracted some form of mad squirrel disease from the mixture. __________________ Please put the Constitution on the teleprompter Liberals want diversity in everything except your opinion.

August 21, 2012, 05:12	#6
homelandprotector Registered FALaholic #: 16592 Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Reno, Nevada Posts: 6,136	We get some hugemongus squirrels around here, they are not the garbage eating ground squirrels either, grey and red squirrels as big as cats. Maybe I should open a wild game dinner.......... http://www.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/...timate_et.html __________________ We need about 3000 Ron Paul's in Washington.....HLP

August 21, 2012, 08:03	#8
308bolt Heathen Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 19255 Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 19,962	I seem to remember KFC serving up some of those city squirrels with hairless tails some time back. Yuppies will eat anything if you convince them it's in vogue. __________________ "The bandwagons rumble past. I sit here on the curb," ~ John Hartford ~ "Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it." ~ Samuel Adams ~

August 21, 2012, 10:27	#10
308bolt Heathen Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 19255 Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 19,962	Red Squirrels also known as Pine Squirrels are little guys 2/3 the size of a Gray on their best day. Sounds like what you have there is Fox Squirrels which are bigger than Grays. __________________ "The bandwagons rumble past. I sit here on the curb," ~ John Hartford ~ "Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it." ~ Samuel Adams ~

August 18, 2012, 16:39	#3
hawk962 Registered FALaholic #: 9621 Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 925	I hunted them a lot when I was younger. Still go some with a couple buddies. They are pretty tasty.

August 21, 2012, 05:50	#7
Mebsuta Khemi, Stygia Contributor FALaholic #: 4143 Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Khemi, Stygia Posts: 6,294	Why spend all that time f-cking with teh squirrel. Just go to Tom Thumb and get a protein bar.

August 21, 2012, 09:46	#9
Herr Walther Registered FALaholic #: 11681 Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: A Place almost as bad as California Posts: 292	I used to hunt them quite a bit when I was younger. The neighborhood I now live in has red squirrels half the size of a small groundhog. I don't know what they eat around here, but they sure are fat. Bigger than the squirrels I used to see in the woods as a kid.

August 21, 2012, 10:37	#11
Herr Walther Registered FALaholic #: 11681 Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: A Place almost as bad as California Posts: 292	That is what they must be. They are larger than the gray's around here. I've never seen one of those in the woods.

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