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On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 01:21:08 +0000 (UTC),
Reg Edwards wrote:
Are squirrels edible ?




Heck yeah! good tasting too! Although they take a couple for a full
meal. 22lr and a little patience is all you need. Although if you want
something to stop them chewing stuff. Try the hottest sauce you can
find, something way beyond tabasco. Like grim reaper or something. Just
smear it on the stuff to be protected.

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Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock

Linux, because eventually, you grow up enough to be trusted with a fork()

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 00:50:34 GMT, "Jimmy"
wrote:

Only one bad thing about sending hunters out with guns for animal population
control. They dont take out the weak and those of poor genetic quality. They
tend to take those from the top of the herd. Only restoring the balance of
predatory animals will really solve the problem. BTW I am a deer hunter.

That's one of those ...well, yah, kinda, sorta, almost, ....things.
Nature is going to take care of the genetic problems. Without
predators the genetic errors don't usually last long.

As for the weak, reducing the size of the heard leaves more food for
them to get stronger. So even with harvesting the strong the herd
will get stronger.

Yet there is no real, or at least perfect answer...even with predatory
animals. That solution also cycles.

For instance the Fox population cycles greatly from a few healthy
animals to a great many when food is plentiful. Then Mange sweeps
through the fox population decimating it (if you haven't seen it, it
looks something like a terminal case of very painful dandruff). The
heard will drop from over population to almost a rarity in a year or
two. Then the rabbit and varmint populations explode. OTOH "as I
recall" it takes the Fox population about eight to ten years to
recover and then the cycle begins again

Here in the metropolitan area we have a huge coyote population, or at
least far more than most people realize. They prey on deer,
particularly the weak in infirm. They are also good at keeping the
stray cat population down..

Cats who run loose all the time, don't last long around here...nor do
dogs. We also have Bobcats and even this far south in the more highly
populated areas the occasional black bear waders into town.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)


"Roger Halstead" wrote in message
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On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 09:29:49 -0400, "WB3FUP \(Mike Hall\)"
wrote:

Take a trip though Fairmont Park in Philly. Nothing green below 4 of 5
foot. Overpopulation is as much a problem as over hunting, a potentially
more serious to humans as diseased animals die..


Here they even have limited hunts in park areas and the city forrest
to reduce the over populations. Every time they do it's a battle with
the environmentalists. I guess they figure starving to death, or the
deer being killed by dogs or coyotes is more humane.

At least for the time being herd management and common sense is
prevailing.

I've not had any problems with squirrels getting into the coax...yet.
Maybe it's my cat chasing them (and the stray dogs) out of the yard.
Big cat. Hates dogs. Loves kids. Chased every dog in the
neighborhood home except one. They ever meet and I'll probably be
looking for a new cat, although he did get into a fight (attacked) a
full grown black lab that came in to the yard...and won.

The dog walked up behind the little neighbor girl and the cat went
ballistic.

When he was much younger he took in after a squirrel. The squirrel
went up a tree with the car right behind it. The squirrel bailed from
something like 25-30 feet up. The cat never slowed and went right
after him. However when the squirrel went up the next tree the cat
stopped at the bottom and just looked up.... I think he learned
something that day. :-)) driveways are pretty hard when hit from 30
feet up.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

Do they still sell sulfur candles...Solid sulfur and a binder in a what
looks like s SKOAL tin, with a wick.

We'd put that on a tin pieplate in the attic, light it off, and go out in
the yard for several hours

Everything in the attic would leave town or die

Yodar
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"Mike Coslo" wrote in message

Heh! As one of the veterns of the squirrel versus human wars, I tried
the live trap route, and it doesn't work at all. You might catch one,
but that's about it. Here in the squirrel capital of central PA, we have
dozens of the little buggers. I had to seal up every opening in my
house, and seal the corner molding on my vinyl siding. Brats would climb
up there and munch a hole into the attic. Then they got in through the
triple walled chimney. I found that by chance. So I had to put wire
cloth on that. But wattya do about the ones who already got into the
attic? I made an escape route by drilling a hole in the side of the
house entering into the attic, and put a long narrow box over it so that
would jump out when they got thirsty and hungry enough. We're at a
standoff for the moment......

- Mike KB3EIA -

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 01:03:24 +0000 (UTC), "Reg Edwards"
wrote:

Doc, tough little buggers, eh? I didn't realise squirrel meat needs
tenderising.

It's not tough normally, especially if they were roadkills and have
been out in the weather for a couple days.

In hot weather, do gourmets prefer to wait a few more days and enjoy the
maggots?

Just think of them as mobile rice.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

Joe Strain wrote:
Do they still sell sulfur candles...Solid sulfur and a binder in a what
looks like s SKOAL tin, with a wick.

We'd put that on a tin pieplate in the attic, light it off, and go out in
the yard for several hours

Everything in the attic would leave town or die

Hmm, I've never seen one, but it sounds interesting. It would be
noxious enough, but after the smoke dissapeared, should be safe enough.

- Mike KB3EIA -

This Earth, a tiny plot isolated in the vacuum of space, is already
overpopulated with people.

Its resources are being seriously depleted, polluted - food, clean air,
clean water, timber, oil.

But various facilities for selective culling have been available and
employed with ever-increasing efficiency for 58 years. Genetic Engineering
is being kept in reserve.

The question arises, who or what selects they who do the selecting ?

Reg Edwards wrote:
But various facilities for selective culling have been available and
employed with ever-increasing efficiency for 58 years.

Hey, Reg, did you hear they've crossed a human and a rabbit
in China?
--
73, Cecil, W5DXP

"W5DXP" wrote ...
Reg Edwards wrote:
But various facilities for selective culling have been available and
employed with ever-increasing efficiency for 58 years.

Hey, Reg, did you hear they've crossed a human and a rabbit
in China?

========================

Cec, no doubt stateside genetic engineers have already started work to catch
up with a similar cross with antenna feedline-gnawing squirrels plus an
additional selling point of a choice of burger-meat flavours. It is what is
known as killing two birds with one stone.
----
Reg, G4FGQ.

The BIGGEST GUN!!! MIGHT makes RIGHT!!!

Hmmm... Not too religious for a clergyman to say grin

Maybe the world will finally develop a sense of moral behavior.

DD, W1MCE

Reg Edwards wrote:

This Earth, a tiny plot isolated in the vacuum of space, is already
overpopulated with people.

Its resources are being seriously depleted, polluted - food, clean air,
clean water, timber, oil.

But various facilities for selective culling have been available and
employed with ever-increasing efficiency for 58 years. Genetic Engineering
is being kept in reserve.

The question arises, who or what selects they who do the selecting ?

A HABBIT!!

W5DXP wrote:

Reg Edwards wrote:

But various facilities for selective culling have been available and
employed with ever-increasing efficiency for 58 years.


Hey, Reg, did you hear they've crossed a human and a rabbit
in China?
--
73, Cecil, W5DXP