Squirrels are such cute and fuzzy l'il creatures. Yes, they do steal the bird seed you put out for the finches. But that's nature. Sometimes, if you're lucky and patient, you can train a squirrel to even eat out of your hand. But you better make sure it isn't starving!
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That's not real is it? Squirrels don't really eat meat, though they will bite your finger for a peanut.
Posted by: Libby | December 03, 2011 at 10:38 AM
If they are hungry enough, like this squirrel, they will eat meat, birds, snakes...but they prefer their protein from nuts, acorns and the buds of trees.
Posted by: marcus | December 03, 2011 at 02:59 PM
Damn squirrels will eat anything. They ate the rubber off the tires on my Radio Flyer red wagon. They ate the bird-feeder. they'll eat any and everything. That's why I shoot 'em every chance I get. I kid you not...every year I have a tally sheet on the refrigerator...like painting kills on the fuselage of a fighter plane or bomber. I pop 'em, and have no problem with that. The problem is, you can't get 'em all. They breed twice a year, no matter how many you put down. Hell, in a LOUD thunderstorm (can't shoot shotguns in my neighborhood), I've been known to take a 12 GA. to their nest. I am surrounded by squirrels, but I get as many as I can. A rat with a furry tail is all they are...I kill as many as possible.
I've got a sweet .177 one pump pellet gun with a laser red dot sight. It is accurate, but like I said, I go for the nests with a 12 gauge.
They just keep coming back for more.
Posted by: Yabu (EOTIS) | December 05, 2011 at 11:27 AM
Yabu...I have a tote of 43 squirrels in a month from my patio with a Crossman break barrel .177 pellet rifle. A head shot is the goal, but as long as they hit the ground, Zino and Maxx would be on them like white on rice. The tree rat would not survive them.
Squirrels have eaten and destroyed whatever was in their path. I do not tolerate them.
As I have read, in Fort Bend County, there is no closed season on them, nor is there a limit. But a snap of a pellet rifle is as loud as is tolerated here.
Posted by: marcus | December 05, 2011 at 09:44 PM
We watched one outside the window last summer eat a baby bird. The wife was horrified about the semi-cannibalism of Gaias creatures untill I told her that squirrels were nothing but tree dwelling rats.
Now she says she'll refuse to eat them in an EOTWAWEiT scenario...
Posted by: Kurt P | December 05, 2011 at 10:47 PM