Apparently, grey squirrel has a very flavourful meat. I'm sure there's a business opportunity for some restaurants north of the border.

Send in Amy Hardwood!

<squeak!>

<thump!>

viscious little bastards!

Squirrels today, humans tomorrow.

Does that mean we're allowed to take a pop at them if we see one ?

<billy-connolly-stylee> whaur's ma bloody gun?? </billy-connolly-stylee>

I dunno. Bloody immigrants - come over here, climb our trees, grab our nuts....

The two greys that regularly dig up my runner bean seeds will instead be filling me up once I get my new squirrel trap delivered. My Dad has some good recipes for squirrel including squirrel in beer pie.

I've never understood this, who the hell cares what colour they are, a squirrels a squirrel, they all taste the same.

Kill them. Kill them all.

Grey squirrels are non-indigenous vermin that also eat bird eggs and dig up plants to eat the roots, and gardeners often have their entire crops of home grown veg lost in the spring when the grey squiels eat the shoots.

Grey squirrels should be terminated on sight, trapped, poisoned and hunted to extinction in the UK. People caught feeding them should be prosecuted. They have no place here, even though some people find them cute.

I had a family of squirrels living in my roof. I bought a couple of traps and cought 6 of them in a week. They are REALLY stupid and easy to catch.

Enjoy your meal. :-)

What the IT angle?

Shoot, gut, skin, let hang for a few days, salt + pepper + olive oil and on the barbie* with them. I guess you could make mittens or hats out of the skins if you wanted; someone's bound to get wound up over a squirrel skin hat.

* As in barbecue; not the small plastic sheila.

Yeah was just thinking that as well, them pesky varments (as Yosamite Sam would say)....

Right I'm going to start up a "Tufty's Fight Club" teach those red's how to box, box the ears of them grey's and kick them out...

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the Scottish dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up from the trees and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all squirrels are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the Oaks of Glasgow, the sons of reds and the sons of greys will be able to sit down together at the branch of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even in Falkirk, a city sweltering with the cold of injustice, freezing with the ice of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of non-salted peanuts and washing lines.

I have a dream that my four little squirrels will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their fur but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

Oh well. I can just see the budget now.... that's 1.29 million for the advertising campaign, £9000 for Jamie Oliver's appearance fees, another nine hundred quid for the travel expenses, 100 quid for the BBQ, ketchup, olives, etc. and let's hope someone can lend us a shotgun or two when we get there to do some serious defending, eh?

Huh? Even searching the Reg's own memory banks doesn't find "ODFO". Let me guess...

Order dead forest organisms; only deep fry otters: over-done food observations. Oh dear, footballing oligarchs?

Oh damn, Fido's out...

Squirrel meat, get it on the shelves, harvest the little tree rats. No irony, let's make full use of our natural resources.

RE: Yum: roasted grey squirrel!

By Wize Posted Tuesday 10th February 2009 12:39 GMT

<<If its "North of the Border", or Scotland as some might say, shouldn't it be deep fried?

And to those that say colour doesn't matter, apparently the red ones are quite bitter.>>

Bitter? They are actually fecking L I V I D !

The Red Squirrel Protection Partnership (www.rspp.org.uk) works in Northumberland to protect Red Squirrels.

They do it by killing the Greys.

When asked about the name, they said people weren't as sympathetic to the Grey Squirrel Annihilation League so they were less likely to get funding.

Most organizations that purport to protect the Red Squirrel won't have anything to do with ones that cull Grey Squirrels, yet this is the only method of conserving the Red Squirrel that has been shown to work.

Would it not be cheaper to just dye the grey squirrels red?

Kisses back, dear sweet girl.

Someone used ODFO in a comment the other day and I was left scratching my head. Neither acronymfinder nor urbandictionary were of any use. But with today's IT? + Sarah Bee angle, all the pieces have fallen into place for me. Ta very much.

Where I live near the Bedfordshire/Cambridge border there is a growing enclave of Black Squirrels. It seems that Blacks & Greys can cohabit but the result is always black progeny. So the greys are under threat by progressive blacking. The black squirrels are deliberately released CIA genetically modified animals designed to look cute in an urban environment, and are used for stealth surveillance purposes

If you get rid of the Grey Squirlys, you just make room for the Black Squirlys...

Am I allowed to say "Black Squirlys", or is they Effnik?

barbie* with them.

I'm glad you had the "*" in there...i was thinking extreme pr0n in the making.

Seriously; if they can't control their beavers, what makes you think they can control the power station ruining little grey beggars?

@Sarah - For shame...going for the low-haning fruit like that. :-)

Thank you Tim, now I understand. One does feel onanistic.

Where's Paris when she's needed?

When I was a kid, gardens used to be packed with birds. Now, almost none. It's coincided with the upsurge in the number of greys (amply fed by the idiots who don't recognise them as vermin). They eat birds' eggs and young, having a massive impact. So I decided to do something.

Bought one of these a few weeks before Christmas.

http://tinyurl.com/chudmm

Set it, baited with peanuts, eleven days in a row. Caught eleven greys, all now shot, skinned (a ****ing tough job, they are very attached to their skin) and sitting in the freezer awaiting the first barbeque of the season. Not seen a grey since Christmas, so I expect our songbird population to be much greater in the spring.

My butcher has offered me £2 a grey, so I may go into business.