Yum: roasted grey squirrel!
Apparently, grey squirrel has a very flavourful meat. I'm sure there's a business opportunity for some restaurants north of the border.
Scotland to battle grey squirrel invaders
Scotland's native red squirrel population is to benefit from a £1.3m investment aimed at preventing it falling to the invading forces of its North American grey cousin. According to the BBC, the country boasts around 121,000 reds - representing 75 per cent of the UK total. The species is under increaing pressure from the …
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Tuesday 10th February 2009 12:13 GMT Anonymous Coward
None of the mamby pamby stuff....
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.
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Tuesday 10th February 2009 13:10 GMT Ferry Boat
Be careful out there
Red squirrels are not indigenous to the British Isles. All the squirrel family originally came from north America. At least that's what my 'Boy's Book of Squirrel Evolution' says.
Watch out when you catch squirrels in the winter because the red ones have a grey winter coat. You might get the wrong flavour.
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Tuesday 10th February 2009 13:11 GMT Callum
squirrel racism!!
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!
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Tuesday 10th February 2009 14:29 GMT nagyeger
"To promote the project to the public"
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?
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Tuesday 10th February 2009 14:29 GMT Tim
@ Pete James
May I point out that they are kind of cute and cuddly, indeed I have a stuffed one on the desk near my PC. Well it's cuter than a lettuce, or most veggies. Come to think of it, are there any cute veggies?
Howcome nobody has mentioned the danger that squirrels represent (I bet the Daily Mail has)... for instance if you are standing under a tree trying to shoot them (which believe me is not at all easy), when finally they get in the way of a small hail of lead that you were aiming in their general direction, they descend at a quite alarming rate and could probly cause a nasty injury, or at least a headache, if you didn't step aside smartish.
Yep, foxes then rabbits next, then cats after that.
Tim#3
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Tuesday 10th February 2009 14:50 GMT John Mackenzie
RE Re Yum: roasted grey squirrel!
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 !
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Tuesday 10th February 2009 14:50 GMT Anonymous Coward
Red Squirrel Protection Partnership
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.
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Tuesday 10th February 2009 15:35 GMT Daniel
We're already shooting the things in Northumberland
Have been for a year, now. It's no big deal. Just something more for people to have to look out for, and shoot. You can buy the meat in game dealers, and yes it's okay - although there's not a lot on them. pheasant is much better value for money.
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Tuesday 10th February 2009 15:35 GMT Andy Livingstone
Guess What - you got it wrong
Bad news, this was an apocryphal tale put out by the SNP.
Squirrels will be allowed to pass freely over the border regardless of race, creed, or colour.
However, people without kilts and beards ( hard luck ladies) will be less humanely treated.
Remember to exchange all English notes and buy beards and kilts well before reaching the border,please.
Note that pound coins are not accepted currency in Scotland. In some parts they are still referred to as Maggies. Because they are thick, brassy, and think they are sovereigns.
The start date of April? Would that be the first?
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Tuesday 10th February 2009 17:20 GMT vic denwood
The Blacks are coming!
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
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Tuesday 10th February 2009 19:30 GMT Anonymous Coward
@john hawkins
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. :-)
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Wednesday 11th February 2009 12:54 GMT Onionman
Do your bit; get a squirrel trap today
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.
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