Aide: Prince's squirrels die humanely [Prince Charles]

upi.com ^ | June 6, 2009 | unattributed

[smokingfrog]

All gray squirrels killed at Prince Charles's estate die humanely, a spokesman for the heir to the British throne said Friday.

The prince angered animal rights activists this week when he said gray squirrels, an import from North America, should be regularly culled in Britain to protect forest areas and the native red squirrel. The news that he practices what he preaches at Highgrove in Gloucestershire, his country home and organic farm, added gasoline to the flames, the UK Express reported.

Charles' office refused to release details on how the squirrels meet their fate.

"We don't poison them or anything like that," one spokesman said. "It's all done humanely."

But animal rights groups called for details.

"Squirrels, gray and red, feel pain," said Ross Minett of Advocates for Animals. "The prince has a duty to publish exactly what methods are used to cull gray squirrels on his estate."

[Moonman62]

Looks real to me. I got the picture from TinyPic.

[Riley]

Charles' office refused to release details on how the squirrels meet their fate.

55 gallon Fougasse.

*FOOMPH!*

[SonnyBubba]

I do too. I sometimes go to a city park and feed them sunflower seeds. They crawl up my pants leg until I give them one.

[JoeProBono]

[Petronski]

...furiously rubbing his little paws, waiting for a handout.

Oh...an Obama voter.

[gigster]

“crawl up my pants leg...”

Does it give you that “tingly feeling”?

[Petronski]

Look, if you don't stop
staring at me naughty bits,
I'm gonna hafta shoot ya!

[Petronski]

Does it give you that “tingly feeling”?

Like climbing the rope in Jr. High gym class?

[savedbygrace]

TMI. Definitely TMI.

[Petronski]

I’m a rather large fellow, right, and back in Jr. High when they told me to climb the rope, I pulled the roof in.

[savedbygrace]

LOL.

Oh, you were serious? Then I apologize a little for laughing.

[Petronski]

;O)

[Vigilantcitizen]

I don’t care what anyone says, I like gray squirrels!

I do too! In a pot with dumplins.

[Krankor]

May a rabid holyman bless your nether regions with a power tool!

[Still Thinking]

Squirrel guillotine?

[Still Thinking]

No, he said "squirrels", not "gerbils".

[Free_SJersey]

We’ve eradicated these vermin’s natural enemies and taken to feeding them. These rodents do more property damage than any other animal save for the Norwegian brown rat (they’re cute too, do you feed them?). Phone outages, power grid disruptions, damage to the inside as well as outside of our homes, crop damage-—you get the picture. These are furry tailed rats, nothing cute about them. Stop feeding them; food supply is the only thing controlling their population.

[Krankor]

I’m gonna go out and buy a giant bag of peanuts and give one to every squirrel I see!

[Stonewall Jackson]

Yes, a lethal injection of lead. ;-)

[dfwgator]

"License to kill squirrels by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill squirrels at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior firepower and superior intelligence. And that's all she wrote."