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Aide: Prince's squirrels die humanely [Prince Charles]
upi.com ^ | June 6, 2009 | unattributed

Posted on 06/07/2009 8:05:03 AM PDT by 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."


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: animalrights; banglist; gloucestershire; highgrove; pests; royals
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To: smokingfrog

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


21 posted on 06/07/2009 8:41:45 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: smokingfrog
Charles' office refused to release details on how the squirrels meet their fate.

55 gallon Fougasse.

*FOOMPH!*

22 posted on 06/07/2009 8:50:23 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Krankor

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.


23 posted on 06/07/2009 8:56:15 AM PDT by SonnyBubba
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To: smokingfrog

24 posted on 06/07/2009 9:10:34 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Krankor
...furiously rubbing his little paws, waiting for a handout.

Oh...an Obama voter.

25 posted on 06/07/2009 9:12:06 AM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: SonnyBubba

“crawl up my pants leg...”

Does it give you that “tingly feeling”?


26 posted on 06/07/2009 9:13:23 AM PDT by gigster
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To: smokingfrog; martin_fierro; dighton; cyborg; Constitution Day; Tijeras_Slim; Larry Lucido; ...


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

27 posted on 06/07/2009 9:15:26 AM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: gigster
Does it give you that “tingly feeling”?

Like climbing the rope in Jr. High gym class?

28 posted on 06/07/2009 9:16:16 AM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: Petronski

TMI. Definitely TMI.


29 posted on 06/07/2009 9:16:53 AM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: savedbygrace

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.


30 posted on 06/07/2009 9:17:41 AM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: Petronski

LOL.

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


31 posted on 06/07/2009 9:20:27 AM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: savedbygrace

;O)


32 posted on 06/07/2009 9:21:41 AM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: Krankor
I don’t care what anyone says, I like gray squirrels!

I do too! In a pot with dumplins.

33 posted on 06/07/2009 9:23:19 AM PDT by Vigilantcitizen (This tagline has been shutdown due to lack of funds.)
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To: Vigilantcitizen

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


34 posted on 06/07/2009 9:30:51 AM PDT by Krankor ("Quit talking about the eight men, or there's gonna be nine.")
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To: smokingfrog
Squirrel guillotine?


35 posted on 06/07/2009 9:36:13 AM PDT by Still Thinking (If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)
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To: RichInOC


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

36 posted on 06/07/2009 9:37:21 AM PDT by Still Thinking (If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)
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To: SonnyBubba; Krankor

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.


37 posted on 06/07/2009 9:44:13 AM PDT by Free_SJersey (Liberty can promote equality- manditory equality will kill liberty. CONSTITUTION FIRST!)
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To: Free_SJersey

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


38 posted on 06/07/2009 9:49:04 AM PDT by Krankor ("Quit talking about the eight men, or there's gonna be nine.")
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To: Joiseydude

Yes, a lethal injection of lead. ;-)


39 posted on 06/07/2009 9:49:22 AM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (Put your trust in God; but mind to keep your powder dry. - Oliver Cromwell)
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To: Free_SJersey

"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."

40 posted on 06/07/2009 9:51:12 AM PDT by dfwgator (USM is Gator Bait!)
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