Posted on 01/31/2013 12:19:08 PM PST by bigtoona
I have a good recipe for squirrel chili, if you need one.
LOL.....that would be flour.
Larry called.
He wants a free cell phone now.
that’s ok..
dandelion tops and punkin blossoms can be good fried up too
***Not only is it fun but they are good eatin too!***
Several men I work with went squirrel hunting. They brought in several and we had a nice stew.
The first thing I noticed was the cleaned squirrels still had lots of hair still on them, and it was in the stew.
That is the first time I ate stew and flossed at the same time.
I’ve eaten just about anything that walks, crawls, flys, or swims......but I can honestly say I have never eaten a cat........well now wait a minute.....come to think of it....
Speaking of, have you seen Nugent's "Aporkalypse Now"?
Get a clue, Fawn. Do you live in La-La Land? Are you one of these people who think food comes from the grocery store packaged in a can or cardboard box or wrapped in cellophane? Because there are people like that. They don’t see any further down the food chain than their local Food Mart.
Where I live in north central Florida, we shoot squirrels because they are basically rodents/pests with hair. They chew up everything, destroy our garden crops, pecans and fruit. They chew through electrical insulation and cause shorts on the wiring system. We give the bigger ones away to a neighbor and his mom who skin them and cook them to eat. We bury the rest in the pasture.
And before you think my wife and I are some rednecks that are ignorant, think again. We’re both college educated, both ex-Air Force officers, both from the big city in Phoenix and retired from professional careers. Until two years ago when we left Arizona, we had the equivalent to the squirrels in roof rats that would chew holes in your house siding to live in your attic and live off off the citrus fruit in your yard. I’d have shot those too if it wasn’t illegal to fire a gun in town.
So we are pleased to be able to shoot the squirrels and dispose of them but we don’t find “pleasure” in the normal sense of the word in killing them. It is more of a satisfaction in being able to get rid of these varmints that are pests to our homestead.
I suggest you get out of the house once in a while and see how the rest of the nation lives and copes outside the city.
When I retire, I dream about having a 22LR Gatling gun to keep the squirrels out of my pecan orchard.
There are lots of animal that over-reproduce, and can become a nightmare in abundance. Wild hogs are now destroying large tracts of farmland in the South, producing litters of 5 or more every 4-5 months. Deer can be just as destructive in more northern states. Smaller animals such as rats, mice, squirrels, and even some birds, exist in such tremendous numbers that they can wipe out tons of food overnight.
And now the EPA wants to ban some of the most effective kinds of rat poison. They do not understand how this works.
The ASPCA begs people to spay and neuter their pets, because even cats and dogs in profusion are dangerous pests.
As far as squirrels go, ground squirrels can undermine a house, costing thousands to repair its foundation. Likewise they can destroy its electrical and telephone wiring. They can get into food stores, contaminating them.
Indeed, my wife no longer tries to avoid running over them with her car. I've even seen her floor the accellerator, hoping to hit one.
I use a nice poison that I've compounded, use traps and shoot them. I started out using live traps but I was losing the battle
Toxin recipe, please. (here or in a PM, thanks).
Looked at your paintings.....damn good....love the landscape and animals portrayed.
I don’t believe you that you aren’t rednecks. Your insults speak for themselves. I’m entitled to my opinion.
I hope they grill them at the end of the event. I grew up poor and we hunted rabbits and squirrel to put meat on the table. We would generally roast it but one time Dad put barbecue sauce on the first squirrel I shot and it was awesome. From that point on they were all prepared with Barbecue sauce. Low fat, high protein. Good stuff. If you kill it eat it! To heck with the limp-wristed whiners who never had to worry about where their next meal was coming from. So a few thousand whine about it. Who cares? Should we put them into the food chain? They appear to be like the herd animal that strays from the group. The Lion will get them first!
I think there's a reason why he called you and not me........LOL!
Ok....First, I didn’t realize people eat squirrel in this day and age....and I didn’t know they destroy wires. Personally, I would be humanely trapping them and relocating...but that’s just me. Bon Appetit.
Meat. If God didn’t want us to kill them, he wouldn’t have made them from meat.
We used to have cat shoots when I was in high school. I grew up in the country and every farm had a pant load of barn cats. Periodically one of the guys would suggest that our posse rid the local homested of excess felines. “Lock the ones you wanna keep in the shed”. The it was weapons free. Great fun.
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