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.
I don’t believe you that you aren’t rednecks. Your insults speak for themselves. I’m entitled to my opinion.