Posted on 03/20/2021 11:04:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An upstate New York town is holding a squirrel hunting competition for teens this weekend — sparking death threats and an animal rights petition signed by 20,000 people who ripped the yearly event as “barbaric.”
The seventh annual “Squirrel Scramble” in Germantown on Saturday is open to “men, women and youth hunters,” with the main focus on teenagers aged 12 to 15, according to HudsonValley 360.
A poster for the Germantown Sportsmen’s Association event — featuring the Looney Tunes hunter Elmer Fudd pointing a gun at a squirrel — stresses that “all legal firearms” are allowed, with a top prize for who bags the most animals.
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Squirrels suck, they messed up my attic, they can all die and satan will make more of the evil nusances.
Fried squirrel and dumplings are the best.
my husband took out over 30 last year....the squirrels went into my bluebird house and killed a bird....I saw it with my own eyes....I can only imagine how many other birds they have killed.....
my husband took out over 30 last year....the squirrels went into my bluebird house and killed a bird....I saw it with my own eyes....I can only imagine how many other birds they have killed.....
but I do want to add...boys should be taught to hunt, shoot, take care of game, etc....
Germantown 2018 population: 1,840
Nothing barbaric about learning to hunt for food.
How about those hunters just bag the squirrels and send them to the homes of the animal activists? They can have them.
Mostly, I consider them about like rats with a good PR agent and a furry tail.
OTOH, years ago I nursed a baby squirrel up to adulthood. Built it a nice enclosure to run around in. It would run to the door and scamper up my arm and sit on my shoulder and eat out of my hand.
But eventually it became an adult and I learned the meaning of the term "squirrelly" in no uncertain terms. Over the course of a couple days, the damn thing started acting insane. Time to release it to the wild.
I didn't tag it so I have no idea whether it lived a day, a year, or a few years; whether it had offspring, or became some other animal's lunch a week after I released it.
Furry rats with a good PR agent, that's what they are.
My grandfather took us boys squirrel hunting.
I remember one of us would be sent to walk around the tree and the squirrel would be seen sneaking around to hide from that one- right into our sights.
Wonderful times.
They are a lot of trouble to prep and gamey but my kids love em
My deer camp has 1000s
Dear I’ve hunted squirrels since I hunted huge hardwoods in the bar pits of mighty Mississippi in tensas parish near the ruins of antebellum Bruinsburg. And never knew squirrels ate birds and their young.....
I learned something ...thank u
aka....Tree rats...and carry rabies.
You would be right if you are referring to city squirrels that feed on garbage scraps but in the country squirrels forage on natural foods in the woods and their meat isn't loaded with chemicals to make them bigger or preserve the meat. They are a great food source. When I lived in New Hampshire we ate squirrel all the time.
Tree Rats
Reminds me of the Hegins Pigeon Shoot.
ASchuylkill County tradition that fed hungry families during the Great Depression but stirred protests in the 1990s has come to a close.
https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-2000-02-01-3296665-story.html
February1, 2000
“The annual Fred Coleman Memorial Labor Day Live Pigeon Shoot, begun in Hegins in 1933 to honor a local marksman, faltered in September and died a quiet death in January. Organizers decided to end the event, which had made their tiny farming community a cauldron of angry confrontations between shoot supporters and animal rights activists.”
We just watched a documentary on wartime Britain, one of those shows where they take a 21st century family and put them in the conditions Brits had to face during WWII. One of the meals the wife had to prepare was pigeons. They kept a lot of Brits from starving. OTOH, even city pigeons in those days wouldn’t be feeding on scraps and garbage because nobody was throwing anything away, especially if it could be eaten.
Squirrels eat my tomatoes and gnaw into my attic. I stopped up the hole and they chewed through the plug. At this point I got disgusted and got rid of the furry vandals.
Chicken of the tree
The squirrels have decimated my speciality rare nut
tree crop source. No nuts for planting this year.
Are those tree nut gatherers too timid or closet
vegetarians? The Ozark Chinquapin seeds are rarer
than ever this year due to starving squirrels.
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