Cooking Southern fried gray squirrel

The News Examiner ^ | May 6, 2005

[WestVirginiaRebel]

My Mom used to eat squirrel all the time when she was younger. I don't think I've ever had any, though.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Last week, I ran over one...good for you!.....

[Brad’s Gramma]

Dare you.

[Sender]

I just ordered a scoped Chipmunk rifle...bad news for the tree rats this fall.

[Sender]

I'm not ashamed of what the libs might think of this post. Yes you, lurking DU libbers, go ahead, laugh at the thought of squirrel hunting and cooking as you sit there in front of Starbucks with your wi-fi laptop and your grande tofu latte, text messaging some other gay guy at another table. I, however, have fine walnut and steel and copious quantities of .22 ammo.

[Sender]

My husky mix has developed a unique stalking style. We have a bird feeder in the far back corner of the fenced yard where squirrels, birds and field mice come for dinner. Hunter (an appropriate name someone else gave him) will ease out of the doggy door, ever so slowly so as to not make noise. Then he will pad silently, slowly across the path, so innocently that even the feeding birds continue about their business. He doesn't care about birds. He wants sqirrels, or rats. The birds know he isn't hunting them. When he gets near the feeder, he does a sort of 'pounce' where he jumps straight up and lands with all 4 meaty paws and 75 pounds of weight on the area where the seeds fall. He doesn't usually get a squirrel, they're too smart and aware, but he has pinned dozens of rats that way.

[tapatio]

[exDemMom]

After the copulation, the male will return to its territory, leaving the female to raise the litter.

Typical dead beat dads.

No way am I going to eat rodent. (Though we do want that ground hog out of our yard.)

[redheadtoo]

...sit there in front of Starbucks with your wi-fi laptop and your grande tofu latte...

LOL, that is a great description of the effete, liberal elite. As for the tofu latte, even a city girl like myself would opt for the squirrel stew of that swill.

[JimRed]

They remind me too much of my pet hamsters to eat them.

Hamster, guinea pig, any rodent can be squirrel substitute in these recipes.

Not much meat on a hamster, though!

(only kidding!)

[firewalk]

bttt

[theFIRMbss]

>They remind me too much of my pet hamsters to eat them

"Oh, man, who could eat
a little rodent?! That's sick.
Rodents are our friends!"

[sam_paine]

Hey is that really an off-the-shelf craftsman toolbox or is it a personal cobble? It looks handy...and can still haul plywood.

[chariotdriver]

Sprint liked to eat honeybees too and there was plenty to get.

He would be laying on the floor and you could say quietly 'sprint.. get the kitty' after a few seconds sprint would stalk away..
then COMMOTION! here comes a cat with sprint hot on his tail. the Pekingese would join in as a 'quick reactionary force' to seal off the cats escape routes.
POOR KITTY, he got all licked up.

[umgud]

Hey is that really an off-the-shelf craftsman toolbox or is it a personal cobble? It looks handy...and can still haul plywood.

Straight from Sears. 5 drawer tool box fits behind wheel well. A few other mfg's are making them now. About $175.