Squirells : Friend or Foe?

[PAINTERDAVE]

Me, I say live and let live.

Back in the day, Miss Donna's Momma used to skin a squirrell in 45 seconds and have a few of them varmints in the stewpot with 2 minutes after her boys brought in their catch. That is just how it was, growing up in the country, says Miss Donna, and though she would never do it now, she isn't ashamed of her American roots.

Miss Donna here,
Painter didn't give you the receipe. Ma would dredge them in flour, then fry them in lard, and then make a wonderful white sauce to stew them in. (Does not taste like chicken or smell like fish!)

My neighbor Jason, now he is a different story. Jason has a vendetta against the squirrells hereabouts. It all started a few weeks ago, when Jason was working in his yard, minding his own business. All of a suddenlike, this big sassy critterjumps down off a nearby Elm tree, and skitters right up Jason leg, and scratched the holy crap out of his arm as the tree rat jumped from his arm to another tree!

Jason fled the scene, taking shelter inside his domicile. Approxamatley an hour later, Jason went out to his truck, which sat there with the windows down. To his surprise, amazement, and horror, the critter had gotten in there, and tore up not only his seat cushions, but his console, and part of his dash! That squirell had done made up his mind to torment poor old Jason!

Jason has been setting traps, catching some, but only little ones, not the Big Kahuna. Jason has a Vendetta! It is consuming his free time!

Well, Old PAINTER has been absent for a while, because the pesky critter chewed up our phone lines! Just now did I get service back after near a week!

So, now Jason is fit to be tied! It is like I am living right inside the movie caddyshack! Jason VS the Big Kahuna! It is an epic struggle!

So, Sorry Guys, but... I'm Back!!!!

[JWinn]

Pellet gun!

Glad to see you back Dave! I was wondering where you were.

Rally man, I also usually live & let live, but we have rabbits. They scare the wife when she goes out in the early morning to feed the horses. So I get one once in a while. Also the like to eat everything we plant.

But if they tore up the inside of my truck, or my phone line, I'd wait outside all the time with my pellet gun. A squirel has to to pay the piper just like anyone else! :P

[mattos]

i recommend your friend get rabies shots . . . that's one heck of a squirrel.

[PAINTERDAVE]

Down but not out!

Lots of time to reflect on life.

That was a warning for those of you who think I go on too long!

Yeah, you yip what I be yappin'!

[chickennob2]

Pellet gun!

Glad to see you back Dave! I was wondering where you were.

Rally man, I also usually live & let live, but we have rabbits. They scare the wife when she goes out in the early morning to feed the horses. So I get one once in a while. Also the like to eat everything we plant.

But if they tore up the inside of my truck, or my phone line, I'd wait outside all the time with my pellet gun. A squirel has to to pay the piper just like anyone else! :P

no no no, 3 words

sawed off shotgun

[JWinn]

no no no, 3 words

sawed off shotgun

Not at 6th & wadsworth!! Thats a way to get arrested pretty fast.

A pellet gun will do fine. Wont damage homes, and should be legal in the area.

[Snk16]

Get a BB gun. If you need me to shoot it with a BB gun or pellet gun, call me over. :laugh: With my Halo skills and your shooting skills we can take this critter out. You gotta supply the guns though. :laugh:

[JWinn]

Yeah Dave! I have both a BB and Pellet gun. Want me to come over this week? We can go a squirrel huntin! :laugh:

[PAINTERDAVE]

So, a friend of my old man's has a woodpecker problem! The rat bastards are tearing the bejesus out of his house. Every friggin' morning at O Dark thirty the hammering begins nonstop. Dude does not need an alarm clock any more! Maybe it was a Flicker. Same same, the siding was getting destroyed daily. Deal is this, it is illegal to shoot birds in the city, illegal to fire a gun in the city limits. What a quandry!

American ingenuity wins out!

At dusk, after a few beers, on Friday night, Dude climbs aloft, and gently places a blasting cap in the crevice of the birds favorite spot. Next morning, after only a few bird hammers, POW! Sweet silence. Dude slept all Saturday morning for the first time in months! Slept with a contented smile on his face!

[Dream]

Friend, no matter what they do. Why kill it? Animal Cruelty.

[PAINTERDAVE]

I got me a damn pesky woodpecker, pounding every morning on my metal flue, and just as soon as I can lay my hands on a blasting cap, up the ladder I go, and Woody will discover what they mean by Survival of the Fittest.

This is my half acre of heaven, and the rat bastard has not been invited, and is certainly not welcome! I will do it with no more compunction than I would to mow the lawn! I kill weeds and grass, too!

I do not go out of my way to kill anything, but a man's gotta do, what a man's gotta do! In fact, I think it is the same damn bird fom last year, and I shoulda give him a SURE FIRE WOODPECKER HEADACHE CURE a year ago!

JWinn, does yer neighbor got a cap for me?

PS. Thanks fer all the offers of the armaments boys, but you know Old PAINTER is loaded for bear with Winchesters, Remingtons, Smith and Wesson's, and dude is even lucky enough to have an old Mexican Colt! My shotguns would surely mar the finish on the house I built on my half acre, the same house I am trying to protect from predatory peckers, so that option is out. No Sir, one small blasting cap will do the job nicely, thankyou very much!

[JWinn]

He's out of town till the tenth Dave, but when he comes over for his mail, I'll ask!

You know you cant use any of those guns man! I'm telling ya, A pellet gun is the way to go, quiet, efficient, and wont harm the house.

[Dream]

I got me a damn pesky woodpecker, pounding every morning on my metal flue, and just as soon as I can lay my hands on a blasting cap, up the ladder I go, and Woody will discover what they mean by Survival of the Fittest.

This is my half acre of heaven, and the rat bastard has not been invited, and is certainly not welcome! I will do it with no more compunction than I would to mow the lawn! I kill weeds and grass, too!

I do not go out of my way to kill anything, but a man's gotta do, what a man's gotta do! In fact, I think it is the same damn bird fom last year, and I shoulda give him a SURE FIRE WOODPECKER HEADACHE CURE a year ago!

JWinn, does yer neighbor got a cap for me?

PS. Thanks fer all the offers of the armaments boys, but you know Old PAINTER is loaded for bear with Winchesters, Remingtons, Smith and Wesson's, and dude is even lucky enough to have an old Mexican Colt! My shotguns would surely mar the finish on the house I built on my half acre, the same house I am trying to protect from predatory peckers, so that option is out. No Sir, one small blasting cap will do the job nicely, thankyou very much!

Whatever, if you feel the need to kill an animal just because it's a nuisance -- that's your choice.

I wouldn't have expected it, go figure. Atleast know that they're squirrels.

[Johnny Law Man]

I have eaten squirrell, not bad really...tastes a fair amount like poultry...

You know what the worst ones are...the little red buggers that laugh at ya!

I used to be one effective murderer of small critters back in my BB gun days..Mom got me one when I was 13 or so and turned me loose on the woodland creatures..killed some birds, squirrells, rabbits even a duck...Mom's boyfriend Jim made me clean and eat everything I killed and brought home...I stopped bringing them home after awhile... :D

[PAINTERDAVE]

..Mom's boyfriend Jim made me clean and eat everything I killed and brought home...I stopped bringing them home after awhile... :D

You slay me, dude!

[PAINTERDAVE]

Whatever, if you feel the need to kill an animal just because it's a nuisance -- that's your choice.

I wouldn't have expected it, go figure. Atleast know that they're squirrels.


Dude! I am not gonna kill no bloody squirrel! Any time I trap 'em, I take 'em anywhere I go that is more than 10 miles away so they can not find me again.

Back in 02, I trapped like over 20 of the rodents, and I let 'em all go. Only thing is, in their abscence, the squirrel free environment created an abundence of squirrrel births the following year and it was worse than ever! So I quit trapping 'em, and just deal with 'em.

It is jason that has the vendetta against the Big Kahuna!

Now... as far as the woodpecker, I aint gonna kill him. If part of my spread includes a blasting cap, that is my damn business! All the pecker has to do is not continue to DESTROY my personal property any more! I can hardly help it if some stupid woodpecker happens to hammer on my blasting cap, thereby committing suicide, now can I? I got a right to protect what I work my tail off for week in and week out!

However, before I place that cap, i invite you to come over here and humanely capture the pecker and do what you will with him. Train him to hammer out show tunes for all I care, but I am not gonna stand by while some birdbrained creature destroys any Good God Damned part of this house I built on my half acre of heaven! There just comes a point where a man says "Enough!"

[ReleaseTheBeast7]

Hell No! Squirrels Rool!

[JWinn]

Friend, no matter what they do. Why kill it? Animal Cruelty.


No matter what they do? :confused:

Lets see, he's cut a phone line, which took a week to repair. I wonder how you as a teen would feel about having no phone and no internet for a week. Lets not forget your response to just not being able to come here for a week.

2nd. He ripped up a seat and a dashboard of a truck. Have you ever replaced a dashboard? Are you aware they cost upwards of $2,000.00? I replaced one in an 83 VW, and it was $1,700.00. And that was 20 years ago. Add the cost of a seat to that.

Lastly, and MOST importantly, He actually attacked a person. Are you also aware that squirrels can carry Plague? My guess is no.

So he's not just a nuisance anymore, he's a danger to everyone around him. Not only property, but health also.

Dave, your friend really should see a doctor. One never knows what a squirrel is carrying.

Lastly Broncology, I am really comfused by your respone to this. Hadnt you just started a thread talking about Honor? Was not the jist of that quote to forget about solving your problems like adults, but to just kill instead?

So it's honoable to kill your neighbor who wrongs you, but not a rodent? :confused:

[Dream]

No matter what they do? :confused:

Lets see, he's cut a phone line, which took a week to repair. I wonder how you as a teen would feel about having no phone and no internet for a week. Lets not forget your response to just not being able to come here for a week.

2nd. He ripped up a seat and a dashboard of a truck. Have you ever replaced a dashboard? Are you aware they cost upwards of $2,000.00? I replaced one in an 83 VW, and it was $1,700.00. And that was 20 years ago. Add the cost of a seat to that.

Lastly, and MOST importantly, He actually attacked a person. Are you also aware that squirrels can carry Plague? My guess is no.

So he's not just a nuisance anymore, he's a danger to everyone around him. Not only property, but health also.

Dave, your friend really should see a doctor. One never knows what a squirrel is carrying.

Lastly Broncology, I am really comfused by your respone to this. Hadnt you just started a thread talking about Honor? Was not the jist of that quote to forget about solving your problems like adults, but to just kill instead?

So it's honoable to kill your neighbor who wrongs you, but not a rodent? :confused:

I bet this squirrel had the plague, just look at that damage he did!

No, that's not the meaning of the quote at all. It was basically a sledghammer to God's balls. [In retrospect]