[MD] Native squirrels

[John Carl]

Case like this Adrie, you're really screwed.  Any natural predation is gonna
pick on yer native belgians, all slower and meatier. Owls don't discriminate
except between slow and tasty is better than fast and stringy.    And
hunting 'em  is a bitch, It's in their DNA.   American squirrels know how to
duck behind trees, or we would'a all lost out to the british in the first
place.

We have basically the same problem over here with something called "scotch
broom"  Which really grows and grows.  Especially in the washed-out soils of
the scotch-greedy miners who brought the seeds and the technology to this
former paradise.

Good luck with the squirrels.

John


On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 1:04 PM, ADRIE KINTZIGER <parser666 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Long ago, the petshops here imported squirrels from the USA, to be sold as
> pets.
> Around here we only have 1 native Belgian squirrel, called the red inland
> squirrel, a very shy and beautiful animal, with bristle's on his ears.
>
> Some escaped and became assimilated in our nature here, it is a big
> falsification of nature. The American squirrels are more agressive, faster,
> and they breed as
> Hell, probably cristians , they do not accept contraceptive's layed on
> their
> path in the forrest, in the form of contraceptive-doped food.
> They outrun , for this moment , the native Belgian squirrel in a 6/1
> disproportion in appearence.
> It became a complete disaster.The red inland will die out soon and its the
> only one we have.
>
> It is highly illegal nowadays to import them, but the harm is done...;
> those
> fuckers are incredibly difficult to kill.
> The hunters here are getting paid now to kill them, they have to show dead
> squirrels for proof.........and now it comes....they are breeding them to
> kill them.
> Can you believe it?..they are just breeding them illegaly for killing
> purposes.Some of the breeders are even experimenting with electrocution to
> kill them in a human way.
> One of the consequences of course, they do not really have to go outside to
> hunt for squirrels anymore, get it?, so those fuckers in nature....yep.
>
> For some time now , i am considering to train my owls to hunt for
> squirrels,
> to reduce the Mercans here, but problem is , how do i tell them the
> difference? I'm under the
> impression that they seem to like the inland red more than the Mercans.
> And of course it's highly illegal to learn my birds to hunt.
> And this is the relative truth.
> Adrie
>
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