Following on from recent reflections, you should know that the squirrel issue is growing! The following is culled (Excuse the pun!) from todays sunday torygraph:
Humans versus squirrels is the latest form of suburban warfare. Foxes are yesterday's foe. The UK's squirrel population has risen to more than three million in the past two years, according to conservationists' estimates.
They attribute the rise to "perfect weather" that has produced an abundance of squirrel food including berries, nuts, acorns, seeds and fungi. "Squirrels are eating well and that helps them to breed almost all year round, producing up to five kits per litter," says a spokesman for the Northumberland Wildlife Trust
“Another neighbour has set tongues wagging after being spotted carrying squirrels in a cage into his car. "It's a bit worrying," says Paul. "Because he runs a gastropub down the road and people wonder if he's serving them up for dinner”
Robin Page, the chairman of the Countryside Restoration Trust, says the solution is simple: a nationwide cull and squirrel on our dinner plates. Celebrity chefs should develop "squirrel casserole, baked squirrel, smoked squirrel and squirrel paté", he says. "Earlier in the year, I was given an absolutely delicious squirrel burger."
One restaurateur in Cumbria agrees. Andy Lemm, the manager of The Famous Wild Boar Hotel, at Crook, serves squirrel canapés, from animals caught in the hotel's 72 acres of woodland. "Our diners seem to enjoy the squirrel pancakes," he said. "They taste rather nice, a bit like rabbit."
2 comments:
squirrel burgers? eeeeuuuuwwwwww
and there I was thinking the growth of politicians was the biggest threat to the human population! Nasty parasites that feed off honest workers, growing in numbers due to the "near perfect" conditions of hot air and "fertiliser" in the house of commons...
The quote from the torygraph puzzled a simple soul like me. When it said "Squirrels are eating well and that helps them to breed almost all year round, producing up to five kits per litter," does it mean their offspring come in self-assembly form? If so this means the little buggers are cleverer than I thought.(
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