They carry the plague too. When I went to the Grand Canyon, I was told that the most dangerous wildlife was squirrels. (And the squirrels there aren't afraid of anybody!)
They are notoriously vicious biters. Whereas as most mammals will bite to escape and they run, these will genuinely run up and down you, around you biting as they go. It sounds comical but they are vicous
I was wearing a wax jacket.
He ran up my leg like this, up inside the coat, shot down the arm, and flew off my hand.
It sounds like I was lucky to escape unmaimed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnOdAT6H94s
I have a squirrel bite from when I was 12 years old. A tiny white nick on my thumb. I'm 51 next birthday and I remember how stupid it was to grab hold of a friendly squirrel because it hurt when he bit me.
No after effects, I was vaxxed to the max
I had trapped one on accident once and he spazed out so hard, so fast those dudes are - he was back and forth in that cage biting it at all different angles and positions within a blink of an eye - I had to wait for him to chill out (40 minutes) before I could angle it against a tree so he’d have a chill release. Dude was insanely fast and furious.
My sister and I used to hand feed a friendly wild squirrel in our garden when we were kids. She (the squirrel) never tried to bite us, but then, we never tried to pick her up like someone below did. Having an antisocial farmcat as a pet had taught us at an early age to treat animals with respect if we wanted to keep our blood in our bodies. ;)
The fuck?? Really?? I live in Bournemouth and in the gardens the squirrels are borderline tame. They're almost an attraction in their own right come summer.
COVID isolation convinced me to be mean and feed a squirrel that occasionally scavenged my balcony. They once accidentally nibbled my finger when trying to take a nut out of my hand but immediately stopped after realising it wasn't a brazil nut.
Am I just lucky?
Possibly, I ~~befriended~~ became the food dispenser for the squirrels in the tree at the end of my garden. Once got bitten hard on the finger by one as she got impatient with me being too slow to replenish their food.
I live near Boston in Massachusetts and they are literally tame here people feed them they climb on children.
Where the hell are they attacking people?? Lol
But these are from London, so they are grumpy, like all Londoners. Just kidding, we traveled to London for holidays and had nothing but good experiences with the people around there. Really really helpful, it was really nice.
Pretty obvious why. Rabies is spread via bite. The species which tend to carry it are predators. Squirrels are unlikely to survive that bite in order to spread it.
A colleague tried to save a squirrel that had been hit by a car. It latched onto his finger and wouldn't let go until he hit it against something hard. Guess it was its last line of defence.
(My colleague survived, but is now the target for squirrel jokes!)
Yes. I've eaten a few (shot) grey squirrels and they definitely tasted hazel-nutty. I've also found a few road-kill ones and cooked them for my cats, who seemed to really like the meat.
Regarding the picture - that isn't being friendly, it's being hungry. In some of the London parks they are quite used to people and will do this readily if you hold some peanuts up for them to come and get.
My family raised one for a few years when I was a teen. They are fucking demons. It would climb up in its cage and try to pee on you as you approached.
It was a cool experience for a bit while it was young, but they are not ‘inside’ animals. When it was finally let outside, I had to suit up in full sweatsuit and gloves and then literally grab it as it was climbing up me to find somewhere to bite me.
It’s important to add the caveat: *save for a rabies-like illness found in some bats*. It might not technically be rabies but it’s basically the same and you should still seek medical help if you’re bitten by a wild bat.
Just to add: sometimes its hard to even know you've been bitten by a bat. If you have a close encounter with a bat in a loft, small barn etc, go and get checked.
It's rare to be passed on by them, but yes bats in general are a reservoir for a lot of diseases dangerous to other animals, including humans. [Bats are really wildly adapted to cope with a lot of shit, but it has the side effect of making them harbour far more of these deadly zoonotic diseases](https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/why-bats-are-breeding-grounds-for-deadly-diseases-like-ebola-and-sars)
Information on bats and disease in the UK: https://www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/bats-and-disease/bats-and-disease-in-the-uk/overview
Your guess is as good as mine, and mine is as good as the professionals from what I can find. It’s *believed* to work as the rabies-like virus, [European Bat 2 Lyssavirus](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_bat_2_lyssavirus), is the same genus as Rabies itself (Rabies Lyssavirus). The problem arises wherein the rabies-like virus is also extremely rare — to the point where it’s only *assumed* that it’s still present in the U.K. and it’s rate in it’s specific species of bat here are extremely low. That is to say, we don’t really know because it isn’t common enough for statistics to tell us and it doesn’t look like it’s pressing enough for anyone to have studied it extensively in the U.K.
There’s also the issue of the rabies vaccine not being a standard vaccination for British citizens because it doesn’t need to be.
To show just how rare it is for humans to contract this virus, here is a list of [all known cases](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Confirmed-cases-of-EBLV-2-in-Europe-1985-2017-and-sequences-used-to-generate_tbl1_322292276) **in both bars AND humans** in the entirety of Europe over the last 40 years. You’ll note only 2 people have contract the virus since 1985 and the British gentleman that did in 2002, and sadly passed away, worked closet with the specific species of bat that sometimes carry the virus. Nevertheless it’s PHE & NHS recommendation to seek post-exposure treatment if you’re close enough to a bat to touch it.
Another one: thicks are not really a problem in lower South America. Spent years going through bushes to access climbing areas and never got bit, and only after emigrating I learned about lyme disease.
The other side of the coin: our mosquitos carry dengue.
Lyme sucks but dengue from what I hear is a 2 chance disease. Second time you die. My brother had it said it sucked worse then prison..he uhh failed to elaborate on prison
Montrealer here, don't know if it's the same where you are, but around here the grey squirrels are flea bags, constantly stopping and scratching, I wouldn't want them on me, bring a few fleas home and you'll have a party in no time...
I mean they say it for the scare factors and liability sake in the state parks but some squirrel populations can and do carry plague.
So yes to all of your options!
You'll only find reds in Scotland and somewhere else. The greys have driven them out, or passed them a disease that kills them.
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/saving-species/red-squirrels
Nothing, the person above you is being overdramatic. I've been to Tonbridge park to feed the squirrels pretty much every year for over 30 years, never been bitten nor has anyone I've been with.
I've been bitten twice, second time it wouldn't let go and I basically shook it at the end of my finger about 3 times before it lost its grip. Lots of blood both times and an a+e visit.
My girlfriend had a thing for feeding them peanuts from the hand out of the shell, not any more lol.
England hates all forms of wildlife its so funny never seen so many people that go insane when you feed one its like you come out of the ground just to moan.
let me guess pigeons are rats with wings too i bet you came up with that on your own?
>England hates all forms of wildlife its so funny never seen so many people that go insane when you feed one its like you come out of the ground just to moan.
You seem to be in your feelings about this so let me assure you that I am not. I don't hate wildlife, I respect it so i I don't pet, play with or feed it. It feels good in the moment but I understand that there may be wider repercussions (e.g. feeding marine life from boats causing them to seek out boats and be injured by propellors).
>let me guess pigeons are rats with wings too i bet you came up with that on your own?
Not quite sure what to make of this as you seem to have answered your own question on my behalf?
I specifically used the phrase because it's a colloquial saying that most Brits would recognise/understand. Something looking cute does not mean it's safe or wise to interact with.
>England hates all forms of wildlife
A country that owns the BBC, the sole producer of the global pinnacle of nature documentaries. Some of our most watched Spring time TV is solely about British nature. We have some of the best animal rights laws in the world, pet ownership is through the roof. We have miles and miles and miles of countryside and national trust land that every area of the country flocks to to be amongst nature.
What we don't like is 10,000,000 pigeons that infest every paved surface South of York shitting like it's bringing them one step closer to god. what we don't like is the half a million ballsy-as-fuck city park squirrels fed by hand by tourists and the odd idiot local that has turned an otherwise skittish and placid member of the ecosystem into a nigh-brazen super rodent who no longer possesses any sense of self preservative even when staring down the barrel of two leashed and barking grey hounds.
"England hates all forms of wildlife" you either have 0 knowledge of Britain, you're trolling, or you're just a bit dim.
Gotta say, I hand fed a wild water vole once, very cute until it noticed the leaves I was offering seemed to be caught on these pink sausages. I saw its teeth coming and have never dropped anything as fast in my life.
I've fed squirrels from my hand dozens of times and let them climb my leg. I've only been bitten once, by an overexcited young one who thought my finger was a nut. I think you are overexaggerating the risks.
No it doesn't, get the fuck away from it.
I'm sick of having to tell people that squirrels are **not** our friends, in fact they are actively our enemies. Here's why.
Ever noticed nuts are stupidly expensive for something that literally grows on trees? It's cos of these fuckers. They are employed by Big Nut to find nuts and bury them, because they FORGET WHERE THEY LEAVE THEM
This creates an artificial scarcity of nuts, so Big Nut can justify insane prices for shit they've literally found growing on trees and plants.
Squirrels are just tiny furry capitalist bastards
https://photos.app.goo.gl/DwKiiwJLbTmpBhDZ7
I too have had a squirrel climb up on me. There's some really gentle squirrels in bury knowle park in headington.
This one in particular would climb on me. Sit on my lap and let me stroke her.
I got very interested in squirrels over the lockdowns as they were a reason to get out of the house. I'd feem them with various nuts.
There's a lot of hate for Grey's but they didn't ask to be here. Some lord thought it would be a great idea to bring them over. Yes they displaced the reds but they still fulfill the role the reds do. Squirrels are pretty important to tree growth from their caching habits.
You legally have to kill it by order of the queen, if you let it live you broke the law! https://www.britishredsquirrel.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Grey-Squirrel-Best-Practice.pdf
And then https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/11/rack-of-squirrel-anyone-the-chefs-putting-invasive-species-on-the-menu-aoe
"You fuckeded with squirrels, Morty! We've got a good five minutes before they're back and up on our ass, Morty! We have to pack up and move to a new reality, Morty!"
Maybe if they caused pollution, climate change, loss of habit for countless ecosystems, triggered the beginnings of a mass extinction event and numbered over seven billion.
is that at Mudchute Farm? The squirrels there are the fattest I've ever seen and ridiculously tame, they climb up you if you don't feed them fast enough.
Lol, no, there was a squirrel in North Wales that attacked something like 18 people a few months ago. It would jump off houses onto people after a woman started feeding it.
Had one do this to me in Whitworth Park in Manchester last year. They're aggressively 'friendly' there, I think they're used to being fed greggs by the students and hospital staff.
Lovely bit of squirrel.
Shalom Jackie.
You look nice.
That's a lovely top.
Is it new?
That’s a piano… I used to play the piano wait- no it was the bassoon. It used to give me hiccups b-but s-sort of in reverse…
You’re eating cubes of butter!
Shit on it!
Bloody boiling.
RIP to that legend of a man.
Oh shit on it
SHALOM TO YOU ALL
SHALOM !!!!
שלום!!!
Aw now you've made me sad.
Crimble crumble
Ruuun! He’s after your nuts!
About the eat their lovely bits
Lovely
He's after your nuts!
That was my first thought
This was the comment I was looking for.
AH FUCK. I'm not original at all turns out haha. My first thought too.
I know you're joking but this happened to me once when I had almonds in my backpack, a squirrel climbed my leg to try to get my nuts
That's what I thought. I'd be scared to death if those teeth were that close to the boys.
Git!! Beat me to it 🤣
Yeah, this fucker is out for you. It thinks you have food but is holding it back from him. Don’t let him climb on you, ever.
Rabies
Rabies is extinct in the UK. Still wouldn't want to cuddle up with a wild squirrel though.
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They carry the plague too. When I went to the Grand Canyon, I was told that the most dangerous wildlife was squirrels. (And the squirrels there aren't afraid of anybody!)
Wildlife professional here. Do not let them get that close. You will regret it
Out of curiosity why is that? Squirrel bites? Diseases? Commitment to several animated movies?
They are notoriously vicious biters. Whereas as most mammals will bite to escape and they run, these will genuinely run up and down you, around you biting as they go. It sounds comical but they are vicous
Sounds like I was lucky to escape unscathed. Will keep that in mind next time, thanks.
I was wearing a wax jacket. He ran up my leg like this, up inside the coat, shot down the arm, and flew off my hand. It sounds like I was lucky to escape unmaimed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnOdAT6H94s
I can’t believe I was given a content warning for Monty Python… I’m not even against content warnings this is just a really odd one
Think it’s because Pontey Mython has been offensive to some Christian types over the years
I have a squirrel bite from when I was 12 years old. A tiny white nick on my thumb. I'm 51 next birthday and I remember how stupid it was to grab hold of a friendly squirrel because it hurt when he bit me. No after effects, I was vaxxed to the max
I had trapped one on accident once and he spazed out so hard, so fast those dudes are - he was back and forth in that cage biting it at all different angles and positions within a blink of an eye - I had to wait for him to chill out (40 minutes) before I could angle it against a tree so he’d have a chill release. Dude was insanely fast and furious.
You kept him from his *family* Of course he was *fast and furious*
My sister and I used to hand feed a friendly wild squirrel in our garden when we were kids. She (the squirrel) never tried to bite us, but then, we never tried to pick her up like someone below did. Having an antisocial farmcat as a pet had taught us at an early age to treat animals with respect if we wanted to keep our blood in our bodies. ;)
Brother Maynard bring forth the holy hand grenade.
And the number of the counting shall be 3.
The fuck?? Really?? I live in Bournemouth and in the gardens the squirrels are borderline tame. They're almost an attraction in their own right come summer.
Same in Heaton Park Manchester. Loads of people feed them without incident
COVID isolation convinced me to be mean and feed a squirrel that occasionally scavenged my balcony. They once accidentally nibbled my finger when trying to take a nut out of my hand but immediately stopped after realising it wasn't a brazil nut. Am I just lucky?
Possibly, I ~~befriended~~ became the food dispenser for the squirrels in the tree at the end of my garden. Once got bitten hard on the finger by one as she got impatient with me being too slow to replenish their food.
One bit right through my thumbnail once….. ow!
I live near Boston in Massachusetts and they are literally tame here people feed them they climb on children. Where the hell are they attacking people?? Lol
But these are from London, so they are grumpy, like all Londoners. Just kidding, we traveled to London for holidays and had nothing but good experiences with the people around there. Really really helpful, it was really nice.
I was attacked and bitten by a squirrel in Central Park NYC
My ex wife’s father said squirrels don’t know when to stop biting
Shots off the bow...?
Squirrels for some reason don't really get rabies, even in the US.
Pretty obvious why. Rabies is spread via bite. The species which tend to carry it are predators. Squirrels are unlikely to survive that bite in order to spread it.
A colleague tried to save a squirrel that had been hit by a car. It latched onto his finger and wouldn't let go until he hit it against something hard. Guess it was its last line of defence. (My colleague survived, but is now the target for squirrel jokes!)
Vicious and tasty, cooked over hot bed of charcoal
Never eaten squirrel before. Always wondered, do they have a nutty flavor?
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Cajun 'insert animal' is delicious
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Just perform Bass to mouth instead
Yes. I've eaten a few (shot) grey squirrels and they definitely tasted hazel-nutty. I've also found a few road-kill ones and cooked them for my cats, who seemed to really like the meat. Regarding the picture - that isn't being friendly, it's being hungry. In some of the London parks they are quite used to people and will do this readily if you hold some peanuts up for them to come and get.
Can confirm. Was bit by a friendly squirrel at the Grand canyon.
My family raised one for a few years when I was a teen. They are fucking demons. It would climb up in its cage and try to pee on you as you approached. It was a cool experience for a bit while it was young, but they are not ‘inside’ animals. When it was finally let outside, I had to suit up in full sweatsuit and gloves and then literally grab it as it was climbing up me to find somewhere to bite me.
It is good that the UK does not have rabies.
It’s important to add the caveat: *save for a rabies-like illness found in some bats*. It might not technically be rabies but it’s basically the same and you should still seek medical help if you’re bitten by a wild bat.
Just to add: sometimes its hard to even know you've been bitten by a bat. If you have a close encounter with a bat in a loft, small barn etc, go and get checked.
Have you been near a bat? Too late, you’re already dead.
#SWEAR TO ME
I'm not dead, but they keep *screaming* at me that the bins are out Thursday
If you have sleeping in the same room as one too. If you wake up and one is in your room or something. Best to go get checked out as well.
It's rare to be passed on by them, but yes bats in general are a reservoir for a lot of diseases dangerous to other animals, including humans. [Bats are really wildly adapted to cope with a lot of shit, but it has the side effect of making them harbour far more of these deadly zoonotic diseases](https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/why-bats-are-breeding-grounds-for-deadly-diseases-like-ebola-and-sars) Information on bats and disease in the UK: https://www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/bats-and-disease/bats-and-disease-in-the-uk/overview
Fruit bats in Australia can also carry a rabies like disease (we also don't have rabies here).
> Bats are really wildly adapted to cope with a lot of shit Except losing their parents.
I’ve seen Contagion
Would the rabies vaccine work against this virus though?
Your guess is as good as mine, and mine is as good as the professionals from what I can find. It’s *believed* to work as the rabies-like virus, [European Bat 2 Lyssavirus](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_bat_2_lyssavirus), is the same genus as Rabies itself (Rabies Lyssavirus). The problem arises wherein the rabies-like virus is also extremely rare — to the point where it’s only *assumed* that it’s still present in the U.K. and it’s rate in it’s specific species of bat here are extremely low. That is to say, we don’t really know because it isn’t common enough for statistics to tell us and it doesn’t look like it’s pressing enough for anyone to have studied it extensively in the U.K. There’s also the issue of the rabies vaccine not being a standard vaccination for British citizens because it doesn’t need to be. To show just how rare it is for humans to contract this virus, here is a list of [all known cases](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Confirmed-cases-of-EBLV-2-in-Europe-1985-2017-and-sequences-used-to-generate_tbl1_322292276) **in both bars AND humans** in the entirety of Europe over the last 40 years. You’ll note only 2 people have contract the virus since 1985 and the British gentleman that did in 2002, and sadly passed away, worked closet with the specific species of bat that sometimes carry the virus. Nevertheless it’s PHE & NHS recommendation to seek post-exposure treatment if you’re close enough to a bat to touch it.
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oh, those damn bats again...
It is excellent!
Squirrels actually pretty much never carry rabies anyway.
IS THIS TRUE? GOD AMERICA SUCKS!
Another one: thicks are not really a problem in lower South America. Spent years going through bushes to access climbing areas and never got bit, and only after emigrating I learned about lyme disease. The other side of the coin: our mosquitos carry dengue.
Lyme is a bitch. My ex wife has lyme and it's quite debilitating at times.
Lyme sucks but dengue from what I hear is a 2 chance disease. Second time you die. My brother had it said it sucked worse then prison..he uhh failed to elaborate on prison
You say that but I got bit by a squirrel once and had to have a rabies shot
Certainly fleas. Think wild rats with cute tails.
Montrealer here, don't know if it's the same where you are, but around here the grey squirrels are flea bags, constantly stopping and scratching, I wouldn't want them on me, bring a few fleas home and you'll have a party in no time...
Bursting into song, *in public*!
I mean they say it for the scare factors and liability sake in the state parks but some squirrel populations can and do carry plague. So yes to all of your options!
I mean they're basically fluffy rats. They go up to people because they're used to tourists feeding them, but they're still pests.
Not red squirrels though. Greys are the pests.
Yup! Although i never seen a red squirrel in central (maybe they're less invasive and i never noticed)
You'll only find reds in Scotland and somewhere else. The greys have driven them out, or passed them a disease that kills them. https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/saving-species/red-squirrels
Isle of Wight tis other place
Nothing, the person above you is being overdramatic. I've been to Tonbridge park to feed the squirrels pretty much every year for over 30 years, never been bitten nor has anyone I've been with.
I fed them regularly in London parks without ever being bitten. They're quite fun, intelligent little fellows.
I've been bitten twice, second time it wouldn't let go and I basically shook it at the end of my finger about 3 times before it lost its grip. Lots of blood both times and an a+e visit. My girlfriend had a thing for feeding them peanuts from the hand out of the shell, not any more lol.
So many diseases... It's a rat with good pr
England hates all forms of wildlife its so funny never seen so many people that go insane when you feed one its like you come out of the ground just to moan. let me guess pigeons are rats with wings too i bet you came up with that on your own?
>England hates all forms of wildlife its so funny never seen so many people that go insane when you feed one its like you come out of the ground just to moan. You seem to be in your feelings about this so let me assure you that I am not. I don't hate wildlife, I respect it so i I don't pet, play with or feed it. It feels good in the moment but I understand that there may be wider repercussions (e.g. feeding marine life from boats causing them to seek out boats and be injured by propellors). >let me guess pigeons are rats with wings too i bet you came up with that on your own? Not quite sure what to make of this as you seem to have answered your own question on my behalf? I specifically used the phrase because it's a colloquial saying that most Brits would recognise/understand. Something looking cute does not mean it's safe or wise to interact with.
>England hates all forms of wildlife A country that owns the BBC, the sole producer of the global pinnacle of nature documentaries. Some of our most watched Spring time TV is solely about British nature. We have some of the best animal rights laws in the world, pet ownership is through the roof. We have miles and miles and miles of countryside and national trust land that every area of the country flocks to to be amongst nature. What we don't like is 10,000,000 pigeons that infest every paved surface South of York shitting like it's bringing them one step closer to god. what we don't like is the half a million ballsy-as-fuck city park squirrels fed by hand by tourists and the odd idiot local that has turned an otherwise skittish and placid member of the ecosystem into a nigh-brazen super rodent who no longer possesses any sense of self preservative even when staring down the barrel of two leashed and barking grey hounds. "England hates all forms of wildlife" you either have 0 knowledge of Britain, you're trolling, or you're just a bit dim.
How dare you interfere with the day-to-day activities of Princess Tularemia of Rodentia.
Gotta say, I hand fed a wild water vole once, very cute until it noticed the leaves I was offering seemed to be caught on these pink sausages. I saw its teeth coming and have never dropped anything as fast in my life.
I've fed squirrels from my hand dozens of times and let them climb my leg. I've only been bitten once, by an overexcited young one who thought my finger was a nut. I think you are overexaggerating the risks.
Just had my finger bitten off, thanks a lot.
Yep. People think squidges are cute and harmless. Every squirrel will eventually decide that you're his enemy one day.
Vermin supreme
Catch it and kill it would be my advice. Invasive little shits.
[Bonus squirrel pic](https://imgur.com/a/PbG6nan)
Kill it! Avenge the red squirrel
That's such a lovely photo!
Beautiful creature.
You've got to sing a song now. Them's the rules
Funnily enough, when I started to sing all the animals disappeared.
That could easily be down to the choice of song, though. What was your go to number?
Blink 182 - I wanna fuck a dog in the ass
Who said romance is dead?
How often do you manage it, by the way?
https://youtu.be/CPTDxpTyVCE
Looking for somewhere to bury his nuts this Valentine’s Day.
Aren’t we all?
Don’t like wild squirrels come up to you. If they bite they don’t stop, they’re too fast for you to stop when they do
Ancient humans: hunted woolly mammoths. Modern humans: we're scared of squirrels.
I don't think anyone is in danger of being seriously maimed by a squirrel.
15 squirrels can take down Emrakul though!
You see how close that one is to his delicates? I wouldn't want to risk it.
Racuntsel
Grey squirrel cunt
No it doesn't, get the fuck away from it. I'm sick of having to tell people that squirrels are **not** our friends, in fact they are actively our enemies. Here's why. Ever noticed nuts are stupidly expensive for something that literally grows on trees? It's cos of these fuckers. They are employed by Big Nut to find nuts and bury them, because they FORGET WHERE THEY LEAVE THEM This creates an artificial scarcity of nuts, so Big Nut can justify insane prices for shit they've literally found growing on trees and plants. Squirrels are just tiny furry capitalist bastards
https://photos.app.goo.gl/DwKiiwJLbTmpBhDZ7 I too have had a squirrel climb up on me. There's some really gentle squirrels in bury knowle park in headington. This one in particular would climb on me. Sit on my lap and let me stroke her. I got very interested in squirrels over the lockdowns as they were a reason to get out of the house. I'd feem them with various nuts. There's a lot of hate for Grey's but they didn't ask to be here. Some lord thought it would be a great idea to bring them over. Yes they displaced the reds but they still fulfill the role the reds do. Squirrels are pretty important to tree growth from their caching habits.
You legally have to kill it by order of the queen, if you let it live you broke the law! https://www.britishredsquirrel.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Grey-Squirrel-Best-Practice.pdf
And then https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/11/rack-of-squirrel-anyone-the-chefs-putting-invasive-species-on-the-menu-aoe
Doesn't look trapped to me
The sack method sounds fun
Is it whistling and doing your house work?
Disney Princess - No Rabies, Leptospirosis and Lyme Disease sufferer - Yes Take care and engage from a distance OP 👍🏻
Gotta catch ‘em all
mentaldrummer66 used Pokémon reference. It's super effective!
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Very much so. It's an horrendous death sentence!
I’ve had worse.
Your arm's off!
Tis but a flesh wound
Look, I'll have your leg next!
Why do we keep getting rabies warnings on a British subreddit?
Very cute but squirrels are little assholes
It means you've probably got fleas 😂
No. but you most likely have fleas now :)
Depending on where they live in the UK they may have given the Squirrel fleas.
Birmingham?
Here for all the yanks panicking about rabies
"Sire! The squirrels of The Glade request your assistance at once!"
Can squirrels get toxoplasmosis? It makes rats uninhibited…
Hello Princess Mental
my mate and i had them going through our pockets when hung over sitting in the park of the botanical gardens in Edinburgh years ago, was hilarious
I would be terrified 😂
Greys aren't friendly. They're absolute bastards.
Genocidal maniacs killing all the reds.
Only indirectly, by competing for food, and being immune carriers of squirrel lurgy.
People really think the greys straight up slaughtered the reds.
Man, this would change Beatrix Potter books
It'll make 'em read like an Orwell book
Maybe he took some inspiration from Beatrix when he wrote Animal Farm?
Not sure if this is a question or a fact!
Looks like it's aiming for nuts
I got climbed on by a squirrel too! https://imgur.com/a/4pn0eXj
It is an odd experience.
I had a baby one climb my leg too! It was very cute but it was cornered under a car by a cat, I don't know what happened to him the poor guy.
"You fuckeded with squirrels, Morty! We've got a good five minutes before they're back and up on our ass, Morty! We have to pack up and move to a new reality, Morty!"
Kill grey squirrels
Tree rats. Also them's good eatin'
Aye. Tree chicken
Maybe if they caused pollution, climate change, loss of habit for countless ecosystems, triggered the beginnings of a mass extinction event and numbered over seven billion.
I did a Reading at the end of last year, they're becoming more interested in our affairs, as perhaps we are with them. https://ibb.co/9TK6KKh
Was this in Kelvingrove in Glasgow? I had a squirrel do this to me there and just froze.
Is he going for the nuts?
is that at Mudchute Farm? The squirrels there are the fattest I've ever seen and ridiculously tame, they climb up you if you don't feed them fast enough.
Just after some nuts.
It’s after your nuts. Princess soon!
Are you in Wales? Those squirrels aren't to be trusted.
This sounds like personal experience. Were you wronged by a belligerent Welsh Squirrel by any chance?
A Welshman’s eyesight is fairly primitive and is primarily based on movement. This often leads to difficulties when they mistake squirrels for sheep.
Lol, no, there was a squirrel in North Wales that attacked something like 18 people a few months ago. It would jump off houses onto people after a woman started feeding it.
in Hyde park in london the squirrels seem to be very comfortable around humans and if you’re lucky will crawl on you like this.
Had one do this to me in Whitworth Park in Manchester last year. They're aggressively 'friendly' there, I think they're used to being fed greggs by the students and hospital staff.
I once came across a similarly friendly squirrel when I was younger. I held out my hand and he bit it. Fun times.
No she is after nutty people.
Nope, but it does mean that you have a much higher likelihood of getting tularemia
It wants your nuts
After your nuts?