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Or Louisiana. BBQ squirrel is good eating. Not a lot of meat, but they do make for fine stew. Porcupine makes good stew too. Porky fat makes for fine roux for gumbo too.

Teen Wolf Blitzer: FloydA: Teen Wolf Blitzer: After looking into execution by blunt trauma, lethal injection and gun, she decided drowning was the best option for the squirrel, and the edibility of its meat.

Jesus, what a psychopath.


What should she do with them? She can't really poison them if she's planning on eating them. What means would you use?

I wouldn't. I tend to acquire my meat in ways that don't require me to personally torture innocent animals.

If you're doing so just because seeing blood makes you feel queasy, that's fine.

If you're doing so because you don't like killing, you're being kind of hypocritical. You're really just pretending that the responsibility for killing rests with someone else.


SuperMeekrat:
Done a pair of welding gloves and snap their neck.

That works.

ElLoco:
You 'thumb' them. It's a technique conservationists use in the field when they need a non-living specimen in the field with minimal tissue damage.



That also works.

Mock26:
Air Rifle. Stab them through the heart. Decapitate them.


Air rifle is an inefficient use of resources. The calories you get out of eating a squirrel probably aren't enough to justify the cost of the ammo. You'd burn more calories at your job working to afford the pellets than you would get out of eating the squirrel. Stabbing or decapitation would work and be worth the effort, since you can re-use the tools, but it's hard to get the little bastards to hold still.

Wearing heavy gloves and snapping their necks is probably the most efficient technique, but I really don't blame this lady for going with drowning- it's easier for her to just pick up the trap and toss it in a bucket.

It is, in any case, not psycho-pathological to do so.

Artist: Oh mercy, I can not eat cat fish, tastes like mud. Tried the farm raised, tastes like mud.

Catfish are scavengers, which means they eat things even the other fish won't touch.

/Think about that, during your next fish-fry

/Love me some catfish

jaytkay: If your copy of Joy of Cooking does not have this picture, you have a lame-ass edition.

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/ I am not kidding, check it out

There is something seriously wrong with that person's left foot.

Coming on a Bicycle: Teen Wolf Blitzer: Coming on a Bicycle: Funny this. Every morning (well, almost every working morning) I cycle through the city centre of Delft, NL. I love that final part of my trip to my work because it leads me from the boring straight roads into the windy medieval alleys and stuff. One morning I saw a guy feeding pigeons. Or so it seemed. He was feeding them alright, but then he quickly bent over and - almost effortlessly - grabbed one by the wings and walked away with it. I shouted to him 'hey where you're going with that pigeon' but he wouldn't answer. Later I heard it was a new trend; 'urban hunting' or something. People catching their own meat in the 21st century.

/ CSB

You... you don't get out much, do you?

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No darling. I'm quite an exquisite sample of the modern day European city-dweller. I haven't seen a real gun in my life and I wouldn't know how to use it. Relax. We're only multiplying. And pretty soon we'll outnumber each and everyone of you. You. You, brutal, farmer-types.

Demographics are destiny. You will be living in the Islamic Republic of the Low Countries soon enough.

Homely-looking old biddy. 49? Yeesh.

Being from a small town in Georgia, no one ever looked at us funny for eating squirrel. There is even a squirrel hunting season there. I LOOOOVE squirrel, cooked right. It tastes a lot like quail, if prepared properly.

Teen Wolf Blitzer: And fwiw, I have hunted squirrel, but drowning them just seems needlessly cruel.

Agreed.
A bag of car exhaust will do the job, too.
They just fall asleep and don't wake up.
/had to gas a couple birds that my cats had mortally wounded. Better that then taking days to die of sepsis.

herrDrFarkenstein: SuperMeekrat: Teen Wolf Blitzer: And fwiw, I have hunted squirrel, but drowning them just seems needlessly cruel.

Agreed.
A bag of car exhaust will do the job, too.
They just fall asleep and don't wake up.
/had to gas a couple birds that my cats had mortally wounded. Better that then taking days to die of sepsis.

But how did they taste?

Titmice and nut hatches, nothing to eat there.

WeenerGord: FloydA: SuperMeekrat:Done a pair of welding gloves and snap their neck.

ElLoco:You 'thumb' them. It's a technique conservationists use in the field when they need a non-living specimen in the field with minimal tissue damage.

Mock26:Air Rifle. Stab them through the heart. Decapitate them.


You are all full of shiat. I dare you to open a cage full of panicked wild squirrel and reach in and grab one. You and your welding gloves, yeah right. Squirrel would run right up your arm and over your face a few times, down your shirt and out your pants, biting all the way, and you screaming like a little girl. I'd pay good money to watch you take a squirrel out of a cage with welders gloves on. As for shooting, do you know what happens when a pellet or bullet hits the wire of the cage? Try it and find out.

Or you could just suck it up and drop the cage in the trash barrel full of water, which has the added benefit of washing some of the fleas out.
It really depends on the cage, your methodology and how quick your reflexes are..Because she looks a touch old and feeble, I'd actually suggest gassing instead.
Yeah, I've had to dispatch a ground hog, however, i had a shovel, so that's cheating, right?

A Terrible Human: Don't eat squirrel brains.

This--well, unless you LIKE the idea of catching mad cow disease from squirrels. (Yes, I'm serious; there's parts of Kentucky (oddly, in the western part of the state more than Appalachia) where people do eat squirrel brains, and the occasional case of squirrel-brain linked spongiform encephalopathy shows up; the state health department actually has had to give advisories on why brain consumption is a Bad Idea.)

As for squirrel (and NOT brains, brains of any sort are NOT on my menu EVAR)...I've had it once. Wasn't impressed. Then again, it didn't help that:

a) Apparently said squirrel was completely unprepared before being ground (you're supposed to soak game meat in milk first to get the game out of it--and no, I don't know how the hell a Jewish hunter would cope with this).
b) Said squirrel was ground up and put in chili surreptitiously to hide it from my father-in-law, who refuses to eat squirrel.

Said squirrel chili mostly tasted like chili made with ground beef that had turned grey and gone off in the fridge long ago :P I imagine it's probably decent when prepared properly...but that wasn't it.

dryknife: I guess you don't need a hunting/trapping license for squirrel in Washington.

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I don't know how it works in Washington state, but in New Jersey you only need a hunting license to shoot or trap squirrels on public land. It's legal to trap any feral animal on your own land without a license/permit provided that it's not on the protected species list, or someone's pet/livestock.

There are rules as to how you can go about getting rid of squirrels on your own land. Since discharge of a firearm is illegal in most municipalities in New Jersey, you can't shoot them (airguns are considered to be firearms in NJ). You can't use a leg hold trap either. It's illegal to poison squirrels in Jersey. That leaves live traps or lethal traps.

Lethal traps are kind of like very large mouse traps that will kill the squirrel immediately. You have to very careful with a lethal trap, if you kill someone's pet, you're in big trouble.

The best option is to use a live trap. If you trap something you didn't intend to kill, no big deal, just release it. Traps, once set, must be checked daily by law. I know someone who set a trap and didn't check it in several days. A squirrel was trapped and died from lack of food/water over the course of several days. When a neighbor realized what had happened, the ASPCA was called and the trapper was hauled into court and received a big fine for animal cruelty.

Once trapped, you have two options: Release the squirrel on your own property, or on other PRIVATE property with the owner's permission. Kill the squirrel. It's illegal to release a trapped squirrel on any public land. Acceptable forms of killing the squirrels include drowning, clubbing, electrocution, lethal gas or injection.

Oh, if you release a squirrel less than two miles from where it was trapped, it will find its way back. Releasing a squirrel farther out will almost guarantee its death by slow starvation. Squirrels are very territorial, squirrels that are established in one area will almost certainly harass a strange squirrel endlessly not allowing it to feed or nest.

Artist: Trance750-weeellll......yeah so are lobsters and crabs and I loves eatin' them-but catfish is just more than I can handle-just can't get past that muddy taste-leaves more for you at the next fish-fry!

/Yankee
//LOBSTER ROLL! : )

I can get behind ya on that, We'll just consider it regional then. But I also love all those lovely little Sea bugs, The lovely Chesapeake bay blue crab for example. During the low water season's they are known to walk all the way up the James River here at the fall lines here in Richmond. I wont eat them out of the brackish water though.. they taste better out of their native salt water, and besides, the old river silt is still filled with PCB's, so it's best not to really, even the Catfish. the water is teaming with them, and I will admidt, I love the taste of a wild catfish... that "earthy" taste, that you are calling "muddy" is part of the appeal to me. they're also fattier and have brighter colored meat.
but.. the PCB's get into them, so it's best to eat them very sparingly, if ever at all. if you live off them, it'll eventually mess up central nervous system

The Farm raised catfish are nice, and I do eat a lot of it, but, they're fed corn and you can taste it in end. to me, all say the farm raised tastes "muddy" as in the flavor is muddled out and just not very distinct.

But back to the bugs.. Shrimp is prevalent in our salt waters down here and I like to observe them at night in the shallows.. People call Lobster sea roaches... no... no they're not.. Shrimp are roaches.. little bottom feeders, swarming on any type of carrion in the water.. scattering when you turn a light on them..


and back to the topic at hand... I eat game meat as much as I can. I'm not a hunter myself, unless you count fishing and crabbing, I tend to think of that as more of a practical joke, rather than hunting, but there ya go.

I got plenty of regulars at the pub here that will trade me game meat for over ran beer.

My sainted bride was raised in the wilds of the near Midwest has always stated that one of her fondest memories is watching Football with her father and eating Squirrel lushes. Lushes being the Brains.. a big bowl of roasted Decapitated Squirrel heads, and cracking them open like walnuts.

SuperMeekrat: Teen Wolf Blitzer: And fwiw, I have hunted squirrel, but drowning them just seems needlessly cruel.

Agreed.
A bag of car exhaust will do the job, too.
They just fall asleep and don't wake up.
/had to gas a couple birds that my cats had mortally wounded. Better that then taking days to die of sepsis.

Carbon Monoxide... = no bueno... you can get the same effect with Carbon Dioxide and less chance of spoiling the meat. gas a large plastic container with the CO2, its heavier than air, place the live trap in, cover it, and pump in more gas. they will fall asleep and asphyxiate just the same, but with out pumping poison into the blood stream. and hence, the meat.

some people live in rural or farm areas and hunt their own game. the impressive part is 120 of you had to tell subby about it. morans. surely sub caught on by the 100th anecdote.

d'oh! some people are raised in areas where food is obtained from a supermarket! how strange and unusual! not everyone has firearms in their home! idiots.

ps: eddie quit eating squirrel cause they are high in cholesterol

Cerebral Knievel: SuperMeekrat: Teen Wolf Blitzer: And fwiw, I have hunted squirrel, but drowning them just seems needlessly cruel.

Agreed.
A bag of car exhaust will do the job, too.
They just fall asleep and don't wake up.
/had to gas a couple birds that my cats had mortally wounded. Better that then taking days to die of sepsis.

Carbon Monoxide... = no bueno... you can get the same effect with Carbon Dioxide and less chance of spoiling the meat. gas a large plastic container with the CO2, its heavier than air, place the live trap in, cover it, and pump in more gas. they will fall asleep and asphyxiate just the same, but with out pumping poison into the blood stream. and hence, the meat.

Excellent tip.
/Never really thought about it, just out of a sense of mercy; not dinner.

Also, Squirrel meat is the traditional meat to be used to make proper Virginian Brunswick county stew, not that beef based Brunswick county Georgia county stew.

If you must go to the grocery store, then you should use chicken thighs for the protein, Ive also been known to use whole turkey for my Brunswick stew. but for pure tradition... squirrel, rabbit, or any suitable Rodent meat is preferred.or, as Like to call Rodent meat... Gray meat. makes it sound so much more presentable to the squeamish. white meat, dark meat, gray meat... and the running joke that cat is the OTHER gray meat..

sheilanagig: Great Porn Dragon: This--well, unless you LIKE the idea of catching mad cow disease from squirrels. (Yes, I'm serious; there's parts of Kentucky (oddly, in the western part of the state more than Appalachia) where people do eat squirrel brains, and the occasional case of squirrel-brain linked spongiform encephalopathy shows up; the state health department actually has had to give advisories on why brain consumption is a Bad Idea.)

Same deal with jackrabbits. You have to be really careful. If you see white spots on their internal organs while you're dressing them, bury the carcass under some rocks so that other predators don't get infected with tularemia. Then wash your hands well. You should be wearing gloves when you dress them anyway, because they carry mites and lice and ticks. Groundhogs can carry bubonic plague.

Wild game is fine, so long as you realize that there are some things you need to be aware of.

Oh, definitely agreed--wild game can be perfectly good eating as long as you're careful with it (and yup, knew about rabbit and tularemia in particular--I do like me some bunny :9).

I'm just personally leery about eating brains in general (no matter what the mammal) because of the real risk of TSEs from it (not just mad cow disease and what's been referred to as "mad squirrel disease" here in KY, but CWD which is basically "mad deer disease")--there's folks in this state and in Indiana who still consider (pork) brains and eggs a delicacy, but pretty much brains in general are off my menu--there's not a TSE I know of in pigs yet, but I don't want to be patient zero when it does happen, and brain meats don't really have a good track record in that regard.

(As an aside: I'm not really squeamish in regards to food; more often than not I find myself watching "Bizarre Foods" thinking "OK, that'd be neat to try once...". Brains (no matter the mammal) and casu marzu are the only two foodstuffs I absolutely refuse to try under any circumstances (brains because of TSE risk, casu marzu because it's farking CHEESE WITH LIVE MAGGOTS IN IT and, well, I do have a SERIOUS phobia of maggots in particular)...I'll try friggin' balut before brains and eggs, and balut is basically a hard-boiled duck abortion. As long as I don't have to eat the brains, though, wild game can be positively yummy if done with care.)