They'll sure eat whatever sits still long enough. If you ask a wildlife biologist or somebody from the parks and wildlife department, they'll swear up and down and sideways that squirrels and wabbits and such only eat vegetation, and there are no cats in the wild, and if there are any, they only eat rats and mice and such and won't hunt or take down a game animal, and coyotes and wolves only hunt old and sickly animals, and only then for food, and etc. etc.
The squirrels love to eat the notches on my log cabin. These are dovetail notches and there is a 6 inch overhang for every notch. These squirrels climb up there and chew the sharp edges of the notch.
I don't like to kill an animal that I don't have to kill, but when you go to eating the house I built, we have a problem. I have trapped and deported a dozen of 'em with the Havahart trap. But they keep coming back. You ought to see what a load of #8s in a 20 gauge will do to them at a range of 30 feet. I did shoot one with my Savage muzzleloader one time, a 250 grain bullet with 3,100 foot pounds of energy. Very effective squirrel round.
Hey PETA, nature is cruel, and hunting is the quickest and easiest way a wild animal will ever die. Deal with it....Even cute little squirrels will eat baby birds.......
Shoot a Idaho ground squirrel (whistle pig) then you can shoot his buddies that are eating on the carcus, sometimes several,
I am glad to find out that I am not alone, I thought I was the only person left who called ground squirrels whistle pigs. It must be a southwest Idaho thing because I have not heard it used anywhere else. I generally refet to them as gophers now which confuses some folks, there used to be some folks who called them picket pins but I have heard anyone refer to them as that in decades.
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223 Rem, my favorite cartridge - you can't argue with truckloads of dead PD's and gophers.
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35+ years ago I was a young kid walking around the Superstition Mountains shooting jackrabbits and cottontails with my .22. Right after hitting the trail one day I shot a running cottontail and thought I’d leave it and return later hoping to find a coyote or cat but when I returned I was surprised and a little horrified to see 3 other cottontails with bloody faces eating their fallen comrade. It was something a young boy didn’t expect to see, I dumped 2 more of those bloody cannibals.
We've seen that several times. Just a few weeks ago we saw a Grey Squirrel chewing on a Chickadee. Always freaks us out. Where my mom lives there are always squirrels in the dumpster to her appt building. If/when you just open up the lid they will come flying out of there and it always makes ya jump even though you expect it.Yup fuzzy rats.
My theory, conspiracy theory if you say so, is that as fall and winter approaches, squirrels and some other "vegetarians" become omnivorous. I've observed it in reptiles too. It likely has to do with opportunity, nutritional demands and threat of starvation. One reason you don't see antlers, turtle shells, and bones all over the place is that. You'll see different size teeth marks on them sometimes.
OR it could be alien abductions to study earth creatures on the mother ship. Just a theory. 😉
Some years ago a Yukon Territory study showed that the #1 predator of hares under the age of two weeks old were red squirrels. I’ve seen them feeding on meat numerous times. The
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