I looked into getting one a few years ago, they are great as babies but they are not a good pet once they become adults. Selling such an animal would be kinda sad, there are plenty of rehab places that need help, go volunteer and take care of the squirrels if you want to play with them. Or raise one as a baby then let it go once the call of the wild sets in. I have a large tree outside my place, with plenty of squirrels in it, it would be a great place to let them run free once they hit puberty.
once the cheque is cashed and the squirrels are shipped...their behavioural issues are not my problem. De-clawing is an option, I guess. No returns, tho.
Ideas for after the "cute baby" thing wears off...
4 squirrels, cut into pieces
1 c. chopped onion
4 cloves garlic
1/2 c. burgundy wine
1 tbsp. chopped parsley
1 tbsp. flour
1 stick butter
1/2 c. chopped green bell pepper
1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 tbsp. chopped onion tops
4 oz. or more mushrooms
Tony's creole seasoning
Cut each squirrel into 8 pieces. Season with creole seasoning. Melt butter in a Dutch oven and fry squirrel pieces until browned all over (and starts to stick to the pot). Add a cup of chopped onions, 1/2 cup of bell peppers and 4 cloves of garlic. When vegetables are soft, add a small amount of cold water and Worcestershire sauce. Cover pot and let simmer one hour. Stir well, add 1/2 cup wine. Cook until tender. Add flour to mushroom liquid, onion tops, parsley and mushrooms. Cook 5 minutes. Combine with squirrels. Serve over rice. Serves 8.
I know two people who had pet squirrels. Yup, they get older and wham, all their cuteness is gone and they wreck havoc. Go rescue a cat or dog, they get better with age and they are the best pets.
I have a pet squirrel that lives under a boulder outisde my condo...My daughter and i named it Sandy after the squirrel on sponge bob...Sandy loves jeffrey cones...Sandy says hello to all the taco members out there..RJ
i once had a golden mantle squirrel for a pet.. The dood just couldnt help but nip me when hand feeding him snacks! It was like he was perfectly at home for a few nibbles, then he would sneak in a little nibble off my hand or fingers! Never did get used to that.
how did you kill it
didnt kill him..He eventually took liking to a she skeewarrel and left to make a home of his own...
They make good "outdoor" pets meaning you can train them to come up and take peanuts from you then run back to their hideouts. You can get them to take peanuts from your hand but it is very difficult. You can also train them to come to your back door and demand handouts by kicking the screen door and chattering. That is about the extent of it. They make great outdoor pets, very poor indoor ones.
Chipmunks are much MUCH easier to corrupt and they make excellent "outdoor pets." They are much less wary of humans. It is very easy to train a chipmunk to run up your pantleg, crawl up your flannel shirt and then go inside your pocket and stuff their face(literally) with unshelled peanuts. They will put one in each cheek and carry one in their mouth, crawl out of your pocket run down your leg and run off. They stash it and come back for more. Chipmunks can be turned into pets within a day or so. Squirrels take much much longer and will never be corrupted to the same extent.
If the purists had their way, you would be arrested and shot at a firing squad for doing this stuff. They will lecture you non-stop about how absolutely awful you are. Somehow, the world continues to turn on its axis, orbit the sun even though you fed the squirrel a peanut. No doubt we will hear from some of them right here, shortly enough. Once I really did commit a capital offense. Instead of giving the chipmunk a peanut, I gave it a french fry. The statute of limitations has run out so I can freely admit to it. Soon thereafter, the animal developed cardiovascular disease and needed triple bypass surgery and it was all my fault. It cost the taxpayers thousands of dollars to treat the animal and correct the damage I caused.
These are the squirrel orders so far. I have your home addresses from Linked In and other similar info-tracking websites (hope you don't mind).
The animals will be shipped this evening...an SASE envelope is included, payment is COD, $28 dollar (US) per unit (this includes a "sampler" box of Squirrel Chow) (also, some of the animals may be pregnant) The animals have been de-loused, but have not been de-clawed.
Can you supply me with black squirrels for my farm. I desperately want to start a colony of them there? Pregnant black squirrels will be just fine but can you assure me that the father is black also? It is a recessive gene so they will breed true.
Can you supply me with black squirrels for my farm. I desperately want to start a colony of them there? Pregnant black squirrels will be just fine but can you assure me that the father is black also? It is a recessive gene so they will breed true.
LEB,
this is Los Angeles, where loose white women often chase after NBA black athletes and whatnot, but in my local trees (where I harvest my squirrels) I have never seen any afro-type squirrels, or sexy inter-racial mating going on. Maybe after I fill a few dozen orders...then with the profits I can import some exotic black squirrels from somewhere.
I was really looking for a better music for the second one. Maybe a little more like the first...
But seriously, take a look at glide ratios of flying animals, physiology, center of mass, etc.
I imagine Mr. Gill, arms perpendicular to his shoulders (forward attack?), with a bed sheet tied to his hands a feet might have given modern jumpers a run for their money. Finally, I would guess that some women could have done much the same, but rings aren't for girls ... (ummm, yeah! boys).
addendum: wing sweep, drag, angle of attack, golf ball divots on the ventral surface to increase laminar flow, well groomed chest hair?
When I was a kid in suburbia, me and my next door neighbor shot a squirrel off his fanatic animal lover mom's birdbath with a BB gun. We wanted to eat it, but not immediately, and the skin was difficult to get off so we put it in a bucket of salt water in the basement and left it. We ended up using pliers to pull the skin off, which wasn't easy, we had to pull really hard for a long time. When his parents were at work we cooked the skinned carcass in his livingroom fireplace with barbecue sauce. The meat was stringy and tough. His mom would have killed us if she ever found out.
Toadgas, couldn't ya burn their testicles out with a wood-burning pen when they are young? That may make them calm and people can enjoy them as pets. Or, you could also sell the wood-burning pens to your customers when the squirrels get a little older.
Let us know!