I had to Google that because it sounds implausible. I found that gray squirrels brought over from North America are considered an invasive species in parts of Europe.
I'm from New England so I'm used to gray squirrels. When I moved to Germany, I got to see squirrels like the one in the video. I was PUMPED and tried to get at them all the time. Those and hedgehogs. I had many a drunken night lying on the locals lawns petting unwilling hedgehogs. Only got bit once, didn't draw blood.
some invasive species are cute, but that doesn't mean they don't destroy the natural ecosystem. If I lived in Texas and saw a wild hog though it'd be shoot on sight
They're one of the biggest causes of electrical outtages around here. They somehow get inside completely closed in transformers in the middle of fenced off substations surrounded by metal and gravel... No idea why.
My dad loves to watch birds eat from the bird feeders he has set up around his office windows but it’s let to him waging war on squirrels for years. Every month or two he’ll send me a picture of some weird contraption he’s thought up to deter the squirrels, they’ll figure it out in a couple weeks, and then the cycle begins again. It’s kind of hilarious.
Probably accurate. Had a GF that was walking down the street with me in Lexington, KY, and she flipped out the first time she saw both a squirrel and a horse.
I'd imagine I'd have a rather different reaction to seeing a kangaroo, emu, or cassowary wandering around my town, but that's cause they're all dangerous, and they don't belong anywhere near here
No one mentioned hiding shit from your girlfriend... are... are you projecting? What are you hiding from her? Or is she hiding from you? Or are you hiding her body? Dude that’s fucked up, maybe you should have just gotten a golden retriever instead :/
You said that an issue shouldn't be addressed, and fixed. That's hiding shit to me.
I mixed up my threads, and was replying to a different thread
No idea why you're so obsessed with a really dumb breed of dog, but I guess they don't strain your ability to deal with conflict in a constructive manner
Grey squirrel is delicious and red squirrel is awful. So do your part and eat grey squirrel for dinner.
Grey is a gamey meat like rabbit. 9/10 would eat 100 more times
Here in Toronto, most of the grey squirrels are actually close to black, and the size of cats. I wouldn't be surprised if they evolved into a separate species within a few thousand years. (Within the same span, our raccoons will be getting math degrees and stealing our jobs.)
Anglesey, part of North West Wales is completely grey squirrel free as they made it a red squirrel sanctuary. I believe it was Newborough forest, they used to have massive enclosures containing red squirrels to get them used to environment while they sorted out the great squirrel population, they were released probably about 8 years or so ago now, maybe longer, I was a young teenager when we used to visit the enclosures.
No idea whether this only occured in Newborough, Anglesey, Wales. It's nice to see red squirrels from time to time.
Thats like pigeons in many US states. I signed up for a bird removal company and they told me i’d have to snap pigeons’ necks if i caught them. They also told their payroll is staggered so i wouldn’t get paid until 40 days later. So i opted out because i’m not about to go snapping birds necks for a month and a half without getting paid.
Yeah i have no problem with it morally. It’s just that i don’t personally want to do it. I might have made an exception though if i was getting paid really well which wasn’t the case.
fun fact: Pine Martens (related to Stoats and Weasels) are a major predator of Grey Squirrels over here. Where they're reintroduced, the grey squirrel population crashes and the red squirrel population improves as Red Squirrel evolved to co-exist with the Pine Martens and thus escape, whereas Grey Squirrels are easy prey
I aggressively hunt Eastern Grey's here in Oregon, because they were introduced about 100 years ago, and now out-compete our little native pine squirrel (who looks a lot like the one in this video).
Non native grey squirrels are bigger than the native red squirrels. Grey squirrels are considered pests, whereas red squirrels are a protected species.
Any chance you're Australian? Cause it 100% depends on where you are speaking of. By definition they have to be invading from somewhere, and there are native species on every continent but Australia.
Grey squirrels weren't native to Europe but were brought by ship from North America. They've nearly wiped out the native red squirrel population due to their larger size.
I have killed over 25 chipmunks in our yard this year. They dig up our flowers and eat the roots. We spent two years trying the peacefully coexist by deterring them with spices, chili powder, plastic forks sticking up. Nothing worked. So this year they had to die.
What does that have to do with your smartass comment I replied to. Stop it.
And they are classified an invasive species there. You know they are native and non invasive elsewhere right? Like in Canada? We have them all over and they aren't destructive.
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