I for one welcome our new grey overlords

[DoctorStrangelove]

Back in the day the "bob a tail" thing from the Forestry Commission was enough to pay for the shotgun shells.

The RSPCA are apparently distressed that they've finally been forced to follow the law & off the little bastard rather than letting it go as has been their habit in times past.

[SueEllen]

I used to have a soft spot for grey squirrels. But I've gone off them since finding out they eat birds' eggs and fledglings, as well as stripping bark from ten year old trees and destroying them by the thousand.

Vermin
Never had a soft spot for them above the age of 9 when I realised how nasty they were.

[OwlHoot]

One thing I can't understand about nature. If hedgehogs etc. are dying out due to habitat loss etc. how come grey squirrels can do so well?

Hedgehogs aren't very bright, to put it mildly, and are set in their ways, literally as they toddle around practically the same meandering path every night. Squirrels are the opposite, and of course they have a bigger habitat since theirs is 3D and it's safer for them up in the trees.

I used to have a soft spot for grey squirrels. But I've gone off them since finding out they eat birds' eggs and fledglings, as well as stripping bark from ten year old trees and destroying them by the thousand.

[xoggoth]

Damn things seem to be taking over: there's fecking millions of the little bastards.

One thing I can't understand about nature. If hedgehogs etc. are dying out due to habitat loss etc. how come grey squirrels can do so well?

[NotAllThere]

Damn things seem to be taking over: there's fecking millions of the little bastards.

There was one on the bird feeder yesterday & would be an ex squirrel if I could still shoot straight.

You need a blunderbuss.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Damn things seem to be taking over: there's fecking millions of the little bastards.

There was one on the bird feeder yesterday & would be an ex squirrel if I could still shoot straight.

[jamesbrown]

“too scared to leave their homes”.

[xoggoth]

You beat me to it.

PS But I read it in the Guardian!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ing-welsh-town

[vetran]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...r-rampage.html

Bloodthirsty grey SQUIRREL terrorises town by biting 18 victims in 48-hour rampage that leaves many too scared to leave their homes

• A 'rogue' grey squirrel attacked 18 people in Welsh town of Buckley, Flintshire
• He was nicknamed 'Stripe' by locals after the evil character in the Gremlins film
• After a two-day rampage, Stripe was caught in a cage by Corrine Reynolds, 65
• Mrs Reynolds says the town 'can breathe a sigh of relief' now he is with RSPCA

now we know what AtW has been up to!