Squirrel not dressed for the snow
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I've seen this before. It was in a bar down in Tampa called the Squirrel Cage and featured half naked nutters dancing in cages hung from the ceiling. I was a much younger man then and I confess it made my mouth water, but alas I didn't have the $20 for a one on one in her private drey.
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Anyone seen this before ?
Ya seen similar before. A few things don't look right with that guy... That rodent is sick, you put him out of his misery. He was a pre adolescent male not yet breeding, maybe physically developmentally slow from what ever disease it had. I'd be careful handling that, wouldn't eat that guy or even give it to my dogs.
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That is why I try to keep them thinned out. I have seen it a few times over the years. Lots of squirrels for a couple years in a row. Then they catch mange or another disease and almost all die off. A few years later, they make a come-back. And it starts all over again. I bet you will see more of them this year or the next.
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I shoot 30-40 every year to try and keep the population to a decent level.It is what I have to do to keep them from chewing there way into my house and storage buildings o and it’s a lot of fun !
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Nope....
Good article explaining development of greys
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/fig1_7225166
In many places in our country there are not enough breeding males. Can be 25 to 1, female to male in some areas. So, if you're getting low on nutters in your area might want to look carefully in your scope, lining them up with the pics below. Might want to leave the healthy breeding males for another year, and just go after the abundant females...
jmo
For those interested in the biology of the greys development,,, lol
This is what a grandpa, or full grown breeding male would look like..
This is a breeding adolescent
And this is a non breeding pre adolescent...
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