What the hell

[Departing Contestant]

thought there should be a place for oddities.
This is all that is left of a cow skull that was in my back yard.
The squirrels have gnawed it down to about nothing. One tooth left.
They are getting minerals from it and sharpening their teeth (I suppose) I am not squirreloligist

[johnsbrewhouse]

Departing Contestant Wow, we have never had that problem with skulls left out. We have had a couple of elk skulls up at our camp that have been out for five years and the only thing that has interest in them is the kids dog. We have lots of grey squirrels up there, maybe they don’t want to meet the same fate the elk made.

[Departing Contestant]

johnsbrewhouse i have always had a lot of respect and admiration for grey squirrels. i think they are cool. Red squirrels (tree rats) are our problem. You can see in the upper left of the picture they have started on another one I put out

[Jonathon]

Departing Contestant There is a super ritzy part of New York called Whiteplains that have jet BLACK squirells. We always joked that they couldn’t even have the same rodents as the rest of us! I like squirrels too, fun to shoot, fun for my dogs to chase and also, pretty funny to just watch them!

[processhead]

Departing Contestant
I think you are right on both counts. Mineral supplements and tooth sharpening. Rats and mice will do the same thing to bones and antlers.

Jonathon We have almost all red squirrels around here. From time to time you will see black ones. I have been told they are the same species as red squirrels and the color variation is just a genetic mutation, kind of like albinism.

[gus4416]

We have lots of red squirrels in upstate ny one of the most destructive things there is they can fit thru a hole a rat can’t so I frap them and move them out

[grandpetemyzer]

my dogs luv them too

[calldoctoday]

Departing Contestant We found one in our front yard when mowing a few weeks ago. I said just put it in one of the beds for some western style decoration. Then it completely disappeared altogether. We have no idea where it went, but it was a bigun.

[Departing Contestant]

calldoctoday big d**n squirrell…be very afraid

[Departing Contestant]

really d**n d**n d**n
okay then dam dam dam

[mrobisr]

processhead said in What the hell:

Rats and mice will do the same thing to bones and antlers.

Yep, my hunting buddies and me have had our rattling antlers in our shops chewed on too and it was not squirrels.

[sheleyp1]

Fried Squirrel is very good. Squirrel dumplings in my opinion is the way to go. My brothers and I go each year on a Squirrel hunt. The results are a very tasty bowl of Squirrel dumpling made by Mom.

[RON PARRISH]

sheleyp1 Squrril and dumplins. That is some of the best!

[mrobisr]

Squirrel in a crock pot with some chicken stock cajun seasoning and rice at the end and that is some fine dining and it does not matter if it is young or old all will be tender.