A Question About That Article In Yesterday's New York Times On Squirrel Hunting Season In Ville Platte, Louisiana

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One thing the article didn't make clear to me was why the people of Ville Platte had a "season" for squirrel hunting. Are they afraid that they will run out of squirrels? Aren't squirrels like mice and rats, aren't they everywhere? Are squirrels rarer in that part of Loiusiana? Or maybe they shoot and eat so many of them that they really would wipe out the squirrel population if limits weren't imposed. But has anyone really been FINED for illegal squirrel hunting? That's kinda hard to believe.

Anyway, new squirrel answers, please.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you have to tag a squirrel when you shoot it?

Maybe it has something to do with mating/feeding/nesting cycles that would be considered "cruel" to hunt them at the wrong time of year. (It's only kind to kill a squirrel 2 weeks out of the year.)

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, I checked, and the season is Oct 2 - Feb 28. That's longer than I thought. But still...

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I ate squirrel yesterday. It was nummy.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

really? someone i worked with once was always asking me if i wanted some squirrel pie - his wife supposedly made a mean one - but i never took him up on it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmm, lovely squirrel

I want to try some more than anything right now...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

SQUIRREL HUNTING RIOTS

― Professor Challenger (ex machina), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Damm the season, you should be able to whack those things any time of the year. Squirrels are pure fucking evil.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

In that part of Louisiana it's a holiday at the start of the season. School is closed and everything cuz everyone is in the woods shooting squirrels.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

tree rats

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 4 October 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I would be interested in seeing the medical statistics for the week, just to see the tally of ebullient hunters who had managed to wing their colleagues.

This was common where I grew up. People would send buckshot into each other's backs by accident or shoot their dogs.

I glanced at the article but didn't notice the allowed caliber. Was it a .22? Using anything with a shot round would make the squirrel inedible, if that's your bag. The problem with the consumption of squirrel is that you can get tularemia from them.

― George Smith, Monday, 4 October 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I presume there isn't much meat on a rat? What about a guinea pig?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 4 October 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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