Whatever You Do, Don't Tell PETA!!

[wolf]

A California town makes its own modest proposal - Kill the squirrels and feed them to the birds ... at the behest of the Los Angeles Health Department.

Sure doesn't sound very Californian to me.

[Shawnee123]

"Squirrels can carry fleas which can lead to bubonic plague..."

Hell, humans can carry crabs and STDs, and lord knows there is an overpopulation there as well.

Is someone reaching or what?

Dogs can carry fleas, too. So can cats. As for being rodents...hamsters are perfectly acceptable as household pets, as are guinea pigs, gerbils, and mice.

Anyway, our squirrels are just jumpy little guys running around the neighborhood trees. We even have a population of white squirrels.

Sounds to me someone just wants to do some good old squirrel killin'!

Perhaps Cheney can spare a weekend?
Or perhaps send in the troops?

[glatt]

Humans can spread the bubonic plague too. Maybe they should be culled.

[Shawnee123]

From the CDC:

Introduction: Plague is an infectious disease of animals and humans caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis.

People usually get plague from being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium or by handling an infected animal. Millions of people in Europe died from plague in the Middle Ages, when human homes and places of work were inhabited by flea-infested rats. Today, modern antibiotics are effective against plague, but if an infected person is not treated promptly, the disease is likely to cause illness or death.


Risk: Wild rodents in certain areas around the world are infected with plague. Outbreaks in people still occur in rural communities or in cities. They are usually associated with infected rats and rat fleas that live in the home. In the United States, the last urban plague epidemic occurred in Los Angeles in 1924-25. Since then, human plague in the United States has occurred as mostly scattered cases in rural areas (an average of 10 to 15 persons each year). Globally, the World Health Organization reports 1,000 to 3,000 cases of plague every year. In North America, plague is found in certain animals and their fleas from the Pacific Coast to the Great Plains, and from southwestern Canada to Mexico. Most human cases in the United States occur in two regions: 1) northern New Mexico, northern Arizona, and southern Colorado; and 2) California, southern Oregon, and far western Nevada. Plague also exists in Africa, Asia, and South America (see map).

So, many plague outbreaks occur in CA, though mostly scattered cases in rural areas (10-15 persons/year.) Modern antibiotics are highly effective against the plague.

Trying to understand the big hard-on against squirrels.
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I don't see a problem with it. If they are overpopulated culling is a sound option.

[Tonchi]

Originally Posted by wolf

Kill the squirrels and feed them to the birds ... at the behest of the Los Angeles Health Department.

Sure doesn't sound very Californian to me.

Oh Lord, here we go with Mad Squirrel Disease

[WabUfvot5]

Then we can get the rabid gorillas to eat the birds. It all works out.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Rats with bushy tails are appealing to people that don't know them.......ask Warch.

[capnhowdy]

Unless I overlooked it, Ayers the animal lover or anyone else mentioned any consideration to relocate the tree rats.

But then the birds may starve to death, resulting in a vulture and ant population explosion. We couldn't have that sh#t, now could we?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by the link

“We were forced into it because the people were saying ‘don’t do this, don’t do this,’” Ayers said of when he attempted to carry live animals in traps out of the park.