On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:41:47 -0700 (PDT), Lynn from Fargo Ografmorffig
> wrote:

>On Apr 16, 2:02*pm, George Shirley > wrote:
>> Boron Elgar wrote:
>> > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:51:28 -0500, Omelet >
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >> In article >,
>> >> Boron Elgar > wrote:
>>
>> >>> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:22:41 -0500, Omelet >
>> >>> wrote:
>>
>> >>>> In article >,
>> >>>> Mark Thorson > wrote:
>>
>> >>>>> I wish I could use this method for the squirrel in my attic.
>>
>> >>>>>http://www.komonews.com/news/local/42916587.html
>>
>> >>>>> It was quiet for a long time, but seems to have become
>> >>>>> again in the past few days. *I suspect my attic is not
>> >>>>> it's principal residence.
>> >>>> Have you considered sealing your attic?
>>
>> >>>> In the meantime, a trap might work.
>> >>> You can seal all you want, but a determined squirrel looking to make a
>> >>> nest will chew through stucco, siding, clapboard and even interior
>> >>> walls. Ask me how I know.
>>
>> >>> Trapping does little as the population is so large and many
>> >>> communities do not allow squirrels or other trapped critters to be
>> >>> transported off-property in a live state. Those rules and regs vary by
>> >>> area.
>>
>> >>> It isn't an impossible situation to remedy, but it can be a persistent
>> >>> one.
>>
>> >>> Were they tastier and safer to eat, the problem might solve itself.
>>
>> >>> Boron
>> >> Squirrel is very tasty! There are a number of recipes on the 'net, but I
>> >> prefer them quartered and saute'd, served over rice.
>>
>> > These days there are concerns over wasting diseases in the squirrel
>> > populations in some areas. *Why bother?
>>
>> > Boron
>>
>> Depends on where you live, in our area me, the dawg, and about a half
>> million Cajuns are wasting as many squirrels as we can shoot. They're
>> tree rats is all they are, destructive, nasty little beggars that happen
>> to taste pretty good when cooked up. I hold the same consideration for
>> sky rats, aka rock pigeons, another European import akin to the English
>> sparrow but bigger and tastier. In the pot they go.
>
>In Kentucky, they have a problem with squirrels in Burgoo (stew like
>Brunswick sorta). They do have a wasting disease related to Jakob-
>Creutzer (sp?) it's a prion disease like "mad cow" only transferred
>by ingesting brain or nerve tissue.
>Please correct me if I got it wrong,
>Lynn in Fargo


You got it pretty darn well. There are many types of these prion
diseases, all wicked and all suspected of being transmissible by
eating infected tissue, which is usually brain and spinal column/
nervous system, at minimum.

Boron