Because obviously red squirrels are still squirrels, but there’s just far less of them. Don’t think people would mind the occasional squirrel raid as long as they knew there was only going to be one of them for the entire neighbourhood. Alas.
Instead we dip into the UK’s defense budget to engineer elaborste cages which leave karger birds hungry just to give a big middle finger to the grey bouncy buggers.
Bonus picture:
Don’t know if/how this one got out again, it just came up when i searched for visual examples. Goes to show that we’re never really safe. They can even get into our homes!
Sometimes squirrels eat so much that they get too fat to get back out.
Fun fact: I don’t know if it’s still the case, but it used to be illegal to release a squirrel caught in a bird feeder, as it counts the same as releasing a captive squirrel into the wild. Not that it’s enforced, but you are supposed to have it put down.
Man the law can be so dark
I mean if it is a grey one is that not moral? They are invasive after all
So were the Normans, but that doesn’t mean it’s moral to shoot Frenchmen today.
Lawful is not moral.