OY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Ya6z-NlDo

I don't find it funny.

Everyone is certainly entitled to their opinion, but when it was showed to the secretaries they thought it was a riot. They even called others employees to check it out. Squirrels can be a real pain if you grow fruit trees or vegetables. They cause a lot of damage. - Millet (714

They are more and more rare in France. It is different in Germany where you can see them even in towns.

I don't know.
They are not ecologicaly dominant. The grey squirrel that has been imported in England made our russet squirrel nearly disappear.
Our squirrels mostly feed on seeds not on fruits or plants.

Same here! Seeds of tomatoes! Actually I think they are looking for moisture but they are plenty of other sources nearby.

Looks like squirrels have developed some bad habits there and learned to go for human grown food. Here they don't bother the apples, plums or vegetables. They do go for the bird feed though which we don't really mind. Perhaps you could deter them with an electric fence, a dog, or teach them to go for scraps of food instead? It's the grey squirrel we have here imported from the USA, the English red squirrel is endangered. I've heard fried squirrel tastes like bacon, has anyone tried it? lol

They eat peaches. The problem is they take a bite or two out of a peach, drop it to the ground, and go to the next one, and the next one, on and on. In the cities with 1000s of trees the number of squirrels are uncountable. - Millet (712-)

When I was a kid there were no squirrels in the city I live in. Now, the squirrels outnumber the people by at least five times. I am fortunate to live in a neighborhood that is somewhat isolated from the rest of the city where there are few squirrels. Still, the squirrels do exactly as Millet said. They take one bite out of each fruit on the trees then move on to the next one. They don't bother the fruit lying on the ground. I only had to eliminate six squirrels last year. I know people in other neighborhoods who had to eliminate more than 300 squirrels in their yard last year. My neighbor works for the city electric company and he tells me their number one maintenance expense is squirrel damage mostly due to blown fuses and transformers. Squirrels frequently get carbonized when then get across two power lines, especially on the top of transformers. They cause many power outages. Whenever you hear a transformer explosion it is most likely caused by a squirrel. I have another neighbor who works for the telephone company and he tells me that squirrels are also their number one maintenance problem. Squirrels like to eat the plastic insulation off the wires. My wife hates them because they like to eat holes in the cushions of her deck furniture to get the stuffing out to line their nests. They might be cute but they sure cause a lot of damage.

From Europe all that looks incredible!

Thanks for the taste account Darkman, if the city squirrels here weren't so filthy I wouldn't mind giving them a try lol. I imagine they'd taste something like rabbit which I really like.

After finding orange peals behind my shop I asked the kids why they were hiding the peals behind the shop, they said they didn't. A few days later I saw a squirle crossing the power line with a Hamlin, when he got to the pole behind the ship he got on top of it and started eating. Luckily we have plenty of oranges. So they do eat oranges.

They eat Everything!!

I remember myself peacefully eating a taco on UH campus and a squirrel standing in front of me and demanding that taco! After reading in it's eyes "give me THAT or I will eat YOU" I gave up and tossed what was left from my lunch to the animal. It ate the whole thing including couple pieces of fried chicken...

Sylvain, gray squirrels are more like rats. They are nothing like the European orange squirrels!