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[Spidra Webster <spidra@gmail.com>]

You're assuming a disease a squirrel carries can only be passed to another
squirrel. That is not always the case. Squirrels can carry and have carried
rabies and bubonic plague, among other diseases. The same would be true for
some parasite species. Is there a reason why it is difficult to trap to
kill? (I know that some areas have laws that make it hard to dispose of
dead pest animals...)

I totally sympathize with wanting to get rid of them. I have little love in
my heart for Eastern Grey Squirrels.

Megan Lynch
South Pasadena, CA

On Wednesday, August 15, 2012, Steve wrote:

>
> continuing....
>
> On 8/15/2012 7:50 PM, Louis Pittman wrote:
>
> > 3. It's biologically - consider the potential for introduction of
> > disease/parasites into the population you release into.
>
> Again, there is no existing population. Around here, Gray squirrels
> exist only in town where they can raid bird feeders all winter.
>