Growing up in Iowa in the 50's, we used to get a 5 cent bounty for a ground
squirrel tail. We'd put them in a gunny sack til we had a couple hundred.
Once, we took a large sack of 'em, maybe 300, to the county clerk's office
for the bounty. When she took one sniff of the bag she said, "Geez, how
many are in there?" One of my quick thinking friends said, "500!" As she
wrote us a check for $25, she said "take them out and put them in the
trash!" and didn't count them. She kept us in .22 shells for the rest of
the summer.

"Paul K. Dickman" wrote in message
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They are big buggers! In Australia I've only seen squirrels living in the
Zoo - not caged, but running free within the grounds. I guess the
cats/dogs may clean them up if they stray too far into the surrounding
suburb. Cheers.
Here in the states, we also have something we call chipmunks (AKA ground
squirrels).
They are small, (four or five inch body length) found running around zoo
grounds, and nobody eats them.

However, I did buy a couple of stretched and tanned chipmunk pelts once.
The were at a local junk shop and were just too wacky to pass up.

Paul K. Dickman