[Sca-cooks] Ideas for homemade holiday gifts - for cat owners

[avrealtor at prodigy.net]

My husband was telling me that in Alabama they did hunt squirrel and that they stood about 16 inches erect.  Nothing like the little puny ones we have here in California.   He said that at least the ones he killed had less meat then a chicken.  Though he said it does taste LIKE chicken :)

I found it interested that they used their poodles to retrieve the squirrels.  I know that at least the ancestors to poodles were water retrievers, but never knew that even the toy breeds could be used.  And here I can't even get my yorkie to course

-Muiriath  

--- On Sat, 12/20/08, t.d.decker at att.net <t.d.decker at att.net> wrote:
From: t.d.decker at att.net <t.d.decker at att.net>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Ideas for homemade holiday gifts - for cat owners
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Date: Saturday, December 20, 2008, 10:17 AM

> I don't understand how people can eat squirrels, after they've
been 
> properly obliterated with a suitable shotgun. It's not a matter of 
> picking out the shot; it's more about putting together their component

> molecules if they've been properly destroyed in the first place... if 
> there's a discernible chunk of flesh in the remains, you should know 
> you haven't been violent enough... 
> 
> Adamantius 

You don't use a shotgun on squirrel.  You use a .22 and try for head shots
or "barking," killing them with the concussion of blowing the limb
apart under them.  Even so, there still isn't a lot of meat on a squirrel.

Bear
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