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   @carlharmeling512

   January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

   Nonsense. I’ve got gray squirrels all around my house and never have I seen them stripping the bark off trees.

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   @matthewmulholland7877

   January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

   For each squirrel you eliminate, YOU plant the 30 000+ seeds and acorns it leaves buried every year. Humans are so quick to eradicate to solve a problem and look where we are through our "clever" domination over the natural world… climate disaster! If you want to save the red squirrel consume less and give up meat. 80% of agricultural land goes to supporting the meat industry and your murderous and unnesisary eating habits. The appalling hypocrisy of it!!!!!!!!

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   @colinmaxwell4738

   January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

   Probably more like t0 million put a bounty on them

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   @misfit2022

   January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

   When I go walking in the north I’ve seen rather a lot of red squirrels in different areas but near me all grey but hardly surprising as grey only have to get in proximity to the red to wipe them out. When I was in The Lakes there were a lot of red squirrels.

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   @duncanhewitt6557

   January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

   I love squirrels plus if we had huge amounts of red squirrels I am sure they would do damage too

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   @kathybarry7850

   January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

   For Goodness sake. Leave Wildlife alone……

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   @gemm4793

   January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

   Leave the grey squirrels alone they didn't ask to come here. What about 'man' who is the biggest danger/threat to this planet..

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   @grahamstephenson9393

   January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

   Tory incompetence cost the country billions, whos the bigger pest. The squirrel is just trying to live not destroy what's left of the uk and get rich.

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   @Limabelasun

   January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

   my woods in kent are overrun with grey. bark stripping is killing the trees all around. lead flashing on the roofs being knawed through, plastic gutters, wood facias knawed. add to that 1000s of ring kneck parakeets stripping buds, seed, berries and out-competing the native species of wildlife. yet everything I do to reduce the grey upsets the snowflake tree hugger hypocrites.

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    @RedPillRachel

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    Does this mean I can shoot them in my garden now? I'm a sharp shooter, I can shoot a phone's tiny camera from 2 living room's distance, I'm sure my pellets will mean death to the grey invaders! LOL!

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    @2aph0d_b33blebr0x

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    So costing less than illegal immigrants?

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    @llamudos9809

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    It an invasive species. Its time for a cull.

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    @Trevor_Austin

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    It would be useful if we could shoot them. Ah, but firearms are all but banned, air weapons have limitations, animal welfare idiots would complain etc. meanwhile the woke greenies are sobbing that young trees are being shredded. How long before a bunch of greenies promotes the use of poison?

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    @whatever04811

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    Why does the case remind me of London?

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    @siobhanstrauss8492

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    Or 😃💡🐿I’ve had another idea to reduce the numbers , let the uk Chinese population have the poxy American tree rats as a new type of Chinese snack. I see a new emerging market of squirrel meat being sold in local supermarkets and restaurants. Loathsome American tree rats become Chinese nosh 🤣

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    @LeeRaldar

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    Grey squirrel can be bought online so I have been trying to eat as many of them as possible which is fine as they are tasty as rabbit but there are just so many of them.

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    @richardlewis1539

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    There should be a bounty on the greys, say £5 a head, this would not only relieve pressure on the reds but help native birds from having nests raided to which l have no doubt has resulted in their dramatic population decline. Badgers also need controlling because of the devastating affect their outrageous numbers have on ground nesting birds, bumblebees and wasps.

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    @daz.r1994

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    I have eaten 7 grey Squirrels last year and 2 this year. great in a curry.

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    @pastre999

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    This is an Allegory/ Fable .
    Red Squirrel – the British People who have lived in harmony from the beginning of dawn
    Grey Squirrel- the many migrants we see who are more aggressive, breed uncontrollably , strip the nation of its wealth through the abuse of benefits, misuse of NHS, etc We all know what’s going on, but no one is doing anything about it

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    @davidbond5448

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    Perhaps you should concentrate on the weasels.

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    @oliverkitkat6860

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    Red squirrels are such besutiful little creatures years since i saw one .

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    @oliverkitkat6860

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    Not costing as much as illegal immgrants then

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23. 

    @markbeer6559

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    They are a repercussion of us colonising America !

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    @TB-mo4vu

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    The grey squirrel is a good example of what can happen when we import a non native species of animal into Britain and its exactly the same with immigration and importing non native people into Britain which gradually destroys and wipes out the native population.

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    @shirleyottewell220

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    Pine Martins prey on squirrels especially the grey as its less agile. Time to restore this balance

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    @hombredeacero3131

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    They think they got a problem? 🤣
    Let me tell about a real problem in America that has so far cost the American taxpayers 31.5 trillion dollars and it’s called politicians!

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    @richczentorycki2540

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    Check the rats and grain loss.

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    @siobhanstrauss8492

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    I had a greedy fat grey American tree rat pestering me after I’d opened a packet of peeled chestnuts that it could probably smell. I would have helped a dainty red English squirrel but not that rude arrogant rodent.

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    @asmaben1114

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    Peanuts compared to what 5G is doing to nature…or what goes to Ukraine

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    @razkhan2958

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    Used get fox in my garden in 3 years ago

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    @razkhan2958

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    So funny squirrel

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32. 

    @cavendish009

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    I hate the grey RATS – they are nothing like our true British RED SQUIRRELS.

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    @songscoops4205

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    They are clever and know how to keep their nuts dry…

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    @unusedsub3003

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    This is scraping the barrel of boomer gripes. Why does everything have to relate to the economy?

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    @nihilistlivesmatter5197

    January 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    An interesting parallel

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