I grew up hunting and fishing. Always went to deer camp, squirrel camp etc..., haven't been in years but have been thinking about doing a little squirrel hunting this fall.
I remember one year in the 70's i got into a grey squirrel migration, it was unreal at the squirrels we killed opening morning of season that year.
We always crooked squirrels, fried taters, pork & beans at thoes camps. I have ate alot of squirrels in my day.
About 12 years ago while elk hunting in Colorado i saw my first marmoths.
I googled squirrel migrations tonight and was reading about them and got to thinking about thoes marmoths and thought. Marmoths would probably be as good as squirrels are to eat !!! WRONG !!! Marmoths are rodents like squirrels but are carriers of the bubonic plague. Alot of people have died from eating them.
The bubonic plague of the 1400's was transmitted by fleas that were feeding off of infected rats that had bubonic plague. Same has happened with squirrels.
I look back at wild game that i have killed and skinned. About everything thing from rabbits, deer, squirrels, turkeys you name it has either fleas, mites, lice on it. Even domesticated animals from pets to cattle.
Makes me wonder why more people don't die of the plague.
I remember one year in the 70's i got into a grey squirrel migration, it was unreal at the squirrels we killed opening morning of season that year.
We always crooked squirrels, fried taters, pork & beans at thoes camps. I have ate alot of squirrels in my day.
About 12 years ago while elk hunting in Colorado i saw my first marmoths.
I googled squirrel migrations tonight and was reading about them and got to thinking about thoes marmoths and thought. Marmoths would probably be as good as squirrels are to eat !!! WRONG !!! Marmoths are rodents like squirrels but are carriers of the bubonic plague. Alot of people have died from eating them.
The bubonic plague of the 1400's was transmitted by fleas that were feeding off of infected rats that had bubonic plague. Same has happened with squirrels.
I look back at wild game that i have killed and skinned. About everything thing from rabbits, deer, squirrels, turkeys you name it has either fleas, mites, lice on it. Even domesticated animals from pets to cattle.
Makes me wonder why more people don't die of the plague.
