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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.
 
Antibiotics work well against the plague, so it's not really a very deadly disease, by modern standards. While hunters do have some risk, their level of exposure is nothing compared to the living conditions of people in the middle ages.
 
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TCRanch said:
We used to have them in the alfalfa field but haven't seen one in years. And I did NOT serve him for dinner!
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The marmots OP is talking about lives at higher elevations in the western states, and they're usually smaller than a ground hog.
 
The ones i saw were in a real rocky or more like bolder area at around 11,000 feet above sea level. I had never seen a marmoth before then and didn't know what they were.

Not like prairie dogs or ground hogs.
 

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