Sounds alright Turtletagger,in days of yore the squirrel was an accepted
source of protein there was I believe a very long musket called a squirrel gun,
lead weighted sticks were thrown to knock them out of the trees in the autumn when they were nice and fat,dreys were brought down with long poles to get at hibernating squirrels which were plump with stored fat.
As I have said elsewhere 20000
Red Squirrels passed through markets in the 1800s