The Pox

scholar007

Nothing worse than the pox

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0119/squirrel.html

msg11

What a pox..

FatherLen

oooh another pandemic. awesome!

chin_grin

Hairy Japanese B*stards!

syklops

squirrel pox

Is that the virus or the dessert topping we are talking about it.

Kevin Duffy

It's their own fault, they're passing the pox by nibbling each other's nuts.

Where To

A sore finger is a sore thing, but a sore thing is not a sore finger.

stupidusername

Poor reds will never get back to good numbers.

syklops

stupidusername wrote: »

Poor reds will never get back to good numbers.

Maybe thats the answer to the Ginger question?!?

We infect gingers with the red squirrel pox and their numbers will decrease.

kfallon

Thought this was gonna be a thread about Daithi O'Se!

BBDBB

squirrels are only rats with good PR

Ellis Dee

All joking aside, this is a pretty nasty disease, which means a rather slow and painful death for the animals that contract it, and leads to local and regional extinctions. In the past, red squirrels from unaffected areas have eventually spread back into places where the disease has wiped out all members of the species, but this has not been possible since the arrival of the American invader a little over a century ago. Now, as soon as the reds have died out, their former habitats are taken over by the greys, which are bigger, breed faster and eat a much wider range of foods. On top of everything else, the American invaders carry the disease, but are immune to it themselves. :cool:

It will be said indeed if one day we can never again see those beautiful red squirrels in Ireland.:(

When humans get the "pox", at least they can console themselves that they've had a bit of jiggy-jiggy fun - and it can be cured nowadays as well - but the poor red squirrels have done nothing to deserve their sad fate.

stupidusername

syklops wrote: »

Maybe thats the answer to the Ginger question?!?

We infect gingers with the red squirrel pox and their numbers will decrease.

Ixnay on the inger-jay ensing-clay

later12

I bet the dirty greys are behind this.

Baxtards.

Teyla Emmagan

A pox on all your dreys!

Sindri

Its always the foreigners fault.

I say we get a good ol' fashioned lynch mob going. That'll teach the blac...er...I mean grey squirrels.

Irish Guitarist

Poor little guys.

Before everyone starts being racist towards grey squirrels; they didn't choose to come here.

Are grey squirrels native to Ireland?
Grey squirrels are not native to Ireland, but originally came from the forests of eastern North America. The Irish population originated from a single introduction in 1911, at Castle Forbes in Co. Longford; apparently they were introduced at a wedding party. Since then, grey squirrels have colonised 20 counties in Ireland, and the spread is continuing.

http://www.wicklowmountainsnationalpark.ie/GreySquirrel.html

mikemac1

So it's the immigrants fault. :mad:

Send those greys back to where they came from

Micky Dolenz

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Poor little guys.

Before everyone starts being racist towards grey squirrels; they didn't choose to come here.
http://www.wicklowmountainsnationalpark.ie/GreySquirrel.html

Partly guessed the English were involved

How does on identify a diseased squirrel?

later12

mikemac1 wrote: »

So it's the immigrants fault. :mad:

Send those greys back to where they came from

We can't. It was the most successful of all the British plantations.

At least these scallywags don't march up and down with flutes and pipe bands, gloating about the Battle of the Boyne, I suppose.\

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

How does on identify a diseased squirrel?

If you've ever seen Shaun of he Dead, it's something like that.

stupidusername

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Partly guessed the English were involved

How does on identify a diseased squirrel?

Here's info on the symptoms in different stages

TheZohanS

derp