Peta director Elisa Allen said: “The UK prides itself on not being the Wild West but rather a nation of animal lovers who don’t react to some minor annoyance caused by a squirrel by shooting them dead.“There are humane ways to deal with perceived problems with wild animals, who have as much of a right to be around as Jeremy Paxman does.Squirrels ask for nothing from life but the chance to live it, and Paxman would do well to consider Henry David Thoreau’s words: ‘The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.’”In Britain the native red squirrel has gone into severe decline since the introduction of the grey squirrel.Black squirrels, which are a variant of the grey, have been seen in several southern counties..
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