Ummm...Thats a lot of typing about a squirrel.
You gotta get out more.
And I think most of us here have had enough "legislation" for a lifetime...and its only been a year.

Inever saw a black squirrel until about 10 years ago and that was about 40 miles SW of Kansas City. I grew up and still live in the Ozarks and have heard several stories of people killing black squirrels but I've never seen on here.

The ones I saw in Kansas were definitely color phases of the fox or red squirrel. Much, much to big to be grays. The guy who owned the property, his wife is a life long friend of my wife, shot everything but the black squirrels and I saw at least 10 different black squirrels while we were visiting.

Vic

my be we should pass legislation to stake out the amature zooligets and let the fry in the summer sun( buy my spelling you can tell I'm a proguct of NY puplic school system)

I just had to bring this up again so forgive me this one time.

Last night on Animal Planet there was one of those 1-7 programs about albino animals. Well, they also showed a jet black "Gray squirrel" and commented on how it over produced melanin as opposed to albino squirrels which produce none. I just found it interesting, that's all.

I was visiting my Mother in SW Iowa, yesterday (in Walnut, IA) and saw completely black squirrels playing in the street