{"id":135878,"date":"2023-04-12T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-secret-lives-of-grey-squirrels-the-telly-was-off-the-wall-plates-were-smashed-furniture-was-ripped\/"},"modified":"2023-04-12T12:18:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T05:18:29","slug":"the-secret-lives-of-grey-squirrels-the-telly-was-off-the-wall-plates-were-smashed-furniture-was-ripped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-secret-lives-of-grey-squirrels-the-telly-was-off-the-wall-plates-were-smashed-furniture-was-ripped\/","title":{"rendered":"The secret lives of grey squirrels: \u2018The telly was off the wall, plates were smashed, furniture was ripped\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBritain\u2019s 2.7 million greys are on the rampage, starting fires, flooding homes and destroying ancient trees. But is it really right to kill and eat them?\u2018This poor lady didn\u2019t close her loft hatch properly and the squirrel got into the flat,\u201d recalls John Silby, a 58-year-old pest controller. \u201cShe thought she\u2019d been burgled. The telly was off the wall, plates were smashed, furniture was ripped. We put traps in. When we went back and opened the door, we could smell dead rodent. But the traps hadn\u2019t gone off.\u201dSilby\u2019s grey squirrel stories have the urgency, mystery and gore of a Sherlock Holmes tale. Once, one of his colleagues was bitten by a squirrel, whose massive incisors went through his thumbnail and out the other side. Silby couldn\u2019t get the animal off, because it was locked on and wriggling, so he had to decapitate it, then wrap the thumb \u2013 and the squirrel\u2019s head \u2013 in a bandage to take his colleague to A&E. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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