Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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Do you guys have fox squirrels in your area? They are a little larger than gray squirrels and are somewhat similar to what you are describing.
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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Fox and gray squirrels are enemies, so a hybrid seems unlikely? Maybe in Indiana they are bipartisan... Why don't you post a picture...?
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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Fox and gray squirrels are enemies, so a hybrid seems unlikely? As I understand it, they will commonly cross breed where populations overlap. I see cross's frequently.
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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Fox and gray squirrels are enemies, so a hybrid seems unlikely? If it was a “hybrid” the grey was definitely taken against its will, lol! Down here in the South they all overlap and greys know better than to get around fox squirrels.
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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Fox squirrels can come in a wide range of colors pic would be nice.
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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Couple of thoughts on this. Possibly transitioning from one to the other or a nonbinary squirrel. Yes, and I believe the proper pronoun would be Square Hole.
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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We have about a 40 square mile area near me that has a lot of white squirrels (gray squirrels). They are not albino. There eyes are not pink. The town even has a white squirrel festival every year. Brevard , NC Been there , seen the squirrels. Lots of waterfalls there too. Pretty area.
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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If you send the pic to yotetrapper@gmail.com I'll post it for you. Sent if it works. Threw in a handle bar pict since you asked about that on the other thread. Don't bother posting that ugly mug.
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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Look in the archives on posting pictures
It's a 3 step process right off your phone Not all phones, my cheap Trac phone won't post photos on this site. Had quite a few people try but no go
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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It didn't work, lol. I didn't get it. Well I'm tec challenged. I will try again later. Heading in for a meeting with the pastor. But I should have some time to try to figure it out when deer hunting with my 12 year old this evening.
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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Definitely a neat looking squirrel. Maybe a color phase gray?
I finally got the pics, btw, now that they're not needed LOL
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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Another vote for a mount. Congratulations to the boy!
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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Very odd for sure
I'd have it mounted Even with the bald spot on the tail? I had my daughter's first squirrel mounted. I cut burrow with a hole in it off an oak to have it mounted on. The guy mounted it so the hole was facing down but trees grow up not down. I put it on the wall. It's still there at my other house my inlaws live in now. It's got large parched of fur that fell out. I guess the guy did a poor job on some part of mounting it. She was 7 and is 30 now so it's been a while but my deer mounts that are older don't have nay problems but they were done by a different guy.
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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What's the consensus? Color faze or hybrid? I was thinking hybrid due to the slightly larger size and more chocolate color belly and the 100% gray back part tail. But it a complete guess and in no squirrel or genetic expert.
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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I would think a taxidermist could just cut out that bad spot of tail and shorten it a bit?
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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Fox and gray squirrels are enemies, so a hybrid seems unlikely? As I understand it, they will commonly cross breed where populations overlap. I see cross's frequently. They crossbreed here regularly. I'm sure what you're describing is a crossbreed. It sounds like what we get here when they cross.
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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Very odd for sure
I'd have it mounted I agree with having it mounted. That has the right size to be a fox squirrel, but the color is wrong. The tail is the color of a grey squirrel. Bizarre, that's for sure.
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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Fox and gray squirrels are enemies, so a hybrid seems unlikely? I know that Red Squirrels and Grey Squirrels here don't get along.Cant say for Fox Squirrels cause we don't have any here.Wish we did.
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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Shark, that looks like a cross for sure. In my area of NC we have Grey's and a few fox squirrel. Where I have hunted in Illinois there are reds and Grey squirrels. Where my wife is from in Ontario, they have black ones that are about the same size as the reds I have seen. The reds and the blacks are bigger than the Grey's but not as big as what I call a fox squirrel. I think a lot of Yankees call reds foxes imo from what I've seen posted here before
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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Fox and gray squirrels are enemies, so a hybrid seems unlikely? In my town, west central Ill., the gray and fox squirrels mix all the time. Makes for some weird colors.
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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Jim, I have hunted for years in Pike co. It is wrapped up w squirrels for sure. The hardwood forest out there sure supports a lot more than NC pine woods
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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I can tell you with certainty there is no “crossbreeding” here with our greys and fox squirrels. They act like mortal enemies here. And if that’s a fox squirrel, he’s tiny. I don’t see much of a difference in body size with the pics. Our fox squirrels here are quite large. They’ll keep deer and greys off a feeder in a heartbeat. I’ve watched three greys go after a fox squirrel and the fox squirrel whooped two and the third wanted nothing to do with it. We may have different names for squirrels than y’all do. I know I’ve seen some crazy looking squirrels in Washington and Idaho. We have grays, fox, and reds. Reds are much more common than fox but dew around here know the difference. I didn't untill a few years ago when I saw a fox squirrel in a basswood behind the barn. Was the biggest squirrel I ever saw. My entire life I had been calling all thr reds fox and never knew the difference tell them.
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Re: 10 year old shot a Hybrid squirrel?
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I could be totally wrong but…our grey squirrels will color up like that when they’re in walnuts. They’ll take on the red colored belly and often end up staining the coats. Soon as the walnuts dry up, they’ll start getting their natural color back. Not saying that’s the case here but the last pic posted certainly looks like what we get with the staining. Just throwing it out there.
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