Grey squirrels- what's not to love?
These squirrels are from original designs and are individually handprinted in vegan-friendly ink on Heather Grey Fruit of the Loom t shirts. The squirrel design is about the 8cm high and about 12 cm wide.
Grey squirrels get a bad press, and, in my view, some of the language used about them is actually quite disturbing. Describing a species as "foreign", "alien" and "invasive" is to 'otherise' them, to view them as a threat, as unwanted, and superfluous, and is usually a precursor to doing something terrible to that species.
Blaming grey squirrels for the decline in the number of red squirrels is to ignore the elephant in the room..or, actually, the humans in the room; it is not that greys have launched and won a war against red squirrels, but that they have outcompeted them for resources, and being bolder and more adaptable, have proved better at living alongside humans.
Grey squirrels didn't ask to be introduced to the UK, and instead of trying to hark back to some mythical golden age of wildlife when everything was exactly as we think it should be, with only 'native' wildlife in the UK, and every other species 'controlled' and 'managed' to death (that would mean no brown hares, dormice, pheasants, Sika deer or muntjac, collared doves or even rabbits), we should learn to be more tolerant and learn to live gracefully alongside them as they are forced to do with us.
I will donate 10% of the profit on these squirrel tees to the very caring Hitchin Squirrel Rescue rather than my normal generalised wildlife rescue donations.
I print to order and will aim to dispatch your t shirt to you in either recycled packaging or a biodegradable posting bag within 1-2 weeks so please allow time for the magic to happen. :-)
We are animal lovers and have spent many years involved in widlife rescue and so we will donate 10% of the profit from the sale of this item to wildlife rescue- either Hitchin Squirrel Rescue or Hedgehog Cabin rescue, to support their wonderful work.