Letter: Squirrel hunt, other 'killing contests' should end to the editor FacebookTwitterEmail FILE. Letter writer says, 'The New York state Legislature will consider a bill to prohibit wildlife killing contests this session. We should end these inhumane "cash and prizes" competitions, which treat our shared wildlife resources as nothing more than disposable pieces in a cruel game.' (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)AP Photo/Hans Pennink The Germantown Sportsmen’s Association's upcoming Squirrel Scramble, scheduled for Feb. 27, is one of many gruesome wildlife killing contests taking place across our state (“Plea to drop squirrel hunt spurned,” Feb. 16). In these competitions, participants vie for prizes by killing the most or even the smallest animals. Hundreds of coyotes, foxes, squirrels and other species may fall victim at a single event.