Spices? 3 miles in back of beyond in the winter? What? Bog spruce needles?

Or did you mean meat can taste like meat if you spice the crap out of it? Which, IMO, you would have to do for red squirrel on accounta it tastes worse than crap.

Thank goodness I came upon a HUGE beaver dam later in the day. I cut an alder whip and got me a couple of Spruce Partridge. Tough but tastey.