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Try This:  Squirrels are driving us crazy!  |
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
2044 Posts
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 Posted - Oct 15 2004 : 07:41:11 AM
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If they aren't pelting us with acorns ( and I swear I hear them laughing...) they are feasting on my pumpkins and corn stalks decorating my front porch. I finally figured out how to prevent this without poisoning the little devils! Just pour witch hazel over the pumpkin and indian corn and they don't like the tase! All natural, eay to reapply after a big rain and and you can compost later without any residual chemical deposits! Bramble
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cecelia
True Blue Farmgirl
497 Posts
cecelia
new york
USA
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Posted - Oct 18 2004 : 10:10:42 AM
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That's a great idea, esp. the part about no residual chemicals. The gray squirrels have stayed out of my garden (fenced in), but probably there wasn't anything in there they liked anyway! I love to see them chasing each other around the yard. We do have 2 hazelnut bushes that they get into, I don't mind because we don't spray them and they're usually "buggy" (the nuts, not the squirrels). I do wish they would not leave the shells on the picnic table though!
Cecelia
ce's farm
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Eileen
True Blue Farmgirl
1199 Posts
Eileen
USA
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Posted - Oct 20 2004 : 3:54:16 PM
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We have little red squirrels that tease the bejeebers out of our little pomeranian. They get under the yurt and he thinks he is supposed to evict them so he crawls under as far as he can and beginns to bark and sqeel when he is in a place where he can't get out real fast they run out past him and up the tree. One will go to a second tree and they will take turns barking at him. He will stand below the tree just out of reach of them and they will keep teasing him. One will run to the next tree and begin to bark distracting him so the other can run to another tree. I have seen them play this game with him for hours. None of them ever seems to tire of it. It just makes me laugh.
Eileen
songbird; singing joy to the earth |
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ivmeer
True Blue Farmgirl
409 Posts
Amanda
Pawtucket
RI
USA
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Posted - Jul 19 2005 : 08:00:50 AM
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| This is a problem that doesn't go away when you move to the city! We have a squirrel that's chewing through the bellows in our air conditioner. (not to mention driving the cat absolutely up the wall) |
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CityCat
True Blue Farmgirl
198 Posts
Catherine
Toronto
Ontario
Canada
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Posted - Aug 21 2005 : 3:56:57 PM
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A few years ago my Dad was having squirrel problems. The squirrels got to all the cucumbers, zucchini and eggplants before my parents. That got my Dad scheming (he was an engineer), and he invented the squirrel zapper. Now before you all go running off the the SPCA complaining about cruelty to squirrels, it didn't work. He never zapped a squirrel. He waited all day and tried, but it shorted out or something, and no squirrels were harmed.
He went and bought an animal trap from Lee Valley Tools and now traps them for relocation to a nice, big park far, far away from the house. Peanut butter is the best bait. Unfortunately, it's also apparently good at luring in pigeons and skunks....
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greyghost
True Blue Farmgirl
650 Posts
Lynn
Summerville
Georgia
USA
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Posted - Aug 22 2005 : 09:11:30 AM
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LOL - Cat, we tried peanut butter last year - and got oppossums and raccoons every time, but no squirrels. Our yard was so overinfested with the rats with furry tails I took to sitting on the roof with a slingshot. Never hit one tho. I also found a way to quietly let my dogs out of the house to go barrelling down on them. They never caught one either, but my bigger dog, Cookie, discovered she can jump 7 feet up a tree!
Figured if we couldn't get rid of them we could make 'em scared. They got our eggplants and corn last year - ALL the corn, even after we put up a fence with a top on it - they found a way to DIG under it (since when do squirrels dig like that?). We had the aluminum pan on a stick to make noise and wave in the breeze, turned sprinklers on.... nasty buggers. |
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CityCat
True Blue Farmgirl
198 Posts
Catherine
Toronto
Ontario
Canada
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Posted - Aug 22 2005 : 4:53:47 PM
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Oh yeah, squirrels can dig. They bury nuts, so they gotta know how to dig. Pissed my Dad right off cuz they were tearing up his fall crop of spinach and lettuce to bury nuts.
One day I noticed my cat acting strangely to something on the other side of the kitchen window. Wouldn't you know it, a squirrel, brazen as anything, was up on the windowsill digging in an abandoned pot, driving my cat bonkers. He routed around in the pot, pulled out a walnut or a chestnut, checked it out, popped it in his mouth, and took off. It was rather fasinating glimpse of animal behaviour.
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ByHzGrace
True Blue Farmgirl
348 Posts
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Posted - Sep 01 2005 : 1:16:22 PM
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We have a squirrel we've named Chipster. He ended up with a broke leg after the hurricane. He eats pistachios out of our hands. My husband will put a peanut butter cookie in his pocket and he hops right up his chest and picks it out of his pocket.
Anybody ever eaten squirrel? |
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
2044 Posts
2044 Posts |
Posted - Sep 07 2005 : 7:21:09 PM
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My Dad used to feed them peanuts out of his hand and they would sit on his knee! He also had a pet racoon as a child so we were never surprised by his Dr. Doolittle tendencies! It skipped my generation but my son rescued two babies last week so I think the family trait is ressurected. And we have "Chippy" who has beaned us with green pinecones and chatters at us!
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Krisathome
True Blue Farmgirl
90 Posts
Kristin
Iowa
USA
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Posted - Nov 07 2005 : 8:37:58 PM
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No, I've never eaten squirrel but my dh would really like it if I did, I think. 
We have a couple of squirrel nests under the peak in our roof. I really don't like it but I can't get them out. I'm afraid of heights.
Our neighbors that we share a driveway with have had oppossum in their basement recently. I don't know how they got in though. I can't imagine having an animal that too closely resembles a rat in my basement! |
Edited by - Krisathome on Nov 07 2005 8:40:01 PM |
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mommatracy
True Blue Farmgirl
490 Posts
Tracy
My. Olive
NC
USA
490 Posts |
Posted - Mar 12 2009 : 6:18:08 PM
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Reminds me of a quote from the movie Sweet Home Alabama or was it Legally Blonde? Anyway Reece Witherspoons character said " squirrels were just rats with cuter outfits on!
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
4439 Posts
Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
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Posted - Mar 12 2009 : 6:21:39 PM
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We have so many squirrels around our house. They are cute little buggers until they start digging in my flower pots and turning over my planters. Yup - rats with a cute outfit is about right.
The Rustic Cottage Blog http://therusticcottage.blogspot.com
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jinia
True Blue Farmgirl
152 Posts
jinia
mo
USA
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Posted - Mar 13 2009 : 8:48:22 PM
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We have tons of gray squirrel who just love our peach tree! Find those peach pits everywhere! But there is one special one - Crackers - who keeps licking the stain on the porch and nibbling on it to! Been doing it since last summer. You would think by now it wouldv'e poisened itself...The weirdest thing to look out the window and see Crackers licking the porch for all he's worth . |
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