Keep showing off you little furry f*** acrobats!

[bnw]

Looking out the window I realise it is that time of year again when I see three squirrels very high up a sugar maple, nearly the very top, jumping from high outer branch to branch bending the branch into an upside down U-shape while holding on for dear life. Despite the fact that last year was a mast year for all acorns the squirrels are again gorging themselves on the fast expanding tree buds. I and my now older dogs watch these annual acrobatics in anticipation of the tomato thieving, soffit gnawing, electrical wire chewing little fucks falling to the ground. Given my neighbors freaking out over me blasting them in my yard I now have to wait until they go on vacation. So this opportunity for natural selection is welcomed (as is the squirrel between my dogs jaws) since the population explosion of the squirrels around here will no doubt go after my tomatoes more so than usual and that is on top of the fucks eating $$$$$ worth of my wife's flower bulbs. If I must endure another hard freeze perhaps it will be one that freezes the outer reaches of the branch thus making it very brittle so when the furry fuckers jump on it....it breaks and they fall to the ground? We wait and see.

 

[Ramhusker]

Rent a cat! They are pretty good at hunting them.

 

[Selassie I]

Here's a solution to keeping the tree rats out of your tomatoes...

Buy yourself some plastic decoy owls. Your can buy them at Lowes or Home Depot in the varmint control area. They look like real owls... place one (probably only need 1) or more around your tomato garden. The squirrels won't go near that area.

The best part of using these owls happens right away. Watch in amazement what happens when a squirrel first sees the owl as he approaches your garden. You think you've seen them do acrobatic moves in the tree tops???... wait till you see their moves upon 1st spotting the owl. They shit themselves in the process. Quality entertainment.

 

[bnw]

Rent a cat! They are pretty good at hunting them.

We have a cat but she doesn't specialize other than if it has fur or feathers it is fair game.

 

[bnw]

Here's a solution to keeping the tree rats out of your tomatoes...

Buy yourself some plastic decoy owls. Your can buy them at Lowes or Home Depot in the varmint control area. They look like real owls... place one (probably only need 1) or more around your tomato garden. The squirrels won't go near that area.

The best part of using these owls happens right away. Watch in amazement what happens when a squirrel first sees the owl as he approaches your garden. You think you've seen them do acrobatic moves in the tree tops???... wait till you see their moves upon 1st spotting the owl. They crap themselves in the process. Quality entertainment.

I am going to try that. I wonder if it will keep birds from cherry trees instead of netting?

 

[Selassie I]

I am going to try that. I wonder if it will keep birds from cherry trees instead of netting?

It works on birds too.

We have 4 of them around the pool to keep the ducks from swimming and shitting in it. They work like a charm.

An owl is a terrifying site for most birds. We have a big number of real owls in our neighborhood. There's a big oak tree that branches over my driveway. The owls like to use that tree as their dinning room table. I can't tell you how many times we come out to see every feather plucked from a bird and dropped onto our driveway. I guess they pluck the feathers before eating. It makes a mess sometimes with blood and guts mixed in with the feathers.

 

[RhodyRams]

they have the bobble head owls and hawks around here. My dog Lola was fascinated by my neighbors perched on the shed bordering our property. She would just sit there and gawk at it and pace around the shed looking for a way up.


It doesn't work for squirrels in our yard tho, since we seem to have the only oak tree in the relative area. I can stand on my back deck and look at 8 neighbors yards and no other oak trees

 

[bnw]

I can't tell you how many times we come out to see every feather plucked from a bird and dropped onto our driveway. I guess they pluck the feathers before eating. It makes a mess sometimes with blood and guts mixed in with the feathers.

My cat does that too, but in the garage. Something they failed to put on the cat door's box.

 

[bnw]

they have the bobble head owls and hawks around here. My dog Lola was fascinated by my neighbors perched on the shed bordering our property. She would just sit there and gawk at it and pace around the shed looking for a way up.


It doesn't work for squirrels in our yard tho, since we seem to have the only oak tree in the relative area. I can stand on my back deck and look at 8 neighbors yards and no other oak trees

Poison whole dried corn? In a feeder where only a squirrel can get to it?

 

[thirteen28]

Try this:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Ya6z-NlDo

 

[1maGoh]

My mother always used to thoroughly douse the gardening area in cayenne pepper. It gets on the squirrel feet, the squirrels lick it off, and freak out because it's hot. One or two trips like that and they don't come back. It may not work for you. Works better for smaller gardens.

 

[RhodyRams]

My mother always used to thoroughly douse the gardening area in cayenne pepper. It gets on the squirrel feet, the squirrels lick it off, and freak out because it's hot. One or two trips like that and they don't come back. It may not work for you. Works better for smaller gardens.

we use a spray with garlic powder, cayenne pepper and some other ingredients I can't think of right now (don't do drugs kids) on our gardens.....keeps everything out, deer, rabbits, chipmunks squirrels etc


Last year tho, we had a groundhog come right up in the middle of a raised bed with swiss chard, beets and radishes...completely destroyed everything

 

[bnw]

we use a spray with garlic powder, cayenne pepper and some other ingredients I can't think of right now (don't do drugs kids) on our gardens.....keeps everything out, deer, rabbits, chipmunks squirrels etc


Last year tho, we had a groundhog come right up in the middle of a raised bed with swiss chard, beets and radishes...completely destroyed everything

Oh that sucks! My dogs would get the groundhog but if in the bed then the bed would also be destroyed. One time my dogs sent the groundhog 15 feet up a tree.

I like the idea of chemical warfare but wonder how well does it hold up to rain? Do you apply it to the soil or bed frame or both?

 

[bnw]

Try this:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Ya6z-NlDo

That is awesome. I could launch them into my neighbors yard.

 

[Mister Sin]

I hate them. They find they way into my attic and I still haven't found a fucking possible entrance. But yet the other day one was right above my recliner...just fucking with me.

I get the .410 out and take care of them. My wife likes to eat them as does the old widow on the neighboring property, so they do not go to waste. I don't kill anything that won't get eaten.

 

[LesBaker]

I hate them. They find they way into my attic and I still haven't found a freaking possible entrance. But yet the other day one was right above my recliner...just freaking with me.

I get the .410 out and take care of them. My wife likes to eat them as does the old widow on the neighboring property, so they do not go to waste. I don't kill anything that won't get eaten.

You eat flies and skeeters then?

 

[1maGoh]

Oh that sucks! My dogs would get the groundhog but if in the bed then the bed would also be destroyed. One time my dogs sent the groundhog 15 feet up a tree.

I like the idea of chemical warfare but wonder how well does it hold up to rain? Do you apply it to the soil or bed frame or both?

Anything and everything you think they might step on. Straight cayenne pepper doesn't hold up well to the rain, but it's not too expensive or difficult to reapply. Depending on the size of the garden, anyway.

 

[Elmgrovegnome]

My father in law trapped and relocated them. It took a few months because as a void was created other squirrels moved in. He was persistent though and eventually he cleaned them out. He has been squirrel free for three years. I am sure he won't be eventually.

I hate them. They find they way into my attic and I still haven't found a freaking possible entrance. But yet the other day one was right above my recliner...just freaking with me.

I get the .410 out and take care of them. My wife likes to eat them as does the old widow on the neighboring property, so they do not go to waste. I don't kill anything that won't get eaten.

My dad had squirrels in his shed. It is a big building with an upper floor for storage. They were chewing everything up for nesting material, even electric wiring. They shed smelled awful too.

I got on Amazon and found the highest rated signal emitter that I could find. It was about $50. We plugged it into a receptacle and in a week the stink was going away. It works on spiders too. That place is pest free. It Doreen bother his cat at all. She goes in and jumps on the workmen to be pet, right next to it. My mom got more for in the house. They used to get a lot of mice and Wolf Spiders. She doesn't anymore. It doesn't work on ants though.