on squirrels

[Guest guest]

the only thing i can think of to discourage squirrels would be one of those

motion sensors hooked up to a hose. when the lil critter scampers past, the

motion sensor goes off and squirts em with a blast of water....

they use em for raccoons (with mixed results)

other then that...umm...squirrels are rambunctuous, smart, and stubborn.

they don't take " no! " for an answer very well...

 

 

fraggle

 

You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me!

[Guest guest]

Thanks Fraggle! I'll look into that and give it a try. Yes, they are

tenacious little guys! I think the problem is that the neighbor on

the other side of the easement feeds them nuts and stuff and then they

come into our yard to bury them. Also, because we have a lot of trees

and such around the house and in the backyard, it's a great place for

a squirrel if you take away the dogs. We used to feed them until we

adopted Gracie - we knew she had a high prey drive and we stopped.

The greyhounds would chase them if they were in the backyard with

them, but we made noise to scare 'em off and the greyhounds pretty

much ignored them while they were inside. Gracie won't. She goes

insane if they are in " her " backyard. So the squirrels have not been

fed by us in 3 years. I miss them. I had one that would follow me to

the garage, where I kept the critter food. She would gently take

things from me. She was just really sweet. She took up residence in

a screech owl nest box in our tree and had her babies there. They

were cute little guys when they started coming out of the box!!

 

 

Missie Harhold

and Gracie the Ibizan Hound

and Jeanie the Greyhound

greyhounddog

 

 

 

" Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one

wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to

die, so do other creatures. "

 

-Dalai Lama of Tibet, His Holiness, The XIV