jmcquown said:James Silverton said:Nancy wrote on Mon, 2 Apr 2007 16:50:02 -0400:
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:> Nancy Young wrote:
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:>> It wasn't the garbage.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:>>http://i7.tinypic.com/4bdzw9j.jpg
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:>> Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and
>> was eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I
>> caught him.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:> Curse those tree rats. We never had a problem with them
> when we had cats around. My project for this week is to
> pick up a live trap and to re-locate the local population
> one at a time.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Honestly. All winter I was fighting them for the bird
feeders, they wouldn't leave them alone no matter what.
I'm getting a supersoaker for next year, I can give them a
blast of water right through the kitchen window. I tried
throwing ice cubes at them but my aim stinks, hard to throw
through a window.
Quoted message said:I never did make any serious dent in my squirrel population.
When we first moved into the house we tried to grow peaches
without success because the rats ate them first. To add insult
to injury they would sit on the doorstep cracking the pits and
leaving the debris. One year I caught 20 of them with a
Have-a-Hart trap and released them five miles away but I still
got no peaches since the neighbors seemed to just move in. I
restrained myself from killing them and only one died when the
next door cat saw the trap with a squirrel in it and seemed to
have spent the afternoon provoking the rodent because it died
from apparent exhaustion.
Quoted message said:I had a plastic "squirrel-proof" bird feeder but the beasts ate
it!
Quoted message said:James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland
I have to store the bird seed *inside the house*. My apartment patio has a
built-in storage shed and for a while I thought I had rats... real ones, not
the tree kind. A friend gave me a heavy duty plastic tub to store the bird
seed in and - you got it. It was chewed right through. One day sitting
outside I watched as a squirrel literally flattened itself (I thought only
mice could do that? disjoint their bones that way?) and went under the
locked door. Now I keep the bird seed inside. It's not as convenient but
it saves on bird seed.
Curse the squirrels that were eating Nancy's cookies! (I just realized how
funny that sounded.)
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Squirrels are amazing little critters, aren't they?? I might add tho,
Raccoons have them beat, hands down, they can get in anywhere. My
neighbor went and let the cat out one morning, yeah, left the patio
door open a bit, when she wandered down to get coffee, the cat was
sitting on the table and a raccoon and three babies were in the
kitchen eating the cats dinner.
The mother ran out, kids scattered and it was mayhem.
As we have discussed before, raccoons can be vicious.Best to not get
near them or trap them in a corner LOL
Another time , went into the garage,opened the plastic bin, where dog
food was stored. Surprtise ! Alarge raccoon had climbed in and could
not get out....
And then there was the skunk that got in the garage...
Rosie-- who now has a grey fox who is denning in a small cave in the
back yard !! Animal Planet here!!
