Re: %#$*@ Squirrels!

Robert Allen (Robert.Allen@Eng.Sun.COM)
Mon, 29 Mar 93 23:48:28 GMT

>>> Have you tried spraying your plants periodically with a some sort of
>>> potion? A little nicotine sulfate or pyrethrin might give them a bad
>>> experience without killing them; if they both learn to avoid your plants
>>> and keep other squirrels out, might be worth it.
>>> Eric J. Forbis forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu
>>
>>I tried hot pepper last year, and hot pepper spray. No luck. Besides,

My girlfriend tried some allegedly humane pepper spray derivative
spray. It was only effective when sprayed directly on the squirrel,
which was amusing, but they just came back when you aren't home.

What you need is a really BIG, HUNGRY, pussy cat.

>>fried squirrel is great...:) Actually, the local wildlife authorities
>>recommend that eastern gray squirrels be trapped and euthanized...I don't
>>know if nicotine-tipped blowgun darts qualify as euthanasia, but hey....`

Unfortunately here in CA blowguns are illegal to possess, as
are firearms silencers... (I can see it now, a shadowy figure
in a trench coat, wearing sunglasses, slips up behind the
squirrel and puts several silenced rounds into the rodent at
close range, then slips away....)
>>
>>Now I just hope the possums don't get into the act...

Last year I had 2 large, highly clawed, raccoons visit my
backyard where they tipped over my water jugs so they could
eat. Supposedly they don't have saliva glands and prefer
water with their food. Now there is a species which you
definately do NOT want to get peeved at you...