Bill4373
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 | | 10/15/2008 6:00 PM |
| little pieces of Irish Spring soap keep deer away from plants. should work for squirrels also. Another thing is the Jerry Baker method. A pouch of chewing tobacco stewed in a gallon of water. In a 20 gallon hose end sprayer: 8 oz of the tobacco juice, 8 oz of liquid dish soap (a lemon scent is best), 8 oz of medicated mouth wash and a couple drops of castor oil and/or the very hottest hot sauce you can find. works on my flowers...  | |
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| | 10/16/2008 6:43 AM |
| Bill Thank you those are two ideas we hadn't heard before. I think we'll try them in the spring, probably the Irish Spring first. Not much chewing tabacco lying around my house, lots of killer hot sauce though! Robert | | | |
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Bill4373
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| | 10/17/2008 12:38 PM |
| I was talking to my neighbor about squirrels and plants.. he said the Irish Spring soap works on deer but not on rabbits. | |
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Ole Toad Frog
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| | 10/20/2008 1:21 AM |
| Get you a real wildlife camera which is not cheap but can photograph at night color pictures to make sure. Because if it is dry and she watered them I don't think it was squirrels. Most likely Armadillo! And please don't posion them just shoot them if you live out where you can and make it count. I myslef would not want to be posioned by any one, the effects I have seen many times in the Vet's office and there is no help I can give them. Toad | | | |
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Mike ledley
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| | 11/22/2008 8:51 AM |
| | Fox or Bobcat urine keeps everything away for me. I put some on the landscaping timbers & it last's 3 weeks + -, thru rain & watterings.... | | | |
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rpc7271
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| | 11/24/2008 1:41 PM |
| | Try this.....There were 3 churches in the town where I grew up, a Catholic church, a Baptist church and a Lutheran church. One spring there was an unexpected overwelmance of squirrels in town. Eventually each of the 3 churches were inundated with over 100 squirrels at each church. They ran up and down the aisles, gnawed on the pews and were otherwise great pests. The Catholic church members put up with this for a short time and then decided the squirrels had to go but they didn’t want to kill them. Finally a decision was made to trap all the squirrels and then relocate then to a local park. This was done forthwith. Within one week the squirrels were back in the Catholic church. The Lutheran church decided to try the same thing but this time they relocated the squirrels to a nice section of forest several miles away. Within two weeks the squirrels were back in the Lutheran church. Now the Baptist church was having a terrible time with the squirrels. Being aware that both the Catholic and the Lutheran churches had tried to relocate the squirrels they decided not to try this. They formed a committee to come up with an answer to the squirrel problem. After several days the came up with the answer……They decided to baptize all the squirrels. That way they would only see them at Easter and Christmas! | | | |
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Dave F
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| | 11/24/2008 4:07 PM |
| Go over to Youtube and search for "Barnes varmit grenade"...
I won't post a link... I'm sure some would find it offensive..
But it works.. | |
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mancosbob
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| | 01/05/2009 9:18 PM |
| Posted By up9018 on 10/13/2008 8:44 PM
Have you tried a double barrel 12 gauge shotgun? I like this guy already.... you can always feed your cats a little less 
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Bob Pero
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| | 01/06/2009 1:24 PM |
| | I use a single shot 22 with shorts. | | | |
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vsmith
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| | 01/06/2009 2:04 PM |
| Your best option | |
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mancosbob
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| | 01/07/2009 3:43 PM |
| Posted By vsmith on 01/06/2009 2:04 PM Your best option
I like that, I just need to add a device that sprays beef and bacon flavoring on the critter, and aim into my neighbors back yard; the 3 dogs should finish the job...
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Tom Lapointe
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| | 01/08/2009 3:09 AM |
| Of course, you could always try "Squirrel Fishing"!  ... ... Or if you're trying to protect a bird feeder, just "take 'em for a little spin" 
...this clip doesn't have the music, but note the "slightly scambled"  result!  (1 minute into this one  )... - My then brand-new Bachmann "Connie" - which is so quiet I call it my "stealth loco"! Tom
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