commander bunnypants
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Mon Jul-12-04 07:22 AM
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If squirrels wont so damn cute, I would kill them all |
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The buggers are eating my tomatoes in my garden!!!! They are mine dammit..
DDQM
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Skittles
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Mon Jul-12-04 07:24 AM
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1. it's their tails that save them |
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were it not for their tails they'd just be varmints.
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Mon Jul-12-04 07:25 AM
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2. Dey got cute little ears, too. |
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Mon Jul-12-04 07:25 AM
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3. Sprinkle cayenne pepper around them. |
demnan
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Mon Jul-12-04 07:26 AM
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with sunflower seeds. I'm sure they like those better than tomatoes.
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Mon Jul-12-04 07:32 AM
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they are just hungry, I guess. :)
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Mon Jul-12-04 08:02 AM
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7. Sunflower seeds? Peanuts??? |
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Have you priced peanuts recently? It'd be cheaper to just buy those gourmet tomatoes-an-the-vine than feeding the fluffy tailed rats. And I know because I feed my birds peanuts - in a squirrel proof feeder (yes, it works). Not to mention that if you feed them there will be a population explosion like nothing you've ever seen before.
The gray squirrels aren't as bad as red ones, but both will eagerly eat songbird eggs and fledglings. And once you've seen a squirrel scampering across the lawn with a baby Chicadee in it's mouth with the parent birds in pursuit - you'll never feel the same about squirrels again. And then there was the incident where squirrels got in my attic and chewed every wire up there, costing me a fortune in rewiring and presenting a major fire hazard. So, cute or not, they're vermin in the worst sense.
I relocate mine. There's a lot of controversy about whether it's kinder to relocate them or kill them, but I don't have what it takes to kill anything, period. So, I catch them in a Havahart trap and haul them 7 miles down the road. Well, the ones the cats can't catch.
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Mon Jul-12-04 09:12 AM
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9. Generic cereal... big bags of it.. It works for my friend |
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the squirrels like it, and she makes it easy for them to get at, so they leave the bird food alone :)
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Mon Jul-12-04 07:34 AM
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6. A cute squirrel frolicking |
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in the woods is a critter. When they're in the garden, they're varmints. Blow 'em away. You have rights too.
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Mon Jul-12-04 08:55 AM
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kill them, save your tomatoes.
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Mon Jul-12-04 10:43 AM
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10. Ground squirrels are the worst garden pest. |
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If I didn't have a squirrel chasing dog I'd probably be another crazy guy sitting on my back porch with a gun.
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