Squirrel damage? Options?

[flor1]

Air rifle cheap basically silent and a final solution.
A cheap meal if your so inclined but to me look like a rat with a tail.

 

[penumbra]

They are tasty, but I no longer hunt. I remember I used to tell my kids they were eating beef stew. They always came back for seconds.

 

[Carol 83]

They are tasty, but I no longer hunt. I remember I used to tell my kids they were eating beef stew. They always came back for seconds.

My grandma used to fry it and put it in a pressure cooker to make it tender. Pretty good unless you bit into some buckshot.

 

[penumbra]

Pretty good unless you bit into some buckshot.

Shotgun is overkill. 22 is all you need.

 

[Carol 83]

Shotgun is overkill. 22 is all you need.

My grandpa was always kind of dramatic.

 

[brentwood]

Well, the squirrels are back again... Your dad won't call anyone, says this time it's personal... They chewed most of the branches on my Chinese elm, so disappointing... At least it's early, and they were small, but they better back off, or I'm breaking out the wrist rocket.
B

 

[Underdog]

Dang Brent, I think I have a rare Beaver-Squirrel in the neighborhood! My newly collected Dogwood got ate up today between 9 and 2pm. Tore all this up in that short of time. Poor old dog is weak and limping along as it is.

Our neighborhood is over run w/the lil bastards as my neighbor feeds them corn daily (which they plant in my garden among my sweetcorn) I've not had much trouble w/them other than to occasional hole dug in a nursery pot. They don't bother the inorganic soil.

Hopefully that large root was mainly feeding that large sucker I pruned off with intentions of removing completely once established. The upper branches will be gone eventually as well.

I guess I've been lucky until now. Have to check on the others tomorrow... fingers crossed.

 

[Forsoothe!]

I keep a quart sprayer bottle with malathion solution that I spray on anything critters show an interest in. It smells bad. I would rather they eat it at that point but they usually leave it alone.

 

[Underdog]

Oh it's on now... Fukers...
Every one of my sweet corn, gone. Another tree shredded and couple other dug up. So much for the thought of only organic plantings.
Rat poison? WTF?
War!

 

[penumbra]

Little bastards!
I keep them under control using fox and coyote urine granules I buy on Amazon. They work very well but I augment this with two cats.

 

[Underdog]

Anyone ever try hot sauce and dish soap in a spray bottle? Home remedy I found...

 

[penumbra]

Anyone ever try hot sauce and dish soap in a spray bottle? Home remedy I found...

I used hot pepper wax for several years to repel deer and other critters. After a few years it seemed the deer preferred those that I sprayed over those I did not. I do know that dried chopped hot peppers on the soil surface is discouraging. I have been doing that for a number of years sprinkled around newly planted plants in the ground. I imagine it might work for plants in a pot as well.

 

[Oleg]

Wow! Sorry about that, I had the same problem a few years back, feeding anything turns them into vermin! I've never seen anything like that, never seen them dig through grit!

Our neighborhood is over run w/the lil bastards as my neighbor feeds them corn

Anyone ever try hot sauce and dish soap in a spray bottle? Home remedy I found...

Spray it right in his eyes, if that doesn't work, shoot him in the ass with a pellet gun. LOL He should get the message!

 

[Dav4]

Anyone ever try hot sauce and dish soap in a spray bottle? Home remedy I found...

Condiments...

 

[Dav4]

I've never had serious issues until the last 2 days... lots of soil(measured in quarts) kicked out of 2 pots containing very old collected junipers and several successful approach grafts broken off of one of my big tridents... I have the day off and am fully caffeinated so let's see what happens.

 

[Forsoothe!]

Oh it's on now... Fukers...
Every one of my sweet corn, gone. Another tree shredded and couple other dug up. So much for the thought of only organic plantings.
Rat poison? WTF?
War!
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You horrible person! The little furry friends need to eat, too, don't they? Shame on you acting in your own best interests. If you really respect the earth, you should buy a dog. A big, fast dog...

 

[Dav4]

You horrible person! The little furry friends need to eat, too, don't they? Shame on you acting in your own best interests. If you really respect the earth, you should buy a dog. A big, fast dog...

Whatever... I say live and let live Almost universally… Until you screw with my trees.… Too much time and money invested in these to let the carnage continue.

 

[LanceMac10]

Rats, nothing more. The neighbor feeding these things is a jerk. Would you throw a bunch of food out for rats? More rats, more disease. I don't recall ever going up in a tree and trashing squirrel nests.....

Tree rats are screwing the food chain as there isn't enough natural predation......snipe away @Dav4 !!!!

 

[LanceMac10]

 

[Underdog]

All I have to work with unless I get the.380
I can watch the BB loft out. Pretty weak