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Topic: The Squirrel Wins
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| wineaux | Posted – 5/13/2008 2:41:18 PM | show profile I give up. Uncle. The furry little marauder won. I thought the hook hanging from the house worked, as he/they tried a few times within my view and failed. I woke up Sunday a.m. to the birdfeeder totally empty, and the last little hole,( which is two small for a squirrel head) was chewed to a more gaping size. I bought one of those wrought iron hooks that has a hook at the end , and at the suggestion of a guy that has a nursery around here, greased the end of the pole up with olive oil. I added 1/4 cup of cayenne pepper to the seeds, (mixing well) as someone on here suggested. Woke up this a.m. to get my morning cafe', look out the kitchen window, and there one of the bushy-tailed demons was, gripping for dear life on the edge of the feeder, shoveling away. I guess they like spicy food. |
| Agirlwalksintoabookstore... | Posted – 5/13/2008 3:02:36 PM | show profile Oh, geez. These squirrels are taking over! Who would have known that they like spicy foods? Makes me more glad than ever that I live in a large city with none of the little buggers running around... |
| westsidestory | Posted – 5/13/2008 3:08:10 PM | show profile wineaux, I'm so sorry! The pepper always worked for me. |
| wineaux | Posted – 5/13/2008 3:25:49 PM | show profile I don't know why the pepper wouldn't work. I'm totally baffled. I ran the idea by a couple of people who have gardens/birdfeeders in my 'hood after you posted it, and they all agreed they had heard of people having success with that method. I think the squirrel that inhabits my yard is of a rare, hardy stock. |
| DQ102 | Posted – 5/13/2008 4:59:56 PM | show profile There is no sense in trying to dissuade this squirrel. You must give in to his demands and become his personal chef. |
| df | Posted – 5/13/2008 5:23:21 PM | show profile a few suggestions: (always remember squirrels are like rats, hard to defeat, but not as smart, thank god) wrap the middle part of the hook with gaze where they can' climb over a glass plate at the edge where you have the hook will not allow then to climb over, they can't hold on to it if its flat and has nothing to put hteir little claws in steel aluminum works too make it wide enough a low voltage cow fence wrapped around the pole has always kept the cats away from our bird feeder olive oil drys, use margerine to grease the pole |
| TGAN | Posted – 5/13/2008 6:04:09 PM | show profile http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=squirrel+obstacle+course&hl=en&sitesearch= See what squirrels can do if you just keep adding difficulties? |
| catlondon | Posted – 5/13/2008 6:38:45 PM | show profile Do you also have grackles? They can empty a feeder in no time at all. I've had a bigger problem with them than the squirrels. |
| foto | Posted – 5/13/2008 8:23:32 PM | show profile People assume that because they are rodents, they are brainless. But I believe they are at least as intellegent as most higher primates. Soon they'll be outsourcing our jobs to Central Park. |
| foto | Posted – 5/13/2008 8:35:28 PM | show profile Remember: Mr. Nibbles always wins. |
| HisGirlFriday | Posted – 5/13/2008 9:49:14 PM | show profile Did you put an inverted cone over the top of the feeder? So there's like a upside down V on it? That kind of feeder works for us. But LBD: that video killed me ... especially the porno-sounding James Bond music. |
| wineaux | Posted – 5/14/2008 11:44:38 AM | show profile Oh my word.......the candy napper really got me. I think foto is right. Squirrels have genius written all over their furry figures. I'm going to a place in an adjoning town that caters to bird watching, and I was told he has some feeders that are pretty tough for the squirrels to get into. I still don't believe they can be beaten. They are victorious. We're making the peanut butter cones this afternoon for them. Maybe if they have easy access to their own food, they'll leave some for the birds. |
| wineaux | Posted – 5/14/2008 11:51:04 AM | show profile I've nicknamed the biggest one McGyver. Yesterday, my brute of a dog chased him away from the feeder and came within inches of him. He scurried up a big maple tree, climbed out on one of the longest, thinnest limbs, screaming in squirrelspeake at the dog, dangling precariously. I had to be impressed by that one. |
| foto | Posted – 5/14/2008 10:10:05 PM | show profile I remember one night I had to walk home from the train station because my bike had a flat tire. As I was walking down a very dark street I accidentally stepped on a dead squirrel. I could sense I was stepping into fur and it emitted a curious farting noise as I stepped on it. Excess gas from the decomposition process I suppose. Totally disgusted me. |
| wineaux | Posted – 5/15/2008 12:10:59 AM | show profile Oh my God, foto.....only you could say something so repulsive and make me laugh at the same time. |
| foto | Posted – 5/16/2008 9:38:28 PM | show profile Sorry Wineaux. But its true. The only thing that can stop a squirrel is a speeding motor vehicle. In the absence of a serious predator threat, traffic is the only thing that keeps their population down. (A confession: Actually I like squirrels.) |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 5/16/2008 11:15:17 PM | show profile You fought the squirrel and ... the squirrel won! You fought the squirrel and... the squirrel won! I may be the only one who remembers that song... (law not squirrel). |
| writesonwater | Posted – 5/17/2008 1:28:15 AM | show profile I fought the squirrel and the (beat) squirrel won. Love it. |
| Astera | Posted – 5/17/2008 2:36:47 AM | show profile You're definitely not the only one who remembers that song, UGo. Green Day covered it in the past year or two, so now a whole new generation knows it! ------ www.adventuresofastera.blogspot.com |
| wineaux | Posted – 5/18/2008 1:13:17 PM | show profile I remember that song! And, it resonates in my head as I write. A fluffy-tailed seed napper with a brain the size of a marble kicked my ass with his tenacity. |
