Posted on 07/18/2015 1:32:35 PM PDT by blueunicorn6
It probably is but it is so much fun. The squirrel is scratching its head and then it tries again and then leaves in disgust. Bye bye!
Mountain lion story please.
Squirrels are giving me fits around here. We have peach and pear trees, they wiped them all out this year and last, then started on my tomatoes.
So last winter during squirrel season I decided I’d get a little target practice and thin out the squirrels. I can’t stand the damn things as food, not enough there to fool with, but my mother and neighbor will take them.
Every day when I walk out the door 4 or 5 squirrels scatter. So I started to grab the trusty .22. Not a squirrel in sight. Sat there and waited 30 minutes. One scurried across the treetops 75 yards away.
Put up the .22 disgusted and walked outside 20 minutes later...4 squirrels scattered. Right now there’s a squirrel nest 20 feet from my back door, about 20 feet up a big oak tree. They do it just to taunt me...
Every time I walk out back at least 2 squirrels run like crazy out of the pear tree...or did until a few days ago when they finished off the pears. They finished off the best of the peaches and left me 3 with bruised and rotted spots...I’m not sure I’ll get any Roma tomatoes this year at all...
So I walk outside with a .22 to go after a chicken snake...not a squirrel in sight...
Don’t have any problems with them in the bird feeders, they’re too busy wiping out the fruit trees...
I posted the mountain lion story a couple of years back.
The sneaky little dog tricked me and locked me out of the house. He then started a betting pool with the other dogs about how long I’d last with the mountain lion. He won like sixty kibbles.
No.
Some people say I look like Kevin Costner if he was old and fat and ugly.
I think the solution for you is to hang one of those mirrored, shiny disco balls in your tree.
It doesn’t keep the squirrels away, but they’re so busy doing the rubber band dance that they forget to eat your fruit.
Good luck.
Some people say I look like Kevin Costner if he was old and fat and ugly.
Chin up! Last time I saw Kevin Costner he was old, and ugly.
2 out of 3 ain’t bad.
Tell your wife you are 2/3 of a Hollywood sex symbol!! ;)
I actually had a chance to be in the movie STRIPES with Bill Murray. I was going to be the spatula.
I asked my boss for time off to do the filming. He said that with a face like mine, I could only do animal movies.
Hollywood only calls once, and my cellphone was out of power.
Bada boom.. He’ll be back folks, he’s here all week...try the veal!!
;)
Or, if you have a hankering for Hmong style cooking, there's this..
Thank you, NoCmpromiz.. I was waiting for the FReeper recipe... you didn’t fail me. :)
My chihuahua has a motorcycle helmut. Full on professional. There is a motorcycle guy online who makes them.
Griffith Park here in LA has lots of little parks around it. My BF and I love one of them because it is full of squirrels. Sometimes it’s hard to walk there are so many.
So we took my cat to the park and sat at the table. We put the cat on the table and there were about 4 squirrels on top of the table. The cat seemed to scared to tangle with the squirrel and suddenly I bagan to wonder if squirrels would attack me.
Anyway, we left. I still wonder if squirrels are dangerous.
Thank you for the ping!
What a great way to start the day...very funny and well written.
Just keep in mind that if you use a shotgun to, um, repurpose your squirrel, you might need to watch for little round hard things that may have become internalized...
;-)
Crosman Phantom 1000
Very good..damn dogs..
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