Omens of a brutal winter?
Troops of pre teen boys (and girls)
Pass around BB guns
Tell them not to shoot each other
Problem solved
Gonna be COLD this winter, due to global warming no doubt.
Sounds like a severe cat and owl shortage.
Maybe they got too large of an owl size, and they ate the cats.
Perhaps investing in twelve year olds and pellet guns would fix the problem.
Now, if only the squirrels will eat the rabid left-wingers of New England.
They go from sun up till sun down carrying Hickory nuts from one tree of mine across a 50 yard field and then the road to some where on the other side of the road and back again.
been going on now for 2 weeks.
Its a hoot to watch them climb the tree,snip off a bunch and then go down and make the journey and start all over again
We seem to have fewer squirrels this season, but we do have quite a few hawks, owls and other animals on our property.
Squirrel pot pie! Yumm!
squirrel stew shortage?
I have the solution
jesse ventura is the pumpkin/appe/etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgzxSr6l9Y4
Perhaps the farmers/gardeners could scale up the rat trap that utilizes a couple of boards for ramps up a 5 gallon bucket of water, with a “friction-less” rod that has food in the middle?
Farnham makes a product called “JUST ONE BITE”.
Comes in a brick that is 1# and looks like peanut brittle.
I have lived rural for over 25 years, and dealt with Norway rats down to ground squirrels.
Brick should cost you about $7, but locally I can only buy it now in boxes of 8 bricks.
I place the unwrapped brick inside double Ziplock freezer bags, and pound it with a hammer on a hard surface. That breaks it up into pieces & crumbs.
Put those items where the squirrels run, even in the crotch of a tree. Keep way from your pets.
You should be finding dead squirrels within 3 days.
What works for me is rat bait. From the hardware store. Cheap Easy 100%
The roads and highways are covered with dead squirrels here in Maine, many more than in previous years. They are suicidal running across roads. I had one person break ahead of me to avoid a squirrel. Myself, no breaking, have hit one and missed many others.
Drove down Route 93 from New Hampshire to Boston last weekend & seen hundreds of dead squirrels on the side of the road. Like 300 or 400 hundred, not 20 or 30!
The only thing I could do was to use a pellet rifle. I tried have a heart traps and driving miles away and releasing them but they would be back in 3 days. I spray painted a spot on their backs before releasing them. Sure enough they all return.
The hawks and owls barely make a dent.
Don’t like when they chew on electric wires.
Tree rats.
Prepper squirrels are smart and know when to stock up for the winter.