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!
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...