Posted on 04/20/2021 3:59:07 PM PDT by SamAdams76
I figured out how to get ground squirrels from burrowing under the walkway: I pee into their hole every night.
I also got some pleasure shooting plastic bb’s at some tree squirrels. I counted 21 living in my neighbor’s Redwood tree — I’m sure there were more. Many of them moved elsewhere.
Squirrels know how to move on when they’re unwelcome. I enjoy hearing their warning calls when I walk by. A form of music in its own right.
I saw a video the other day of a family that rescued a baby beaver. Was the cutest danged thing! He liked to build dams inside the house with whatever was handy, and he LOVED to chew on anything wood. Imagine that?
I want one! But unfortunately, my wife would never consider it.
Tree rats.
I met a man who who had a pet beaver. He hand raised it. When he moved he looked for a house close to water. He released the beaver into water. Everyday he went to the area he released the beaver, he would call the animal and feed it by hand! The beaver was very docile.
When I was younger, petting a beaver sounded exciting. Then I got married and after that, not so much anymore. Yet the squirrel is still around and I’m still buying food for the little buggers. Heeheeee!
There are some really cute videos on the dodo youtube channel. People rescue a baby and raise it for release but they want to stay with the family.
Here’s one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk5z3C8MyZ0
What is wrong with me that I don’t like big brown beavers nor your stupid-link band?
When I think of putting Winona and Beavers together I think of perhaps a semi-naked Winona Ryder, in her day.
Ellie Mae was my first thought
“ Is that a bird or an iguana? “
probably
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned native speakers of the German language and squieeels...
When food is at stake, squirrels can become downright persistent to the point they make you stand back and simply admire their gumption.
For me, I don't think they are "smart" in the way that this animal is: Stoffel, the honey badger that can escape from anywhere!, but...they have a degree of single minded purpose that can make me put my hands on my hips.
I have had long battles with squirrels, I even tried trapping them, but, like dipping a bucket in the ocean to empty it, no matter how many you catch and cart away, there is another squirrel waiting in the wings to fill in that hole!
I found a motorized bird feeder that really works: The Yankee Flipper. I put one outside my office window, and in addition to really, really working, it is extremely entertaining. This link shows the whole video I took in super slow motion which I highly recommend, but this is a GIF of what one looked like one day as I got it on film (I can't find the original GIF, but this is one I modified in the year leading up to the election:
But even then, you can see perhaps a method to its madness, where the bird seed is spewing all over the place, so...it just falls off and eats on the ground instead. I found it hard to begrudge him that after he went for the ride! And, when the battery was a little run down, he figured out how to run the weakened battery all the way down. He discovered a way to wedge his body and legs to stop the thing going around even though the motor was on, so the battery would rapidly die and he could eat in peace. When it was fully charged, he couldn't do it, and it was most entertaining to see him repeatedly try!
But best of all is this video by Mark Rober, the guy who did the glitter bomb package for porch thieves. He decided to harness his NASA engineer skills to defeat squirrels, and built an obstacle course. I found it exceedingly fun to watch:
Mark Rober Builds a Squirrel Obstacle Course to foil squirrels!
A squirrel can break a black walnut with it’s powerful jaws. What might it do with your fingers?
Rube Goldberg would have been impressed with that Squirrel Obstacle Course. If that course stayed the same for months at a time, eventually some squirrel would figure it out, probably by taking some kind of short cuts.
I hate too be a complete dick but I love black walnuts in all my cookies and brownies. Having said that, having grown up in Missouri, and picked up and hulled, broke, picked, and ate black walnuts for near 70 years. Those little rats are good competition.
Awe!!!
I have two black walnut trees in my yard, the squirrels make a nightmare of a mess with them, they have even taken them on top of my house to eat them.
Thanks for the picture. It’s wonderful!
That’s a great idea. I’ll give it a shot!
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