Oh, I feed the little critters, too. I keep a pan of corn, sunflower seeds and peanuts out on the back porch, and I have a couple of squirrel feeders as well. Sometimes they will go for awhile without bothering the feeders. I have a squirrel guard on one of them. I'll probably end up investing in a couple of the more costly feeder set ups for the sake of keeping at least one good-sized open platform feeder that the squirrels can't get at, and I may add one of those roller gizmo feeders just for pure entertainment watching the little buggers gets tossed on the ground. I've also taken to dumping the excess from one of the feeders on the ground when I fill the feeder. That way, the squirrels and some of the ground feeders get more. I used to try and avoid it because I didn't want a bunch of weeds sprouting up all over the place, but I've pretty much given up on that.