Got a Fat squirrel?

The Jamestown Press ^ | 2010-10-14 | Roger Marshall

[Squantos]

I asked girl Friday if she had a fat squirrel an she got mad at me.....

[csmusaret]

Pellet Gun Extraorinaire

[elcid1970]

In my college days when I lived in a garage apartment, my landlady’s trees and roof were infested with squirrels. Loading my .22 rifle with CCI Mini-Caps did the trick and with less noise than a BB gun. Worked on pigeons too, with a city police officer standing nearby and asking if he too might take a shot (my landlady loved to call the cops and answer the door in her bathrobe but that’s another story).

Hated to have to off the little critters, but her pecan trees were spared further depredation.

[Tainan]

One of my favorite rockers...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab39zSPKLC8



I wuz there..hee hee...:)

[Dacus943]

"my landlady loved to call the cops and answer the door in her bathrobe but that’s another story"

LOL!

Soooo, how many times did you knock on her door - rent in hand...

[HospiceNurse]

you don’t get rabies from fried squirrel

[mware]

Don't have a fat squirrel, but I do have a squirrel under glass.

[sodpoodle]

***To avoid hurricanes***

At first read - I thought you were going to comment on the wind-proof architecture of the squirrel ‘nest’.

Ever noticed that those fragile-looking, trashy squirrel ‘tree ghettos’ survive the heaviest most violent wind storms?

They might be annoying, but they are not stupid;)

[catfish1957]

Hard times may be coming. Look at it as future game.

[elcid1970]

I’ll get back to you concerning my landlady. Right now I’m off to work, where this site is blocked.

;^)

[R. Scott]

[folkquest]

Lol. That’s how they do it!

[riverrunner]

You must live in the city the normal human thing in the country is 22lf to the head of any offending squirrels after that they never come back.

[Doogle]

eyep..we have all sorts of vermin,some two legged

[listenhillary]

alcohol in their furry butt gets the message across.

You give the squirrels enemas?

[Doogle]

yeah...with gravity and a good aim

[raybbr]

If you see holes in your lawn, you probably won’t see the skunk or possum that dug them. The animals are digging for grubs, so the solution is simple. Apply Milky Spore disease (available from Jamestown Hardware and Secret Garden). Milky Spore kills off the grubs and soon, you’ll have no more holes in the lawn. It also stops the bugs from eating the roots of your grass, too.

There are no grubs this time of year. They are probably looking for worms. Moles, too. The pesticide industry tells you that moles eat grubs so you'll buy their stuff. Moles eat worms as their main course. They'll eat grubs if they find them but the are looking for worms. The pesticide industry can't sell you stuff to kill worms so they tell you that you have to spend a hundred dollars a year on Milky Spores to kill grubs that aren't there.

[Venturer]

A shotgun takes out squirrels and they are tasty animals.

[9YearLurker]

Go ahead, just kill all of nature in your yard while you’re at it!

[Elderberry]

Last year the squirrels knocked all the pecans off my 6 trees onto the ground while the husks were still green and tight.
They then harvested them off the ground at their leisure.
This year I set 2 live traps in the yard. I trapped and relocated 16 squirrels. One of my trees though broke 3 big branches from all the nuts.