“You can bring him here if you like.”
OK, but there will likely be more than one. I am damn serious. I have loaded my pellet gun to kill him when I catch him, so you can save this killer’s life. This one just wouldn’t quit. He came back again after I quit emailing you but he stayed toward the back of the garden. I am getting rid of them all one way or another - alive or dead, I don’t care.
When I saw him in that barrel, I knew right then I was getting rid of them. I’ll never have any plants living outside with these squirrels living right there on the other side of the fence. I’ll get that trap tomorrow.
Back in the 1950s, Mom was doing breakfast dishes, and saw an onion wiggle, then disappear; then another one wiggle. The kitchen window was open, so she got her old .22 rifle, and waited. Pretty soon a gopher head pooped up, and she shot him.
NOBODY else could shoot her rifle; it had no sights! Still, she could push an empty .22 brass into a tree trunk, then back off as as far she could and still see it, then use shot after shot to drive it into the tree. Her grandfather had taught her to shoot, and he was, at one time, California state rifle champion. He also held a record for years for shooting the most 3” or 4” (forget which they used) blocks of wood out of the air in sucession withot a miss in between, with a rifle.
We are ok with a few more, but not 100’s. LOL Wife puts out 25lbs of food for birds and squirrels every week. After we got that 5” of rain Saturday, you should see the piled up empty hulls in the downhill runoff area that got trapped by grass runners. That is why they don’t bother our gardens, all the food and acorns they can eat makes them too fat to forage. The problem we have is they plant acorns every where, so we have little oaks coming up everywhere to yank up.