Squirrel problem "solved"

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Last month we visited with our oldest son and his family in Alberta. The neighborhood they live in is quiet and attractive, but ever since they moved in there nine years ago they have been plagued with squirrels in the garden. We all loved feeding the wild squirrels at my sister’s cabin when the kids were young so he didn’t want to do anything harmful to them. It was more a matter of frequent complaints over the latest damage done to their yard and plants.

When we were there this last time he told us that the squirrels had seemingly been gradually disappearing. He mentioned this to his next door neighbor, an elderly and kind-hearted retired gent named Bob. Bob smiled and admitted that he had built a humane trap for the varmints. “What do you do with them after trapping?” our son asked. Bob said; “After dark I drive them out to that snooty, rich part of town and release them in the back alleys”.
 
Another humane way would be to baptize and then confirm them.

You’ll never see them again.
 
Some of them return once they’ve made their first nest and the kids are able to climb.
 
We’re working on that at my Parish. An acorn social afterwards has been pretty successful! It’s just hard to connect with these young critters. 🐿️
 
I’ve learned to live with squirrels set on destruction 😵
I just fence the vegetable garden with removable wire so they cannot touch that.
 
I’ve learned to live with squirrels set on destruction 😵
I just fence the vegetable garden with removable wire so they cannot touch that.
The problem is that they also like to chew other things like wiring. They chewed through my father’s truck starter wires. They also chewed through one of our water hoses in our gardening sprinkle system. Destruction is an understatement!
 
Ugh… squirrels! They look like cute cuddly Disney characters, but they are very destructive! My mother-in-law and sister-in-law put up bird feeders in their yard and my husband and I warned them that they would be attracting squirrels and mice… and sure enough, squirrels are getting under the house now (it’s a manufactured home that’s been added on to) and pulling out insulation and scratching around in the duct work. Additionally, when my husband’s truck wouldn’t start (he had parked it in their yard for a couple days while he was doing some work for them), they found that a mouse had built a nest under the hood and chewed through some wires! We live in a rural area and squirrels are everywhere and a big enough nuisance as it is. We told them there’s no need to attract even more!

Our son offered to use his .22 to get rid of them problem, but that brought cries of outrage to the family.
 
I wonder if building nest boxes for hawks could help.

A cat or two would certainly help.
 
They live in a rural area, so they’d have to have 10 or so cats. Plus, they are not cat people. He parks his truck in the garage now. The hawk nest box sounds interesting, though…
 
I was in the house and was watching a squirrel on the deck railing moving closer to a small bird that was sitting in my flower box. The squirrel repeatedly would chase the bird away. After the third time, the bird left, the squirrel moved to the flower box, and I saw the bird swoop down and dive bomb at the squirrel from behind and then fly off. It literally made me laugh out loud to see that sight! 😂
 
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At the lake we used to see tiny wrens drive off squirrels, the rodent leaping madly from tree to tree while the birds pecked at his head.

A squirrel obituary from The Onion; "He was described by friends as “frantic and indecisive.” "
 
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