WOW, Those folks are really serious. The repellant sounds good, but recently, but using seed that squirrels do not like has worked. Also, I have the feeders now on steel posts and I grease the poles.
the birds are happier.

Mary now refers this thread as Rick's Squirrel Thread.
Rick

Nobody cares, Rick.

My father was sick of squirrels in his bird feeder he build for my mother.

He figured out something with running current through a metal rail connected to the house's main breaker.

I was like 3 at the time, so I don't remember the details.

Ohh but we do... look how much feedback there is.... about Ricks squirrels !!! (sorry Mary)




I want to see video of squirrels trying to climb a greased pole... or them building a ladder, or a squirrel pyramid to defeat Rick....

I believe the post with the most hits and replies is that "TEST" thread from way back. It has meandered through a variety of subjects, and currently is carrying on about "naming your rock band" which I find intensly amusing.

It just keeps getting better.... <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

While I often find myself in heated discussions regarding this topic myself, I would have to comment that if you are DEBATING a topic, you should be leaving emotion out of it.

A debate that involves emotion is perhaps more properly labeled "ranting" or "fighting"...

I would think it's okay to be passionate about something, but you should not be disrespectful of others' opinions.

What seed do squirrels NOT like? I'm serious, please tell.

Although I have to say that the pellet gun solution has been quite effective. The squirrels literally avoid my yard, although they are elsewhere on the street. There has been the occasional young'n'dumb one, and he goes in the pot, and then it's just the birds again. Hot pepper in the seed didn't work, BTW. The critters just got used to it and kept on eating.

I wasn't kidding about the squirrels eating my house. There are chew marks in the wood in several places, they were getting into the house, and chewing the window frames. (this when we first moved in, the PO let it happen.) And when we tried the hav-a-heart one way traps, they chewed the metal and broke their way out the traps.

I can't see sense in waste, so I just skin 'em and eat 'em. And no, I don't find they smell any different than any other dead game.

I wouldn't mind did they just eat the seed, but they destroy the feeders and chew my house, they had to go.

I am not sure if this video contains the original but at least it is on the same theme.

http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2007/squirrel-impossible-mission-p1.php

Solution to the problem is easy - a couple of well-trained gundogs! (proven). Squirrels, cats, rats, mice, foxes, badgers - all no problem. Although they must be trained only to go 'on command' or it will be a pointless exercise. Also, no need to be a marksman.

Cheshirecatman

They now stay away from feeders with safflower seed and thistle seed. The finches love both
I was putting out Suete in cages and they were disappearing overnight.., not sure if it was squirrels or racoons. So, the girl at the Wild Bird Center suggested using hot Suete. The birds can't taste it and the mammals can and won't eat it.
That has worked as well.

Belonging to the American Legion we just did a 21 gun salute at a memorial service for a former mayor. I was trying to steal the M1 to bring it home for the squirrels. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
Rick

410ga. works good for me.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K2tXcVS45U

Uh Oh! I have more than Squirrel Problems.
Rick

There is your protest committee issue solved. Let him process any protests <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Wow, now I've got something to try, shooting a squirrel with a 30-06. (I've got a Garand Rick <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />) I bet if you hit it right it'll just explode.

Hey hey hey...mr. non-sailing post hater...the least you can do is stop being hypocritical and stop posting non-sailing related posts.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...how do you embed video!?


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We had problems with squirrels crawling down the power drop and building nests under the roof tiles. I took some 1.5 inch x ten foot black plastic pipe, cut a slot length-wise, and snapped it over the drop.

About ten o'clock that night I heard a bang on the deck. A squirrel had gotten about a foot on to the pipe and slipped off. That was the end of that problem.

I was never so impressed with the intelligence in those pea sized brains ... when I was living with my parents in Chattanooga, we had a bird seed / squirrel problem with a feeder that was mounted off the edge of a 2.5 story deck. They invested in a bird feeder that the roost post was counter weighted...anything other than a bird that stood on the post to get at the seed holes would be too heavy and a steel plate would swing shut over the holes. We laughed watching the squirrels dumbfounded at where the seed went when they jumped on the feeder....that is, until one week later. We saw a little tiny baby squirrel, who wasn't heavy enough to trigger the counter-weight, standing on the perch shoveling seed between his legs like a dog digging a hole. A glance over the edge of the porch rail revealed 12 adult squirrels eating it up as it hit the ground. Bastards.

Thanks to Rolf over in F16-land:

"Embedding video is really simple. When you make a new post or reply, first click on the "Make post" dropdown box and select "using HTML and UBBCode". Now on the Youtube page where your video is, copy the code where it says "Embed" in the righthand corner."

Aaha!

To be fair, it was Tony_F18 who posted the solution for embedding videos. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />