Squirrels and Chipmunks oh my!

Mothballs with napthalene are extremely toxic...bad news for pets and little kids who might ingest them. Back in the day, I used them to protect trees stored in my garage for winter, but never out in the yard.
 
Have you solved this problem yet Mike.. or better yet has the new dog got things under control? Best protection I can think of is a fox terrier. Train it to keep the guard...;)
 
About two weeks ago I found a bunch of maples, ume and quince with a LOT of growth chewed off. A whole lot on an arakawa maple in development. Has to be squirrels. I've been going all American sniper on em since.
 
A little trick that works for rats may work since your pests like peanut butter. Mix in dry cement into it. When it hits their guts it hardens. Non toxic and no problem for bigger animals in small amounts. It really works and is easy to do. I dont know the ratio of the two but it cant be hard to figure out. My aunt killed a bunch of mice in north Georgia with the mix and said it worked perfect.
 
A little trick that works for rats may work since your pests like peanut butter. Mix in dry cement into it. When it hits their guts it hardens. Non toxic and no problem for bigger animals in small amounts. It really works and is easy to do. I dont know the ratio of the two but it cant be hard to figure out. My aunt killed a bunch of mice in north Georgia with the mix and said it worked perfect.
Wouldn't it just harden in the peanut butter? I set fence posts with just dry concrete poured in the hole and by morning just the moisture in the soil hardens it. I would think that within about an hour it would be too hard to eat?
 
Or just take a few flute lessons and play them out to a lake so they fall off the dock and drowned.....

Seen it in a book... I would imagine it should work well...

As long as the peanut oil doesn't contract the music notes.

Who know
 
Think the peanut oil will counter that...and keep it from hardening. Once it hits the gut moisture it will activate.
Something like that, it sets up in their bellies, and maybe dehydrates them. It works for rats and mice, why not other pests? Or shoot'em and develope a taste for their meat.. I use my crossman on the mice my cat brings home when they escape.
 
Have you solved this problem yet Mike.. or better yet has the new dog got things under control? Best protection I can think of is a fox terrier. Train it to keep the guard...;)
Rupert keeps the deer away. The squirrels are down this winter. But the rabbits. Oh jeez. They only come out at night so my trapper friend is coming over.
Their time is short.
 
Hot pepper isnt hot to animals without salivary glands. Thats why parrots can eat them without problem. It might bother their eyes, but i dont see it working on snakes. But snakes would be good for eating the pests. But they dont come out much up where its cold this time of year. A dog should run off rabbits. A plastic bottle and tape makes a great one time silencer for a .22. Or a trap for the rabbits if you cant shoot them. I bet the cement and pnut butter will work on them too. Rabbits are hard to eliminate, they reproduce like...rabbits. A yippy dog may be best. Any luck so far? A.22 pellet gun might work but there not cheap ss .177. But its probably legal or at least more so than a real gun and way less noisy. With a scope you should be able to whack them at 20 yards. And there a lot of fun. I like RWS from Germany. They make spring powered rifles that shoot as fast as a weak .22 but not so hard. Still 1100 fps is pretty potent. A friends dad whacked a cat with one, rabbits are no harder to kill. Anything smaller is easy game with one of those.
 
No
So you just like killing things?
No, I dislike killing. I meant the rifles are fun to shoot. At cans or other non animate objects. Id rather a dog run the pests away. Still, shooting pellet guns is good fun. I dont even eat mammals! I only kill pests like rats and fish I catch to eat or chickens to eat. Snakes, toads, and other animals that locals kill are safe at my house as long as there not venemos or otherwise dangerous. I grew up shooting soda or beer cans and dont WANT to kill anything without good reason and see no plessure in killing without reason. I know a thing or two about shooting and the power of certain arms and so I tried to help with a quiet and effective idea. Without poison or something less precise that kills without risk of harming non pests like poison or rat traps. A have a heart trap would work maybe but a pellet and good aim is pretty much a sure thing without "collateral damage". Thats all. So no, i dont like killing. Its a neccesary evil sometimes.
 
I forgot to say I was mad at my friends father for killing a cat. But the example tells what a pellet rifle can do in practiced hands. Theres a tomcat that fights my cat (which cant have babies) all the time. Id love to run it off without pain or killing it. Any ideas? Killing it is the last resort to me. My cat takes care of most pests or my dog does but this cat whips them both. My dog is about seven pounds and not very scary to a cat of the same size or bigger. If someone has an idea that doesnt include death or suffering then I want to try it. The cat is a housecat gone wild, I think he killed my other cat. He fights the other cats on my street too, every night. I wont use poison, Im trying to not damage the earth any more than it is. My garden and bonsais are fed organic fertalizer and or tilapia crap. Tilapia crap is great fertalizer and I have plenty since my food grows in aquaponics. The trees get crap and organic fertalizer once in a while. If you have a fishtank, use the stuff from the filter. It has the bacteria to turn fish poo into plant food. I highly recomend aquaponics for veggies and am trying a couple ficus to see if it works in a growbed system. It fills and drains, giving organic food, water, then air is pulled in so the roots grow like crazy for food, soon I can report how it works on trees. So far, so good.
 
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