Update on my everlasting war with this squirrel.
I swear he’s sentient. He knows I hate him. He finds it funny.
Shaved my head. Spread the hair around the tomato plants.
Peed in a thing all day. Watered the shrubs around the plants with it.
Got grease pencils from walmart...now applying camo.
She won’t let me kill it, so I have 2 nerf bats with noisemakers at the end.
Imma hide in the cactus till he shows.
(The last few lines may be exaggerated)
LOL. Our dog used to keep the squirrels out of my gardens which are along the patios and the exercise yard for the dog.
However, hubby’s garden is another thing. This year we put up a birdbath - the worst year was the drought year - they pulled all the green tomatoes etc. just to get the water.
So now we have a swimming pool which they sometimes drown in, and a bird bath so the birds don’t get too thirsty. I just laugh - I don’t think it will help at all. LOL
We were attacked by ground squirrels this year. Everything I put out was eaten, including 10 bean plants in one night. Mine also went after the tomato plants, and the squash and the cantelope and the cukes. Hairy leaves didn’t bother them a bit the way it puts off rabbits. The hibiscus couldn’t put leaves out fast enough - the squirrels would strip them clean, same for the roses. Then they started to eat the corner of the house. But we didn’t know how many squirrels there were - thinking there were only 3 or 4 troublemakers with us living on the edge of wilderness. Spent a few weeks trying to shoot them, only got one.
Then we declared war.
There’s a catch cage called a ‘squirrel-enator’. Baited it with mango and dog food and caught 5 squirrels in two hours. Rebaited it with just dog food and caught 4 more. Highlight: most of them died on their own from either stress or the heat - some pretty quick - so ‘cleanup’ was basically tossing them into the vacant acreage behind us for the hawks and buzzards. (they get smelly really quick in the trash can). To make a long story short, within one week, 37 ground squirrels and one possum later, it appears to be all quiet on the western front. IMO definitely worth the money. We told the neighbors they could have their share of the squirrels back, but they’d have to keep them on leashes :)