Squirrels again

b54red · November 12, 2010

I shot six of them yesterday afternoon by just standing where my broccoli once was. When the sun started going down they came running through the trees to my garden. I only was able to hit a few of them.

Talon, mosquitoes and fire ants are God's creatures too. The squirrels have already had several hundred of my tomatoes; but I didn't worry about it because I had way more than I could eat. Up until last year they were just a pest, now they have become a plague. In two days they wiped out two beds of broccoli seedlings that I spent a lot of time and effort growing so I could have some fresh broccoli this winter. They have also chewed a new hole to get into my attic where I worry they will chew some electrical wire and cause a fire. They did that to a house not too far from me a few years ago and caused some shorting in the wiring in my next door neighbors house 3 years ago.

I am too polite to trap them and give my problems to someone else. Basically there are just too dang many of them around here right now and they need to be drastically thinned out.

I used to think they were cute too.

November 12, 2010	#12
b54red Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 7,068	I shot six of them yesterday afternoon by just standing where my broccoli once was. When the sun started going down they came running through the trees to my garden. I only was able to hit a few of them. Talon, mosquitoes and fire ants are God's creatures too. The squirrels have already had several hundred of my tomatoes; but I didn't worry about it because I had way more than I could eat. Up until last year they were just a pest, now they have become a plague. In two days they wiped out two beds of broccoli seedlings that I spent a lot of time and effort growing so I could have some fresh broccoli this winter. They have also chewed a new hole to get into my attic where I worry they will chew some electrical wire and cause a fire. They did that to a house not too far from me a few years ago and caused some shorting in the wiring in my next door neighbors house 3 years ago. I am too polite to trap them and give my problems to someone else. Basically there are just too dang many of them around here right now and they need to be drastically thinned out. I used to think they were cute too.