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Question for Horticulture/Gardening Experts

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There are some natural repellents made out of predator urine that can be sprayed on and around the trees. Another thing would be to use a type of "scarecrow" such as a large bird of prey. Many garden centers and catalogues offer such scarecrows.
 
Squirrels are rodents and you can kill them. It's extremely hard to keep squirrels away from anything. Traps work as long as you let them loose many many miles from your location. I've never killed one I just let them do their thing but I have successfully kept them off my bird feeders. I use squirrel guards and place the feeder poles 6 feet away from anything they can jump from. This won't work for trees. I've never used the urine powder but some have told me it works. Fox urine. Good luck!
 
This worked when nothing else I tried did, to get squirls out of my house's attic and walls. It was recommended by an Animal Behaviorist at the University of Rochester.

Get a live trap and bait it with peanut butter. Catch a squirl, then terrorize it in the trap, making sure the little guy is covered with peanut butter. After it's good and frightened, let it go. Doesn't matter where. Then put patches of peanut butter on the trunks of the trees, or for that matter, around the edges of the total property. The terrorized squirl, will tell all his friends that the property or trees are very dangerous, and of course he'll smell like peanut butter. None of his squirl family or friends will venture onto the property or trees again as long as the area to protect is dabbed with peanut butter. It isn't necessary to kill the squirls because this works. If you have a dog available, it will do the terrorizing for you and you don't even have to watch. Good luck.
 
LaloGS said:
This worked when nothing else I tried did, to get squirls out of my house's attic and walls. It was recommended by an Animal Behaviorist at the University of Rochester.

Get a live trap and bait it with peanut butter. Catch a squirl, then terrorize it in the trap, making sure the little guy is covered with peanut butter. After it's good and frightened, let it go. Doesn't matter where. Then put patches of peanut butter on the trunks of the trees, or for that matter, around the edges of the total property. The terrorized squirl, will tell all his friends that the property or trees are very dangerous, and of course he'll smell like peanut butter. None of his squirl family or friends will venture onto the property or trees again as long as the area to protect is dabbed with peanut butter. It isn't necessary to kill the squirls because this works. If you have a dog available, it will do the terrorizing for you and you don't even have to watch. Good luck.
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Interesting bit of psychology...
 
I'm not fond of annuals, but this fall I bought a flat of pansies, and sprinkled them around my front yard for some color when all else would be dormant. I got up one morning on my day off, stood at the commode to pee and looked out my window."Sweet!" I said, "All my pansies are blooming!" It was a blue-sky morning, and every little plant had a flower on it. I went and messed around in the home office, and went to pee again a little later in the morning. To my horror, all the blossoms were totally gone - except for one, which at that moment was being munched on. I had no idea squirrels ate pansies.

They make big nets to throw over fruit trees to protect them from birds; but I think for squirrels it's a big inverted-funnel-shaped collar that you put around the trunk of the tree, and every tree that's within leaping distance of the apples.
 
IMHO, squirrels have to be the cleverest animals on the planet. If they want to cause trouble, you can be assured that there is no way to stop them short of killing them. I've tried every type of squirrel-proof birdfeeder and they manage to circumvent it. I resorted to feeding safflower seeds, since they hate those, and the cardinals stopped coming to the feeder. The squirrels eat the cherries off my cherry tree and the grapes off my grapevines.

I have had some success -- actually, more like revenge -- by trapping them live. They get really furious when they're in the trap. I take a little spray paint and paint a blue spot on their tail, then take them a couple miles out into the country. I've never had one come back, but there always seems to be a new one that shows up a few weeks later. I suspect that they may have found a way to remove the paint.

I've just learned to co-exist. Oh, and the chipmunks eat my strawberries. And the birds eat the raspberries. And the deer eat the blueberry bushes.
 
gribbles said:
I've just learned to co-exist. Oh, and the chipmunks eat my strawberries. And the birds eat the raspberries. And the deer eat the blueberry bushes.
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Ain't nature grand? When we impose ourselves into nature's back yard, we should expect some of her less "civilized" creatures to join us now and then. After all, we invade their less civilized places in nature with boats, snowmobils, quads, and guns. Turn about's fair play.

BTW to an earlier post regarding a 2' band of metal around the trunk of the tree; it often does not work if the tree hasn't got a very tall trunk. I used to have a pet squirl when I was a kid. He slept in my room but had freedom to roam out of doors. His sleeping place of choice was my baseball cap hung from a hook on the bare wall at about 5 feet off the floor. Porro, could jump flat footed from the floor into the cap without ever missing once, and he was a runt. Never got bigger than a tennis ball curled up. I suspect a normal sized squirl can jump straight up at least 15 feet if it chooses.
 
I know this is SO inappropriate, but I just have to add in.

This thread seriously reminds me of Drew Barrymore's character, Sophie, in Music and Lyrics, watering the plastic plant.
 
You can deal with squrriels how the white house does. Put a pile of peanuts *in shells* In the corner of the yard away from the apple trees. They tend to go for the easiest food soruce and will eat the peanuts and leave the apples. at least it works with their flower beds etc.
 
heeeey!!! don't hurt the squirls!!! they have to live too you know, even if you scare them away, they'll just have to go look for food somewhere else, which might mean 'trouble' for let's say, your neighbour.
we constantly keep taking and taking more and more from this planet...
and most of us never bother to ever give something back...
it makes me really sad...

oww! and @ Metta => do you know anything more about this product you showed? is it like... a synthesised form of fox urine... 'cos if it isn't.... i can feel some major question marks arising about the origin of this product ^^''''
 
nijuusei said:
heeeey!!! don't hurt the squirls!!! they have to live too you know, even if you scare them away, they'll just have to go look for food somewhere else, which might mean 'trouble' for let's say, your neighbour.
we constantly keep taking and taking more and more from this planet...
and most of us never bother to ever give something back...
it makes me really sad...

oww! and @ Metta => do you know anything more about this product you showed? is it like... a synthesised form of fox urine... 'cos if it isn't.... i can feel some major question marks arising about the origin of this product ^^''''
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If I remember correctly, I think that they get it from zoos. I was told that it is done in a way that does not harm anything. You can always ask the manufacture. I don't think that the product last forever. It is just the squirrels found other places to go.
 
metta said:
If I remember correctly, I think that they get it from zoos. I was told that it is done in a way that does not harm anything. You can always ask the manufacture. I don't think that the product last forever. It is just the squirrels found other places to go.
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this is what i found on the company's website;

" How do you collect the urine?
The million dollar question! The animals are brought into shelters where they are fed and watered. The floors on these shelters are sloped to collect the waste into collection bins. When the animals eliminate the waste is collected in those bins. We do not manufacture the product, however the manufacturer explains that the animals are treated with utmost care.''

hmm... i can't say i trust it... it all sounds so fishy... especially since it's coming from a company who's very purpose is to make a profit of getting rid of 'pests' as they call them..
 
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