The squirrels are a major concern as my greyhound tries to get them and will risk serious injury in the quest to catch them and still this does not deter them.
2006-11-05 22:57:16 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Try calling your local council pest control dept. They can give you advice and if need be they can write to your neighbour advising them to stop feeding birds because of the problem. If they write they wont tell the neighbour who complained.
2006-11-05 22:59:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I feel for you...i have had some major squirrel problems over the past few years (mostly because the neighbours insist on feeding them).
what worked best was a live trap - left it out for a week or so until they were not afraid of it...then put in bait and caught several over a week...so far so good.
lots of luck!
2006-11-06 07:45:49 · answer #2 · answered by Kate L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to hear about your problem but a Squirrel is wildlife and has a lawful right to live wherever it wants... I know this is no help to you what so ever, But would a fence be out of the question so the Greyhound does not do itself an injury when it next launches itself at the tree...
2006-11-05 23:01:45 · answer #3 · answered by mark leshark 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I now no longer have a fowl feeder packed with seeds yet do enable a number of my parakeets seed fall to the floor and infrequently placed out scraps of bread. Doves come countless circumstances an afternoon and %. by way of what falls. The mockingbirds eat from my peppermint vegetation daily, even getting possessive with them and scolding me when I picked a handful some weeks in the past. additionally they eat from the overhanging mulberries on my fence, and that i enable poke vegetation strengthen while they sprout up. The mockingbirds love those berries and could eat some each and every night as they ripen. Grackles eat the tiny end result from the Bradford pears by way of the iciness. i will placed out plates packed with seeds, wheat, cornbread crumbles and different issues while the climate gets icy, the little snowbirds, cardinals and different birds be responsive to the place they are in a position to come again for emergency rations. I even have water out for them to drink. The mockingbird inhabitants has extra effective this previous year, see few of the blackbirds and grackles that frequented right here in previous summers. final weekend I observed a huge falcon interior the sky being chased out of the area by way of a mockingbird, he became perfect on his tail fussing and nipping at him. extra wrens, doves, brown thrushes, and a sparkling form of chattering fowl that i've got on no account seen right here until now. sounds like there are various extra birds than in easy terms some years in the past.
2016-12-10 03:28:23 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Living in conjunction with squirrels will drive you batty. A cat will work, cats actually will kill a squirrel and eat it. Since we've started feeding the wild cats around us and they've been hanging around we haven't had the squirrels.
2006-11-05 23:06:31 · answer #5 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A cat will do better than a dog. A cat can climb trees just like a squirrel can. A dog cannot.
2006-11-06 02:29:26 · answer #6 · answered by sheeny 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry to say that you will never win the war against the squirrel. My dad has been fighting them for as long as I can remember. You could by a BB gun to thin them out though. That's something my dad would never do.
2006-11-05 23:02:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Go to a sporting store and pick up some red fox lure fox is a natural enemy of squirrels and the smell will scare them off. Be careful it stinks bad and you don't have to use much just a couple drops
2006-11-05 23:04:04 · answer #8 · answered by Larry m 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you can legally kill them by shooting, they do make tasty morsels, if you eat meat.
Skin, gut, and wash. Roll in a bit of breading and brown, then cover pan with a bit of water and steam. Much like dark meat chicken.
However, I would never eat a squirrel's nuts.
2006-11-07 22:22:51 · answer #9 · answered by Charles-CeeJay_UK_ USA/CheekyLad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mother-in-law had the same problem, We got her an outdoor cat and that took care of the problem. the type of cat is important as some are natural hunters. She had the tortiseshell (female) cat and from what i found out, they are one of the better hunters naturally. In our case, my husband just shoots them, as we live in the country .
2006-11-06 00:20:52 · answer #10 · answered by edna_romano_1943 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋