pellet gun. Um, no, just kidding, that's wrong. Unless you want to eat him, then it's ok. Ok, besides that, I got nothin'
Give it something else to munch on. Here's an idea: Homemade Suet 1 lb. Lard (not shortening, lard - the real thing) 3 large dollops chunky peanut butter 3 c corn meal (the coarser the better) 5 c flour couple of handfulls of raisens Using a very stronger mixer, blend the lard and peanut butter. Then add 1 cup of meal and blend after each cup. Do the same with the flour. After the second cup of flour, you might have to switch to hand mixing, depending on the strength of your mixer. (We use a Kitchenaid 300W for the task and it almost gets maxed out.) Then toss in the raisens and knead them into the mix. This batch fits into a 13x9x3 tupperware container and lasts much longer than it will take whatever eats it to finish eating it. We reuse the plastic black trays from the frozen lunch things (Lean Cuisine etc.) to hold the suet on trees. Chances are brer squirrel will think this is much better than having to work at getting to the sunflower seeds. And chances are good than the suet will attract any number of creatures that are fun to watch.
he might, but consider this: a well fed squirrel will be a prolific squirrel. Plus, more will be attracted to the yard. By putting food out for them, you may compound your problem
I know there are squirrel feeders that will hold a dried cob of corn...squirrels around here cant get enough...they dont even bother with stealing anything like bird seed from us anymore.
Get shiskabob (sorry, I can't spell that word!) sticks and poke them into the ground around where you put the seeds. This will also keep away deer and other various animals.
Maybe you should just try explaining the situation to the squirrel,and see if you can come to some type of agreement. If that doesn't work,buy a gun.Everyone knows that all problems can be solved with a gun.
Geez! squirrels are so cute but they are such a darn menace!!!! i LOVE animals but have some serious issues with the rodent family right now! i really have no advice, i'm simply offerring sympathy & complete understanding....we have a 'chipmunk village' in our backyard & they have an entire network of tunnels which (of course) exit right into the veggie patch! ok, thanks for letting me vent
You could move the sunflowers up higher, put toy train tracks around the sunflowers, take all the seeds out, put a dog out there, spray the seeds with pepper spray, play some Snoop Dogg, or shoot 'em up cuz squirels ain't no good for nuttin'.
Man, I really wanted to get a picture of a squirrel covered in aluminum foil to post as my reply. There's this lady with a pet squirrel who dresses her up as everything under the sun and I was hoping she'd have one with her as a space cadet or something but alas... (there is a contest where you can vote on what you want her to dress up as next though, and outer space squirrel is one of the choices) http://www.sugarbushsquirrel.com/index.html
