Comments on: Squirrels eating the tomatoes! http://www.julilawrence.com/2007/08/13/squirrels-eating-the-tomatoes/ Gardening can be stylish if you have a good hat Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:19:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.julilawrence.com/2007/08/13/squirrels-eating-the-tomatoes/comment-page-1/#comment-9 admin Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:43:54 +0000 http://www.julilawrence.com/2007/08/13/squirrels-eating-the-tomatoes/#comment-9 I'm really thrilled that you're doing the catch and release program. It warms my heart. If you look at their tails, they don't look so much like rats. I think they're adorable, but after they ate my cable wires, I stopped feeding them. But until then, I sure enjoyed their cute antics! (That was a different place, not here.) I've gone a few days now with no thefts, but my neighbor is still losing some of hers. Now my neighbor knows just to toss them into my yard so I can put them in the compost pile. My uncle has terrible groundhog problems. For years, he tried blowing them up, gassing their tunnels and all kinds of nasty things. It didn't work, and it upset me, so he eventually hired some trapper guy who would trap them and take the to the woods. At $25 a pop, the cost started to add up, so my uncle finally got a trap of his own and now gives the groundhogs free rides. He also sent a raccoon packing and now they're seeing a fox in their backyard. They live in southern Illinois, a burb of St. Louis, so it's hardly rural. I'm enjoying your squirrel tales! Got any pictures? I’m really thrilled that you’re doing the catch and release program. It warms my heart. If you look at their tails, they don’t look so much like rats. I think they’re adorable, but after they ate my cable wires, I stopped feeding them. But until then, I sure enjoyed their cute antics! (That was a different place, not here.)

I’ve gone a few days now with no thefts, but my neighbor is still losing some of hers. Now my neighbor knows just to toss them into my yard so I can put them in the compost pile.

My uncle has terrible groundhog problems. For years, he tried blowing them up, gassing their tunnels and all kinds of nasty things. It didn’t work, and it upset me, so he eventually hired some trapper guy who would trap them and take the to the woods. At $25 a pop, the cost started to add up, so my uncle finally got a trap of his own and now gives the groundhogs free rides. He also sent a raccoon packing and now they’re seeing a fox in their backyard.

They live in southern Illinois, a burb of St. Louis, so it’s hardly rural.

I’m enjoying your squirrel tales! Got any pictures?

]]> By: squirrel blaster http://www.julilawrence.com/2007/08/13/squirrels-eating-the-tomatoes/comment-page-1/#comment-8 squirrel blaster Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:58:47 +0000 http://www.julilawrence.com/2007/08/13/squirrels-eating-the-tomatoes/#comment-8 No. 11 and No. 12 both were ride alongs today! A friend of mine said a relative has trapped forty of them in town this year. Sorry to say, none of them were a ride along. I think he should have my name! No. 11 and No. 12 both were ride alongs today!
A friend of mine said a relative has trapped forty of them in town this year. Sorry to say, none of them were a ride along. I think he should have my name!

]]> By: squirrel blaster http://www.julilawrence.com/2007/08/13/squirrels-eating-the-tomatoes/comment-page-1/#comment-7 squirrel blaster Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:57:18 +0000 http://www.julilawrence.com/2007/08/13/squirrels-eating-the-tomatoes/#comment-7 They are sampling the tomatoes! I took number 9 on a ride along before I went to Texas. Since I got back number 10 showed up inside my trap! That was another ride along. I let them go about 6 miles from my home. They have to get across Interstate 80 and swim a large creek and watch out for other predators. Near, where I drop them off at the people have three large country dogs, two of the dogs are Rottweilers. I drove by and happen to see the dogs looking up in the trees. The next time I went pass the house they were chasing a squirrel. It actually made me laugh to see that! Now I spied number 11 up in my tree. I’ll just have to wait and see what happens tomorrow. I have noticed looking through my scope, they look just like a rat. They are sampling the tomatoes!
I took number 9 on a ride along before I went to Texas. Since I got back number 10 showed up inside my trap! That was another ride along.
I let them go about 6 miles from my home. They have to get across Interstate 80 and swim a large creek and watch out for other predators. Near, where I drop them off at the people have three large country dogs, two of the dogs are Rottweilers. I drove by and happen to see the dogs looking up in the trees. The next time I went pass the house they were chasing a squirrel. It actually made me laugh to see that! Now I spied number 11 up in my tree. I’ll just have to wait and see what happens tomorrow.
I have noticed looking through my scope, they look just like a rat.

]]> By: admin http://www.julilawrence.com/2007/08/13/squirrels-eating-the-tomatoes/comment-page-1/#comment-5 admin Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:07:17 +0000 http://www.julilawrence.com/2007/08/13/squirrels-eating-the-tomatoes/#comment-5 Are they just gazing, or are they sampling at the buffet? I miss living in the boonies and allowing my dogs and cats out in the yard. That kept all critters away. How do you know you've got nine? Are you tagging them? Ohhhh, never mind. Are they just gazing, or are they sampling at the buffet?

I miss living in the boonies and allowing my dogs and cats out in the yard. That kept all critters away.

How do you know you’ve got nine? Are you tagging them? Ohhhh, never mind.

]]> By: squirrel blaster http://www.julilawrence.com/2007/08/13/squirrels-eating-the-tomatoes/comment-page-1/#comment-4 squirrel blaster Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:36:53 +0000 http://www.julilawrence.com/2007/08/13/squirrels-eating-the-tomatoes/#comment-4 We thought we had just one squirrel. Wrong, they all look the same exactly! I so far have had eight and number nine just came by, to look at the delicious tomatoes. We thought we had just one squirrel. Wrong, they all look the same exactly! I so far have had eight and number nine just came by, to look at the delicious tomatoes.

]]> By: admin http://www.julilawrence.com/2007/08/13/squirrels-eating-the-tomatoes/comment-page-1/#comment-3 admin Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:32:50 +0000 http://www.julilawrence.com/2007/08/13/squirrels-eating-the-tomatoes/#comment-3 :::sniff:::: but they're so cute! The Shake Away worked well until a rain washed it away. Now I need to get more to stop them again. It's actually ONE squirrel, I think. I was out in the garden, and he came halfway down the tree, then started chattering at me, as if he were telling me to get the hell out of his garden. We had no squirrels when we had a neighbor with two dogs behind their fence: a pit bull and a yappy little dog. I think those dogs scared them away, and when they moved, this squirrel moved into the big tree. Guns in town wouldn't go over well here. Besides, I just wouldn't have the heart for it. I actually ate squirrel once when I was a kid. My mom's friend's son liked to hunt, and the friend would cook up whatever her son brought home. :::drum roll:::: Tasted like chicken. :::sniff:::: but they’re so cute! The Shake Away worked well until a rain washed it away. Now I need to get more to stop them again. It’s actually ONE squirrel, I think. I was out in the garden, and he came halfway down the tree, then started chattering at me, as if he were telling me to get the hell out of his garden.

We had no squirrels when we had a neighbor with two dogs behind their fence: a pit bull and a yappy little dog. I think those dogs scared them away, and when they moved, this squirrel moved into the big tree.

Guns in town wouldn’t go over well here. Besides, I just wouldn’t have the heart for it.

I actually ate squirrel once when I was a kid. My mom’s friend’s son liked to hunt, and the friend would cook up whatever her son brought home.

:::drum roll::::

Tasted like chicken.

]]> By: squirrel blaster http://www.julilawrence.com/2007/08/13/squirrels-eating-the-tomatoes/comment-page-1/#comment-2 squirrel blaster Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:02:38 +0000 http://www.julilawrence.com/2007/08/13/squirrels-eating-the-tomatoes/#comment-2 Once squirrels get a taste for tomatoes they will keep eating them. I've tried feeding and giving them water and they still ate the tomatoes. Now I let them have three choices. 1. Stay Away 2. Get into the live trap & drop them off at work (a ride along) 3. Pellet Rifle Number 3 works the best on these rodents. Once squirrels get a taste for tomatoes they will keep eating them. I’ve tried feeding and giving them water and they still ate the tomatoes. Now I let them have three choices.
1. Stay Away
2. Get into the live trap & drop them off at work (a ride along)
3. Pellet Rifle
Number 3 works the best on these rodents.

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