OT: Squirrel Removal
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Out here pack rats can be a major problem... The neighbors on each side of us park their cars in their driveways and both have had serious engine damage from pack rats chewing through the wiring multiple times.. Peppermint oil and peppermint based repellents didn't stop it. But for the past year both have been using the little Rid-A-Rat strobelights under the hoods of their cars and haven't had any additional problems. Don't know if that would work for squirrels though.
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Hercules got one meal a day at night. He used to wait for me on my retaining wall. During the day I'd see him in the pasture stalking his prey. Sure at times he would run around trying to catch butterflies like an idiot, but just his presence kept the squirrels in the wetlands and out of the orchard.
Word must have gotten around in the squirrel community not to fvck with him. He probably killed their leader. 😁 My wife has barn cats but they suck and don't hold a candle to the Legendary Hercules.
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His mother was a cork soaker his father was a cork soaker…. He come from a long line of cork soakers!!!
He basically asked me to perform an anatomically unlikely act while also sharing his belief as to my sexual preferences. I'm still laughing that it took it him three attempts to post it correctly, and he STILL didn't get it right. ROFL
Uh-oh. I better rush out and hire a servant to taste all my food before I eat it now.
I have squirrels in my porch roof right now. Just sprayed some brake cleaner on a rag and plugged the hole. They’ll be gone tomorrow. I’ve done this every week since the hole appeared about a month ago. It works … it’s my temp solution until I can do a real repair.
Strobes don't work for everyone, but many people, including my neighbors, have used them with good results.
The strobe units that my neighbors use are under 50 bucks, and are about the size of a deck of playing cards.... The device comes in a wired version that you connect to the car battery, or a battery operated version that uses 2 AA batteries that last at least several months... Both contain magnets for easy connection to the underside of the car's hood or other metal surface.
According to the manufacturer's website:
"It works on the principle that the light causes repeated contraction of the iris and therefore causes eye fatigue. This interferes with the ordinary behavior and causes rats and other small animals to seek other shelters for nesting, which is the primary reason vehicles are targeted as a safe shelter for rat pups/young."
https://rid-a-rat.com/about-our-product
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Here is a link to the product and some reviews that mention squirrels:
Amazon links don't work here:
Thanks I got something similar to that product already for our other car. Using multiple tactics here!
To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit -- ever. They're like the Viet Cong -- Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower.
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