Futher tales of the *^@#$&^*$#@%^%&$*$@%$ squirrel

[liadan_m]

So, when the lovely guy from maintance came to bring back the steel screen from the living room...and noticed evidence of squirrely teeth on my screen. So he took that one away yesterday afternoon, and brought it back this morning. And in the mean time, our furry fiend had chewed a hole through the other living room screen, and now that one is out

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[gxdm]

Live trap the bugger and let it go near meeting site?

[cealfind]

We did that once.

Well, if you define "Live Trap" as Roland I chasing the damn thing around Amanda's room for an hour, before catching the thing in a pillow case.

[kitlizzy]

Spray the screen(s) with a mixture of tabasco sauce and water?

[liadan_m]

it's no where outside my moral bounds. They're rodents.

The issue is the municiple ordaninces around here prevent the deliberate killing of squirrels. Which might mean that I poison the screens and let them take what's coming.

Re: There ya go!

[tedeisenstein]

If you can't poison them, get some capsaicin (the active stuff in Tobasco). I hear it's what shipbuilders mix into paint used on big ships to keep mussels off the hulls - and if it works on seafood that lacks tastebuds, it should work on squirrels. . . Dunno if local farm-and-feed stores or hardware stores carry it, though. When in doubt, just get an industrial-sized bottle of Tobasco, or habanero sauce, or other stuff, and keep applying until the squirrel(s) go away.

. . . pity you can't use a handgun on the critters. . .

[liadan_m]

...it's a thought. But I could just call our local equivelents.

[newtypeshadow]

oh. my. gosh.

those squirrels are on something.

i say you play baseball with them. it's the only way to scramble their brains enough to keep them away from your apartment.