Bastard wire chewing squirrel...

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The cold-hearted rat-beasts are incapable of laughter. Only vindictive fairy light chewing.

But are they crapping everywhere like pigeons do?

 

[Trufflepig]

One jointed squirrel, egged, crumbed, sauted in butter, olive oil and wild garlic leaves (out very early this year) chopped fine and sprinkled is zero food miles, free-range, great tasting starter for hardup neo-rustics round here

 

[Greebo]

One jointed squirrel, egged, crumbed, sauted in butter, olive oil and wild garlic leaves (out very early this year) chopped fine and sprinkled is zero food miles, free-range, great tasting starter for hardup neo-rustics round here

Fine if your treerat is rural or suburban and had a mostly natural diet, less tasty if it's been living on takeaway remnants etc. It affects the flavour in the same way that giving fishmeal to chickens did.

 

[WouldBe]

Thing is, the furry rat will still chew off the light elements, even if I did go for the somewhat overkill option of adding metal braid coverings...

Use mains powered ones then and leave them on 24/7.

If the shock doesn't kill it the fall to the ground as it's thrown over the balcony probably will.

 

[ViolentPanda]

i bet if it was a red squirrel, editor would be gushing about its tufty eared cuteness.

this is racism. pure and simple.

Like you wouldn't take the opportunity to slaughter some of the dirty grey Yank bastard tree-rats!

 

[editor]

i bet if it was a red squirrel, editor would be gushing about its tufty eared cuteness.

I don't give a fuck what the colour is. Mess with my cable and you're my enemy.

 

[Ax^]

(((First world problems of urban)))

 

[Greebo]

(((First world problems of urban)))

Not really, they're rodents and will chew through any wiring they can get at. It's not just annoying, fires have been started like that.

 

[tarannau]

Cover the wires in chilli - cut open a bonnet from the market and rub in liberally all over the wire.

Seemed to work with the squirrels in my yard. After I dosed their burying spots with cayenne and dug a few nagas into the same soil they never did dare to recover their nuts.

Maybe one day we'll get a crack-snorting, chilli ingesting super squirrel, but I've not encountered one. But those parakeet fuckers can munch anything, ridiculously hot moruga trinidad scorpions included.

 

[editor]

I'll give the chilli option a go as that's been recommended a few times, I reckon, although the lights are open to the elements, so one rainfall and it'll be washed away.

 

[gentlegreen]

I'll give the chilli option a go as that's been recommended a few times, I reckon, although the lights are open to the elements, so one rainfall and it'll be washed away.

Why not mix it with some sort of glue to make it slow release ?. PVA should be just about the right balance. It's approved for fishing so it's probably fairly environmentally friendly.

 

[editor]

It's starting to sound like a DIY project.

 

[2hats]

one rainfall and it'll be washed away.

That's ok- there's a drought on donchaknow?

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Why not mix it with some sort of glue to make it slow release ?. PVA should be just about the right balance. It's approved for fishing so it's probably fairly environmentally friendly.

Some of this maybe?

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[WouldBe]

The tories will be suggesting that as the new workfare scheme next...

As long as they get the squirrels to pedal them and not the sick and disabled I'm not bothered.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I have a similar problem with the squirrels chewing on parts of my house. I was told that I need to move the bird feeder further away from the house because the squirrels will chew on anything nearby where they feed. I moved it last weekend, but its too soon to tell if its worked.

 

[xes]

It's starting to sound like a DIY project.

lol.

you're trying to take on squirrels. This is not a DIY project, but a life time of work you're setting yourself.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

lol.

you're trying to take on squirrels. This is not a DIY project, but a life time of work you're setting yourself.

Last year I had a running battle with the little bastards over my bird feed storage. You'd think a tin can with a bunge cord on top would deter them. Every day I'd come home and find the top off and the squirrels in the food. So I switched to a brick, then two bricks, then three. I finally ended up affixing a hinged lid with a padlock on to keep them out. I keep expecting to come home and find they've learned lock picking.....

 

[xes]

My dad spent a good year redesigning bird tables so the squirrels couln't get on it. (not sure if squirrel proof bird tables existed then) Fuck knows how much he spent, but I know his stress levels went through the roof each and every time he came home and found his table had been breached. I thought it was funny as fuck, like david and goliath. David always wins in the end

 

[8den]

Then one day and you up and find your house isn't squirrel proof and there's a dozen of the bastards at the bottom of the stairs....Waiting.....

 

[scalyboy]

How the hell did a squirrel get up there anyway? Is it in the SAS?
Fox shit might keep it at bay, but then you won't want to use your balcony any more...hmm, maybe try the chili option instead.

 

[editor]

I admitted defeat and brought the lights inside but now the little ratfaced beast is digging up all our plants.

A war strategy needs to be organised.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

They apparently don't like chili - perhaps you could make up an emulsion with PVA advesive ...

This. Plus they won't chew through chickenwire which I've used successfully wrapped around bulbs in the ground.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I admitted defeat and brought the lights inside but now the little ratfaced beast is digging up all our plants.

A war strategy needs to be organised.

Welcome to the suburban trenches son.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

 

[xes]

I admitted defeat

probably a wise move to be honest. I've seen what it does to people, you'd have been rocking back and forth in the corner of a dark room mumbling "I've not been outsmarted by a rodent, no no no no no no no no"

 

[DotCommunist]

I admitted defeat and brought the lights inside but now the little ratfaced beast is digging up all our plants.

A war strategy needs to be organised.

Agent Orange

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Agent Orange

I live downwind of his balcony

 

[Puddy_Tat]

A war strategy needs to be organised.

 

[toggle]

Why not mix it with some sort of glue to make it slow release ?. PVA should be just about the right balance. It's approved for fishing so it's probably fairly environmentally friendly.

not glue.

grease of some sort.

i know someone who uses chilli powder mixed with engine greese as a rabbit deterant on their new trees