Hence using hot spices. Nontoxic, just unpleasant.
Brixton news, rumour and general chat - Sept 2015
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Maharani
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chilli powder...just saying.
You could legally kill them for the pot, as long as you're careful about the methods. Consensus is that there isn't much meat worth bothering with, except on the back legs. Probably better minced up for sausages or slowly cooked in a curry, to tenderise it.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
Chilli certainly taught my dog not to jump up and eat things off the kitchen counter
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It wouldn't work unless I doused the entire balcony in the stuff. The wall-scaling fuckers can just choose a different approach, and come from any convoluted angle they choose and just avoid anything they don't like (or just kick over the pots).
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I don't mind them coming in....it's tipping my pots over....
I might try the Chilli
I might try the Chilli
Maharani
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you only need to use a wee bit on a trap (they love mouli or any veg for that matter) and they tell all of their family and friends not to go to ed's balcony.
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I tried it before with zero success. Plus it always gets washed away in the rain.
Maharani
Just like Heaven
don't might...just do it. If you love your acers it's the only way.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
Use wire to secure them and put a little chicken wire over the top of the soil to stop then digging. You can sprinkle soil over it to hide it. Worked for a mate having the same problem.
Maharani
Just like Heaven
Maharani
Just like Heaven
Grey squirrels can be a problem in gardens and the wider countryside. What can you do to keep them out of your backyard
How you can help
Keep those pesky creatures off your bird food. All profits go to the RSPB's conservation work
- Fix cones and baffles to the string of a hanging feeder, or try plastic drinks bottles, large domes and discs
- If the feeder is hung from a washing line, thread the line through a length of hosepipe or a plastic drinks bottle on each side
- Use a downward-opening cone or a biscuit tin fixed to the pole below a bird table to prevent squirrels climbing up it. Vaseline or other grease on a smooth pole will also help
- A feeder with a spring-loaded cover is on the market. The weight of the squirrel will lower the cover, preventing it access to the food
- Remember that all these methods will only work if the squirrel cannot jump directly onto the feeder, but will have to approach via the defended route
- Feeders with a cage around them are squirrel-resistant, although not squirrel-proof, and a small individual will be able to fit through
- Strong chilli powder or pepper sauce (e.g. Tabasco) can be dusted onto birdfood. Birds are not bothered by the chilli, but squirrels cannot put up with the burning sensation, and will leave the food alone.
How you can help
Keep those pesky creatures off your bird food. All profits go to the RSPB's conservation work
Maharani
Just like Heaven
Manter
Lunch Mob
I think I just need a proper cat
Maharani
Just like Heaven
You have a cat already? Mine bring the fuckers in and allow them to squat. Useless feckers.
Possums have followed you from oz
Rushy
basically a scrotum
Your roof probably does not have gaping holes in it either!
billythefish
toad licker
These look fun...
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friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
At least you can afford to go out 5 nights a week.
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