I have launched an attack on the furry little tree rats that keep eating my flower seeds and this is what I have found that is working really good.

Journeymann vs. The Squirrel aka Fat Grey Bastard

2 Hot Peppers (hotter the better)
1 Yellow Onion
1 TBSP of Chili Powder
1 Clove of Garlic
1 Liter Vinegar
2 Liter Water

The Tek
Blend the hot peppers, onion, chili powder and garlic in a blender to a minced consistancy with 1 Liter of water.

Pour blended contents into a gallon jug.

Add vinegar and remaining water in to gallon jug.

Shake to mix well.

Sprinkle around freshly planted seeds but keep off the seeds directly due to high acidic nature of the Vinegar.

Sprinkle Chili Powder directly onto the spot where the seeds are.

Throw the empty jug directly at the squirrel!

Repeat the process each time it rains

i love squirrels , they are so cute ,

why don't you just make friends with them ?

They are the worst kind of friends... all kinds of promises to your face then they eat your sunflower seeds when you fall asleep!

Oi !

Get a couple local snakes and put em in your garden. Rat snakes work great, my uncle used to make dummy snakes (like scarecrows) and the furry little guys never came back.

make a squirrel pub and slip it a few drinks, it will never manage to find your seeds.

@nameless
Now I remember my granddad doing that kind of stuff in the garden too. I think he had a plastic owl for bird problems too.

@3rdI
ROTFLMAO!!! I never know that they could get drunk. I do remember my lab eating my med.cannabis once. He ate close to a .5oz before I caught him. He was very mellow to say the least. But a drunk squirell, too funny! Looks like maybe a way to get on better terms with them

i hope drunk squirrels are nicer than drunk horses, horses make the worst drunks

Squirrel deterrent --> BB Gun

Be nice to the squirrels. Do like the original poster, and bribe them into not eating flower seeds by feeding them yummy peppers, onions, and garlic in a light vinaigrette sauce.

Awefull. This approach lacks empathy completely and it's unnececairily crude.
Like shooting a fly with a Cannon.

You don't have to kill them. How could you kill such amazingly cute creatures?
Surely they can be very annoying, but they're not exactly the plague that rats can be.
Deterring them should be more than enough. The fake-snake idea seems great.

If they are too clever for this strategy you could allways make a little squirel-heaven some
distance away from your garden. Plant everything that squirels love there or just feed them your dayly leftover foods(nuts, berries, seeds..whatever they like eating)

This way you'd encourage them to rather go there than your garden.

If even that fails....Have you considered getting a cat or 2 in your house?
Cats are the fear of all rodents For exactly that reason almost all farms have cats.

My girlfriend just suggested building a little cage around the soil where the seeds are planted, untill they grow older into a well-established plant. This should keep Squirels from eating the seeds while they're still germinating.

I have a similar problem in my house with an infestation of edible doormice which are a bit like chipmunks. During the winter they hibernate but in the summer they are scurrying up and down the walls and stealing any food that is left out. They have become so used to me that i can sometimes pick them up when they run across the kitchen work surface. But they do bite when i do this. I have also found them swimming in the toilet bowl in the morning. It took a while for me to realise it wasn"t a teabag i was pissing on.

One day i was preparing a meal for a friend and after turning round to talk to someone i turned back and one of the little critters was pulling a bit of ham off of the plate. Not only that but they make an immense noise like a squealing pig. I think it could be a mating call because they are definitely multiplying.

I got a cat in to introduce a biological deterrent, but to no avail. The cat turned out to be half blind and has no equilibrium, The only time he has chased one was when they were stealing his dinner. I thought the smell of a predator would be enough but they just sit on the beams in the ceiling laughing at me and the cat.

Also tried sonic attacks with high frequency emissions - no good. The next humane way i will try is traps and then set them free 20 or so kms from my house. The trouble is that there is a large oak tree outside the house which is one of their natuaral habitats. BB guns or poison doesn"t appeal ( i think trying to hit one of these fellas with a BB gun would require considerable skill). Although i think they are still a delicacy in Italy as the Romans used eat them as snacks. So if all else fails i could turn the house into a free range edible doomouse farm.

I don"t want to get into a debate on this forum about the morality of rats being a plague.

My gosh they're cute. But who named them "edible doormice?"

If you are having a bad day, be thankful that homo-sapeins aren't called "edible primates!"

they would be if they didn't fill themselves up with so much toxic crap.

but i guess from the perspective of a bacteria (or fungus) we are very edible.

i am not offended.

Homo sapiens = longpig?

i am HIGHLY offended

Those Doormice are just too cute...I'd love to have them around the home.

Cyb i agree with you in principle. They have been living here for generations and i am loath to continue our western habits of usurping indigenous populations. I sometimes view them as the guardians of my abode but it can get pretty oppressive in the summer/autumn months when they are all over the place screeching like banshees. When it gets hot the whole house starts smelling like a guinea pig hutch.
Last year i was in hyperspace, having interactions with alien things and was distracted by a doormouse squeal. The apparitions wagged their fingers at me and tried to get me to concentrate back onto what was happening in my head/other dimensions/etc/etc

cyb, that is the first 'sqcat' that I have ever seen.... thanks for posting that!

Sqcats? I wonder if they chase themselves out of the yard? LOL

@Kash
I knew you were going to get it for that one. It is good to see so many people on each side of the fence.

I do agree that people are edible, but way to toxic these days to waste my time with... exceptions would be the vegans, but then they don't have enough meat on dem der bones to bother with either.

Whats a hungry meat eater to do these days?

Ah, there are always bunny rabbits!

Speaking of bunnies, why not set your ladies on 'em

LOL! with one of Elly Mays >> double barreled sling shots << !