Pickles by Brian Crane for April 22, 2017

oh, and bears and coyotes are no worries at all?

And when you understand Squirrel it’s pretty vulgar.

Oh Earl you don’t spray a squirrel with pepper spray do you? For shame!

It’s not like she has nuts to protect.

Who, Hammy?

Bob and Hammy are “OK”……..Real squirrels can cause a lot of damage and can be hard to get rid of :-(

The squirrel is saying, “Oh, look! A nut! Yummy!”

So Earl, how did you celebrate Earth Day?

I pepper sprayed a squirrel.

Earl! You should carry peanuts with you to feed the squirrel and your problem will be solved.

I came down this morning to discover Hubby had left the porch door open last night. About a dozen squirrels were having a wild party, tearing open bags of seed and peanuts. Waa-hoo!

Opal needs to get up and check it out herself… She could use the exercise.

Around here everyone is as old as Opal and Earl, so we understand. We just don’t know whether the pepper spray works on alligators.

I could use some for seagulls.

xxx

A couple winters ago, the resident squirrels chewed their way into our garage. I learned a lot of unprintable squirrel terms before I could get to the store for a useful way to get rid of them. I scattered a few naphthalene moth balls on the horizontal exposed parts and within days, they left and have not tried to return since.

We have a local city park where people used to feed the squirrels—who lost whatever fear they never learned to have of humans. Then a toddler strapped in a stroller tried to keep its muffin away from the squirrel that jumped up onto him and wanted it and he got bitten and had to go through rabies shots. After that the city posted signs: Do NOT feed the squirrels, with a fine if you did.