I was told how much squirrels like them so I left our carved Jack O Lanterns out one year just for them and they ended up rotting under 3 feet of snow.
Guess where they were when the snow melted? Still sitting on the lawn a big, mushy, slimy mess.
I had a decorative bunch of plants with leaves nuts and berries that looked so real the squirrels ran off with them. They were inside a horn ’o plenty basket along with some Indian corn. They ate the corn, too.
We have dozens of squirrels in our neighborhood, and they eat everything, especially flowers (destroyed out tulips last Spring) and garden vegetables. The dang things even will dig up potatoes and carrots. City will not allow residents to shoot them, even with a BB gun or a wrist rocket. The populace is so sensitized to any form of weapon that the police get flooded with calls. The things are super-aware of anything that seems like a trap, too. Oh, and we can’t put out poison baits, either. I mean, what if someone’s little lap yap escapes from their yard and gets into that?
I have a hollow cast cement jack-o-lantern, which I put out for a seasonal decoration this year. Last year we burned a pumpkin-flavored candle in it. So far this Fall, I have three broken-off squirrel teeth in the jack-o-lantern. And no, I’m not a bit sorry.
once they get a taste of the bird feeder, they never go back. Leaving pumpkins is a waste of time and a hassle to clean up (they turn to mush). Now I use styro pumkins that I can re-use every year.
jagedlo over 4 years ago
How to keep squirrels away from pumpkins…https://homeguides.sfgate.com/keep-squirrels-away-uncarved-pumpkin-81703.html
stairsteppublishing over 4 years ago
Replay with synthetic but realistic pumpkin fill with concrete or rocks and perhaps a bit of Arsenic and Old Lace.
rush.diana over 4 years ago
The ones around here won’t touch pumpkins.
I was told how much squirrels like them so I left our carved Jack O Lanterns out one year just for them and they ended up rotting under 3 feet of snow.
Guess where they were when the snow melted? Still sitting on the lawn a big, mushy, slimy mess.
mjb515 over 4 years ago
Where did that squirrel pack that pumpkin away?
tcayer over 4 years ago
I’ve come home and as I was walking in, squirrels jump out of my Jack O’ Lantern!
eladee AKA Wally over 4 years ago
Deer and groundhogs like to eat pumpkins. Ive never seen squirrels do it though.
1953Baby over 4 years ago
Learn something new everyday. . .I didn’t know squirrels liked pumpkins!
samfran6-0 over 4 years ago
I had a decorative bunch of plants with leaves nuts and berries that looked so real the squirrels ran off with them. They were inside a horn ’o plenty basket along with some Indian corn. They ate the corn, too.
SrTechWriter over 4 years ago
We have dozens of squirrels in our neighborhood, and they eat everything, especially flowers (destroyed out tulips last Spring) and garden vegetables. The dang things even will dig up potatoes and carrots. City will not allow residents to shoot them, even with a BB gun or a wrist rocket. The populace is so sensitized to any form of weapon that the police get flooded with calls. The things are super-aware of anything that seems like a trap, too. Oh, and we can’t put out poison baits, either. I mean, what if someone’s little lap yap escapes from their yard and gets into that?
I have a hollow cast cement jack-o-lantern, which I put out for a seasonal decoration this year. Last year we burned a pumpkin-flavored candle in it. So far this Fall, I have three broken-off squirrel teeth in the jack-o-lantern. And no, I’m not a bit sorry.
barister over 4 years ago
once they get a taste of the bird feeder, they never go back. Leaving pumpkins is a waste of time and a hassle to clean up (they turn to mush). Now I use styro pumkins that I can re-use every year.