Comments on: Day 1 - Me vs. the squirrels http://dumpinggrounds.com/2005/08/08/day-1-me-vs-the-squirrels/ I ought to put a tagline here... any suggestions? Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:03:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: mmc http://dumpinggrounds.com/2005/08/08/day-1-me-vs-the-squirrels/#comment-125 mmc Tue, 09 Aug 2005 12:42:46 +0000 http://69.39.89.132/~dgadmin/?p=143#comment-125 <p>Let's just say that I won't be releasing any that I catch.</p> <p>I'm not going to torture the little critters, but I'm not going to let them chew someone else's wiring either.</p> <p>I don't know that I will be taking the neighbor's suggestion on how to dispose of them either...</p> Let’s just say that I won’t be releasing any that I catch.

I’m not going to torture the little critters, but I’m not going to let them chew someone else’s wiring either.

I don’t know that I will be taking the neighbor’s suggestion on how to dispose of them either…

]]> By: Liz http://dumpinggrounds.com/2005/08/08/day-1-me-vs-the-squirrels/#comment-124 Liz Tue, 09 Aug 2005 10:05:31 +0000 http://69.39.89.132/~dgadmin/?p=143#comment-124 <p>I don't envy your new battle, Matt. My father's been fighting squirrels for years. He's got an electric fence line about 4" off the ground of his chain-link fence (for the purposes of keeping the dog(s) from digging under the fence), and always has this odd sense of pride when a squirrel finds itself tangled up in the mess.</p> <p>A couple of years ago, he started trapping them as well, then taking them across town to the wooded area next to the junior high and releasing them there. He said once, he released a squirrel out of its trap and all the other squirrels came running up to it -- so he really thought he'd caught the squirrel equivalent of the Queen Bee.</p> <p>My favorite story, though, was about a year ago when my brother went home to help my dad with a yard project ... and when I asked, George just said he spent the day "digging trenches." My immediate reaction was to inquire if my dad was building a moat around the house to thwart the squirrels. Sadly (for this story), it was only to install a sprinkler system. :)</p> <p>GOOD LUCK!!</p> I don’t envy your new battle, Matt. My father’s been fighting squirrels for years. He’s got an electric fence line about 4″ off the ground of his chain-link fence (for the purposes of keeping the dog(s) from digging under the fence), and always has this odd sense of pride when a squirrel finds itself tangled up in the mess.

A couple of years ago, he started trapping them as well, then taking them across town to the wooded area next to the junior high and releasing them there. He said once, he released a squirrel out of its trap and all the other squirrels came running up to it — so he really thought he’d caught the squirrel equivalent of the Queen Bee.

My favorite story, though, was about a year ago when my brother went home to help my dad with a yard project … and when I asked, George just said he spent the day “digging trenches.” My immediate reaction was to inquire if my dad was building a moat around the house to thwart the squirrels. Sadly (for this story), it was only to install a sprinkler system. :)

GOOD LUCK!!

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