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    Re: Squirrels!

    This thread is what makes LaTechBBB great!
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    Re: Squirrels!

    Tree rats. They eat my figs before the figs can get ripe.

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    Re: Squirrels!

    Quote Originally Posted by CutiePie72 View Post
    What a timely post. For the first year ever, the squirrels have found our about-to-ripen big tomatoes. I've chased them off, but they're not scared of me. We've tried a trap in the past, but it didn't work. Any pointers on how to make that work, Dawgbert? I will suggest DH try the CD idea and see what happens.
    Call your cousin Eddie. I heard he usually eats these things.

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    Re: Squirrels!

    Eddie? I was serious when I asked for help in getting rid of them, and this is what I get?

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    Re: Squirrels!

    Quote Originally Posted by Houston Techsan View Post
    Tree rats. They eat my figs before the figs can get ripe.
    This is what I use to keep them out of my fig tree and in the stew pot.

    https://www.academy.com/shop/pdp/ben...fle/pid-498705

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    Re: Squirrels!

    Quote Originally Posted by CutiePie72 View Post
    Eddie? I was serious when I asked for help in getting rid of them, and this is what I get?
    You're looking for serious from a guy with that profile picture on a board known to harbor "Internet Squirrels"?

    Good luck with that!

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    Re: Squirrels!

    What do y'all do with the figs? Preserves?

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    Re: Squirrels!

    Quote Originally Posted by maddawg View Post
    What do y'all do with the figs? Preserves?
    Haven't got enough yet, but probably will if not for the #@&* squirrels.

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    Re: Squirrels!

    Quote Originally Posted by CutiePie72 View Post
    Eddie? I was serious when I asked for help in getting rid of them, and this is what I get?
    Oh, come on...just a little humor. Why get rid of them when you can get one of these?



    Or these:




    Here is one you can make at home:



    If you have to get rid of them, try this:



    Or my personal favorite, the "Squirrel Flinga 2000":



    Or its competitor:


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    Re: Squirrels!

    Quote Originally Posted by maddawg View Post
    What do y'all do with the figs? Preserves?
    Eat them off the tree or make fig, cinnamon fig, peach fig, strawberry fig preserves

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    Re: Squirrels!

    Well, it is all out war now! The critters have bitten through the line that holds the cd where I tie it around the trunk of the tree. They did it to all except for one. That means they did it to 6 out of the seven I deployed in one night. They also put up a nest in the tree that had 2 cds hanging from it. They don't go after the CD but follow the line down to where it is tied around the trunk. I think maybe steel cable is the next step if I can do this without too much trouble. I'm absolutely sure it was the squirrels as all the evidence points that way given the number of countermeasures that were attacked in one night and the fact that they built a nest in the same night. I do believe that they do not like the reflections from the cds.
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    Re: Squirrels!

    Quote Originally Posted by WWDog View Post
    Well, it is all out war now! The critters have bitten through the line that holds the cd where I tie it around the trunk of the tree. They did it to all except for one. That means they did it to 6 out of the seven I deployed in one night. They also put up a nest in the tree that had 2 cds hanging from it. They don't go after the CD but follow the line down to where it is tied around the trunk. I think maybe steel cable is the next step if I can do this without too much trouble. I'm absolutely sure it was the squirrels as all the evidence points that way given the number of countermeasures that were attacked in one night and the fact that they built a nest in the same night. I do believe that they do not like the reflections from the cds.
    This is beginning to sound like a scene from "Caddyschack!"

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