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    The trouble with those squirrel baffles Dave is that our squirrels attack from above and come down to eat. There's several large trees on vacant land next to us and the squirrels use these and the overhead wires to enter our property at will. As soon as they hit the ground I think that our six dogs would make short work of any intruders.


    Quote Originally Posted by Latindancer View Post
    Try some rat poison mixed with banana
    As much as I'd like to see these squirrels gone, poison will never be an option. I wouldn't even poison rats... if we ever get a problem due to the chicken food, etc, I clean out the workshop and our dogs nail any rats or mice as they make a bolt for it. Much more humane I feel. I've previously tried to save two of our street dogs who'd been poisoned and it's not a memory that will go away. I find poisoning abhorrent to be honest and besides, you never know what will eat the dead squirrel.

    I have a feeling that this squirrel is getting a bit bold and will soon come a cropper by dog. If it came to the crunch maybe I could look at humane traps, but I must admit I quite like watching them.

    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    get one of these - trail / wildlife camera

    and maybe a 10 meter waterproof USB endoscope you can connect to your phone and stick in your pond

    captcha | lazadacom

    Yeah, thanks Baldrick, that's a thought. I think Dillinger suggested something similar last year but Kerry ballsed up the delivery and it never arrived. I may as well get some good close-up pictures of the squirrels to show the wife!

    Quote Originally Posted by David48atTD View Post
    Wait till she does the '(your) sausage/chop chop/duck' signal
    Dave... have you seen the women in Birmingham? I doubt Dill is straying far.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Dave... have you seen the women in Birmingham? I doubt Dill is straying far.
    I googled 'women in Birmingham' and this was the first result ...

    Those damn squirrels!-temp-publicity-pic-wiba20-birmingham-1920x1080



    This was the 2nd ...

    Those damn squirrels!-screenshot_2021-03-09-stock-photo-women

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    Oh, for comparison, here is the first image for 'women in Odessa'

    Those damn squirrels!-women-odessa-ukraine-jpg


    but we digress

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    Getting back to the squirrels....

    Mendip, perhaps you could make one of these ?

    Those damn squirrels!-squirrels-jpg

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    I've just got back from Odessa but yeah, I like that. It's gone on my list!

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    Perhaps with a tiny platform underneath so that it doesn't look so suspended in mid-air....?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Mrs Mendip is not happy.

    She's got used to my dogs digging up her seed beds, running off with plant pots containing seedlings and digging up newly planted papaya saplings. She's not happy about it, but accepts it. And besides, next year I'm going to put a fence around her veggie area. Or maybe the year after... when I get time.

    But now she's really gone into one and I'm worried it's going to push her over the edge.

    She phoned me last night and couldn't stop talking about 'these bloody squirrels'.

    For a long time now we've had a family of squirrels living in a small copse of trees adjacent to our garden. I've never begrudged them the occasional banana, mango or papaya,. I like to see them running around and if they're prepared to run the gauntlet of four dogs then I think they deserve the occasional treat. Mrs Mendip doesn't see it that way.

    Papaya seems to be their favourite...



    Jackfruit are also fair game...



    And we get so many mangoes I don't mind seeing this most mornings...



    I must admit, it does get slightly annoying when these squirrels just half eat everything, then move on to something else. But the chickens get the benefit of all the leftovers, so there's no waste.

    But what has really now got Mrs Mendip's goat, and she's really unhappy... the squirrels have moved on to her pride and joy, her lime trees. I never realised that squirrels ate limes, but maybe in the absence of anything nicer they'll eat what they can get - we've got no papayas or mangoes at the moment.

    My wife has spent a lot of time developing the lime trees and we get a good crop almost year round... There must be about ten trees in all around the garden.





    But now, every morning my wife has been finding five or six half-eaten limes scattered around the base of each tree. She also usually manages to see the back end of a squirrel and it's bushy tail as it scarpers over the wall. But too fast for a photo it seems.





    I find it hard to blame the squirrels to be honest. Our area is getting more and more developed, the trees are disappearing and these guys are just trying to survive as their habitat disappears. But, try explaining that to Mrs Mendip!

    Does anyone have any ideas for protecting her limes against these squirrels?

    I don't want to harm the buggers, just keep my wife happy. I've suggested to leave a couple of bananas out each night to fill them up so they can leave the limes alone. But Mrs Mendip's response wasn't really that polite.

    I've seen fruit tree nets on Lazada designed to keep birds away, but my feeling is the squirrels would just chew through them?

    Any ideas?
    You might find that its the birds. Thing is that the fruit is ripe for picking and you are a day late. So when you hear a lot of birds chirping at daylight they are into your fruit, Get out of bed and run out to the tree and pick it. Works for me, It's always the birds.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David48atTD View Post

    Those damn squirrels!-screenshot_2021-03-09-stock-photo-women
    That's a UK girls' night out. Flash the flesh. Just look at the guy next to them with his winter coat done up and both hands in his pockets. Brrrr.
    Not that I'd be rushing to cuddle any of those to keep warm.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David48atTD View Post
    Oh, for comparison, here is the first image for 'women in Odessa'

    Those damn squirrels!-women-odessa-ukraine-jpg


    but we digress

    Please, keep digressing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Papaya seems to be their favourite...

    Mate, we have a Paw Paw tree looking exactly the same.

    But no squirrels ... we have fruit bats.

    Normally the fruit doesn't get that ripe because SWIMBO has made a Papaya Salad ... but we now have an excess of trees, thus an excess of fruit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shutree View Post
    Please, keep digressing.
    Main street in Odessa (Deribasovskaya Street) ...

    Those damn squirrels!-women-odessa-0-jpg

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    yes, I would

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shutree View Post
    Just look at the guy next to them with his winter coat done up and both hands in his pockets. Brrrr.
    Nah, there's no erect nipples on show. That black guy would be like my Missus going out on a night out in Summer here


    Quote Originally Posted by David48atTD View Post
    SWIMBO has made a Papaya Salad ... but we now have an excess of trees, thus an excess of fruit.
    On Mothers Day last week, I saw a papaya in the Chinese Siamburis here. 10 pounds and 50 fuckin pence.

    Imagine paying 500 baht for a fucking cucumber

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shutree View Post
    Brrrr.
    Not that I'd be rushing to cuddle any of those to keep warm.

    Quote Originally Posted by TheRealKW View Post
    yes, I would

    Shudder

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dillinger View Post
    Nah, there's no erect nipples on show. That black guy would be like my Missus going out on a night out in Summer here




    On Mothers Day last week, I saw a papaya in the Chinese Siamburis here. 10 pounds and 50 fuckin pence.

    Imagine paying 500 baht for a fucking cucumber
    Her indoors got given a papaya plant when we moved back to oz from a singaporean friend. This this is a year old and doesnt stop making fruit. Of course it never gets allowed to be yellow. All goes in the papaya salad . Saving me a motza. Papaya green or otherwise aint cheap

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    She has another plant that she reckons is male so she has put a skirt around the base to try to trick the kathoey plant into bearing fruit. Lets see how that goes

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    Before I head back to Odessa I want to get this thread back on track. It's supposed to be about these damn squirrels.

    The mangoes are getting ripe and I chased off this little yellow bugger today.

    A free Green if you can spot the miscreant.

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    Quote Originally Posted by havnfun View Post
    You might find that its the birds. Thing is that the fruit is ripe for picking and you are a day late. So when you hear a lot of birds chirping at daylight they are into your fruit, Get out of bed and run out to the tree and pick it. Works for me, It's always the birds.
    Don't reckon. It would take some bird to gnaw through a lime skin, or a jack fruit skin for that matter.

    It's those damn squirrels!

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    No, no, NO! “Good’ Samaritan rescues an electrocuted squirrel.


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    A gun you build and can go squirrel hunting with! Squirrel and chips, or with peas might be pretty tasty.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Dillinger View Post

    Shudder

    bastard

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    A free Green if you can spot the miscreant.
    Sitting on the "whitish" wall junction. Just above the convenient stick, left by the gardener no doubt.

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    ^^^ Cal, you seem to have a violent streak...

    First you want me to hand grenade my pond and now to shoot my squirrels?

    What's next? Choke my chickens?



    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    Sitting on the "whitish" wall junction. Just above the convenient stick, left by the gardener no doubt.
    Yes, we have a winner! A Green is on it's way.

    You can just see his bushy yellow tail sticking out from behind a papaya... which incidentally Dill can be yours for just 8 quid plus P&P. Let me know.

    I leave that old branch leaning against the corner of the wall for a quick escape route for cats if they get cornered by the dogs. It's saved a couple already.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    You can just see his bushy yellow tail sticking out from behind a papaya... which incidentally Dill can be yours for just 8 quid plus P&P. Let me know
    How many teeth marks are in it, I shall let her know, although she's been managing with these European Papayas now...








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