dommy wrote in message
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I have this problem. There are three of them now, they are called
squirrels but are really just rats with bushy tails.
I have grown some seedlings in pots but the little buggers keep digging
in the pots and sometimes even kill the seedling by jumping on them.
I have tried chille powder, chillies chopped up, peppers, but they
still keep digging.
First off a cat will try a squirrel once and then realize that the little
tree-rat is too tough after that they just sit and watch them. I call it
rat-wire
and others call it hardware cloth but go to the hardware outlet and get a
wire mesh with 3/8" to 1/2 " openings. Make a tent over your pots. Next
buy
a live trap and a pellet gun. Trap the tree-rats and shoot them. Use pecans
for bait. As an aside pecans ground up with boric acid is an excellant ant
poison. Bury them
around your irises and your roses. So far that is the only thing I have
found these things to be good for, I am not crazy about fried squirrel and
milk gravy.