"paghat" wrote in message
"limey" wrote:

"'enry VIII" wrote in message

Plant some extra plants for the squirrel to eat, put seed and nuts out
for
him to eat.

Kindness works better than trying to kill.

'enry VIII

And I guarantee he'll bring all his relatives and friends to the next
party.
We're overrun with them.

Dora

Squirrels are highly territorial. They patrol territories in mated pairs,
& will kill even their own offspring if at adolescence their young do not
leave to establish their own territory elsewhere. Multiples of squirrel
couples & single adolescents will occasionally share an overlapping area
of extreme resources (a section of beech forest, a part of an orchard, a
university campus with hundreds of students providing lunchtime hand-outs)
but the average squirrel population in any normal five-acre area of
woodland or neighborhood will in general never exceed two for any length
of time. It's rare that any of them are so destructive they cannot be
enjoyed. The exceptions may require permanent removal, though as soon as
the territory is vacated, an adolescent in search of his or her own
territory will move in, & eventually have a mate with whom to patrol &
harrass interloping squirrels.

-paghat the ratgirl

In theory, I'll concede the point. In practice, I know how it is here. We
have just over an acre of land, surrounded by quite a few oak trees. The
squirrel population is so prolific that (as I've mentioned before) a couple
of summers ago we moved 64 squirrels trapped in live boxes - and some
returned from several miles away. It's just as bad right now and they all
seem to live in harmony. They eat anything/everything they can get their
little paws on. Yes, I could enjoy and be kind to one squirrel, but not a
whole darned army
following a scorched-earth policy in my yard. May I send them to you for
safekeeping? BG

Dora