I must say this is quite an unique idea that I have not heard of or thought
about.
They certainly seem smart enough, but I am not sure if they are trainable.
Probably, there are too many "crime scenes" where they need to be "trained"
for this idea to work in my case. :-)


"Gary Brady" wrote in message
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Taking a trick used by Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, to pursuade a
large croc to stay away from human habitations, how about this:

Catch the squirrels in a live trap.
Place the trap with squirrel near the spot where the squirrel did the
damage.
Spray the squirrel with a water hose several times, or do some other
humiliating thing to him.
Let him go.

The idea is that the squirrel will associate a distasteful experience with
the plants he's been destroying and not come back.

I've thought about using this to "train" racoons, but have never tried it.