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Salmon Egg wrote:

This past year has been a disaster in terms of getting fruit from my trees.
The gray squirrels get them first. Among the trees with decent numbers of
fruits were apples, peaches, fuyus, satsuma mandarins. The squirrels got
them all or almost all. We actually got to eat some figs and pineapple
guavas only because the produced so prodigiously. They left navel oranges
alone.

So how can these critters be controlled? Is there a poison bait particularly
effective against them?

Bill

-- Ferme le Bush



It's best to shoot them with a BB gun and eat them. They are delicious
if you have the time...
Otherwise, rat poison works just fine.

I've used the block-type baits and put them into a suet cage type bird
feeder. This forces the squirrels to eat the bait thru the wire.

I have not hurt any birds using this method and there is not a single
squirrel in my yard now. I have found them dead so I know it worked.

I'm sick to death of the damage they cause also!
They are as bad as rats.

Hope this helps?

The bait I used was "Tomcat" brand from Lowe's.
It's a rat poison and works fine on squirrels.