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squirrels, again
"Gus" wrote:
"Brooklyn1" wrote: I've been putting out peanuts here for more than ten years and there aren't more than 4-5 squirrels... the population doesn't grow because wild critters are extremely territorial There was another half eaten young, green tomato on the railing out back yesterday evening. I put out a couple little tubs of water this morning and going to get some peanuts today. If they keep stealing the young green tomatoes, I'm going to just pull off all there are and let them ripen on the counter... Yesterday, it rained a fair amount and there were puddles so I don't think the squirrel(s) are biting the tomatoes for just the water, or maybe they are just lazy insensitive squirrels. They may not be squirrels, other critters will eat tomatoes, field mice and voles love them, so do chipmunks. Perhaps you need a couple of cats... I have two ferral cats living in my barn and there are many more around. The community of ferral cats patrol all night, other than insects I get very little critter damage in my garden. Where do you put your peanuts? Near the garden? Out by trees they live in? Maybe I can put out peanuts with peanut butter with extra butter--or better, trans fat margarine-- on the peanuts, and they will get fat with clogged arteries and have heart attacks and fall out of the trees. My garden is about 200' from my house. Every morning I put a big handful of peanuts out with the bird seed I put on the table on my deck... I add seed all day but no more peanuts. The few squirrels compete with the bluejays for peanuts, but I blend cracked corn 50/50 with bird seed and squirrels like corn too, corn is cheap, a 50 pound sack/$12... premium bird seed costs $40/40 lbs. I don't mind feeding animals, I actually spend quite a bit on food for critters... that's my charitable contribution... I'll never give a cent to charities for people... I see way too many able bodied people paying for groceries with food stamps, and then get into a Lexus. Food drives are also a scam, the organizers skim off the good stuff for themselves and most of what remains goes to lazy deadbeats who more than likely never bother to cook those foods. Food stamps are an even bigger scam, people lie to get them and then they get 75¢ on the dollar from small grocery stores... flog food stamps into illegal drugs... yeah some legitimately need a hot meal, let them visit soup kitchens... take all you want, eat all you take. I'd rather feed a thousand squirrels than one lazy scamming deadbeat. http://i43.tinypic.com/e6shtu.jpg |
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