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For a month or so now, little holes have been appearing in my nice new lawn
and in my flowerbeds. Finally, I caught one of the little buggers at it - it was a squirrel trying to bury a nut!! Is there any way of stopping them or discouraging them from my garden? What attracts them to me? a |
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 18:49:46 +0100, "al"
wrote: For a month or so now, little holes have been appearing in my nice new lawn and in my flowerbeds. Finally, I caught one of the little buggers at it - it was a squirrel trying to bury a nut!! Is there any way of stopping them or discouraging them from my garden? What attracts them to me? Do you have a long bushy tail? -- Stuart Baldwin news\at/boxatrix\dot/co\dot/uk |
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What attracts them to me? Your nuts. ZD |
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from "al" contains these words: For a month or so now, little holes have been appearing in my nice new lawn and in my flowerbeds. Finally, I caught one of the little buggers at it - it was a squirrel trying to bury a nut!! Is there any way of stopping them or discouraging them from my garden? What attracts them to me? Squirrel pie. Ingredients: Five squirrels, skinned, cleaned and jointed. about ten rashers of streaky bacon a sprinkling of plain flour ½oz olive oil or butter 2 English onions 3 good carrots a small parsnip 4 sticks celery glass of red wine teaspoon of marjoram ½ teaspoon of ground nutmeg black pepper to taste salt if desired pinch of sage, marjoram and thyme Enough short pastry to make a piecrust cover over your favourite pie dish Method. Chop vegetables. Cut bacon into small pieces Heat butter or olive oil in a flat open pan. Roll squirrel pieces in flour. Add floured pieces, bacon and chopped onions to hot fat Fry until juices stop coming from pieces, stirring from time to time. When the meat is cooked (see above) remove it and the onions and place in pie dish Add the rest of the vegetables Now add the surplus flour to the fat in the pan and make a roux using the red wine and any stock or vegetable stock you have to thin it to the consistency of white sauce. Add herbs and spices and stir in. Add the gravy to the contents of your pie dish and cover with pastry. (You may wish to use a piecrust raiser thingamejig-wotsit) Cook in oven until piecrust is done. -- Rusty Hinge horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm |
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"Jaques d'Altrades" wrote in message
Finally, I caught one of the little buggers at it - it was a squirrel trying to bury a nut!! I wonder if setting a rat trap, baited with peanuts or similar, would catch them? Anyone know if that'd work? |
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... Is there any way of stopping them or discouraging them from my garden? What attracts them to me? Do you have a long bushy tail? -- Stuart Baldwin Is that a line you use often?? ;P a |
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 23:05:34 +0100, "al"
wrote: wrote in message .. . Is there any way of stopping them or discouraging them from my garden? What attracts them to me? Do you have a long bushy tail? -- Stuart Baldwin Is that a line you use often?? ;P When I think I can get away with it. So, no. -- Stuart Baldwin news\at/boxatrix\dot/co\dot/uk |
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"Zipadee Doodar" wrote in message
... What attracts them to me? Your nuts. ZD Yeah, OK, I can see this line of questioning is going to get me far! But come on, why my garden? Why in grass? Why not in the bloody great park behind my house!? Also - general knowledge question on the little bushy rodents .... do they hibernate and are they at all nocturnal? a |
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"Janice" wrote in message
news:871fb.5343$QH3.1710@newsfep4- I wonder if setting a rat trap, baited with peanuts or similar, would catch them? Anyone know if that'd work? Ewwwww ... but then I'd have to dispose of them! I just want to make my garden a place they don't want to come to ... a |
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"Zipadee Doodar" wrote in message
... What attracts them to me? Your nuts. ZD Yeah, OK, I can see this line of questioning is going to get me far! But come on, why my garden? Why in grass? Why not in the bloody great park behind my house!? Also - general knowledge question on the little bushy rodents .... do they hibernate and are they at all nocturnal? a |
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"Janice" wrote in message
news:871fb.5343$QH3.1710@newsfep4- I wonder if setting a rat trap, baited with peanuts or similar, would catch them? Anyone know if that'd work? Ewwwww ... but then I'd have to dispose of them! I just want to make my garden a place they don't want to come to ... a |
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al wrote:
"Zipadee Doodar" wrote in message ... What attracts them to me? Your nuts. ZD Yeah, OK, I can see this line of questioning is going to get me far! But come on, why my garden? Why in grass? Why not in the bloody great park behind my house!? Also - general knowledge question on the little bushy rodents .... do they hibernate and are they at all nocturnal? a AFAIK, they sort of hibernate! And only if it gets very cold, otherwise they're up and about most of the winter. As for why they bury their nuts in your garden rather than the park, I would guess that the park is mostly grassland and there are no obvious landmarks for reference points as to where they left there nuts. My solution would be to leave them alone, but if they were really causing a nuisance, to shoot them. I realise this may not be desirable for you or practical! |
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al wrote:
"Zipadee Doodar" wrote in message ... What attracts them to me? Your nuts. ZD Yeah, OK, I can see this line of questioning is going to get me far! But come on, why my garden? Why in grass? Why not in the bloody great park behind my house!? Also - general knowledge question on the little bushy rodents .... do they hibernate and are they at all nocturnal? a AFAIK, they sort of hibernate! And only if it gets very cold, otherwise they're up and about most of the winter. As for why they bury their nuts in your garden rather than the park, I would guess that the park is mostly grassland and there are no obvious landmarks for reference points as to where they left there nuts. My solution would be to leave them alone, but if they were really causing a nuisance, to shoot them. I realise this may not be desirable for you or practical! |
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al wrote:
"Zipadee Doodar" wrote in message ... What attracts them to me? Your nuts. ZD Yeah, OK, I can see this line of questioning is going to get me far! But come on, why my garden? Why in grass? Why not in the bloody great park behind my house!? Also - general knowledge question on the little bushy rodents .... do they hibernate and are they at all nocturnal? a AFAIK, they sort of hibernate! And only if it gets very cold, otherwise they're up and about most of the winter. As for why they bury their nuts in your garden rather than the park, I would guess that the park is mostly grassland and there are no obvious landmarks for reference points as to where they left there nuts. My solution would be to leave them alone, but if they were really causing a nuisance, to shoot them. I realise this may not be desirable for you or practical! |
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from "al" contains these words: Also - general knowledge question on the little bushy rodents .... do they hibernate and are they at all nocturnal? They don't properly hibernate, they snooze at reduced metabolism rate, then waken if the temperature is high enough and search for hidden nuts. They aren't at all nocturnal AFAIK, but might be fooled by strong artificial lights. I've never seen one after dark, and yes, I probably would, as I go lamping for rats and foxes. -- Rusty Hinge horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm |
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from "al" contains these words: "Janice" wrote in message news:871fb.5343$QH3.1710@newsfep4- I wonder if setting a rat trap, baited with peanuts or similar, would catch them? Anyone know if that'd work? Ewwwww ... but then I'd have to dispose of them! I just want to make my garden a place they don't want to come to ... Butbutbutbutbut I've *TOLD* you how to dispose of them! -- Rusty Hinge horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm |
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(al) wrote: Is there any way of stopping them or discouraging them from my garden? A lead spray! Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com |
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(al) wrote: do they hibernate No and are they at all nocturnal? They don't go outside at night, they dance the night away in some poor bugger's loft. Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com |
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(al) wrote: I just want to make my garden a place they don't want to come to ... Some neighbours have a dog loose. It doesn't totally discourage them but they move when the dog wants them to. Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com |
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"al" wrote in message: For a month or so now, little holes have been appearing in my nice new lawn and in my flowerbeds. Finally, I caught one of the little buggers at it - it was a squirrel trying to bury a nut!! Is there any way of stopping them or discouraging them from my garden? What attracts them to me? --- A squirrel writes... "Come off it mate, we're only doing what comes naturally. You put nuts out in your garden, how do we know they're not for us? You should thank your lucky stars you only have us, you could have a family of bloody badgers digging damn great holes around your garden, and depositing piles of crap. Every day our 'landlord' puts out nuts, seeds and fat balls for us then calls us a tree rats, tree rats I ask you, how insensitive can you get? I sometimes think we'd be better off back in the woods." |
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"bigboard" wrote in message - AFAIK, they sort of hibernate! And only if it gets very cold, otherwise they're up and about most of the winter. But walking around Holland Park in London last winter in the REALLY hard, cold days there were loads of squirrels following me about. During the summer they were far less brazen (maybe because more ppl & kids are there to terrorise them!). As for why they bury their nuts in your garden rather than the park, I would guess that the park is mostly grassland and there are no obvious landmarks for reference points as to where they left there nuts. You might be on to something there - perhaps I'll change the garden around every week to really **** them off so they can't find anything!! ;) My solution would be to leave them alone, but if they were really causing a nuisance, to shoot them. I realise this may not be desirable for you or practical! Well, firstly, I've only ever seen one once and there are holes all over my garden. Secondly I don't have a gun. Thirdly, pests as they might be, I really don't want to execute them - just repulse them. Perhaps pictures of Jade from BB last year with her "kebab" on show would do the trick. There again, the neighbours might burn the house down while I'm at work ...! a |
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"Jaques d'Altrades" wrote in message
They don't properly hibernate, they snooze at reduced metabolism rate, then waken if the temperature is high enough and search for hidden nuts. They aren't at all nocturnal AFAIK, but might be fooled by strong artificial lights. I've never seen one after dark, and yes, I probably would, as I go lamping for rats and foxes. Thanks for the info - the reason I thought they might be is because I've never seen them digging during the day so I figured they may be doing it when dark. a |
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"S.carolinensis" wrote in message
news:mWefb.620$my.249894@newsfep1- A squirrel writes... "Come off it mate, we're only doing what comes naturally. You put nuts out in your garden, how do we know they're not for us? You should thank your lucky stars you only have us, you could have a family of bloody badgers digging damn great holes around your garden, and depositing piles of crap. Every day our 'landlord' puts out nuts, seeds and fat balls for us then calls us a tree rats, tree rats I ask you, how insensitive can you get? I sometimes think we'd be better off back in the woods." But I don't have any nuts .... lol - yeah right, not going to walk into that one ;P a |
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al wrote: But I don't have any nuts .... lol - yeah right, not going to walk into that one ;P Yes, you need to be careful. Walking into things can definitely cause a pain in the nuts. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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"al" wrote in message ... "Janice" wrote in message news:871fb.5343$QH3.1710@newsfep4- I wonder if setting a rat trap, baited with peanuts or similar, would catch them? Anyone know if that'd work? Ewwwww ... but then I'd have to dispose of them! They are eminently edible. I just want to make my garden a place they don't want to come to ... Franz |
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"al" wrote in message ... "Janice" wrote in message news:871fb.5343$QH3.1710@newsfep4- I wonder if setting a rat trap, baited with peanuts or similar, would catch them? Anyone know if that'd work? Ewwwww ... but then I'd have to dispose of them! They are eminently edible. I just want to make my garden a place they don't want to come to ... Franz |
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"al" wrote in message ... "Janice" wrote in message news:871fb.5343$QH3.1710@newsfep4- I wonder if setting a rat trap, baited with peanuts or similar, would catch them? Anyone know if that'd work? Ewwwww ... but then I'd have to dispose of them! They are eminently edible. I just want to make my garden a place they don't want to come to ... Franz |
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"al" wrote in message ... "Janice" wrote in message news:871fb.5343$QH3.1710@newsfep4- I wonder if setting a rat trap, baited with peanuts or similar, would catch them? Anyone know if that'd work? Ewwwww ... but then I'd have to dispose of them! They are eminently edible. I just want to make my garden a place they don't want to come to ... Franz |
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al wrote:
Thirdly, pests as they might be, I really don't want to execute them - just repulse them. throw them over the fence then - let your neighbours deal with them. they are vermin - they should be shot. I see there is already a recipie in this thread. toodle-pip -- William Tasso |
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"Jaques d'Altrades" wrote in message
Yes, you need to be careful. Walking into things can definitely cause a pain in the nuts. But IIRC, al is of the female persuasion..... Errrrr ... I am .....!!?! *quick check of nuts* ..... phew ... still there .....! a |
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from "al" contains these words: "Jaques d'Altrades" wrote in message Yes, you need to be careful. Walking into things can definitely cause a pain in the nuts. But IIRC, al is of the female persuasion..... Errrrr ... I am .....!!?! *quick check of nuts* ..... phew ... still there ....! Lens of telescope a bit dirty. Sorry. -- Rusty Hinge horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm |
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On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 19:29:04 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades
wrote: The message from "al" contains these words: "Jaques d'Altrades" wrote in message Yes, you need to be careful. Walking into things can definitely cause a pain in the nuts. But IIRC, al is of the female persuasion..... Errrrr ... I am .....!!?! *quick check of nuts* ..... phew ... still there ....! Lens of telescope a bit dirty. Sorry. which is not surprising considering where you have been putting it -- Martin |
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"al" wrote in message ... "Zipadee Doodar" wrote in message ... What attracts them to me? Your nuts. ZD Yeah, OK, I can see this line of questioning is going to get me far! But come on, why my garden? Why in grass? Why not in the bloody great park behind my house!? Also - general knowledge question on the little bushy rodents .... do they hibernate and are they at all nocturnal? They do hibernate and you should pray for a mild winter, the warm climate wakes them too soon and they die off. There is only one way to stop them and if you live near a park it will take some time. Get a rat/mink trap from Mole Valley farmers and drown the beggars as described by the Forestry Commision. As I say, if you have a large number it will take time to reduce them. The drowning, for those who may be squeamish. is very quick, an average of 8 seconds. Alan -- Reply to alan(at)windsor-berks(dot)freeserve(dot)co(dot)uk |
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"Janice" wrote in message ... "Jaques d'Altrades" wrote in message Finally, I caught one of the little buggers at it - it was a squirrel trying to bury a nut!! I wonder if setting a rat trap, baited with peanuts or similar, would catch them? Anyone know if that'd work? If you mean a break-back trap, then I would very much doubt that it would work, you will have to get a rat/mink trap from mole valley farmers. you don't even have to bait it, cover it so it looks like a tunnel, the silly beggars have this desire to go into tunnels. Alan -- Reply to alan(at)windsor-berks(dot)freeserve(dot)co(dot)uk |
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"al" wrote in message ... "Zipadee Doodar" wrote in message ... What attracts them to me? Your nuts. ZD Yeah, OK, I can see this line of questioning is going to get me far! But come on, why my garden? Why in grass? Why not in the bloody great park behind my house!? Also - general knowledge question on the little bushy rodents .... do they hibernate and are they at all nocturnal? They do hibernate and you should pray for a mild winter, the warm climate wakes them too soon and they die off. There is only one way to stop them and if you live near a park it will take some time. Get a rat/mink trap from Mole Valley farmers and drown the beggars as described by the Forestry Commision. As I say, if you have a large number it will take time to reduce them. The drowning, for those who may be squeamish. is very quick, an average of 8 seconds. Alan -- Reply to alan(at)windsor-berks(dot)freeserve(dot)co(dot)uk |
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"Janice" wrote in message ... "Jaques d'Altrades" wrote in message Finally, I caught one of the little buggers at it - it was a squirrel trying to bury a nut!! I wonder if setting a rat trap, baited with peanuts or similar, would catch them? Anyone know if that'd work? If you mean a break-back trap, then I would very much doubt that it would work, you will have to get a rat/mink trap from mole valley farmers. you don't even have to bait it, cover it so it looks like a tunnel, the silly beggars have this desire to go into tunnels. Alan -- Reply to alan(at)windsor-berks(dot)freeserve(dot)co(dot)uk |
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"al" wrote in message ... "Zipadee Doodar" wrote in message ... What attracts them to me? Your nuts. ZD Yeah, OK, I can see this line of questioning is going to get me far! But come on, why my garden? Why in grass? Why not in the bloody great park behind my house!? Also - general knowledge question on the little bushy rodents .... do they hibernate and are they at all nocturnal? They do hibernate and you should pray for a mild winter, the warm climate wakes them too soon and they die off. There is only one way to stop them and if you live near a park it will take some time. Get a rat/mink trap from Mole Valley farmers and drown the beggars as described by the Forestry Commision. As I say, if you have a large number it will take time to reduce them. The drowning, for those who may be squeamish. is very quick, an average of 8 seconds. Alan -- Reply to alan(at)windsor-berks(dot)freeserve(dot)co(dot)uk |
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"Janice" wrote in message ... "Jaques d'Altrades" wrote in message Finally, I caught one of the little buggers at it - it was a squirrel trying to bury a nut!! I wonder if setting a rat trap, baited with peanuts or similar, would catch them? Anyone know if that'd work? If you mean a break-back trap, then I would very much doubt that it would work, you will have to get a rat/mink trap from mole valley farmers. you don't even have to bait it, cover it so it looks like a tunnel, the silly beggars have this desire to go into tunnels. Alan -- Reply to alan(at)windsor-berks(dot)freeserve(dot)co(dot)uk |
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