![]() ![]() As such, the easiest way to get a close look at an animal was to snuff it. ![]() I think I've heard that before, but hadn't thought of it.Īs for plucking them off, I really don't want to go the eradication route. I'll check in to the bitter apple spray thing. After about five minutes of this, Dad finally went out to reign in the dog, and put the squirrel out of it's misery with a shovel.īut the squirrels didn't hang around the yard much after that for some time. This, while the mommy squirrel squeaked from the nearby tree they were escaping to. Then she'd grab it, shake it around until she flipped it a few feet over, and would bark at it some more. The dog was flipping it about the yard and barking at after it landed until it started squeaking again. She was horrified to find that the occasional squeaking being produced was in fact a baby squirrel. Turns out it was a baby squirrel actually, but we weren't quite sure what it was the dog was playing with when we sent my sister (who was on the phone) out to investigate. My parent's cute little Scottie dog caught a squirrel (not chipmunk) in the backyard one time. Serious answers would be appreciated, but feel free to have fun with it, too. Is there anything I can spray on the flowers that's safe for the flowers and makes them repulsive to the chipmunks? I don't really want to relocate them, either, since I love the little guys. So, the point of this long, and probably boring discourse is that I really don't want the flowers eaten (they've nailed about half the bed, so far), but I also don't have any intention of chopping their heads off and making a thread to post the pictures. We had a good laugh when one of them grabbed a larger flower and tried to drag it down a hole, while it was still attached at the root. It must be like a fruit orchard for them. Looking out the living room window, we finally realized the problem, as we watched those sneaky little bastards come out of the wall and start munching on the flowers. Found a deer munching on the flowers the very next morning (pretty comical, since it was standing in the flower bed, which is a couple feet high), but it stopped coming back. It's basically a loop of the same stone of the wall, filled with dirt. But that's not the point of my post.Ī few of my familial females planted assorted flowers in this large flower bed extension thing, at the end of the wall. I would have gotten him an agent for a movie deal, if he hadn't disappeared in to the wall. He jumped in the air, kicked off of the chasee in mid-air, sending him flying to the ground at the bottom of the wall, and landed right back where he'd been standing. The one at the top pulled off some Matrix-type move. The other came ripping up and across the wall and sort of leaped to get to the top. Eventually, the chaser stood at the top of the wall, a bit cocky. I wish I had a video camera, as I watched one of them chasing another *all over* the place. I discovered one day that they apparently have at least one in their midst who is trained in the ways of martial arts. Ok, maybe not hours, but at least minutes. I get hours of enjoyment, just watching them skitter around the wall. ![]() This spring, it became home to an awesome little group of chipmunks. You see, I have this stacked stone retaining wall, between my house and the neighbor's.
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