Animal Rights

Hi Phil :) How are you?

I'm very fond of the squirrels that visit my garden but I do know the frustration they cause to friends who, after putting a lot of hard work into theirs, find them being pilfered by furry little hands, then having the same furry hands digging holes to store their spoils in but forgetting where they put it, so digging loads of test holes until they don't find it because the crows had watched them bury it and had long since pilfered the pilfered goods.

Myyyyyyy that was a long sentence! :)

I started putting monkey nuts out for mine, but that kindness proved horribly lethal to a few of them :( who got splatted complete with nut, in the road outside. So even encouraging them has negative consequences, and I regret having done so now, because death tolls don't go down :(

edit: like Mikey mentioned resorting to elsewhere, one of my friends is particularly scary when charging across her garden at full roar - heart attack kind of scary, and another keeps a loaded heavy duty water gun which she fires at them which is also quite effective. I think if she could, she'd have a water cannon mounted on a tank like they use for riot control... I'm glad she can't :)