Need help with squirrels in yard

pet the squierell!!

No way.

They want your nuts.

And they know you're afraid...

Super Soaker!

Cat and or dog!

22 rifle with snake shot...so there is no collateral damage

I don't have nuts. Neither the anatomical kind or the nutritious kind.

Hmmmm squirrel soup

OH NO! LOL

Squirrels are a riot to watch.

I don't get how people can be scared of something that is so much smaller than they are, stop being a pussy and enjoy the show.

I had two pet squirrels, one when I was nine and the second when I was in my mid teens. Both were orphaned when their mothers were killed. They make wonderful delightful pets. Unfortunately, during the springtime, they get so full of energy that it's impossible to keep them indoors. The first one returned to the wild & we gave the second to a wildlife rescue farm.

Squirrels are highly intelligent & social animals.

It's irrational to be afraid of squirrels. Don't feed them or feed them in neighbour's garden and they will go away.

they probably are helping you out, those critters will eat all kinds of bugs. i'm sure a cat will spook em off, or eat em. but you should consider making friends with em. leave em some peanuts, they're goofy little buggers and are quite hilarious to watch once they're warmed up to people. my friend had an indoor squirrel that he rescued as a baby. it would sit in the window and eat cat food all fat as hell, watching the other squirrels dig up the nuts out of the snow that they burried in the fall like it was a tv show

Child trauma I guess. The grownups used to tell us that if we stared at a squirrel and made eye contact and then looked away it would attack us and claw out our eyes.

I'm actually most concerned because we have a toddler. He's a brave kid. If he pets it, I'm scared might get bit.

I went through this. They can be a big pain.
Make your own home made pepper spray. This stuff works!

The squirrelly gods are not satisfied with your offering. Expect disharmonious synchronicity to expand exponentially. I would get some nuts if I were you.


My sister came back to town (Indy) from being at Valparaiso for a semester and wondered WTF was wrong with all of our brown, fat, lazy squirrels. They were so fkn huge...

I visited her the following semester and was immediately supremely jealous of the cute, little grey squirrels they have further up north.

With all the crazy shit going on in the world, this is what you're worried about? lol

There is NO excuse for people to be cruel. People who do this will get whats coming...

LOL

When my younger daughter was around 5 years old, she would wander around the lake with her mother and/or I behind the apartment we were living at the time trying to snatch up baby geese to hold.

One day, her mother and I were walking around and found a stranded baby goose that got stuck on some turf netting. We gathered it up and called a wildlife rescue center. It was super scared and shaking for the longest time.

Until my daughter got her wish to hold a baby goose, that is. It was asleep within 5 minutes of her holding it after she got home from school.

squirrels can smell your menstruation, and when they do they will go into a frenzy and attack. stay indoors.

i'm familiar with the squirrel behavior you describe.
they can be aggressive (although they don't intend to hurt you) and persistant.

they should eventually realize that you won't feed them and will move on
meantime, sprinkling cayenne pepper around should keep them away too. that is if you have no other pets or small children that could get into the pepper.