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Help me, /an/. You're my only hope. You ever see Caddyshack?

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Help me, /an/. You're my only hope.

You ever see Caddyshack? Remember Bill Murray's war with the gophers?

Well I've got an ongoing war with squirrels.

I live in a condo complex, and provide landscaping for the complex. I am also an avid gardener, or at least, I was until autumn 2016.

We had a hard winter with an unusual amount of snow, which must be what set them off. The little bastards have dug up every single planter and container in the complex. The flowers, the vegetables gardens, the small ornamentals...all dug up by the roots and dirt and mulch scattered everywhere. The only they've left alone are the trees.

Trapping, poisoning, and shooting isn't an option here, and we are next to a forested park, so it wouldn't do much good anyway.

We've tried netting and wire netting(they chew through it), burying plant stakes (they dig them up), tiger piss and capsacin and neem oil (haha yeah right). The complex has cats, dogs, and the occasional coyote visitor, and the squirrels just don't give a fuck.

I'm at my wits' end, /an/ How the fuck do I deter these little bastards?
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Are you sure it's squirrels digging up the containers and planters? Typically if it's not a food source a squirrel is not going to be foraging in it.
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>>2331964

I am certain it is squirrels. We've set up video cameras.

In one patch of dirt that was 10 ft x 20 ft, a couple of squirrels dug over two hundred holes in a single night.

They will dig down 6-8 inches.

Sometimes they bury stuff in them (acorns, nuts) but usually they are just digging, looking for old food caches.

I don't know why they dig up the container plants. Typically they will nibble on the plant a little, then dig around it until the uproot the plant completely.
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It is a weird situation. Squirrels are crazy destructive. The state agricultural commission says that they are responsible for millions of dollars worth of crop and property damage every year. I know contractors who make a lot of money off of fixing damage from squirrels chewing through wiring and siding and anything else they can get heir teeth on. They also drive songbirds away from nesting and feeding sites, which is well documented.

They breed like rats. A single pair can produce 16+ babies in a year.

And yet if if you call the Master Gardeners' or local Tilth helpline, they will tell you that squirrels only nibble on plants very rarely and don't pose any serious problem for gardeners or homeowners. Then they recommend that you support local wildlife by feeding the squirrels or providing nesting boxes for them.
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this is now a squirrel appreciation thread
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>>2331971
Ok, I know exactly what you are going through, I dealt with it last year, I had hundreds of those holes all around my house and foundation. It was ground squirrels. What worked for me was a live trap called the "chipmunkinator".
I caught over twenty of the destructive little shit's last fall, and will have to do it again this spring.
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>>2331985
SO squirrels are Muslims basically.
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>>2332046

Sweet Fuckin Jesus On A Pogo Stick, is there any goddamn thread on any goddamn board on any goddamned corner of the internet that you filthy neckbeard /pol/lacks and cumsucking Stormfags and functionally illiterate Breitbart trolls won't shit all over with your whining?

Go ahead, tell me more about how you would be a happy, fulfilled person and stunning alpha if it weren't for the existence of Muslims and Jews. Tell me more about how you think people who are an inferior species are somehow keeping you down and preventing you from reaching your true potential. TELL ME MORE.
Go Ahead. Why post animal pictures or discussions? Just spout shit endlessly. And tomorrow, when you wake up, make sure you log onto the internet to distract yourself before you can think about how much all those hours of flaming in your "redpill" circle jerk have changed or improved your life and made the world a better place. Immerse yourself in more shitposting so you don't have to think about how scared you are of the world outside your shit-flinging echo chamber.
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>>2332044

OP here.

Thanks, anon. I will check that out.
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>>2332059
uh oh....we found the black transgendered Muslim!
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>>2331959
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Try rubber snakes and plastic owls. Snakes in low places, owls in high ones. You can get them in most hardware shops for exactly this purpose.
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>>2332059
fuck off dumb muzzie
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>>2332079


Quelle réponse réfléchie et articulée
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>>2332277

What kind of animal is Muzzy?
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>>2332284

an algae infested polar bear
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squirrels are shit
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>>2332059
/pol/ are the muslims of 4chan, showing up uninvited and ruining everything.
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>>2331959
>How the fuck do I deter these little bastards
>Grey squirrel
A bullet
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