Squirrels

[589205]

I wish I could loan you the 2008 version of my cat. He removed a few squirrel tails in Georgia that year. He is still a beast. Not to mention the baby alligator he caught.

I have a jungle named Boo who does his job at our small farm. He has more of an appetite for mice, voles, and birds tho but he has battled crows, bull snakes, coyotes and foxes before.

 

[589205]

How can you be sure? (i guess about both things, more the rabies though.)

Why else would a squirrel come out during the night?

 

[589205]

Why else would a squirrel come out during the night?

This wasn't what we would we would think of being normal squirrel behavior at all.

 

[AllenK RGV]

I have a jungle named Boo who does his job at our small farm. He has more of an appetite for mice, voles, and birds tho but he has battled crows, bull snakes, coyotes and foxes before.

Yep that little punk brought me a few toxic snakes in his day I do not miss that. Bashing in snake brains with the golf club. Little jerk of a cat.

 

[AllenK RGV]

What can a cat be thinking here is a copperhead to add some excitement to your day? Or what about this angry cottonmouth? Cats can be so crazy. Both happened. Maybe I wouldn't wish him on anyone. Journals from Wise County TX. We no longer live around poisonous snakes. We only have coral snakes down here and you need to win a Darwin award to die by one. Of course all snakes get dropped at your feet. @007Sean can probably tell some stories. I also think you are right about your squirrel that is very atypical behavior.

 

[589205]

Okay, so long story short... I went outside one snowy morning last winter and was just feeding the chickens when I heard a noise behind me. I turned around to see what it was and realize I was completely surrounded by a dozen or so hungry tree squirrels that were seemingly plotting to ambush. I grabbed the nearest stick I could reach and swatted it at them to back off so that I could try making escape run for the house but these squirrels were FEARLESS...Thank goodness my hubby saw them comin' after me from house window and came running outside with pellet gun in one hand, big stick in the other which made most of them scatter off but there was one who actually stood its ground on top of our pile of firewood aggressively chittering its head off at us until we wacked it dead. It was nuts! We never been through this much squirrelly wrath before and it seems to have only just begun this year...

 

[589205]

Then you committed a crime?
What exactly did this squirrel do to you to deserve being killed with a fork?
Idk.

Let's say you were just having a small nighttime cookout with your family and friends, minding your own business when suddenly someone notices and points out there's a dark shadow hovering on the tree branch that's right above your head and you look up to see that it's a rabid squirrel about to jump on you...What would you do?

 

[589205]

What can a cat be thinking here is a copperhead to add some excitement to your day? Or what about this angry cottonmouth? Cats can be so crazy. Both happened. Maybe I wouldn't wish him on anyone. Journals from Wise County TX. We no longer live around poisonous snakes. We only have coral snakes down here and you need to win a Darwin award to die by one. Of course all snakes get dropped at your feet. @007Sean can probably tell some stories. I also think you are right about your squirrel that is very atypical behavior.

Good kitties bring the darndest gifts sometimes! Out here in the SW Iowa Loess Hills we usually only see various nonvenomous snake species slithering around during the warm season months. We have lots of other chicken predators too tho. Mainly hawks, raccoons, opossums, foxes, and coyotes. Occassionally eagles, lynx, mountain lions and bobcats will pass thru every now and then, but yeah...we never had issues with squirrels like this before this year

 

[Al Gerhart]

One or two squirrels aren't hard to stop with a ratproof chicken feeder but a mob of squirrels, you are going to find squirrels trapped in the feeder so be sure you have an easy way to mount and dismount the feeder (french cleat is great) and have a plan to remove the critter.

I am working on a feeder that will stop a pack of squirrels as the door itself is impossible to open unless the treadle is depressed. They could figure that out if they would take turns holding down the treadle while the others eat. But cooperation isn't likely going to last long.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

They live in our giant Elm trees, mess with our Silver Maple tree, gardens and ate all the peaches off our peach trees this year.

I have lost a tree full of figs to them on numerous occasions. Sneaky little buggers