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Subject: Re: Deterring Squirrels?
From: nicole <nicole@ocella.com>
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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 01 18:36:07
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> From: hedra@magma.ca (Sandra P. Hoffman)
>> On Thu, 30 Aug 01 14:57:56, nicole wrote:

> I make frequent random trips around my house and garden. When I don't
> have time for a full tour, I go out the front and back door and clap
> my hands several times. When I see a squirrel anywhere in the yard, I
> tear out of the house banging the door, yelling and clapping my hands.
> The squirrels usually run up a tree where they look down at me and I
> continue to harangue them for several minutes on how they are not
> allowed in my yard.

great method if you are home a lot, but i work 40 hours a week, plus am
taking two classes. i am barely home. i leave for work at about 7.30 am and
come home at about 5.30 and the sunflowers are all bent over and destroyed.
i left the most destroyed ones this time, and that seems to be sparing the
few left standing.

i have a tiny yard, and not many sunflower stalks left!

nicole

--
"There has never been a war": in her mind the words stood clear and bright,
surrounded by and sinking into an infinite, dark, soft incredulity. What
would that world be, a world without war? It would be the real world. Peace
was the true life, the life of working and learning and bringing up
children to work and learn. War, which devoured work, learning, and
children, was the denial of reality. But my people, she thought, know only
how to deny.
-- Ursula K. LeGuin, _Betrayals_