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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On May 30, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Don Bowen wrote:

> > They keep away the mice, the rats and those nasty, evil, *#&$^%#  
> > ground
> > squirrels which do even more damage to wiring than the mice do!
>
> A friend has a neighbor who is trying to grow a garden in this time of
> rising food prices.  They are poisoning the ground squirrels which  
> makes my
> friend worried about his dogs.  He asked me if I would ask my farmer  
> friend
> how to not kill the squirrels.  The farmers went off on how many  
> problems
> those *&^%*&$ things cause him and how he wishes there was a good  
> way to get
> rid of them.

I had a ground squirrel living behind a metal storage shed at the  
Phoenix house. Might still be there, but he looks a lot different. I  
put out two of those big sticky traps. Went out one morning and some  
the most hilarious looking squirrel possible, fur missing in chunks  
and patches all over him. About the only damage so far is he eats the  
oranges.