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  • From: "Dianne Stephany" <iluvdanc@rochester.rr.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] fixes for squirrels?
  • Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:41:01 -0400

Hi Jenny,
That is a great idea - > why not ask a dog to have a talk with the squirrels? >
It would work great if we had a dog or even if a neighbor had a dog. I could ask it to do the job. Neither my husband nor I are here enough during the day for a dog. It would be alone too much and lonely. When we moved here our new neighbors asked suspiciously "you don't have a dog, do you?"
We live in the suburbs with a 1/2 acre and I have always wanted Llamas as guard animals. They are great at keeping animals and people away, and would understand enough to eat only the fallen fruit and not to snack on the leaves or branches. But of course that is not practical in the middle of a half million metropolitan area.

I am putting the squirrel and crow problem down as a result of a weather and pray that it doesnot happen again next year.
Thanks! I am still open to ideas. I had been giving thought to a water squirter on a motion detector- but that would work for only a few trees and other problems like height and water supply. I am thinking seriously about blood meal and cayene pepper to spray the fruit, but it might keep the squirrels at bay, though probably not the crows.

thanks
Dianne Stephany, zone 5




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