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[Jay Cutts <orders@cuttsreviews.com>]

I have to confess to having had fantasies of dangling cats from the 
branches but I'm sure there are some ethical issues around that :)

Regards,

Jay

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On 11/26/2013 11:09 AM, sherwin wrote:
> On 11/25/2013 7:56 PM, jerrydana5@aol.com wrote:
> > I've got about 15 apple trees & peach trees and last summer I lost everything to 
> > squirrels who would eat about 1/2 a fruit & then drop it.  It is next to a woods, 
> > so they can jump onto the trees. I have a fence around the whole orchard, topped with 
> > an electric fence which I bait with peanut butter to keep deer out, and that works.  
> > But the squirrels are driving me crazy.  Is there anything like plastic snakes, owls, 
> > etc I could put in the trees?  Or any other ideas?  Jerry in southern Indiana
> > __________________
>        Jerry,
>
>        The only thing that worked for me was population reduction.
> Setting out two Havaheart
>        traps over the course of a season netted me about 30 the first
> year.  That went down
>        appreciably to almost none, at this time.  True, squirrels are
> territorial and do migrate
>        back into an area once it is vacated, but that has not been my
> experience.
>
>                    Sherwin in Morton Grove, IL
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