Minnie_Collector
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crasster wrote:Set several live animal traps. Catch them. Up to you what you do with them after. Some people shoot them, some will throw them in a small pond till they drown, others will drive them off many miles and release them.
I've always been an animal lover and hate to kill anything BUT I'm at the point that I've got to do something. Since I live in the woods, there are squirrel everywhere so I don't know if catching them is an option. But I'm gonna start by getting a trap - gotta do something.
The score is now ===
Squirrels - 3 (car, truck and now MH)
Me - 2 insurance deductibles and hoping the MH will be covered also.
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BB_TX
McKinney, Texas
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I had them chew wires and vacuum lines on my Ford Superduty 3 times winter before last and once the winter before. I tried Fox urine. No help. Found something at Home Depot called Critter Ridder. Made of several hot pepper extracts. Sprayed that on all my wires and hoses and no more problems. Give it a try.
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DUNEBUGGYDOUG
SHELBY FOREST TN.
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My buddy had the same problem,they were eating everything up. He made a wooden frame m,covered it with hardware cloth(wire grid) and hooked up electric wire to it . They run across the yard hop on the mat and yep, you guessed it fried squirrel.End of chewed up wires and hoses
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charles
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I've always had luck with pure amonia. I don't know your circumstances but maybe a pie pan full under the area they are chewing will work. Has to be somewhere that rain water won't delute it. I also use it around my cucumber plants to keep the deer away, and down groundhog holes to keep them away, they'll never go back in once they take a deep breath of amonia. Also works by stuffing a rag soaked with it in woodpecker holes if you happen to have wood siding. Great stuff and cheap. For chipmonks, I spread decon around the house at the first sign of them in the spring when they're good and hungry, and maybe once or twice more during the summer if any make it through the first baiting. Maybe mixing decon in peanut butter will get rid of the squirrels.
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Go Dogs
South of Pittsburgh, PA
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I would set some traps under the RV. Put their little heads on sticks to warn the others-Braveheart style!
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mockturtle
WA
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Quote:Put their little heads on sticks to warn the others-Braveheart style! 
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bigB42
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neighbor puts ammonia on garbage at night just a cupful inside can at night keeps bears out. i spray it on stairs of deck for racoons&bears seems to work well ken
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skipnchar
Topeka or somewhere else
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A friend of mine has had his wiring harness on his ford Diesel eaten three times over the years. He shoots the squirrels and rids himself of the problem and his wife (again) begins feeding them to lour them back. He's been on that marry-go-round now for a number of years 
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chewbear
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Had them Eat through my extend-a-stay rubber hose twice. Repair tech told me to wrap aluminum foil around hose.. Worked like a charm, do not know how easy it would be to do a gas line but hey worth a shot. Have and had two of the sonic plug in critter ridders, front and rear. My son told me they lose their effectiveness after awhile as the critters become used to the sound. That I should swap different manufacturers to change sound. Personally I find the current little ole lady neighbor's three cats a better deterrent.
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crickeydog
Marietta, Ga.
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mockturtle wrote:Yeah, some people feed them (squirrls).
That's frustrating to be all primed and ready to leave and then discover an issue that puts the brakes on things.
Guilty. Yea me and most of our neighbors feed the squirrls, birds, rabbits, fox, raccoons, deer, and whatever else wanders by. We hear some sounds at night coming from the woods and marsh that frankly I'm not sure I want to know what's back there!!! Our heavilly wooded lot as well as all of our neighbors wooded lots have got quite a bumper crop of squirrls and rabbits this year. We've got several ground squirrls living under our deck that'll sit on the deck and stare in at us through our floor to ceiling eat-in kitchen windows. I leave the little guys kernals of corn on the deck so they'll come out and eat while we eat. Last fall DW was sitting in our family room, looked over, and there were half dozen wild turkeys standing on the back patio just staring into the house at her through our patio doors. Guess the free food word got out. Our trucks and 5'er sit right 20' out our back patio doors but nobody bothers either of them.
Oh, and we've got a Civil War Confederate soldier ghost too. We don't feed him. We've never seen him but he's been in the papers a couple of times in the 15 years we've lived here. He's caused a couple of minor auto wrecks. Report's say he's been seen in full uniform at night standing in the middle of the road looking over his left sholder with his rifle over his right shoulder. Drivers have reported swerving to miss him just after crossing the marsh bridge. We have neighbors that heard a noise and caught a glimpse of him on their back patio 2 years ago around 2am. Their wooded lot fully borders up directly against the marsh. Not sure if he's taken any food we leave for the animals; maybe he eats them!!!
Happy camping!!! See y'all down the road!!!
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