.... thank you to the most generous person on the planet,
never mind rfc. It was dropped off on my stoop by the
mailman, I didn't notice it when I brought in the mail.

As I stood in the kitchen making crab cakes and coleslaw
for dinner, I keep hearing this noise. Thought it was the
garbage settling. Well, how long does a bag of garbage
need to settle, for pete's sake.

It wasn't the garbage.

http://i7.tinypic.com/4bdzw9j.jpg

Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and was
eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I caught him.

nancy

Nancy Young wrote:


It wasn't the garbage.

http://i7.tinypic.com/4bdzw9j.jpg

Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and was
eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I caught him.

Curse those tree rats. We never had a problem with them when we had cats
around. My project for this week is to pick up a live trap and to re-locate
the local population one at a time.

"Dave Smith" wrote

Nancy Young wrote:

It wasn't the garbage.

http://i7.tinypic.com/4bdzw9j.jpg

Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and was
eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I caught him.

Curse those tree rats. We never had a problem with them when we had cats
around. My project for this week is to pick up a live trap and to
re-locate
the local population one at a time.

Honestly. All winter I was fighting them for the bird feeders,
they wouldn't leave them alone no matter what. I'm getting a
supersoaker for next year, I can give them a blast of water
right through the kitchen window. I tried throwing ice cubes
at them but my aim stinks, hard to throw through a window.

nancy

"Steve Wertz" wrote

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:56:45 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:

Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and was
eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I caught him.

How did he get out of the house? What kind of cookies were they?

Chocolate chip. He wasn't in the house, the box was on the
stoop under the mailbox.

Heck, the poor dude probably just woke up from hibernation. I'd
be hungry after 4 month, too!

I can't believe what a racket he was making. He looked pretty
darned fat, no doubt from raiding my bird feeders.

nancy

Nancy wrote on Mon, 2 Apr 2007 16:50:02 -0400:

?? Nancy Young wrote:

?? It wasn't the garbage.
??
?? http://i7.tinypic.com/4bdzw9j.jpg
??
?? Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and
?? was eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I
?? caught him.
??
?? Curse those tree rats. We never had a problem with them
?? when we had cats around. My project for this week is to
?? pick up a live trap and to re-locate the local population
?? one at a time.

NY Honestly. All winter I was fighting them for the bird
NY feeders, they wouldn't leave them alone no matter what.
NY I'm getting a supersoaker for next year, I can give them a
NY blast of water right through the kitchen window. I tried
NY throwing ice cubes at them but my aim stinks, hard to throw
NY through a window.

I never did make any serious dent in my squirrel population.
When we first moved into the house we tried to grow peaches
without success because the rats ate them first. To add insult
to injury they would sit on the doorstep cracking the pits and
leaving the debris. One year I caught 20 of them with a
Have-a-Hart trap and released them five miles away but I still
got no peaches since the neighbors seemed to just move in. I
restrained myself from killing them and only one died when the
next door cat saw the trap with a squirrel in it and seemed to
have spent the afternoon provoking the rodent because it died
from apparent exhaustion.

I had a plastic "squirrel-proof" bird feeder but the beasts ate
it!

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not

Dave Smith wrote:
Nancy Young wrote:

It wasn't the garbage.

http://i7.tinypic.com/4bdzw9j.jpg

Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and was
eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I caught him.

Curse those tree rats. We never had a problem with them when we had cats
around. My project for this week is to pick up a live trap and to re-locate
the local population one at a time.

Don't give them reason to call in this one...

http://blinkynet.net/stuff/squirrel574.jpg


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"Nancy Young" wrote in message
. ..
... thank you to the most generous person on the planet,
never mind rfc. It was dropped off on my stoop by the
mailman, I didn't notice it when I brought in the mail.

As I stood in the kitchen making crab cakes and coleslaw
for dinner, I keep hearing this noise. Thought it was the
garbage settling. Well, how long does a bag of garbage
need to settle, for pete's sake.

It wasn't the garbage.

http://i7.tinypic.com/4bdzw9j.jpg

Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and was
eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I caught him.

nancy

The little scoundrel! Were you able to salvage any?

Felice

Nancy Young wrote:

"Steve Wertz" wrote

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:56:45 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:

Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and was
eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I caught him.

How did he get out of the house? What kind of cookies were they?

Chocolate chip. He wasn't in the house, the box was on the
stoop under the mailbox.

Heck, the poor dude probably just woke up from hibernation. I'd
be hungry after 4 month, too!

I can't believe what a racket he was making. He looked pretty
darned fat, no doubt from raiding my bird feeders.

Did you say fat? Might've been this one.

http://blinkynet.net/stuff/squirrel400.jpg


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James Silverton wrote:
Nancy wrote on Mon, 2 Apr 2007 16:50:02 -0400:

Nancy Young wrote:

It wasn't the garbage.

http://i7.tinypic.com/4bdzw9j.jpg

Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and
was eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I
caught him.

Curse those tree rats. We never had a problem with them
when we had cats around. My project for this week is to
pick up a live trap and to re-locate the local population
one at a time.

Honestly. All winter I was fighting them for the bird
feeders, they wouldn't leave them alone no matter what.
I'm getting a supersoaker for next year, I can give them a
blast of water right through the kitchen window. I tried
throwing ice cubes at them but my aim stinks, hard to throw
through a window.

I never did make any serious dent in my squirrel population.
When we first moved into the house we tried to grow peaches
without success because the rats ate them first. To add insult
to injury they would sit on the doorstep cracking the pits and
leaving the debris. One year I caught 20 of them with a
Have-a-Hart trap and released them five miles away but I still
got no peaches since the neighbors seemed to just move in. I
restrained myself from killing them and only one died when the
next door cat saw the trap with a squirrel in it and seemed to
have spent the afternoon provoking the rodent because it died
from apparent exhaustion.

I had a plastic "squirrel-proof" bird feeder but the beasts ate
it!

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

I have to store the bird seed *inside the house*. My apartment patio has a
built-in storage shed and for a while I thought I had rats... real ones, not
the tree kind. A friend gave me a heavy duty plastic tub to store the bird
seed in and - you got it. It was chewed right through. One day sitting
outside I watched as a squirrel literally flattened itself (I thought only
mice could do that? disjoint their bones that way?) and went under the
locked door. Now I keep the bird seed inside. It's not as convenient but
it saves on bird seed.

Curse the squirrels that were eating Nancy's cookies! (I just realized how
funny that sounded.)

Jill

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ROFL! With my luck the thing would crash into my sliding glass doors and
shatter them, thus incurring mucho dinero in replacement $$

Jill

"Steve Calvin" wrote

http://s86.photobucket.com/albums/k8...solution-1.flv

Neighbors near and far must be wondering What is that crazy lady laughing
at!?

Hilarious.

nancy

In article ,
"Nancy Young" wrote:

... thank you to the most generous person on the planet,
never mind rfc.
nancy

Blush You're very welcome and very generous with your compliment ---
except I didn't send you anything!!!
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On Apr 2, 4:21�pm, "jmcquown" wrote:
James Silverton wrote:
Nancy *wrote *on Mon, 2 Apr 2007 16:50:02 -0400:

Nancy Young wrote:

It wasn't the garbage.

http://i7.tinypic.com/4bdzw9j.jpg

Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and
was eating my cookies. *Good thing he got away before I
caught him.

Curse those tree rats. We never had a problem with them
when we had cats around. My project for this week is to
pick up a live trap and to re-locate the local population
one at a time.

Honestly. *All winter I was fighting them for the bird
feeders, they wouldn't leave them alone no matter what.
I'm getting a supersoaker for next year, I can give them a
blast of water right through the kitchen window. *I tried
throwing ice cubes at them but my aim stinks, hard to throw
through a window.

I never did make any serious dent in my squirrel population.
When we first moved into the house we tried to grow peaches
without success because the rats ate them first. To add insult
to injury they would sit on the doorstep cracking the pits and
leaving the debris. One year I caught 20 of them with a
Have-a-Hart trap and released them five miles away but I still
got no peaches since the neighbors seemed to just move in. I
restrained myself from killing them and only one died when the
next door cat saw the trap with a squirrel in it and seemed to
have spent the afternoon provoking the rodent because it died
from apparent exhaustion.

I had a plastic "squirrel-proof" bird feeder but the beasts ate
it!

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

I have to store the bird seed *inside the house*. *My apartment patio has a
built-in storage shed and for a while I thought I had rats... real ones, not
the tree kind. *A friend gave me a heavy duty plastic tub to store the bird
seed in and - you got it. *It was chewed right through. *One day sitting
outside I watched as a squirrel literally flattened itself (I thought only
mice could do that? disjoint their bones that way?) and went under the
locked door. *Now I keep the bird seed inside. *It's not as convenient but
it saves on bird seed.

Curse the squirrels that were eating Nancy's cookies! (I just realized how
funny that sounded.)

Jill- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Squirrels are amazing little critters, aren't they?? I might add tho,
Raccoons have them beat, hands down, they can get in anywhere. My
neighbor went and let the cat out one morning, yeah, left the patio
door open a bit, when she wandered down to get coffee, the cat was
sitting on the table and a raccoon and three babies were in the
kitchen eating the cats dinner.
The mother ran out, kids scattered and it was mayhem.

As we have discussed before, raccoons can be vicious.Best to not get
near them or trap them in a corner LOL

Another time , went into the garage,opened the plastic bin, where dog
food was stored. Surprtise ! Alarge raccoon had climbed in and could
not get out....

And then there was the skunk that got in the garage...

Rosie-- who now has a grey fox who is denning in a small cave in the
back yard !! Animal Planet here!!

"Felice Friese" wrote

"Nancy Young" wrote

http://i7.tinypic.com/4bdzw9j.jpg

Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and was
eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I caught him.

The little scoundrel! Were you able to salvage any?

I did! Looks like he had his way with three of them before
I heard the commotion.

nancy