On 25/06/2012 1:23 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 08:53:20 -0600, Pennyaline
> > wrote:
>
>> On 6/25/2012 8:17 AM, John Kuthe wrote:
>>
>>> Years ago my father made chicken wire chimneys to protect his tom,atos
>>> from maurading squirrels and it worked wonderfully! He made hooks out
>>> of the chicken wire to keep the cylindrical chimneys closed and he'd
>>> unhook then to open the chimney abnd harvest the tomatos. We had a
>>> prodigeous amount of non-squirrel-eaten-on tomatoes that year!
>>
>>
>> I have yet to meet a squirrel that couldn't get most if not all of
>> itself through the relatively large openings of chicken wire.
>
> No way. Those hex openings in chicken wire are too small to admit
> even a young squirrels head... maybe you're talking turkey wire.
>


I have to agree with Pennyaline on that one. Squirrels, like most
rodents can slip through spaces that look to be about the thickness of
their bodies.



On a related note.... I have had a hell of a time with mice lately.
Several times I saw a good sized field mouse bold for an opening into my
crawl space that had been boarded up. The gap is less than 1/4 inch wide
and he barely slowed down to squeeze through it.

Foe the last 3 weeks I have had 6 traps in the house and three outside
and was catching 2-3 mice per night inside and one a night outside. I
forgot to check the outside traps for a few days and this afternoon I
thought to have a look. I had caught a sparrow. Some else had come
along and eaten the body but the head was stuck in the trap. I didn't
know they liked cheese.