Futher tales of the *^@#$&^*$#@%^%&$*$@%$ squirrel

[liadan_m]

So, when the lovely guy from maintance came to bring back the steel screen from the living room...and noticed evidence of squirrely teeth on my screen. So he took that one away yesterday afternoon, and brought it back this morning. And in the mean time, our furry fiend had chewed a hole through the other living room screen, and now that one is out

Comments

[liadan_m]

it's no where outside my moral bounds. They're rodents.

The issue is the municiple ordaninces around here prevent the deliberate killing of squirrels. Which might mean that I poison the screens and let them take what's coming.

Re: There ya go!

[tedeisenstein]

If you can't poison them, get some capsaicin (the active stuff in Tobasco). I hear it's what shipbuilders mix into paint used on big ships to keep mussels off the hulls - and if it works on seafood that lacks tastebuds, it should work on squirrels. . . Dunno if local farm-and-feed stores or hardware stores carry it, though. When in doubt, just get an industrial-sized bottle of Tobasco, or habanero sauce, or other stuff, and keep applying until the squirrel(s) go away.

. . . pity you can't use a handgun on the critters. . .

[dr_zrfq]

*splutter* Prevent the deliberate killing of vermin? Especially vermin that *commit breaking and entering*??

Fuck 'em. Poison the screens, *and* notify management that any unauthorizied animal found in the apartment will be considered vermin and exterminated by whatever means necessary... minimizing damage to the actual apartment, of course. Then get out the light firearms, crossbows with Baldar bolts, and old no-longer-needed textbooks.

[tedeisenstein]

Textbooks? Waste a perfectly good book on a squirrel?

[dr_zrfq]

So pick one you have more than one copy of (use the rattier copy). Or pick one which was horrendously incorrect at publication time (and let me tell you, such texts *do* exist!) and is badly written besides.

[tedeisenstein]

Would you accept anti-Semitic rather than incorrect? There was one particularly vile Church History textbook we had to use in my Episcopalian high school that is, to date, the only book I've ever enjoyed throwing into the trashcan. As a squirrel supressant, the book might almost be useful. . .