Report This Ad (full site)
Fark.com

Back To Main
   One man's war with squirrels. He almost had them beat until they made a pact with the chipmunks

20 May 2012 01:19 PM   |   9131 clicks   |   Ottawa Citizen
Add Comment
Showing 1-50 of 88 comments
Refresh Page 2
basemetal    [TotalFark]  
images.tvrage.com

I don't really see a problem here. Grilled squirrel with biscuits and gravy, that'll take care of your problem.

20 May 2012 12:21 PM
Reply
Shadow Blasko    [TotalFark]  
Chipmunks are ReaverSquirrels. Not to be trifled with.

That said, bring it... My minions are everywhere!

shadowsrealm.com

20 May 2012 12:35 PM
Reply
AverageAmericanGuy     
Would rat poison in the bird feeders help?

20 May 2012 01:22 PM
Reply
spentmiles     
Why does this squirrel reek of sex?

20 May 2012 01:22 PM
Reply
Mock26     
Seriously? How farking stupid is this guy? There are plenty of bird feeders out there that are pretty much squirrel-proof.

20 May 2012 01:24 PM
Reply
LoneWolf343     
Mock26: Seriously? How farking stupid is this guy? There are plenty of bird feeders out there that are pretty much squirrel-proof.

FTA: "The bird feeder, which hangs in the backyard oak tree, is squirrel-proof only in theory. The lid has a twist-lock feature that makes it impossible for squirrels to pry off, unless they suddenly develop opposable thumbs. And the feeder's ports close if anything heavier than the average bird stands on the circular platform.

But the feeder's warranty doesn't cover break-ins by squirrels who have ingenuity and a lot of time on their paws. LeBron has learned to position himself on the branch directly above the feeder. Then he shakes it like a Polaroid picture, to quote OutKast.

When the branch wobbles, birdseed flies out of the ports in all directions. It lands on the grass, where LeBron's buddies are waiting. Sometimes, LeBron manages to shake the feeder out of the tree. I've watched him do this, and you can't tell me squirrels don't smile."

20 May 2012 01:26 PM
Reply
varmitydog     
This sorry excuse for a human being allowed a squirrel to whup him. And now is bragging about it. What a freaking wuss.

20 May 2012 01:27 PM
Reply
GORDON     
Most humans have adapted to use tools, such as devices that were designed to throw rocks REALLY fast, often fast enough to penetrate a mammal body.

20 May 2012 01:29 PM
Reply
Dookie-chute     
Just kill it with a bb gun, this is why Canada will never rule the world.

20 May 2012 01:29 PM
Reply
Rapmaster2000     
Give it a month. Squirrel Hitler can't be trusted. He'll double cross the chipmunks and lay siege to their acorn reserve. That's when we strike.

20 May 2012 01:29 PM
Reply
praxis44241     
I used to feed a squirrel in my back yard. She Would take the nuts and hide them. And I would dig them up and give them back to her.

/She caught on to my scam.

20 May 2012 01:31 PM
Reply
bim1154     
Dookie-chute: Just kill it with a bb gun, this is why Canada will never rule the world.

Canada gave us Justin Bieber and Nickleback. Their pecking order was in the toilet long ago.

20 May 2012 01:33 PM
Reply
grumpytroll     
Aw........nuts......

20 May 2012 01:34 PM
Reply
Trance750    [TotalFark]  
bim1154: Dookie-chute: Just kill it with a bb gun, this is why Canada will never rule the world.

Canada gave us Justin Bieber and Nickleback. Their pecking order was in the toilet long ago.


And Celine Deon

20 May 2012 01:41 PM
Reply
Mock26     
LoneWolf343: Mock26: Seriously? How farking stupid is this guy? There are plenty of bird feeders out there that are pretty much squirrel-proof.

FTA: "The bird feeder, which hangs in the backyard oak tree, is squirrel-proof only in theory. The lid has a twist-lock feature that makes it impossible for squirrels to pry off, unless they suddenly develop opposable thumbs. And the feeder's ports close if anything heavier than the average bird stands on the circular platform.

But the feeder's warranty doesn't cover break-ins by squirrels who have ingenuity and a lot of time on their paws. LeBron has learned to position himself on the branch directly above the feeder. Then he shakes it like a Polaroid picture, to quote OutKast.

When the branch wobbles, birdseed flies out of the ports in all directions. It lands on the grass, where LeBron's buddies are waiting. Sometimes, LeBron manages to shake the feeder out of the tree. I've watched him do this, and you can't tell me squirrels don't smile."


So this is not one of those. My parents have a simple bird feeder with a metal one over the top. Any time a squirrel tries to climb down the cone it tilts and they fall to the ground. In the years they had it while I lived there I never once saw a squirrel that was able to get at the bird seed.

20 May 2012 01:42 PM
Reply
newton     
farm3.staticflickr.com
...and you can't tell me squirrels don't smile.

20 May 2012 01:42 PM
Reply
Thanks for the Meme-ries     
i291.photobucket.com

20 May 2012 01:44 PM
Reply
bim1154     
Trance750: bim1154: Dookie-chute: Just kill it with a bb gun, this is why Canada will never rule the world.

Canada gave us Justin Bieber and Nickleback. Their pecking order was in the toilet long ago.

And Celine Deon


There's too many Gay Farkers here that like her. I didn't want to stir things up.

20 May 2012 01:45 PM
Reply
ZMugg     
Trance750: bim1154: Dookie-chute: Just kill it with a bb gun, this is why Canada will never rule the world.

Canada gave us Justin Bieber and Nickleback. Their pecking order was in the toilet long ago.

And Celine Deon


A list of Canadian actors turns up more good than bad.

IMHO

20 May 2012 01:46 PM
Reply
Snarcoleptic_Hoosier    [TotalFark]  
media.comicvine.com

20 May 2012 01:46 PM
Reply
aerojockey    [TotalFark]  
Homeowner problems

20 May 2012 01:47 PM
Reply
maxx2112     
The squirrel problem is getting worse.

fc02.deviantart.net

20 May 2012 01:48 PM
Reply
FormlessOne     
I don't have a squirrel problem. I do have an air rifle and pointy little hunting pellets, however. A .177 to the rib cage or head, and B'rer Asshole is no longer a problem.

Years ago, squirrels did hundreds of dollars of damage in my front & back yard. I don't have that problem any more - the occasional curious grey-tailed lookie-loo gets a humane death and a swift burial. On occasion, I harvest the tail, as the fur is useful for making brushes used by folks that illuminate documents, to handle gold leaf. The meat's no good - doesn't taste right.

20 May 2012 01:48 PM
Reply
bim1154     
ZMugg: Trance750: bim1154: Dookie-chute: Just kill it with a bb gun, this is why Canada will never rule the world.

Canada gave us Justin Bieber and Nickleback. Their pecking order was in the toilet long ago.

And Celine Deon

A list of Canadian actors turns up more good than bad.

IMHO


Don't come in here pissing our Canadian hate man.... We were doing just fine with out any serious shiat.

20 May 2012 01:49 PM
Reply
bim1154     
FormlessOne: I don't have a squirrel problem. I do have an air rifle and pointy little hunting pellets, however. A .177 to the rib cage or head, and B'rer Asshole is no longer a problem.

Years ago, squirrels did hundreds of dollars of damage in my front & back yard. I don't have that problem any more - the occasional curious grey-tailed lookie-loo gets a humane death and a swift burial. On occasion, I harvest the tail, as the fur is useful for making brushes used by folks that illuminate documents, to handle gold leaf. The meat's no good - doesn't taste right.


Our dog usually kills 2 or 4 chipmunks a summer. For the life of me I can't catch on to how she's fast enough get them.

20 May 2012 01:50 PM
Reply
BeerGraduate     
It's referred to as a squarrel btw.

20 May 2012 01:51 PM
Reply
ZMugg     
mimg.ugo.com

Wanted for questioning.

20 May 2012 01:51 PM
Reply
6655321     
Chip and Dale wanted for questioning.

'upload.wikimedia.org

20 May 2012 01:52 PM
Reply
iheartscotch     
I may have accidentally murdered a squirrel the other day.

I know what you are thinking; the furry bastage ran out into the street in front of my car. Well, that's not what happened.

I workout with a group of people; when the weather is good, we exercise in the park; which is only a block away from the gym. Last thursday, we were throwing medicine balls. I threw my ball; when I had gone to retrieve my ball, I noticed the body of a squirrel. The squirrel was sprawled, stomach down; less than an inch from my medicine ball. His back had been broken, and he wasn't moving.

It isn't 100%, either way, the physical evidence points equally towards murder and an acciedental fall. He couldn't have been there long; he had not been snapped up by a dog ( lots of people walk their dogs in the park) and he didn't smell yet. His back was obviously broken; that, and the proximity of my medicine ball point to murder. But, his lack of any movement/sound points to a fall from the tree I found him under.

/ I guess I can put that on my resume; accurate medicine ball throwing, that is

// I did not intentionally, or with maliced for thought throw a medicine ball at a squirrel

20 May 2012 01:55 PM
Reply
Snakeophelia    [TotalFark]  
As someone who just finished pouring red pepper flakes into the bird feeder - supposedly squirrels hate that but birds don't notice - I'm getting a real kick out of this discussion. Our squirrel gang has a clear leader, White Tail, who doesn't even run when our car pulls into the driveway

20 May 2012 02:00 PM
Reply
RibbyK     
3.bp.blogspot.com

20 May 2012 02:03 PM
Reply
Nick Nostril     
They are bastards, every last one of the little furry buggers. I cannot grow zucchini, cukes, squash, and a bunch of other stuff in my garden because they eat it. They take their share of tomatoes but leave me enough to not turn to popping the little farks.

I just spent the better part of 2 days squirrel-proofing my lettuce and herbs. Chicken wire looks like shiat, but does the jerb.

I end up offloading about a dozen a year with a Havahart trap. Lady I work with has 15 acres of woods, she takes them. Plenty of room to play. I'm an animal lover, and don't want to hurt them but they are frustrating as hell.

20 May 2012 02:05 PM
Reply
FormlessOne     
bim1154: FormlessOne: I don't have a squirrel problem. I do have an air rifle and pointy little hunting pellets, however. A .177 to the rib cage or head, and B'rer Asshole is no longer a problem.

Years ago, squirrels did hundreds of dollars of damage in my front & back yard. I don't have that problem any more - the occasional curious grey-tailed lookie-loo gets a humane death and a swift burial. On occasion, I harvest the tail, as the fur is useful for making brushes used by folks that illuminate documents, to handle gold leaf. The meat's no good - doesn't taste right.

Our dog usually kills 2 or 4 chipmunks a summer. For the life of me I can't catch on to how she's fast enough get them.


Anticipatory hunting tactics. Cat does the same thing - take it head on, guess which way it's going to dart, and they practically leap to you. The decision tree of a fleeing chipmunk isn't that complex.

20 May 2012 02:07 PM
Reply
bim1154     
FormlessOne: bim1154: FormlessOne: I don't have a squirrel problem. I do have an air rifle and pointy little hunting pellets, however. A .177 to the rib cage or head, and B'rer Asshole is no longer a problem.

Years ago, squirrels did hundreds of dollars of damage in my front & back yard. I don't have that problem any more - the occasional curious grey-tailed lookie-loo gets a humane death and a swift burial. On occasion, I harvest the tail, as the fur is useful for making brushes used by folks that illuminate documents, to handle gold leaf. The meat's no good - doesn't taste right.

Our dog usually kills 2 or 4 chipmunks a summer. For the life of me I can't catch on to how she's fast enough get them.

Anticipatory hunting tactics. Cat does the same thing - take it head on, guess which way it's going to dart, and they practically leap to you. The decision tree of a fleeing chipmunk isn't that complex.


Well she sure has it figured out. What a chipmunk murderer looks like in my profile.

20 May 2012 02:10 PM
Reply
Trance750    [TotalFark]  
bim1154: Trance750: bim1154: Dookie-chute: Just kill it with a bb gun, this is why Canada will never rule the world.

Canada gave us Justin Bieber and Nickleback. Their pecking order was in the toilet long ago.

And Celine Deon

There's too many Gay Farkers here that like her. I didn't want to stir things up.


And I'm sorry, but Shania Twain is NOT Country

20 May 2012 02:10 PM
Reply
KrispyKritter    [TotalFark]  
if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a squirrel

20 May 2012 02:10 PM
Reply
Mister Peejay    [TotalFark]  
i438.photobucket.com

Because when a man stores another man's seed in his cheeks, he makes a pact.

20 May 2012 02:16 PM
Reply
Mock26     
Trance750: bim1154: Trance750: bim1154: Dookie-chute: Just kill it with a bb gun, this is why Canada will never rule the world.

Canada gave us Justin Bieber and Nickleback. Their pecking order was in the toilet long ago.

And Celine Deon

There's too many Gay Farkers here that like her. I didn't want to stir things up.

And I'm sorry, but Shania Twain is NOT Country


img.photobucket.com

20 May 2012 02:19 PM
Reply
Bit'O'Gristle     
www.gamousa.com

1650 fps pellet gun will end your worries.

20 May 2012 02:20 PM
Reply
LeroyBourne     
I remember sitting on my second floor patio eating pistachios one day. I threw one down to a squirrel and watched him just gobble it up. I wonder what he/she was thinking when it ate it. Wth is this! This is GOOD!
/no no squirrel, you just get one.

20 May 2012 02:22 PM
Reply
OscarTamerz     
I don't understand people's reticence about killing squirrels. My grandpa sold his farm to a real estate developer and moved into the first new house he'd ever lived in across town. He became the neighborhood exterminator and shot everything he came across. His neighbors could never figure out who was setting off firecrackers and never connected it to the rapid elimination of the marauding vermin which they attributed to the pet population which only survived because he shot the bobcats and coyotes.

20 May 2012 02:22 PM
Reply
bim1154     
Mock26: Trance750: bim1154: Trance750: bim1154: Dookie-chute: Just kill it with a bb gun, this is why Canada will never rule the world.

Canada gave us Justin Bieber and Nickleback. Their pecking order was in the toilet long ago.

And Celine Deon

There's too many Gay Farkers here that like her. I didn't want to stir things up.

And I'm sorry, but Shania Twain is NOT Country

[img.photobucket.com image 15x17]


Not many are these days. It all sounds like pop.

20 May 2012 02:25 PM
Reply
Mister Peejay    [TotalFark]  
Trance750: bim1154: Dookie-chute: Just kill it with a bb gun, this is why Canada will never rule the world.

Canada gave us Justin Bieber and Nickleback. Their pecking order was in the toilet long ago.

And Celine Deon


You say "gave us", I say "ran out".

20 May 2012 02:31 PM
Reply
Lord Jubjub    [TotalFark]  
Snakeophelia: As someone who just finished pouring red pepper flakes into the bird feeder - supposedly squirrels hate that but birds don't notice - I'm getting a real kick out of this discussion. Our squirrel gang has a clear leader, White Tail, who doesn't even run when our car pulls into the driveway

That is the whole point of capsaicin for the pepper plant. Mammalian mouths have receptors that recognize it but birds don't. Birds also don't digest the vital parts of the seed. It passes through and is pooped out somewhere else. Voila! propagation for the pepper plant.

20 May 2012 02:35 PM
Reply
natazha     
Boss Bailey has a squirrel problem. They only die once.

20 May 2012 02:42 PM
Reply
qlenfg     
This works wonders for me:

www.dayattherange.com

20 May 2012 02:53 PM
Reply
libranoelrose    [TotalFark]  
lol @ airgun thread

20 May 2012 03:13 PM
Reply
Time Traveler     
Chip monks are dangerous!! I was bitten by a CM when I was 11 & have never fully recovered!!

20 May 2012 03:30 PM
Reply
Mock26     
bim1154: Mock26: Trance750: bim1154: Trance750: bim1154: Dookie-chute: Just kill it with a bb gun, this is why Canada will never rule the world.

Canada gave us Justin Bieber and Nickleback. Their pecking order was in the toilet long ago.

And Celine Deon

There's too many Gay Farkers here that like her. I didn't want to stir things up.

And I'm sorry, but Shania Twain is NOT Country

[img.photobucket.com image 15x17]

Not many are these days. It all sounds like pop.


Music changes and evolves. Look at early Rock 'n Roll. Much of what we call Rock today does not sound all that much like what we originally called Rock.

20 May 2012 03:32 PM
Reply
plutonium238     
Is this the thread where I display my "Apex Predator Weapons" and gloat about the stopping power of a super douchey hopped up B.B. gun?
/hurrr durrrr but my prize winnin strawberries hurrrr hummm nowww
/When you ITG rodents and their nature
the terrur wins...

20 May 2012 03:38 PM
Reply
Showing 1-50 of 88 comments
Refresh Page 2
This thread is closed to new comments.


Back To Main

More Headlines:
Main | Sports | Business | Geek | Entertainment | Politics | Video | FarkUs | Contests | Fark Party