Thomas Prufer wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
I necer thought of googling, (I can never think of good keywords till I've got the answer). Anyhow posting here is more fun.
But here's one recipe I found:
You need: One chopped yellow onion One chopped Jalapeno pepper One tablespoon of Cayenne Pepper
Boil ingredients for 20 minutes in two quarts of water. Then let it cool and strain the mixture through cheesecloth. You can apply this with a pesticide sprayer or a spray bottle. This will deter just about any animal from an area where it is applied. The only draw back is that it only lasts for three to five days.
Other sources said simply dusting cayenne pepper, chilli powder, or using tabasco (it didn't say how, perhaps leaving out one of my lip-numbing Bloody Marys) would do the job
A better recipe involves a small piece of lead, and a powerful gust of air (unless the squirrel is reddish in colour, in which case I suggest lobbing hazel nuts at it).
Trouble is that animals/birds/pests are incredibly stupid. They may be put off once, but they aren't smart enough to remember the bad experience, so they keep coming back.
"The Medway Handyman" wrote in news:7t5eg.76884$ snipped-for-privacy@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk:
Allegedly, this jollop sprayed on the table and feeder lasts a few days, and there's a lot of sprays in the bottle, so it should be effective over a period...... if it works at all
Could I introduce you to a recent and very interesting book by a fellow called Charles Darwin? He has this idea about Natural Selection that suggests that you might not be entirely correct... ;-)
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