13 Replies to “Honey, I Finished The Internet”

  1. Cute, but a waste of walnuts that could have been used in a banana loaf recipe or other, if you check the store price in Canada.
    Not so cute is the mess and stains that the black urban squirrels/socially accepted rats make when harvesting the black walnut tree in Ontario.
    So where is the squirrel proof bird feeder after all?

    1. Also not so cute is the $5,000 it cost to remove hundreds of pounds of pine cones from your attic, replace all the insulation and then install squirrel proofing around the entire roof. The black and gray ones are bad, but within the last 5 years the pine (red) squirrels have moved in and they terrify the black and gray ones.

  2. I’m sorry but when they start eating your house to gain entry is the time to shoot them pellet rifle works great or a dog that can catch them. My dog did and the fight was on others stayed away just because of the dog. Squirrels are cute but destructive.

  3. Pro Tip:

    CCI makes low velocity 22 short ammo. It travels at less than the speed of sound and as such avoids the sonic crack.
    Very quiet and effective. AKA town shells. Perfect squirrel medicine.

    Your welcome.

  4. That was fun. On a mundane note, if you are interested in a squirrel-proof feeder for small birds I can recommend one of these:

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gardman-Wild-Bird-Heavy-Duty-Squirrel-Proof-Seed-Fat-Snax-Peanut-Feeder-A0182/183740329547?hash=item2ac7c6ee4b:m:mIkgiiiXgmWYEVq9wKJHyoA

    Available in seed, nut and fat ball variants (and for less than that offer). It has a flush-fit, tight bayonet mount lid that squirrels cannot remove. All metal and heavy, squirrels can’t lift it much so on a big enough hook they can’t knock it to the ground. The gap between cage and contents is sufficient to be effective at preventing bigger birds like Starlings taking all the food.

    A couple of squirrels figured out they could shake a little seed out onto the ground by jumping onto the feeder from a distance but the amount released seemed to be too little for them to persist.

  5. Filthy tree rats. No time or patience for the damn things and people that find them “cute” need their heads examined.

    Like others here, I do my best to “feed” them.

    .177 squirrel food delivered at 495 fps.

  6. When I watched this one the other day, it both scared me and impressed me: I hadn’t realised squirrels were quite that clever. They do have moments of cuteness, but they’re destructive, opportunistic rodents, and wildlife once fed tends not to leave. The better solution might have been that once realising that walnuts were the favourites, they should have been excessively poisoned. Or the catapults should have been plentiful and hyper-powered.

  7. Living in the country, we had more than our fair share of squirrels. However Mrs. Absent started to feed the local feral cats – bingo, no squirrels.

    Unfortunately the local coyotes were attracted by the large number of cats, so the squirrels are returning.

  8. Remember in Indiana Jones where the Arab menaces Indy with a scimitar? And Indy just pulls out a gun and shoots the bastard? That’s what’s needed here. But first I’d shoot this idiot for wasting time and money and then I’d shoot the squirrels.

  9. Love the comments, I look out of my office window over my computer screen and when I see a furry tailed rat making it up the pole and to one of the bird feeders I casually get up and retrieve my 1187 and on the way to the garage load a #6 and then come around the corner and let the little bastard see me, then while he/she makes a hasty retreat ( at 90 degrees ,to the squirrel tree) I practice my deflection shooting helps me keep in shape for sporting clays.

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