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Homemade Squirrel Repellent

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Date: 07/15/2008 Topics: Pest Control > Squirrels | Readers Request > Pests  
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Does anyone know a good, thrifty homemade squirrel repellent that won't harm them but will keep them away? My mom's squirrels are eating all the bird seed and driving her dogs mad!

Kim from Rochester, Mich
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Post By luke (Guest Post) (10/28/2008)
We are having squirrels get up under the hood of our cars and chew the wires, this has gotten expensive I have set traps any ideas on how to keep them away from the autos.

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Post by renbuild1 (3) | (09/15/2008)
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For $4.99 my simple, safe, humane, inexpensive, effective, reusable, environmentally friendly, and long lasting way of getting squirrels out of your attic will do the trick and restore your peace of mind. Search eBay for squirrels in the attic $4.99

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Post By D. Dwyer, Saugus, MA (Guest Post) (07/27/2008)
Seems the red pepper is highly recommended. Anydody know if such would be effective in keeping them out of my screen porch. Where they seem to have no problem getting in, but tear right through the screens to get out. I see no point in replacing all the screens until the vandals are history!

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Post By lrrn567 (Guest Post) (07/16/2008)
I just spoke with a wildlife rescue person and she said to put cayenne pepper along with the seed and the squirrels won't touch it.

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Post by marivan (10) | (07/16/2008)
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I've also heard about red pepper as a repellent.

Like Sharon, I just use safflower seeds. No squirrels, and several other birds like these seeds, too. Now, if someone could tell me how to prevent mourning doves from eating at my feeder (they even eat nyger seed in my finch feeder tray!) I'd truly appreciate it. They hog the feeder and the other little guys can't get at it. Will those "squirrel-proof" feeders that operate by shutting off the supply when something heavy sits on the perches work for the mourning doves?

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Post By Sharon (Guest Post) (07/16/2008)
We had the same problem and were told to feed the birds safflower seeds, because squirrels don't like the seed. We have had no problem, with the squirrels eating the seed! The seed is kind of expensive, more expensive than sunflower seed, which we were using, but we feel it is worth it. We don't feed seed in the summer, only in the winter...

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Post by NokomisNims (27) | (07/16/2008)
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I think it's too early to be feeding birds in the yard -- there are still plenty of food sources available. When the weather gets colder and the birds which remain through the winter months are finding it difficult to find food, begin filling the feeders (don't forget fresh water, too). If you can't manage to repel the squirrels, you can feed them separately (quite a distance away!) with ears of dried corn. Make sure the bird-feeder isn't reachable from any branch or the porch railings, etc, and put a squirrel baffle on the pole (like a garbage-can lid with a hole in the middle for the feeder pole to go through and supported by a couple of nails). Be sure you are feeding high-quality seeds so that the birds won't pick through them and kick out seeds they don't want -- feed seeds for the type of birds you get at the feeder. Clean up under the feeder regularly to keep the squirrels from scavenging the dropped seeds.

Nancy from NC

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Post by Jilson (207) | (07/15/2008)
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One thing she can try is to buy red pepper flakes at the store (often the dollar store has them--you don't need expensive!) and grind them in a blender and put some of the powder in with the seed. The squirrels don't like the pepper, and the birds don't care!

But if there were one tried and true method, there wouldn't be so many "foil the squirrel" products and books! If persistence to the task would do it, my father-in-law would have "beaten" them years ago!

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