Squirrels are cute and may be fun to watch, but once they get in your attic and start chewing on your belongings and destroying your things and house your thoughts will change. They are very destructive. I used to live in a turn of the century (victorian looking) house and it had beautiful fish scale trim along with all the other fancy trimings, you don't want them running all over your house - believe me!!!

Only if they drink a gallon of it and eat a block of red dye 7 at the same time.
The idea is to squirt them with something that is unpleasant to them. If you don't like wasp spray, use a long range squirt gun loaded with cheap perfume, the stinkier the better. You can probably borrow the gun from Gracie's infamous women squirt gun posse which is known for its long reaching enforcement actions.:boxing2:

Breathing in toxic wasp spray or WD40 will give you far more problems than
a squirrel ever will. Jusy sayin....

:wave: Hey, rattlesnakes were here first too!

Difficult to co-exist
 

It is just a pity that man finds it so difficult to co-exist with the wild.

Most wild animals will adapt their lifestyles to co-exist with man in order to survive, but generally man just wants to destroy other life forms if it is not possble to make a profit or a meal out of them.

Nature can be hard and cruel, but nothing like as hard and cruel as mankind - sad.

I do believe it is our mission here on earth to learn unconditional love. And that includes the love of wild creatures. Of course I don't mean we should feed our cats to coyotes, or plan to hibernate in a bear's den. But surely we can be kind to animals that aren't harming us.

Well, in nature anything breathing it's eat or be eaten, that means kill or be killed, (Man has be the domanite species since he learned how to make tools to give him the advanage.

Now in heaven like (course not the real Heaven!) TV's I would thing If I couldn't bear the fact they might damage my birdcage I would Trap them and move them down the road to somebodies else back yard (less populated area, if there are any??) Squirrels like rats have to chew on something all the time or the front teeth will Grow and Grow. Just like our noses when we try to get of ticket.

I co-exist very well, thank you very much and in fact encourage and enjoy wildlife, including snakes gators and hawks all of which help control many pests, "naturally". But when rodents (or bugs for that matter) become a pest or destructive I will take corrective action.:ho:

Guess,You do not have your home sprayed for bugs and critters.........

Most home sprays are used as borders to repel insets, not always to kill.

i use wasp/hornet spray in a can. it shoots 25 ft!

I totally agree. I didn't buy my house to accomodate the squirrels that keep running across my roof and have torn the screens on my birdcage. The previous owner of our house owned a couple of Shih-tzu's and she fed them in the birdcage. She never removed the food - just let the dogs eat when they felt like it. (Dumb thing to do!) Needless to say the squirrels (rats w/bushy tails) ripped the screen to get to the food.

Even though the previous owner (and her dogs) have been gone for several years the varmints still come around from time to time - - and they can be aggressive. I'll try the plastic hawks but if that doesn't work I will definitely try the bee spray. I enjoy wildlife, don't hunt or harm critters but when they become invasive and destructive I will protect my property.

You can trap the squirrels and move them to the woods. The farm supply near Brownwood on 44 will have traps.

Good Luck........Squirrels will out think you no matter what you do. As long as you don't have any dog/cat food, bird seed, etc in your birdcage, they will not eat through it. Just running around on top of it will not hurt it. But paying for traps and relocation will never work..............you will just get more. Best you can do is learn to live with them.

Many, many years ago, my father decided to trap the squirrels in his yard and move them to the woods several miles away. 43 re-located squirrels later, he declared success. We were surprised by the numbers of squirrels he trapped. BTW, his yard was a little bigger than the average sized TV yard but with many pine trees..