Yes, the Squirrel Bomb If you are like me and like to watch the birds feed near your chair – window between, of course - you don’t enjoy seeing the squirrels bully the birds out of the way at the feeder so the ‘apes’ can rummage and scatter seed and . . . Well, short of hunting the ratty-relative, I devised . . . (drum roll, sergeant . . .) * * * * * * * * * THE SQUIRREL BOMB* * * * * * * * * I don’t bomb squirrels. I mix bomb-like lumps to distract them. I take a couple of cups of water in a four-quart pan with three cups of sugar. I boil the mixture down to about a cup of liquid – a real syrup. I let it cool about half-way. Then, I stir in squirrel food – more nuts and corn than even sunflower seeds. I spoon the glop – humanly speaking – into wax-paper sections in cups to form the rounded bomb. I put the formed bomb into a bowl to set in the refrigerator for a couple of days. Dehydration and just plain inertia makes the solid bomb of each wax-paper bomb. And, let the King of the Bomb commence! The biggest squirrels think to dominate by sitting on the bomb. Any other squirrel however can yank on the wax, and the bully has to budge to chase him away. Several other squirrels then take advantage of the ‘free bomb’ to grab at the goodies exposed. WHAT A STITCH, watching these selfish – fat and sleek, but still selfish – rat-relatives tangle over and with the bomb. And, yes, this sure sounds like SPORTS?!?! to me. I remain your obedient servant, but God's first, Pristinus Sapienter (wljewell @mail.catholicexchange.com or ...yahoo.com)

The Squirrel Bomb It's a shame this won't work without feeding them too. Neighbors of mine, here, feed them constantly. I find diamond walnut shells all over the yard, brazil nuts (the poor blokes can't open those), soemtimes the corn cobs they've stripped. And of course with so healthy a population of the tree-rats...we have... (let me borrow that drium roll a minute) That's right: MORE SQUIRRELS! And so they continue to ravage the bulbs; the ones the moles don't get. Nip the tomatoes. Etc., etc. You have the picture. Could you contrive to put it in a bottle so they could smell it and still fight over it, but not be able to reach it? I wonder how long before they'd learn to ignore it?

Regards,

Old Sigma

My cousin puts out cases of bubble gum. They eat it and get completely bound up. Seems kind of cruel to me, but it is apparently very effective. They die.

God loves you . HA! Cajun squirrel stew with just a touch 'o snapper. This year, I'm adding a chunk of hotdog to the center of the bomb to set the little devils fighting for the 'lump'. Remember, I love you, too . In the Suffering of Christ, and in His hope of His Resurrection, Pristinus Sapienter (wljewell @catholicexchange.com or ... yahoo.com)