Comments on: Critter Proof

By: Joy

Joy — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 17:59:22 +0000

Joanne,
You live in California? You apparently have the exact same kinds of pests that I have.

I live in the Santa Cruz area, and still have some ripe tomatoes. I also have the best compost for your garden in the world, alpaca manure.

Organic, when it decomposes it literally wriggles with worms.

Plus, I have the alpacas, who are really cool critters who DON’T eat my tomatoes.

By: Joy

Joy — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 17:51:07 +0000

Roof Rats are big nasty rats, jovial cynic. They can be very destructive, and they can even be aggressive. It helps to have a husky in the yard, like I do. They aren’t as brazen with him around.

Interesting that your squirrels decided they liked tomatoes, I’ve never had my squirrels threaten ours… then again, I have a husky in the yard. The only critter absconding with my tomatoes is the dog, occassionally.

Good luck on next years harvest!

By: Goldenship2

Goldenship2 — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:46:27 +0000

I guess squirrels are mind readers
Recipe requires tomatoes
Are you surprised the squirrels are Up in Arms

By: mike

mike — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 04:07:44 +0000

Squirrels : Rats which climb trees
Pigeons : Flying rats

Recipe requires tomatoes!

ps – the above link would not work unless the trailing ” in the href
was omitted, blog software issue?

By: Quasar9

Quasar9 — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 08:21:44 +0000

Neal Deesit,
is that like rabbitt a lot of little bones but not much meat. You can rest assured that if they could fatten squirrels in six weeks, like they do chicken, you’d get a lot more squirrels on your supermarket shelf.
However it’s hard enough for a pig farm to make a profit, how many squirrels would you have to slaughter every year just to pay your children’s tuition fees. lol!

By: Neal Deesit

Neal Deesit — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:46:22 +0000

Squirrels + tomatoes = squirrel marinara. Mmmmm…

By: Ijon Tichy

Ijon Tichy — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:44:05 +0000

Disturbing.

By: jovial_cynic

jovial_cynic — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:04:02 +0000

… what’s a roof rat?

By: Quasar9

Quasar9 — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:53:16 +0000

So yet again another example of a Cosmic Variance contributor exercising awesome goddess-like (Cosmic)powers over life & death of furry critters. Ruthlessly Imposing the death penalty on RATS (Rodents And Tomatoe Stealers) and threatening to exercise autocratic and dictatorial powers to detain innocent squirrels, trampling on their democratic rights and freedoms, preventing freedom loving squirrels from doing what they do naturally ‘eat’ and ‘multiply’ in Peace.

Only kidding – I note no squirrels were harmed in the building of this Guantanamo Bay-like prison to prevent your red tomatoes escaping into the hands of squirrels.
And squirrel lovers the world over thank you for providing your neighbourly furry tailed friends with a disney type playground and exercise fences.

Seems every decision and most things in nature have at least three ways they can turn (-)squirrel haters (+)squirrel lovers (n)neutral, impartial, or undecided some days love them some days hate them.

Belizean: attacked by aggressive squirrels?
What’s your answer round-up all squirrels, put them in Guantanamo Bay, deport them or Impose the Death Penalty?
or like they do with cats & dogs, off with their nuts.
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By: Dana

Dana — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:39:56 +0000

Rat murderer.