killing squirrels with beet pulp pellets
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killing squirrels with beet pulp pellets

by barbie
(hesperia, ca usa)

Hi! My pond/water garden has been infested with ground squirrels this year! they are climbing up on rocks, INTO the stream, everywhere imaginable and destroying everything in sight! Someone told me to spread around BEET PULP PELLETS & that when the squirrels eat them, the pellets expand like crazy & kill them! Also supposed to work on rabbits! Have you ever heard of this before? I cant seem to find any info. and dont want to simply contribute to the health & welfare of these awful mauraders! But I do want to save my yard!

Doug says this story can be traced to one website that wrote about his pet squirrel and his experiments feeding his horses with beet pulp. The squirrel liked the pulp so much he stashed it throughout the house and the owner wound up with a very stinky house. But the pet squirrel was fine - a very stuffed, happy squirrel.

So nope, this is one of "those" kinds of stories.

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killing squirrels with beet pulp pellets

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squirrel feeding
by: Doug

Well yes, actually if folks read the article, they'll find that feeding them is one option :-)
controlling - not killing! - squirrels
by: Barbara

Have you considered feeding the squirrels? I feed mine and they leave my plants alone!
what?
by: Doug

Dear Anonymous

Here's the deal....

1) You didn't have the courage to post your real name. On my blog, I delete this kind of post when folks won't sign themselves and hide who they really are. I'll have to think about it for these sites too but I'm letting this go because it's typical of a certain kind of knee-jerk reaction. (ditto the so-called "sad" anonymous post earlier in the sequence)

2) Your logic - quite frankly - is terrible. You say "because I don't write about what you think I should write about - therefore I must want to kill animals" What kind of fuzzy thinking is that? We teach grade school children to think better than this.

3) Squirrels. I've written about squirrels (gosh - right here on this site at http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com/squirrels.html) and provide two distinct ways to handle squirrels without killing them. This kind of treatment has been consistent across my sites and newsletters and you'd know that if you did your research. But you're so inflamed with your own sense of righteousness that you can't be bothered to read that article - you'd rather spray your misguided accusations.

4) Do me a favor? Take your accusations to some other website. I love readers who disagree with me on facts - I love readers who teach me something. You're doing neither.
To Doug and Jan
by: Anonymous

So since neither of you offered an alternative solution, you both think going ahead and killing them is the better solution to being humane.
At least by trapping and releasing they have SOME CHANCE of survival as opposed to poisoning them.
I'm glad you're not my neighbors.
Squirrels
by: Jan

I agree with Doug on this one. I live in the country and people dump their pests including their pet dogs that they no longer want. We have our own supply of raccoons, rabbits, opossums, squirrels, etc. Please manage your own pests and don't
give them to someone else thinking it is humane. It isn't!
sad
by: Anonymous

How sad you would even consider killing an animal....squirrel, rabbit...........at what animal would you stop killing?
moving animals is death sentence
by: Doug

Well, actually if you trap and move in the belief you're doing something good - you're likely mistaken. The real deal is that when you take an animal out of its home turf, you expose it to the full range of predators without any secure hiding spots. In the case of squirrels, they're territorial and will punish and force an intruder (like you moved animal that's under stress and not able to defend itself) out of their territory. Prime targets for predators. The lifespan of the average squirrel is abour 2 years - your system of "help" will shorten that.
Trap them instead.
by: Randall Toney

A more humane approach is to trap them with a small animal trap sold by "Have-A-Heart".
Then relocate them to a distant woods area such as a state park or Forrest.
I do this with Chipmunks that love to eat the roots from plants.
Try this....
by: Anonymous

I use Decon rat and mice pellets to get rid of moles in my yard. I'm sure they will work on squirrels just the same.
BTW...I can tell it works, my grass grows back in where they have previously dug....no more mole trails.

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