Gunning for Greed!

We've done that with birds, and they never learn.  They'll keep coming back.  Negative reenforecment should work, but not in all cases.

Hi Margaret, I have never tried to train squirrels but I have a feeling it may be impossible to do.

Geesh!  Have a heart!  They don't have any acorns to eat this year!  The little guys are hungry!  Did nutsy check in with a comment?

That is one serious deterrent. At least it's water.  I hear stuff like that is great for keeping cats from scratching the furniture, too.

Hi Margaret - I think I need me one of those 'equalizers' for the squirrels here, too.  I really dislike it when I see one of them has found their way onto one of my bird feeders.  I have squirrel-proof caps, etc., and still once in awhile one of them manages to get up there somehow.  I make loud noises to scare them off - sometimes works sometimes doesn't.

Ann

Love the water gun.  You should get two and then you can have water fights in the warmer weather.

We have a lot of those pesky squires by us too.  They will eat just about anything.

Tell Lee that now I feel like my water gun is wimpy wimpy wimpy and I'm going to have to go out and buy one like his. LOL

they need to eat too! Be nice and let them feed  on what they can find. What goes around comes around! How would you like to be hit with a water gun while you eat, because you have to.

Portsmouth NH Real Estate

Ha ha, Margaret. Bet he is having fun. But in my experience squirrels don't learn very well. They will remembr for the shrot term, but next day their little brains will have forgotten and the desire for food will take over. But at least it is good sport. So a few pics of the action? Or a video?

Jeff

Margaret- need to get one of those. My hubby has purple martin houses and the starlings always try to take it over. This would be a great and harmless way to make them shoo.

Hi Margaret...I think it is my kind of gun.  About the only kind I like except I don't want to be shot with one of these either.  It should teach those squirrels a thing or two if Lee learns to hit the target.

Kate

Everything we have only comes out at night.  The water gun would have been great at college though, those squirrels were scary!

Margaret,

Squirrels are the most inquisitive, ingenious critters on the planet.  They'll be at it long after Lee gives up the water gun for a well-deserved brandy.

Mike in Tucson

That is pretty funny Margaret. This sounds a lot like something I would do - LOL

Those super water guns are a lot of fun.....I never thought about using them to deter pesky critters!

NOPE please don't send it.  I have one "nutsy" agent who keeps shooting the rest of us people with our little water gun... don't want her to get her hands on that dandy.