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Posted by rafed 6 (My Page) on Sun, Oct 25, 09 at 19:43
| Just got home from a three week long trip. Boy did I put in some miles.
First thing I did was hugged my wife and kids and told them how much I missed them and brought in my dirty clothes.
I have double slide glass doors that lead to my back yard and the first thing I noticed was THAT SQUIRREL!
It has put on some weight since I've been gone.
Of course, When the cat's away the rats will play.
Compared to your average squirrel this one is time and a half. And it's not scared, It will come right to you.
Figs are my passion, The squirrel has become an obsession!
I think it bit off a little more than it can chew, This means War!
I think the time has come for that rodent to learn a lesson.
No, I will not kill it.
But it will be moving soon, Some place far far FAR away.
I will take a picture of my problem and post it sometime in the near future.
Rafed
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RE: 1 squirrel and my figs
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| Rafed, Your pet is happy that you are home! I went through my own relocation project with raccoons in my attic. The first one I trapped, I drove for miles into the country looking for the right spot to release him. (Some woods, a pond, no nearby neighborhoods.) The second one, I dumped kind of near a neighborhood where no one saw me do it. The third one, I pushed out the front door of my house, ran back up to the attic, then hammered some metal vent covers into place over the attic vents before he could beat me up there and let himself back in! Good luck! -Ann |
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| If any wild animals ever make the mistake of acquiring a taste for my figs, It darn well better hope the is a Wild animal Heaven......That's not a threat, it is a promise! Cecil |
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Get your self a good trap such as Havahart. I already trapped a couple squirrels and a skunk. They are now history.
We're allowed to kill them they don't want you to relocate them to someone else's area. |
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| Rafed, glad to hear you made it home safely. Some good news, some of your cuttings have started to leaf out, bad news no roots yet. If you really want to get rid of that pesky squirrel, just send him to me. It's been a long time since I've had squirrel smothered in onions. "gene" |
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| Gene, I was thinking about getting in touch with you and ask you for some Cajun recipe. Or mix it in the boil with some,
crawfish,
crablegs,
shrimp,
corn,
potatoes and cajun sausages with some ice cold beer. Rafed |
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| Boil him up with some salt and pepper, maybe a bay leaf. Then make dumplings. |
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| UGH! How can you eat those bushy tailed rats! |
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| Of all the wild game I've eaten, squirrel is the sweetest and best tasting in my book. You don't need much in the line of seasonings. A little oil in cast iron pot to brown him, a couple or three or four big onions to smother him in, a good amount of water to tenderize him, and let him cook long and slow until tender and almost all liquid is gone. Since he is fig fed and fat that will only make him taste better. Don't need no fork, just suck the meat off the bones. Anyway I hope you figure out a way to solve your problem of the thieving fig squirrel. At least you have all winter to think about it. From the bayou,
"gene" |
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| take some spray paint, Day Glo color and spray a spot on his back...that way you will know if he came back to you. Me I have had either relocated or dispatched well over 300 of those munchers in the past 4 years, I don't mind sharing it just PLEASE leave me some !!!! Big Al |
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| Hey Gene, re: Not much in the way of seasoning??? What kind of Cajun recipe is that?Hahahaha! Just joking. I'm with Peg, I'd rather not------ate some once when I was a kid. Guess I'm too much of a city boy. Tim |
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| I planted some Chestnut trees almost 20 years ago. Last year I had the first real harvest. This year the squirrels got almost every nut before I did. My husband told me i had to wait until the trees produced more than the squirrels could eat. We have squirrels in the fig trees too, but it's the starlings that really make a mess of the figs. |
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| Tim although I tout a cajun heritage, I'm more of a bayou cajun, rather than a prairie cajun. They are the one's that like the hot sauce. Our dishes are more subtle and more on flavor than hot. Of course a little hot is nice on some dishes. Take a fat squirrel that has fattened himself on figs and make a gumbo with him and oh la la, get the Tabasco or the Tony's. "gene" |
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| Gene, I just saw that Fat Ba$tard in the back yard.
Looking hopeless with all the trees in the garage. Like a crackhead walking around trying to find something to smoke. If you like hot food then I could send you some seeds of some small red hot peppers we grow here.
They are so hot you can see the sparks coming out of them ( LOL ). I will first have to see what my father did with them. Rafed |
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| I grow many things but I'll pass on the peppers. Thanks anyway. "gene" |
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Well here ya go Guys - squirrel recipes
http://www.mikewest.net/squirrel/recipes.html
http://bayoubill.com/archives/2001/81501squirrel.html Enjoy
Martin |
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| Squirrel smothered in fig sauce? |
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The ba$tard was in my garage today trying to steal some cookies!
Had the side door opened and when I went to the garage there he was like a thief trying to open a tupper ware container filled with home made cookies. When he saw me he freaked out and didn't know what to do,
You should have seen it. First my figs and now my cookies. I guess that's his way of making fig cookies. I think now it's time for him to meet his maker. Rafed |
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| Hi Rafed, you'd better catch that sucker before he eats you out of house & home. Better yet, mix him up a batch of poison fig cookies! Haha! Tim |
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| Rafed, I think this squirrel means business. If he's in your garage looking for cookies, I think you'd just better give him one! -Ann |
RE: 1 squirrel and my figs
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| Rafed, A well placed 22 short bullet will stop that thing. Cecil |
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