Ty it’s five years later and this video is very helpful Saved me sooo much time and money on not wasting time on bs things that don’t work. Thanks for taking time to do this experiment.
It's not just the nuisance of their damages to things but I'm retired on very small income and watching the birds and wildlife is my pastime. Those little gray squirrels cost me at least half of my expenditures on birdseed--and that's with rationing, putting it out only certain times of day, ANND sitting guard near the hanging feeders a couple hours of the day. They climb every feeder pole (I chase them off) and they've even learned how to tip the hummingbird feeders and drink the sugar water. We have raptors, deer and opossum, raccoons and rabbits in the area, and a whole lot of birds to fill the strip of woodlands. There could be more birds if I didn't have a dozen squirrels on my (rented) homesite. Since it's not my property, my tactics are limited.
I woke up today to get my son to school and guess what? My truck didn’t wanted to start I thought I left a door open that only a little noise came out of my truck & when my husband opened the hood all the starter cables were chewed off 😢 this happened to me twice I don’t know what to do.
Great video! The experiment is as scientific as it needs to be. Yours is a real-life look at what MIGHT work to deter the varmints. Thank you for the work you put into the experiment and video. Thanks for sharing it. You have cut years off the learning curve for anyone tormented by these little guys.
The squirrellys are such a challenge. They are so smart! Their acrobatics are so amazing 👏 I've never seen one miss a jump or leap. My funniest squirrelly jump was off my neighbors roof into a big snow bank. He landed in a big puff! I truly believe he did it just for fun! HA
I watched your video, and soaked 2 rags in ammonia and wrapped them around the base of my bird feeder. I watched and watched and there have been no squirrels that will touch that pole. They come up to the pole but they do not climb it. They still eat droppings from the feeders, but that's fair! So thanks. Great experiment!
Your child is adorable, loved the little voice on the video, my machanic told me to use dryer sheets in my car engine and so far for months it been working, replace dryer sheets every month
You don’t really think k it’s gonna pee in a bottle?? Come on everyone know after you catch him you gotta have a cage or crate to leave him in w the tray underneath,, you’ll catch every drop,,
I enjoy watching your experiment. I have a problem with squirrel digging in my patch of cabbage. The only thing that discourage the squirrel was the smell of water mix in vinegar . I sprayed it around the patch .
They're right above my room for months now. They just don't stop!! I hate these fkrs too. I just soaked 2 socks with cayenne pepper and apple cider vinegar, stuffed a bounce sheet and a couple of stones in them and tossed them up on the roof or ruff if you're American 😂. It was quiet for about 10 minutes and now i hear them again. Ffs!
Curious to know if the peanuts inside the ammonia soaked rags were gone the next day. And if not, how long did it last to where you had to re-soak the rags and if once the rags are dry is that when they no longer became effective. Great Video.
Same thought. Remember when you cared about birthdays? 48 is a good age to be a father to young children. Your career is sorted out and hopefully your finances are cozy.
Thank you so much for the video and sharing the results of your experiment. Ammonia soaked rags placed between the floor trusses under our raised house did the trick. We haven't seen or heard a squirrel on our property in a week, and they were trying to nest ! You have helped to give us relief from those destructive pests.
Wow. Good for you! Same thing happened to me with about 4 or 5 families of squirrels in their den 30 feet from my garden patio. 24 hrs later...they appear to be completely GONE. Looks like they moved away. Neither hide nor hair of them. Good luck to you and to me ;)
Thankyou! so much for making this video, great to actually see all of the money grabs that don't work. As you stated in the video not a government test (scientific) but, it didn't cost 2 million dollars and 5 years to get accurate results. LOL.
Good information. Thank you for testing all of these products. And... I love hearing the little child in the background around 5:57....."What's the Cwiddo widdle...? Just too cute!!
Faith lol I had to go back and listen. Yeah, I love that that comment will always be there. Time whips by so fast and I have 6 kids. Thank you for making my day!
Great video! I have been battling squirrels here in Wisconsin every winter when I put up my yard display. Some years they cost me upwards of $200+ in damage. They love to chew Christmas light strands (the wires). For 6 yrs I had great luck with fox urine to keep them away. I bought a bunch of plastic Easter eggs at the dollar store, drilled some holes around them, ran a twisty tie through a couple of holes to hang them, and then inserted a fox urine soaked sponge. The biggest trick to making that work is to think like a fox, don't keep them in the same place for more than a few weeks at a time. Move them around and add fresh urine about every 3 wks. Since my neighbor added a new bird feeder even this has stopped working for me, so we have resorted to trapping them. We have more than a dzn in the freezer right now and get up to 3/day when we put all of the traps out. When we get to 20 I promised to make squirrel stew for my husband and our friends. We added a new puppy (standard poodle) to our family for New Yrs and I have noticed we don't see many squirrels anymore. That has proven to be the most fun squirrel control I've found yet!
Great experiment and thanks for sharing!!! This will definitely help people to stop wasting time and money on things that don’t work!!! And focus on the solutions that work!
I found that squirrels eat baby birds and eggs .I have watched them do it attacking the robins nesting by our house so I seeing this I found the best deterrent is a pellet from a pellet gun, works very well.
@Susan Farley , send "Karen" a nice present . I found that placing a little manure in a plastic sealed bag that will rip when the box is opened works great - either slip it on her front porch and leave it - wrapped nice of course - a little note and make it seem like it's a present for looking out for the area - boom . They'll stop /.
@Susan Farley shoot from a open window about 3 feet from the opening, she won't see or hear you. and it will be raining squirrels or wait till she heads to town or have somebody call her just as you take a shot., the old distraction trick.
Lol. In other post I commented that I’m an animal lover but these squirrels 🐿 have me rethinking that. They are like the tenants from hell. They don’t pay rent, they damage the property and are making noise all hours of the day!!!
I echo the comments below. An excellent video that recently assisted me with perhaps permanently silencing a nuisance of a squirrel or getting it to leave my premises. Let me tell you my story: For several days, I heard a squirrel or something running back and forth on my roof so I thought every morning. I was wrong! I was dead wrong. This critter of a squirrel was running from one end of my soffit to the other and It was annoying. The running and scratching drove me nuts. I have a huge home and was worried about this not knowing what to expect when I went up my attic. I did not find droppings, but did find the, what appeared to be, a sole squirrel peaking his little head through a hole it gnawed through. I shined my flashlight, made some hissing sounds and then it ran away back into the soffit. However, the running back and forth continued to no end. I saw this video and said, wow. I could not find coyote piss, so I elected to buy a half gallon of lemon-scented ammonia and six rags from Menard's. I returned to my attic, soaked each rag and then threw them in the area where I saw the squirrel. The next morning, I heard the critter run again above my bedroom and then heard it stop as to check something out. It has been two days and I have not heard a peep. I plan to cut a tree down today in front of my home that I believe gave this squirrel easy access to my roof. I hope that it departed the same way it entered, but believe me, If I couldn't stand the smell of the ammonia, I do not know how that little critter was able to. The ammonia works. Thanks for the video sir. Just Awesome!
I am having 3rd hole repaired 😳 I swear I have roof PTSD now. Can you smell the ammonia in your house? I need to figure out where to put on roof etc to keep them off. Currently.have mothballs in the attic lol
Thanks! I use cayenne after I plant my tulip bulbs in pots, and have to continue every week but it does seem to keep them away most of the time. I was going to cover the pots with aluminum screening, just to make sure I didn't have to worry all winter about my tulips, but that apparently doesn't work. The squirrels just keep getting bigger and bigger around here!
Great test! Thank you. I'm trying to get squirrels out of the attic. Sprayed apple cider vinegar yesterday afternoon with garden sprayer (half gal. vinegar, same with water). Fingers crossed but just a small bit of noise this a.m. The other part is getting a "squirrel unfriendly" birdfeeder, which I just found at a local hardware store.
We had them. They would go out in the day. When they left, my husband closed the holes with steel wool and some wire. Haven't had them in my attic for years.
I don’t have many since I stopped feeding the birds, well, that was the plan. But I believe the two I have seen have made it into my attic as I hear scratching sometimes. We put huge mothballs up there and it seemed to help for a time. I hate the idea of ammonia up there, but maybe in a bowl. I will give it a try. Thanks for the experiment.
FYI for the powders to work, you need to SATURATE them into the ground. Just spreading Critter Ridder or Liquid Fence is not enough. Gotta wet it into the ground. Critter Ridder works only to deter animals from going to the bathroom on your lawn I found out. But not to keep them at bay except for first application.
Urine has ammonia in it. I would surmise to say that ammonia works. Thanks for this great video! I have some corn outside as well as peppers tomatoes and eggplants. Been noticing bunnies, and I have a terrible squirrel problem. I just ordered some Fox urine granules off of Amazon. Supposed to be here tomorrow. Fingers crossed!
I use a live trap baited with peanuts and peanut butter. When I catch a squirrel I spray a dot of orange paint on its rear end while in the cage, then I transport the critter to a wooded area at least 5 miles away and make sure a major highway or river is between me and the release spot. If that squirrel returns and I catch him again he gets the Smith & Wesson treatment. One squirrel I released 6 miles away traveled an additional eight miles in the other direction and showed up at my sisters property, she spotted it walking a telephone wire near her house and identified it by the orange spot. Summer of 2018 I trapped 18 squirrels and 19 chipmunks none of which returned.
roy hoco I take them over near the airport, there are no trees and the crows seem to really appreciate the tasty squirrels that are running around with no trees to hide in.
My family is using old coffee grounds. Just spread them around. The squirrel will start scratching and leave the area. Try it if you drink coffee it’s free.
Good job. I just had a pro remove a nest between my solar panels and roof. ~ 8' x 16' (only 4" thick). He had a special rake and took ~ 1/2 hr. also applied a metal porous mesh screen at the entrance area of the panels. They came up the telephone pole exited off the main transformer and ran on the cable to the house and onto the roof peak. Not anymore. Job done.🙂
This was fun to see. Always enjoy a good experiment 😉 I usually have about 5 squirrellys the past week we've had 10. I guess the word is out. I have 4 bird feeders. Here's my trick. I use a spray bottle with water. They hate it just like training a cat. Fortunately... I can spray them easily from the back door. They try to come back but I stand guard and they give up after a few squirts.
@@passiflora1014 it did not help. In fact the squirrels started to dig in the rock filled areas of the garden. Time to start putting out peanut butter laced with crushed Dcon poison.
I am noticing that the squirells, mice, and rats do not like essential peppermint oil. We are having a lot of construction done after tearing down old structures, causing rodents to spread to new homes (ours). I use Japanese Peppermint Essential Oil on cotton balls placed everywhere also can use in the car, they leave immediately. In the yard I use a sprayer, mix essential peppermint oil, rubbing alcohol and water, spray yard area. They leave. I have also had good luck for mice and rats using a product called Fresh Cab, a little pricey but it seems to deter them once placed. I continue to recycle mine after the scent is gone by putting full strength Essential Peppermint Oil drpos on them instead of discarding them. Good luck, the struggle is real !
I have tried about every deterrent , the only thing that works for us ( garden & fruit trees ) is a 410 shotgun, humane and does not endanger neighbors as long as you shoot when they are on the ground.
I have reactive airway disease so I have to be very cautious what I use or I can end up with chemical pneumonia again. Also using the ammonia at all in the yards here only causes the neighbors cats to come spray.
soaked the ammonia rags but not the urine into rags ? any reason? great video. squirrels ate my rv generator wiring - wives car n my car over the years. now using more lethal means also>
I put habanero infused safflower seeds in my bird feeders, and I have 2 squirrels that sit and munch on them like they are going out of style. The other many squirrels dont get near them though. Maybe they are seasoning themselves for the crockpot.
Release them?! I just throw the whole trap in a trash can full of water, 5min late dump the carcass out on the ground and in my area a hawk will be by in 10min to pick it up
Just feed the neighborhood cats and they'll start hanging around your house even if you only feed them occasionally. We did this with a cat that was such a prolific hunter that all small wildlife just disappeared because she killed anything that moved.
I just started back tossing out food scraps and heard a stray cat jump off my back porch the other night and noticing the lil squirrel rat bastards seem to be leaving, no telling how much electrical damage they've done to my new house wiring!
im thinking you should have sprinkled the different products inside the hula hoops spreading it out over the 3-4 ft circle... then i think you would have seen much different results
Great video, thanks! I'm in a large city and just recently squirrels started gnawing on my black Trex aluminum deck railing. There are ugly silver teeth marks everywhere. They've never done this before and it's driving me absolutely crazy. I have tried cayenne pepper sprays and other squirrel "deterrents" so far. Only somewhat successful. I'm going to try spraying the railing with ammonia. Any other tips would be GREATLY appreciated!
yeah; instead of soaked rags, i does sound simpler to spray it - maybe it would soak into tree limbs a bit? How long would ammonia take to evaporater before i'd have to respray, ya think? thanks
as I saw this video as highly enlightening! and I see your best advise , of entrapment by your company! can you in anyway even begin to address the hundred's of squirrels usually related to this problem?????
@@shivapriyasaraswati7171 I just go to the discount store and purchase big packs of plastic forks...the sharper the better! I push them in the soil close together (4 inches apart) with the tines sticking up! I save them to use the next year. Works for flower pots too.
@@ithacacomments4811 I just now put some wood skewers with pointy side up around the perimeter of one of my containers. So it's like a fence of skewers (2" apart). Hope it works!
Gotta use 90,000 Scoville heat rating cayenne.The kind you get in the supermarket or restaurant supply is 30-50k and doesn't deter squirrels. But the 90k really upsets them. First they look stunned, Then they try to get it off, and even "wrestle" each other to try to remove it. I just started using it so we shall see...
Are moth balls labeled to use to deter squirrels? I own a pest control company in Los Angeles. A few years ago I received a $750 fine from the county agriculture commissioner because one of my technicians used moth balls to chase raccoons from under a house.
I could see using ammonia -soaked rags to try to get a critter to move out from under a porch or some such, because you could be vigilant and keep resoaking the rags until they left for good. But it wouldn't be practical for keeping them out of a garden a whole season. Thanks for the experiment. Very interesting!
I doesn't surprise me that the ammonia worked best. I had a raccoon. squirrel problem. I sprayed ammonia on with spray bottle and they never came back. If I don't have rags, I use my old dryer sheets. Huge bottle for about 3 bucks and I bought it at my local super market. Also amazing for cleaning if you can stand the very strong odour.
This was a very good experiment. I am having problems with them falling into the bottom of my wall. They can’t get out. It stresses me out. This is the 3rd one that got stuck down there. I don’t know what is going on.
@@backtobasics8416Thank you, we have a little family of squirrels in our attic. They moved in a couple months ago and we think they had some babies? Want them out and had not thought of a strobe light, brilliant! Really appreciate this and if you have any other suggestions to help remove squirrels, please let me know. Thanks again!
Just a heads up chayanne powder works but you have to shake it on what you dont want em in. At my house we called it "fire coke". They dont dig in my flower pots anymore I can tell you that.
For years I kept them away from my bird feeders by placing feeders 9 1/2 feet away from jump off from fence. Last year they mastered the jump distance. Now I’m going to treat the jump off with red pepper goo. That should work.
Thanks alot, Ive got a couple of larger traps intended for Rats ( basically a big mouse trap)...if I baited it down would that work?...weve got squirrels in the loft and its driving us nuts....From UK
Crumbled corn chips and baking soda. Worked, zero squirrels, zero holes in my garden. I tried all the other deterrents, and didn't want to resort to dirt naps, but nothing else worked to keep them out.
This is the best experiment that I have seen. Kudos to you for keeping track of it all.
But I like experiments and appreciate the efforts. And the sweet voice of your little helper is a bonus.
Ty it’s five years later and this video is very helpful Saved me sooo much time and money on not wasting time on bs things that don’t work. Thanks for taking time to do this experiment.
Thx. I've spent a fortune in 3 years trying to get rid of squirrels that ruin your garden...trying to not use poison. This vid helped a lot.
May you be blessed for doing this for all who suffer the pain of squirrel and pest nuisance. A billion thanks!
It's not just the nuisance of their damages to things but I'm retired on very small income and watching the birds and wildlife is my pastime. Those little gray squirrels cost me at least half of my expenditures on birdseed--and that's with rationing, putting it out only certain times of day, ANND sitting guard near the hanging feeders a couple hours of the day. They climb every feeder pole (I chase them off) and they've even learned how to tip the hummingbird feeders and drink the sugar water.
We have raptors, deer and opossum, raccoons and rabbits in the area, and a whole lot of birds to fill the strip of woodlands. There could be more birds if I didn't have a dozen squirrels on my (rented) homesite. Since it's not my property, my tactics are limited.
I woke up today to get my son to school and guess what? My truck didn’t wanted to start I thought I left a door open that only a little noise came out of my truck & when my husband opened the hood all the starter cables were chewed off 😢 this happened to me twice I don’t know what to do.
I'm dying!!! I don't know what's better the helpful information, and the amazing science, or the absolutely adorable comments from your children 🥰🥰💖💖
Great video! The experiment is as scientific as it needs to be. Yours is a real-life look at what MIGHT work to deter the varmints. Thank you for the work you put into the experiment and video. Thanks for sharing it. You have cut years off the learning curve for anyone tormented by these little guys.
Thanks Johnathan. Appreciate that!
The squirrellys are such a challenge. They are so smart! Their acrobatics are so amazing 👏 I've never seen one miss a jump or leap. My funniest squirrelly jump was off my neighbors roof into a big snow bank. He landed in a big puff! I truly believe he did it just for fun! HA
I watched your video, and soaked 2 rags in ammonia and wrapped them around the base of my bird feeder. I watched and watched and there have been no squirrels that will touch that pole. They come up to the pole but they do not climb it. They still eat droppings from the feeders, but that's fair!
So thanks. Great experiment!
Would you say the ammonia lasts for a long time?
@@bradh6185 No. Tried it in bowls in my attic. Loses it's punch in a day or so.
Your child is adorable, loved the little voice on the video, my machanic told me to use dryer sheets in my car engine and so far for months it been working, replace dryer sheets every month
What brand of dryer sheets
Ok I have trapped the coyote, but how do I make him pee in the bottle?
Very carefully, you don’t want to get it on yourself!
😂😂
LOLOLOLOL
Shane Walmsley 😏
You don’t really think k it’s gonna pee in a bottle?? Come on everyone know after you catch him you gotta have a cage or crate to leave him in w the tray underneath,, you’ll catch every drop,,
I enjoy watching your experiment. I have a problem with squirrel digging in my patch of cabbage. The only thing that discourage
the squirrel was the smell of water mix in vinegar . I sprayed it around the patch .
I will try this.
How much vinegar mixed with how much water? Thanks
Awesome work! And love the kids' cute commentary.
So adorable when the kid says "cwiddah widdah"
I used to like squirrels but now I hate them. They invaded my attic and keep interrupting my sleep
Mothballs they stink but work
@Julian Gutierrez it’s squirrels you don’t know how tiny their attack is smh
I hate squirrels too bastards keep messing up the insulation under my mobile home
They're right above my room for months now. They just don't stop!! I hate these fkrs too. I just soaked 2 socks with cayenne pepper and apple cider vinegar, stuffed a bounce sheet and a couple of stones in them and tossed them up on the roof or ruff if you're American 😂. It was quiet for about 10 minutes and now i hear them again. Ffs!
I liked them as well until they invaded my attic.
Curious to know if the peanuts inside the ammonia soaked rags were gone the next day. And if not, how long did it last to where you had to re-soak the rags and if once the rags are dry is that when they no longer became effective. Great Video.
All the peanuts were gone, in all the rings!
@@animaltrackerswildlife4577 So in effect, we'd have to keep the rags soaked forever? re-soak them, what, every day? twice a day? thanks
@@KingdomUploader In an enclosure, you need to break their habits. Those first 3 days are crucial to keep them away.
@@animaltrackerswildlife4577so nothing worked. 😭
What a great test. We have trouble with squirrels even in the desert.
Blood meal has worked for us. Sprinkle some into flower beds and garden areas, The vile little rodents won't go near it.
Thanks for the tip!! I am totally trying this.
Good to know, thanks.
Thanks for the information.
How long does it last?
Thanks but next day there will be an army of foxes in my garden.
Great video brother. The best part was the commentary from your daughter. How sweet. It makes me miss when my babies were young.
Thanks! It’s a time capsule for me. She’s growing up so fast!
Same thought. Remember when you cared about birthdays? 48 is a good age to be a father to young children. Your career is sorted out and hopefully your finances are cozy.
Thank you so much for the video and sharing the results of your experiment. Ammonia soaked rags placed between the floor trusses under our raised house did the trick. We haven't seen or heard a squirrel on our property in a week, and they were trying to nest !
You have helped to give us relief from those destructive pests.
Wow. Good for you! Same thing happened to me with about 4 or 5 families of squirrels in their den 30 feet from my garden patio. 24 hrs later...they appear to be completely GONE. Looks like they moved away. Neither hide nor hair of them. Good luck to you and to me ;)
Thankyou! so much for making this video, great to actually see all of the money grabs that don't work. As you stated in the video not a government test (scientific) but, it didn't cost 2 million dollars and 5 years to get accurate results. LOL.
You spelled Billion wrong...
Thanks for taking the time to do this it was very helpful
Good information. Thank you for testing all of these products. And... I love hearing the little child in the background around 5:57....."What's the Cwiddo widdle...? Just too cute!!
Faith lol I had to go back and listen. Yeah, I love that that comment will always be there. Time whips by so fast and I have 6 kids. Thank you for making my day!
You are so right.....time is precious with our children.
Yes....you are truly blessed, and wise to realize how soon our little ones become adults. Good memories are a Godsend.
Thank you for your efforts and spending your money so I could save mine.
I didn't see a pellet gun circle.
Lol. Best one yet! You are spot on.
I got better things to do than sit out back 24/7 with my gun, just use chicken wire
Great video!
I have been battling squirrels here in Wisconsin every winter when I put up my yard display. Some years they cost me upwards of $200+ in damage. They love to chew Christmas light strands (the wires). For 6 yrs I had great luck with fox urine to keep them away. I bought a bunch of plastic Easter eggs at the dollar store, drilled some holes around them, ran a twisty tie through a couple of holes to hang them, and then inserted a fox urine soaked sponge. The biggest trick to making that work is to think like a fox, don't keep them in the same place for more than a few weeks at a time. Move them around and add fresh urine about every 3 wks. Since my neighbor added a new bird feeder even this has stopped working for me, so we have resorted to trapping them. We have more than a dzn in the freezer right now and get up to 3/day when we put all of the traps out. When we get to 20 I promised to make squirrel stew for my husband and our friends. We added a new puppy (standard poodle) to our family for New Yrs and I have noticed we don't see many squirrels anymore. That has proven to be the most fun squirrel control I've found yet!
Where the f*** are you from Kentucky?
Interesting story. Does Fox urine scare the birds away too? I'm thinking about putting it under my bird feeders.
Feel your pain. Squrriuel did chewed my Christmas lights too last 5 years ago.
Now Squrriuels not around anymore. Thanks God
@@usfanlovesminho5085 Wisconsin
@@dannydaw59 It doesn't seem to phase the birds, just the squirrels and other "rodents".
Great experiment and thanks for sharing!!! This will definitely help people to stop wasting time and money on things that don’t work!!! And focus on the solutions that work!
I found that squirrels eat baby birds and eggs .I have watched them do it attacking the robins nesting by our house so I seeing this I found the best deterrent is a pellet from a pellet gun, works very well.
Funny .. I just bought a pellet gun today - nothing else worked for me.
@Susan Farley , send "Karen" a nice present . I found that placing a little manure in a plastic sealed bag that will rip when the box is opened works great - either slip it on her front porch and leave it - wrapped nice of course - a little note and make it seem like it's a present for looking out for the area - boom . They'll stop /.
@@billypayne6197 KAREN WILL SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER
@Susan Farley shoot from a open window
about 3 feet from the opening, she won't
see or hear you. and it will be raining squirrels or wait till she heads to town or have somebody call her just as you take a shot., the old distraction trick.
@@YoungBlaze , wouldn't be the first time , lol .
Thanks for sharing this and saving me some money.
I used to like squirrels, but then they started acting all squirrelly and stuff.
Lol. In other post I commented that I’m an animal lover but these squirrels 🐿 have me rethinking that.
They are like the tenants from hell. They don’t pay rent, they damage the property and are making noise all hours of the day!!!
Thank you so much for doing this experiment. It is so helpful. I’m gonna put out some ammonia soaked rags tonight. Thank you again!!
This is amazing! I can't thank you enough for this video.
I echo the comments below. An excellent video that recently assisted me with perhaps permanently silencing a nuisance of a squirrel or getting it to leave my premises. Let me tell you my story: For several days, I heard a squirrel or something running back and forth on my roof so I thought every morning. I was wrong! I was dead wrong. This critter of a squirrel was running from one end of my soffit to the other and It was annoying. The running and scratching drove me nuts. I have a huge home and was worried about this not knowing what to expect when I went up my attic. I did not find droppings, but did find the, what appeared to be, a sole squirrel peaking his little head through a hole it gnawed through. I shined my flashlight, made some hissing sounds and then it ran away back into the soffit. However, the running back and forth continued to no end. I saw this video and said, wow. I could not find coyote piss, so I elected to buy a half gallon of lemon-scented ammonia and six rags from Menard's. I returned to my attic, soaked each rag and then threw them in the area where I saw the squirrel. The next morning, I heard the critter run again above my bedroom and then heard it stop as to check something out. It has been two days and I have not heard a peep. I plan to cut a tree down today in front of my home that I believe gave this squirrel easy access to my roof. I hope that it departed the same way it entered, but believe me, If I couldn't stand the smell of the ammonia, I do not know how that little critter was able to. The ammonia works. Thanks for the video sir. Just Awesome!
Update: It is Christmas and I still have not heard the squirrel. Merry Christmas!
I am having 3rd hole repaired 😳 I swear I have roof PTSD now. Can you smell the ammonia in your house? I need to figure out where to put on roof etc to keep them off. Currently.have mothballs in the attic lol
@@salgalotto1 so what happens when the ammonia towels dry out, is there still a scent, or do you have to resoak the towels over and over?
@@bruce3412 I have not heard the squirrel in over a year, but you make a good point.
@@bruce3412 I heard you just need to break their habits. Those first 3 days are crucial.
The baby in the back ground “daddy I wish I can be a squirrel”🥰 Adorable! If she only knew how hated squirrels are by people with gardens tho💔
NOT adorable, they kill birds, didn't you know that??
Well done you! Brilliant! Absolutely loved watching! I think your idea will also work for the groundhogs that LOVE to ravage my garden!
Thanks! I use cayenne after I plant my tulip bulbs in pots, and have to continue every week but it does seem to keep them away most of the time. I was going to cover the pots with aluminum screening, just to make sure I didn't have to worry all winter about my tulips, but that apparently doesn't work. The squirrels just keep getting bigger and bigger around here!
Very entertaining, suspenseful and educational, well done!
Thank you!
Myth busters solved!!
At least I won’t be wasting anymore money seeing what didn’t work here.
Great test! Thank you. I'm trying to get squirrels out of the attic. Sprayed apple cider vinegar yesterday afternoon with garden sprayer (half gal. vinegar, same with water). Fingers crossed but just a small bit of noise this a.m. The other part is getting a "squirrel unfriendly" birdfeeder, which I just found at a local hardware store.
We had them. They would go out in the day. When they left, my husband closed the holes with steel wool and some wire. Haven't had them in my attic for years.
@@dianabaskin1944 Thank you! As in Very Much!
Good video. Thank you for taking your time to do this experiment. I appreciate it. Have a blessed day.
Thank you Gail. You have a blessed day as well!
Fantastic! Thanks so much. Very well done.
I don’t have many since I stopped feeding the birds, well, that was the plan. But I believe the two I have seen have made it into my attic as I hear scratching sometimes. We put huge mothballs up there and it seemed to help for a time. I hate the idea of ammonia up there, but maybe in a bowl. I will give it a try. Thanks for the experiment.
FYI for the powders to work, you need to SATURATE them into the ground.
Just spreading Critter Ridder or Liquid Fence is not enough. Gotta wet it into the ground. Critter Ridder works only to deter animals from going to the bathroom on your lawn I found out. But not to keep them at bay except for first application.
That's what I thought too. The powders are usually concentrate and you need to add water to make them work properly.
Urine has ammonia in it. I would surmise to say that ammonia works. Thanks for this great video! I have some corn outside as well as peppers tomatoes and eggplants. Been noticing bunnies, and I have a terrible squirrel problem. I just ordered some Fox urine granules off of Amazon. Supposed to be here tomorrow. Fingers crossed!
Did they work?
Watching this was better than watching Forrest Gump. Nice work and thank you. We are going in!!
I use a live trap baited with peanuts and peanut butter. When I catch a squirrel I spray a dot of orange paint on its rear end while in the cage, then I transport the critter to a wooded area at least 5 miles away and make sure a major highway or river is between me and the release spot. If that squirrel returns and I catch him again he gets the Smith & Wesson treatment. One squirrel I released 6 miles away traveled an additional eight miles in the other direction and showed up at my sisters property, she spotted it walking a telephone wire near her house and identified it by the orange spot. Summer of 2018 I trapped 18 squirrels and 19 chipmunks none of which returned.
roy hoco I take them over near the airport, there are no trees and the crows seem to really appreciate the tasty squirrels that are running around with no trees to hide in.
Excellent experiement. I needed to see this visually! I have a huge squirrel problem.
How huge are they?
I never saw a huge squirrel
My family is using old coffee grounds. Just spread them around. The squirrel will start scratching and leave the area. Try it if you drink coffee it’s free.
@@colstace2560 ...Then you've never seen a fox squirrel have you?
Good job. I just had a pro remove a nest between my solar panels and roof. ~ 8' x 16' (only 4" thick). He had a special rake and took ~ 1/2 hr. also applied a metal porous mesh screen at the entrance area of the panels. They came up the telephone pole exited off the main transformer and ran on the cable to the house and onto the roof peak. Not anymore. Job done.🙂
Thank you very much.for capturing this experiment.
This was fun to see. Always enjoy a good experiment 😉 I usually have about 5 squirrellys the past week we've had 10. I guess the word is out. I have 4 bird feeders. Here's my trick. I use a spray bottle with water. They hate it just like training a cat. Fortunately... I can spray them easily from the back door. They try to come back but I stand guard and they give up after a few squirts.
Spraying lead pellets at high velocity works best.
I did however put peppermint tea bags in the wife's garden last night. Hope it helps.
David Crawford for all us squirrel 🐿 lovers thank you 😊
@@passiflora1014 it did not help. In fact the squirrels started to dig in the rock filled areas of the garden. Time to start putting out peanut butter laced with crushed Dcon poison.
At least they will have nice fresh breath 😂
@@davidcrawford6505 Wild animals eating poisoned squirrels will also die.
Thanks for doing this demonstration, trying to work through a huge ground squirrel problem, I've reached my limit, they are so destructive .
I am noticing that the squirells, mice, and rats do not like essential peppermint oil. We are having a lot of construction done after tearing down old structures, causing rodents to spread to new homes (ours). I use Japanese Peppermint Essential Oil on cotton balls placed everywhere also can use in the car, they leave immediately.
In the yard I use a sprayer, mix essential peppermint oil, rubbing alcohol and water, spray yard area. They leave.
I have also had good luck for mice and rats using a product called Fresh Cab, a little pricey but it seems to deter them once placed. I continue to recycle mine after the scent is gone by putting full strength Essential Peppermint Oil drpos on them instead of discarding them.
Good luck, the struggle is real !
Great experiments, thank you for sharing
Have you tried using Irish Spring soap? I have watched several videos about using it, but I have no idea if it works.
"In conclusion: nothing works but trapping, which I will do for a fee."
I have tried about every deterrent , the only thing that works for us ( garden & fruit trees ) is a 410 shotgun, humane and does not endanger neighbors as long as you shoot when they are on the ground.
what type of ammonia is it ...is it just household ammonia or will I need to get something stronger ...thanks.
I've tried the critter ridder... granules and liquid spray. It deterred them after applied for 1 to 2 days max each time. Total waste of my money
It's wash off if it rains it's not perminent
I have reactive airway disease so I have to be very cautious what I use or I can end up with chemical pneumonia again.
Also using the ammonia at all in the yards here only causes the neighbors cats to come spray.
can we buy critter ridder in Canada? good video. learned a lot
soaked the ammonia rags but not the urine into rags ? any reason? great video. squirrels ate my rv generator wiring - wives car n my car over the years. now using more lethal means also>
I put habanero infused safflower seeds in my bird feeders, and I have 2 squirrels that sit and munch on them like they are going out of style. The other many squirrels dont get near them though. Maybe they are seasoning themselves for the crockpot.
Lol
I have a lead based deterrent that works pretty well.
My city forbids chemically propelled lead, also mechanic actuated contraptions.
That leaves me with a .25" pipe and something hard that might hurt.
If you trap them, you need to release them far, far away..at least 6 miles. If not, they return, and they bring a friend.
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Release them?! I just throw the whole trap in a trash can full of water, 5min late dump the carcass out on the ground and in my area a hawk will be by in 10min to pick it up
@@vintageexcellence lol
Releasing trapped wildlife elsewhere is illegal. There are many reasons why. Don’t do that.
this is brilliant! thank you for putting this experiment together
Just feed the neighborhood cats and they'll start hanging around your house even if you only feed them occasionally. We did this with a cat that was such a prolific hunter that all small wildlife just disappeared because she killed anything that moved.
Trying to feed JUST the neighbor cat will also invite raccoons, possum, feral cats, and other wild animals.
@@gdupuietoday This has never been a problem for us. I prefer all those animals to rodents anyway.
The squirrels just sit in the trees screaming at the cat, making it even more annoying.
that's bad for the birds
I just started back tossing out food scraps and heard a stray cat jump off my back porch the other night and noticing the lil squirrel rat bastards seem to be leaving, no telling how much electrical damage they've done to my new house wiring!
im thinking you should have sprinkled the different products inside the hula hoops spreading it out over the 3-4 ft circle... then i think you would have seen much different results
I finally solved all my squirrel problems - last night my feeder was totaled by a bear!!
I have entirely abandoned bird feeding in bear territory.
Great video, thanks! I'm in a large city and just recently squirrels started gnawing on my black Trex aluminum deck railing. There are ugly silver teeth marks everywhere. They've never done this before and it's driving me absolutely crazy. I have tried cayenne pepper sprays and other squirrel "deterrents" so far. Only somewhat successful. I'm going to try spraying the railing with ammonia. Any other tips would be GREATLY appreciated!
yeah; instead of soaked rags, i does sound simpler to spray it - maybe it would soak into tree limbs a bit? How long would ammonia take to evaporater before i'd have to respray, ya think? thanks
I'd like to see an experiment actually putting the cayman pepper on the peanuts versus being surrounded by it.
Ya just had a 700.00 bill. Chewed my Cylinder harness. Canadian Tire got harness part from the wreckers. The found a walnut along with it. .
as I saw this video as highly enlightening! and I see your best advise , of entrapment by your company! can you in anyway even begin to address the hundred's of squirrels usually related to this problem?????
Thanks so much... what happened by the next day?
All the peanuts were gone…and the squirrels were happy campers!
Thank you for your video, saved me a ton of time! Great Job!
Lots of plastic forks worked to keep the squirrels out of my raised bed flower box.
Care to share the process? I have a problem squirrel digging in my container garden, killing some nice healthy plants. ugh
@@shivapriyasaraswati7171
I just go to the discount store and purchase big packs of plastic forks...the sharper the better!
I push them in the soil close together (4 inches apart) with the tines sticking up!
I save them to use the next year. Works for flower pots too.
@@ithacacomments4811 I just now put some wood skewers with pointy side up around the perimeter of one of my containers. So it's like a fence of skewers (2" apart). Hope it works!
Gotta use 90,000 Scoville heat rating cayenne.The kind you get in the supermarket or restaurant supply is 30-50k and doesn't deter squirrels. But the 90k really upsets them. First they look stunned, Then they try to get it off, and even "wrestle" each other to try to remove it. I just started using it so we shall see...
Thanks for doing this experiment. Very informative and helpful.
Squirrels are smart. They see the ring and smell the odor. They know to jump beyond it to get their reward. .
That was my thought too... If the peanuts were ON TOP of the product or closer I feel like it would be more accurate?
Are moth balls labeled to use to deter squirrels? I own a pest control company in Los Angeles. A few years ago I received a $750 fine from the county agriculture commissioner because one of my technicians used moth balls to chase raccoons from under a house.
No. I think not. It’s just something homeowners do all the time under advice from the know it all at the office! We would never!
Thank for your video. I am going to try ammonia soaked rags under my deck furniture. They have chewed up my cushions.
He told another commenter that all the peanuts eventually got ate
I could see using ammonia -soaked rags to try to get a critter to move out from under a porch or some such, because you could be vigilant and keep resoaking the rags until they left for good. But it wouldn't be practical for keeping them out of a garden a whole season. Thanks for the experiment. Very interesting!
Try Vicks vapor rub. It works on my bird feeders👍
I doesn't surprise me that the ammonia worked best. I had a raccoon. squirrel problem. I sprayed ammonia on with spray bottle and they never came back. If I don't have rags, I use my old dryer sheets. Huge bottle for about 3 bucks and I bought it at my local super market. Also amazing for cleaning if you can stand the very strong odour.
This was a very good experiment. I am having problems with them falling into the bottom of my wall. They can’t get out. It stresses me out. This is the 3rd one that got stuck down there. I don’t know what is going on.
Thanks, Tony.They are in my Attic.
Get a strobe light and leave it on in your attic.
@@backtobasics8416Thank you, we have a little family of squirrels in our attic. They moved in a couple months ago and we think they had some babies? Want them out and had not thought of a strobe light, brilliant! Really appreciate this and if you have any other suggestions to help remove squirrels, please let me know. Thanks again!
I tried a bait called 410 #7 shot . Found out today it works really well. Want to see a picture of what is left?
I do
I bet you had a blast.lol
Yes
Great video presentation!
Thank you for this.
I can’t stand what the squirrels do to the flowers garden bulbs etc🤨
Just a heads up chayanne powder works but you have to shake it on what you dont want em in. At my house we called it "fire coke". They dont dig in my flower pots anymore I can tell you that.
Someone had mentioned (in a diff video) that squirrels can literally go blind with cayenne pepper.
Thanks for making such a great video. You really helped me out big time Sir.
Appreciate the experiment/s.. From Titusville Fl..jP
have you tried an OWL Stature
No effect
For years I kept them away from my bird feeders by placing feeders 9 1/2 feet away from jump off from fence. Last year they mastered the jump distance. Now I’m going to treat the jump off with red pepper goo. That should work.
What about Irish spring soap? 🤷♀️😁
The kid "Whats cwitta widda?" LOL ADORABLE!!!
Liked and subscribed! Thank you so much for sharing! 🐿
Thanks alot, Ive got a couple of larger traps intended for Rats ( basically a big mouse trap)...if I baited it down would that work?...weve got squirrels in the loft and its driving us nuts....From UK
Crumbled corn chips and baking soda. Worked, zero squirrels, zero holes in my garden. I tried all the other deterrents, and didn't want to resort to dirt naps, but nothing else worked to keep them out.
Great video. You’ve made this ad scientific as possible and it’s very helpful. Thanks for posting
I have them in my attic. Can i soak rags with ammonia and throw them up there close to where they come in?