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 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
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!!!
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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!
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 .
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 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!
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!
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!
I TRIED IT! OMG! there's a den of about 4 full families about 35 feet from my back yard garden and patio. I've spent close to $800.00 trying to get them to stay away. No success . They dig in my potted plants, eat all my expensive tulip bulbs, eat my flowers, and tear things up. New )inters seem to be born every couple weeks. LEMON SCENTED AMMONIA. But 20 cheap brown hand towels at the Dollar Store. Rolled each towel up lengthwise and placed them all in a chain on the ground around the white picket fence surrounding the garden patio garden. No squirrels came. No squirrels. There are Usually in my garden about 25 times during each twilight . Maybe 30 times during the day before twilight. As soon ascI put the towels down, they stayed away. It now 24 hours later and still gone. In fact there's none in sight playing in front of the den where they usually play all day. They appear to have moved away. I'm still knocking on wood...holding my breath. But, insanely impossibly, they for sure have not been here for 24 hrs. UNBELIEVABLE. Thank you. I'll report again in another day and fill you in.
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.
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 ;)
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.
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 !
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.
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?????
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.
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.🙂
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.
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.
@@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!
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!
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!
Thanks for this hard work, do appreciate a lot, it is very useful info. PS, it will be nice to know what happens if peppermint oil is used to deter them.
Well, the insulation used to be petroleum based, pretty much like everything else on the inside of your car (seats, etc.) And the inside of your house (Curtains, couch, carpet, etc.) But it was flammable! 😉
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!
@@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.
this year was the worst year for our chipmunks a warm winter. i gave up on trying to save my peas, strawberries and such with all methods. i bought a pellet gun and buckets with water and a can over it on coat hanger and peanut butter. I counted around 40 in about 3 weeks . After that I thinned them out and it worked. The ones left actually caught on that I was not a nice guy. They stopped coming to my garden . Some do at times but rarely. I also placed their carcasses around the perimeter of the property outside the garden. I hardly smelled them but they did. It seemed to spook them away as well. I'm sure there are many people that think killing them is wrong. Either i eat or they do. I refuse store bought GMP foods . My health improved after i stopped eating GMO foods. I bought a 40 dollar jug of animal repellant and the very next morning a deer was eating beside it. I took it back. I didnt like killing them it wasnt a new sport for me. But we had so many they were causing many issues including chewing through hoses on vehicles, and chewing through soffits into the attic. Never seen so many. It worked.
Animals fall into three categories, Cute, Dangerous, or delicious. If a person says they are an animal lover...ask them when was the last time they ate meat.
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.
I think the area around the rings aren't wide enough. Looks like these squirrels jump over the rings and miss the poison Good information and thank you.
Cayenne pepper doesn't work. Believe me! I've tried it all and they're still digging up my yard and gardens. Up till a few years ago the squirrels sure didn't destroy everything like they are now. I can't put anything out that they don't eat, I've never fed them. And aggressive!!! I have the big gray ground squirrels and I've had them chase me across the yard. I've even tried trapping them and dumping them in the forest. All their relatives are still there and more come, so that's useless. But as some of your commenters have said ammonia works. So I'm off to buy a few gallons of ammonia! Thanks for your advice.
My problem is the HOA will not put out an email to the residents( retired community)to stop putting out peanuts & walnuts for the “cute little squirrels” They tore the bark off my little dogwood tree, almost dig holes near most of my plants out front, & now I’ve discovered a hole in the ceiling of the attached closet for the water heater, with mold showing, evidence of a nest. They chewed a hole in the ceiling to escape. I’d love to shoot them, but it’s not allowed.It’s expensive to hire a clean-up & deter any. Might be cheaper to place traps in the attic & drive to the river!!! I’m done😡 Really appreciate your testing. Thank you! So cute hearing your young child talking with you!💕😊
I used to catch them in a "Have a Hart "rodent trap and I had a large "Rubber Maid" lidded container,filled with water that the trap fit in an I'd drown the vermin, bag and garbage bin the remains...change the water occasionally. I decimated the squirrel population in no time as I was getting at least one rodent a day. Cheers.
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!
Cool! I am using Pin Sol and it is working. Ammonia is working okay, but the pin sol works the best so far for Squirrels in my testing. Make sure it has actual pine oil in it though. The cheap copy-cats do not.
So I don't know much of anything about gardening but I do know that ammonia is a very alkaline meaning low acidity product that would change the pH of your soil dramatically. That would probably kill anything that needed a neutral or or anything but very non acidic soil. Also these are things that the squirrel could help ride over to get something on the surface that it could carry away and eat somewhere else so I think that something meant to go on the plants or in the soil so that digging got it all over the rodents pause or in its face would be very different than something else. I think that what you're protecting and how the animal would have to access the protected item with matter a lot. If it had to borrow through chew through or dig under something then anything that would cause stinging or burning fairly quickly would be a deterrent whereas something that didn't cause burning or discomfort for hours would not because the animal would not make a connection between the two things. For example castor oil is in powerful gastrointestinal irritant that causes severe diarrhea and possible nausea but it works at least 8 hours later and the poor squirrels would have no idea what caused the problem but if they got enough of it they could die I don't know about mothballs but unless the mothballs were planted in and among the plants that you were protecting I don't think that they would do much except poison whatever animals were would foolishly eat them but again peanuts resting on the surface of the ground are easily accessible without any digging or borrowing and so all of the irritants meant to prevent that would be utterly useless.
Heavy amounts of safflower seeds worked for me in and around my bird feeder in Missouri before I went on line and checked it out they were chewing the feeder up plus totally emptying it and this was next to a woods .
great visual of your fun and educational experiment!! Ill try it myself here in Nova Scotia Canada Wondering if you have also a method for mice/rats or even a preferred deterrent? thanks
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.
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.
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 🥰🥰💖💖
This is the best experiment that I have seen. Kudos to you for keeping track of it all.
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.
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??
So adorable when the kid says "cwiddah widdah"
But I like experiments and appreciate the efforts. And the sweet voice of your little helper is a bonus.
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! 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
Myth busters solved!!
At least I won’t be wasting anymore money seeing what didn’t work here.
What a great test. We have trouble with squirrels even in the desert.
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.
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!!!
Thanks for taking the time to do this it was very helpful
Thank you very much.for capturing 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.
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.
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
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.
Great experiments, thank you for sharing
Watching this was better than watching Forrest Gump. Nice work and thank you. We are going in!!
Fantastic! Thanks so much. Very well done.
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...
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 .
Well done you! Brilliant! Absolutely loved watching! I think your idea will also work for the groundhogs that LOVE to ravage my garden!
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".
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
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!!
Thanks for sharing this and saving me some money.
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 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?
Great video presentation!
Thanks for making such a great video. You really helped me out big time Sir.
Pretty good test! Thanks!
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!
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.
This was really helpful thank you!
Thanks for doing this experiment. Very informative and helpful.
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!
Thank you for your video, saved me a ton of time! Great Job!
What a great share, thanks for taking the time to share this..
Thank you!
I TRIED IT! OMG! there's a den of about 4 full families about 35 feet from my back yard garden and patio. I've spent close to $800.00 trying to get them to stay away. No success . They dig in my potted plants, eat all my expensive tulip bulbs, eat my flowers, and tear things up. New )inters seem to be born every couple weeks. LEMON SCENTED AMMONIA. But 20 cheap brown hand towels at the Dollar Store. Rolled each towel up lengthwise and placed them all in a chain on the ground around the white picket fence surrounding the garden patio garden. No squirrels came. No squirrels. There are Usually in my garden about 25 times during each twilight . Maybe 30 times during the day before twilight. As soon ascI put the towels down, they stayed away. It now 24 hours later and still gone. In fact there's none in sight playing in front of the den where they usually play all day. They appear to have moved away. I'm still knocking on wood...holding my breath. But, insanely impossibly, they for sure have not been here for 24 hrs. UNBELIEVABLE. Thank you. I'll report again in another day and fill you in.
Well??
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.
Thanks for the tips.
Very helpful video. Thank You for posting
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. .
Liked and subscribed! Thank you so much for sharing! 🐿
Appreciate the experiment/s.. From Titusville Fl..jP
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 ;)
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.
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 !
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?
Thank you for your effort. This is good information
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?????
this is brilliant! thank you for putting this experiment together
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.
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.🙂
Great video! Informative and real testing! Thanks!
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.
Thank you for sharing
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.
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?
Good information!
Great video and great experiment! Thank you!
Love that song!
Adorable children!
Very useful experiment
Thousands of dollars, Millions of Man hours, multiple think tanks and Still those Pesky Rodents are UNSTOPPABLE
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!
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!
"In conclusion: nothing works but trapping, which I will do for a fee."
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?
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.
Thanks for this hard work, do appreciate a lot, it is very useful info.
PS, it will be nice to know what happens if peppermint oil is used to deter them.
Nothing...I tried it
Peppermint worked great for chipmunks - not on fox squirrels here in Indiana.
awesome...thanks for this....very useful information.
Thank you!
I love this kids commentary
Well, the insulation used to be petroleum based, pretty much like everything else on the inside of your car (seats, etc.) And the inside of your house (Curtains, couch, carpet, etc.) But it was flammable! 😉
Great info!!
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!
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.
thank you ,will try
this year was the worst year for our chipmunks a warm winter. i gave up on trying to save my peas, strawberries and such with all methods. i bought a pellet gun and buckets with water and a can over it on coat hanger and peanut butter. I counted around 40 in about 3 weeks . After that I thinned them out and it worked. The ones left actually caught on that I was not a nice guy. They stopped coming to my garden . Some do at times but rarely. I also placed their carcasses around the perimeter of the property outside the garden. I hardly smelled them but they did. It seemed to spook them away as well. I'm sure there are many people that think killing them is wrong. Either i eat or they do. I refuse store bought GMP foods . My health improved after i stopped eating GMO foods. I bought a 40 dollar jug of animal repellant and the very next morning a deer was eating beside it. I took it back. I didnt like killing them it wasnt a new sport for me. But we had so many they were causing many issues including chewing through hoses on vehicles, and chewing through soffits into the attic. Never seen so many. It worked.
Animals fall into three categories, Cute, Dangerous, or delicious. If a person says they are an animal lover...ask them when was the last time they ate meat.
Thank you so much for saving us money on ridiculous myths for catching the pain in the ass squirrels!
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.
I think the area around the rings aren't wide enough. Looks like these squirrels jump over the rings and miss the poison Good information and thank you.
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.
nice job!
Cayenne pepper doesn't work. Believe me! I've tried it all and they're still digging up my yard and gardens. Up till a few years ago the squirrels sure didn't destroy everything like they are now. I can't put anything out that they don't eat, I've never fed them. And aggressive!!! I have the big gray ground squirrels and I've had them chase me across the yard. I've even tried trapping them and dumping them in the forest. All their relatives are still there and more come, so that's useless. But as some of your commenters have said ammonia works. So I'm off to buy a few gallons of ammonia! Thanks for your advice.
Great video. You’ve made this ad scientific as possible and it’s very helpful. Thanks for posting
My problem is the HOA will not put out an email to the residents( retired community)to stop putting out peanuts & walnuts for the “cute little squirrels” They tore the bark off my little dogwood tree, almost dig holes near most of my plants out front, & now I’ve discovered a hole in the ceiling of the attached closet for the water heater, with mold showing, evidence of a nest. They chewed a hole in the ceiling to escape. I’d love to shoot them, but it’s not allowed.It’s expensive to hire a clean-up & deter any. Might be cheaper to place traps in the attic & drive to the river!!! I’m done😡 Really appreciate your testing. Thank you! So cute hearing your young child talking with you!💕😊
Thank you. It’s great hearing their voices for me too!
wow so the cheapest and most readily available solution worked the best! Thanks! Im just going to leave amonia everywhere lol
I used to catch them in a "Have a Hart "rodent trap and I had a large "Rubber Maid" lidded container,filled with water that the trap fit in an I'd drown the vermin, bag and garbage bin the remains...change the water occasionally. I decimated the squirrel population in no time as I was getting at least one rodent a day. Cheers.
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!
Cool! I am using Pin Sol and it is working. Ammonia is working okay, but the pin sol works the best so far for Squirrels in my testing. Make sure it has actual pine oil in it though. The cheap copy-cats do not.
What is Pin Sol ?
Can you please describe
@@mashhoodalvi6305 maybe the disinfectant pine sol
So I don't know much of anything about gardening but I do know that ammonia is a very alkaline meaning low acidity product that would change the pH of your soil dramatically. That would probably kill anything that needed a neutral or or anything but very non acidic soil. Also these are things that the squirrel could help ride over to get something on the surface that it could carry away and eat somewhere else so I think that something meant to go on the plants or in the soil so that digging got it all over the rodents pause or in its face would be very different than something else. I think that what you're protecting and how the animal would have to access the protected item with matter a lot. If it had to borrow through chew through or dig under something then anything that would cause stinging or burning fairly quickly would be a deterrent whereas something that didn't cause burning or discomfort for hours would not because the animal would not make a connection between the two things. For example castor oil is in powerful gastrointestinal irritant that causes severe diarrhea and possible nausea but it works at least 8 hours later and the poor squirrels would have no idea what caused the problem but if they got enough of it they could die I don't know about mothballs but unless the mothballs were planted in and among the plants that you were protecting I don't think that they would do much except poison whatever animals were would foolishly eat them but again peanuts resting on the surface of the ground are easily accessible without any digging or borrowing and so all of the irritants meant to prevent that would be utterly useless.
Thank you.
Heavy amounts of safflower seeds worked for me in and around my bird feeder in Missouri before I went on line and checked it out they were chewing the feeder up plus totally emptying it and this was next to a woods .
great visual of your fun and educational experiment!! Ill try it myself here in Nova Scotia Canada Wondering if you have also a method for mice/rats or even a preferred deterrent? thanks
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