Animals/squirrels/rats in garden what should I do?

it yet but human hair is suppose to work. Go to the beauty parlor and get some and sprinkle it around. Peace

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It's a motion/sound detecting sprinkler.

I have had success with mixing up garlic power, coffee grounds and cayenne pepper and sprinkling that on and around the plants that are getting dug up. Won't hurt the plants but keeps the critters away.

Trap and eat them.

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When I put in my first garden at my current residence several years ago, small animals ate all my seedlings twice and then I took action. All I did was put 24 inch chicken wire around the perimeter and the damage stopped.

Bunnies, coons, opossums and groundhogs frequent my back yard but there are no deer. The fence stymied all comers.

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Don't hurt the animals. :(

I tried to go on Liberty Harvest, Anybody getting their gardens ready Part II, and it came up "access denied." It was such a great site with all kinds of info.

be viewed as essential protein sources. Imagine the day when your garden's actual harvest becomes secondary to the protein it can lure in. Then again if you become too self sufficient they might come and take your kids away.

If there is a food shortage it will be affecting these animals as well, the ones you describe are probably stocking up as we should too. Could also be that you are near an area that was recently cleared for a new development, and this could cause the sudden increase in these animals. Are they really eating all that much, or are they just a bother?
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Learn how to play darts. It's a great board game and when you get good at it you can practice your aim on rats? If you find that the game isn't for you then your money and investment isn't wasted.- Place a tasty snack on the bullseye and liberally spread superglue around the circumference of the board. Lay flat on the ground and await the vermin to enter the 50 red. Simply toss away over the fence like a frisby. Job done!

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don't violate their individual rights.

I heard they're lethal..
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and get some garlic cloves. Put them in a blender with some water and a little dish washing detergent and blend it up good and put that around the garden. Mothballs will also work.

your garden should work...get a shotgun, or a gun period, seriously, or better yet get yourself a dog, or cat.

deer: Hang or lay chuncks of bars of soap (drill small hole in "guest" bars found found at hotels and hang in trees; shave bar of soap around a plant they like)

Squirrels & rat. groundhogs, coons - get a Jack Russel Terrier

A crown control fence works good (the ugly orange plastic stuff)

A bucket with a little water in it will attract and drown mice

Animal traps too.

Hang aluminum tip pie pans on a post - deer won't go near the scent of a human being so could dress a scarecrow too.

For rabbits, there is dried blood. (We just panted extras for them.)

SHOOT THEM! a good ruger 10/22 with hollow points will take care of the problem! plus you get to practice your marksmanship!

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non-lethal = repeat offenders.

IF THERE IS a food shortage in the future, would you be willing to put the lives of pests and vermin before your family?

Other-than-logical thinking, IMO.

.22 Long Rifle with hollow points

in more urban areas, Crossman 760 (?) Air Rifle... if you have the means, a high velocity air rifle would be the ticket... can't get much cheaper than the Crossman.
If the dung hits the fan, that air rifle would quickly become priceless in the ability to obtain quick protein.

There are always rat traps, or raccoon traps for the bigger vermin. They could carry the live trapped animals into the basement and shoot them.

Electric fence. It's non-lethal, and will work like a charm. It's also quite affordable.

Use 5' welded wire on t-posts, and run one hot line at the bottom (with plastic insulators), and another at the top (with plastic insulators). You can get solar fence chargers as well.

Hang white rags, or tin pie plates along the top perimeter to keep fence-jumpers (deer) out.

-LF

I think she's using the red bait rat poison which may not be arsenic but its something.

The snake works on the birds..for others a scarecrow and the battery operated sonic pest devices work fine..this would be best posted in the anything goes category though.