"Home Guy" wrote in message ...

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And maybe buy a few 40-lb bags of black-oil or striped sunflower seeds
and throw some down every few days for the squirrels to eat - instead of
them eating the bark of your trees.

I probably wouldn't do that since my neighbor's multiple and well-stocked
bird feeders are what caused the explosion in the local squirrel population.
With a good supply of food, they'll make a good supply of squirrel pups.
Rodent populations tend to expand very rapidly in the presence of a copious
food source.

Maybe if you laced the feed with birth control hormones . . .

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Bobby G.