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Off Topic => Anything Goes => Topic started by: Raven11:11 on November 29, 2010, 06:51:49 PM

Title: Feeding squirrels peanuts with sea salt
Post by: Raven11:11 on November 29, 2010, 06:51:49 PM

Is  feeding our yard squirrels peanuts with sea salt bad??

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Post by: Kin Lau on November 29, 2010, 07:15:43 PM

I don't think it really matters. Especially when you consider the stuff they dig/bury out/in your yard.

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Post by: Raven11:11 on November 29, 2010, 07:31:16 PM

Thanks, i also thought the salt might help preserve it over the winter?  We have a clean, beautiful Grey that will come right up to me and if I call him from my yard he will run 25 yards across the field behind our place directly to me. B-line.

He used to sit in my lap when he was young but obviously the kids in the area spooked him so he is not as trusting any longer.  Plus I don't allow it or want it as to avoid him biting my finger off. Disease, etc...

Warm Regards Kin.

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Post by: Leslie on January 23, 2011, 08:57:27 PM

One of my friends went to her local fruit & vegetable store for some produce that was past its sell-by date & put it out in her yard in the winter & proudly reported that none of her squirrels got mange.

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Post by: Raven11:11 on January 23, 2011, 09:42:48 PM

so here this one,

as I said the grey guy who comes by for peanuts and cookies is very tame and one of close  neighbors also feeds him and actually began doing so when he was a baby.
the other several black sq's were always afraid to come close but observed the Grey very closely while we interacted,  and I noticed since these really cold days they were communicating with me as the grye does,  body language ...... pacing, approaching closely and bee-lining direct to my door and me.  

These 2 black sq's (couple that had at least 1 baby this past year) all of a sudden got VERY VERY aggressive 2 days back and I saw they were acting EXACTLY as our tame grey does and after all the flax seed bread + several shelled peanuts (no flavors) they actually started climbing on our steel screen  / mesh door that covers the back yard sliding door (glass) and became VERY aggressive.  

We had to shew them with pillows or else damage would have been done to our door.   They got the message, after 3 or 4  times.

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Post by: Leslie on January 24, 2011, 11:57:26 AM

No flies on your squirrels.
Apparently it's easier to live with a stupid dog.  Maybe the same is true for squirrels.