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sputinc7 · 06-25-2017, 09:05 AM

When we lived in Illinois, we had trouble with squirrels digging up everything in a pot several times, but only when we were gone for the weekend or something like that. They rarely did it when we were around every day. It stopped when we got a dog, but the cats were useless against a northern squirrel.

For those who have always lived in Florida, squirrels up north are as big as and sometimes a little bigger than a cat, and cats don't mess with them. They make 2 or 3 of these puny tree rats we have here.

If you want to give the squirrels something to play with, I recommend buckshot or a pit bull. I have a zero tolerance rule about critters destroying my plants when there is a whole world of wild plants they can tear up and don't.

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