Will two-inch chicken wire keep out squirrels?

[Cole_Robbie]

I've used my German Shepherds to deter deer before. A dog pen in the garden is good for about a hundred feet in every direction with deer, not squirrels though, I'm sure. My problem with using dogs in the garden is that I have to account for the possibility of a pack of coyotes showing up. They are notorious dog-killers.

[bower]

Coyotes are new here too - really new so there's nothing like a pack of them, just a few solitary animals. They have been moving across the island since they arrived at the west coast, and the first sightings in our area just the past few years. I have seen one crossing the yard early one morning.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by bower

Coyotes are new here too - really new so there's nothing like a pack of them, just a few solitary animals. They have been moving across the island since they arrived at the west coast, and the first sightings in our area just the past few years. I have seen one crossing the yard early one morning.

If you are allowed kill every one you see.

Worth

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by bower

Coyotes are new here too - really new so there's nothing like a pack of them, just a few solitary animals. They have been moving across the island since they arrived at the west coast, and the first sightings in our area just the past few years. I have seen one crossing the yard early one morning.

If you are allowed kill every one you see and hang his carcass up so the others can see it.

Worth

[bower]

Originally Posted by Worth1

If you are allowed kill every one you see and hang his carcass up so the others can see it.

Worth

Wise words. Folks are keen to kill them but the chance is another matter. Wildlife officials properly are the ones with the authority, some have the means and allowed to do it, others have means but not in an area you can shoot a firearm. And some don't have the means either.

Not that long ago some feller from the outports was brought up on charges for shooting a bear inside his home.
Polar bears often make it to the island on ice floes, then they are spotted around communities especially the north. The wildlife officers go in, tranq em, they give em free dental work while they're passed out in dreamland, and ship em back home in their sleep. Then they wake up and tell the others how they got the magic teeth.
It's a very different scene here. Not much being shot without a license to do it.
I wouldn't get away with shooting squirrels either.
But I have foxes as well, they might catch a few.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by bower

Wise words. Folks are keen to kill them but the chance is another matter. Wildlife officials properly are the ones with the authority, some have the means and allowed to do it, others have means but not in an area you can shoot a firearm. And some don't have the means either.

Not that long ago some feller from the outports was brought up on charges for shooting a bear inside his home.
Polar bears often make it to the island on ice floes, then they are spotted around communities especially the north. The wildlife officers go in, tranq em, they give em free dental work while they're passed out in dreamland, and ship em back home in their sleep. Then they wake up and tell the others how they got the magic teeth.
It's a very different scene here. Not much being shot without a license to do it.
I wouldn't get away with shooting squirrels either.
But I have foxes as well, they might catch a few.

We built a pond about 200 yards from the house and the coyotes used it for a watering hole.
I would get up early at dawn and shoot them through my bedroom window with a 25-06.
This would of course scare the be gibbers out of my parents who were still asleep.
Worth

[Hellmanns]

Originally Posted by Worth1

We built a pond about 200 yards from the house and the coyotes used it for a watering hole.
I would get up early at dawn and shoot them through my bedroom window with a 25-06.
This would of course scare the be gibbers out of my parents who were still asleep.
Worth

Ha! I have done that a time or two! Shooting high powered rifles out the back door at the break of dawn when wifey be sleeping is a no no.. Would I do it again? Already have!

[Worth1]

Hellmanns which one of them fellers is you in the video you posted?

Worth

[ScottinAtlanta]

Those who said one inch are right, in my experience. Two inches is an open door.

[Hellmanns]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Hellmanns which one of them fellers is you in the video you posted?

Worth

I'm not in the video, Worth. Mr. Hurley Combs could be me though, because he seems to love soppin' cat head biscuits in squirrel gravy.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Hellmanns

I'm not in the video, Worth. Mr. Hurley Combs could be me though, because he seems to love soppin' cat head biscuits in squirrel gravy.

Sounds good to me too.

Worth

[Hellmanns]

Originally Posted by ScottinAtlanta

Those who said one inch are right, in my experience. Two inches is an open door.

I have seen squirrels untwist 1 inch chicken wire and get through.

[Worth1]

[cloz]

This is my solution to squirrels and chipmunks. Picture one is the trap. Picture two is the result. Works real well. A little peanut butter on the trigger stick does the job.

[b54red]

I have chipmunks also but they are not a problem as my little dachshunds are very adept at catching them but squirrels are another matter. Even killing them with a pellet rifle has become nearly impossible they have become so wary of me but it doesn't stop them from raiding my garden every time I am not in it. It is almost time to set out my spring broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower and I know they will be demolished by the furry tailed rats.

Bill