Paw Naturel: Squirrel Proof Bird Feeders

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Protect your bird friend’s food from squirrely rascals with these new squirrel proof bird feeders!
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Posted by SubetaTeam

GLaDOS

After years of trying, this spring the squirrels in our yard figured out how to get at the seeds in our bird feeder. The gaps are too small for their little noses to get into, but birds can use their beaks to pull seeds out through the mesh just fine. This worked for 7+ years, but this generation seems to know to pull the seeds out with their claws and eat them on the ground where they fall.

I'm actually rather proud of them for finally getting it.
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Umbrella

Squirrels are geniuses when it comes to acquiring food in devices that are deliberately designed to keep them away. The acrobats and daring escapades that I have witnessed....
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Valiska

@ohwellheythere65 ...but birds are also animals?
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Valiska

@Ryuu I am appalled that anyone thinks that ketchup is spicy. Wow. But I live in San Francisco and I like Szechuan, Indian, and Ethiopian food.
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Grub

Any real bird lover knows theres no such thing as a squirrel proof feeder


(just teasing, these items are real cute :D)
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Targaryen

I love these bird feeders! I have one in RL! I hate squirrels. I did not hate them until we had them in our attic. They came in during hurricane IKE. The squirrels did all kind of damage.
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wyrm

When I was little, we had a bird feeder on a pole. To defeat the squirrels, we put vaseline on the pole -- resulting squirrels grabbing it, sliding down, trying a few times, then perching on the fence to glare at us while we were laughing at them.
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Skolletta

Aww! When I lived in Europe we had a bird feeder for the tits that would come into our garden and hung it up under the crab apple tree. It regularly got gatecrashed by a lil red squirrel. ^_^ We made sure there was always more than enough for the birds.
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Anrivef

SPICY SQUIRRELS
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Ryuu

Quote by Valiska:
I have been told that birds can't taste and aren't bothered by hot pepper seeds but squirrels can, and are. And I got that from a friend who REALLY loves birds.
Birds do not care about heat. But, neither did the squirrels when I tried to keep them out of my feeders by dousing the seeds and suet with some of my reaper powder & paste & then some fresh scorpion diced & lastly just generic red pepper flakes . Absolutely feel free to try it, but don't be surprised if you just make spicy squirrels. ha.

(plus, the majority of people here think that tomato ketchup and even BASIC BLACK PEPPER are ~too spicy,~ so it's not like the squirrels are getting hotter stuff elsewhere. :p )
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Anrivef

Hah, I never got the hang of those things on the playground either. c;
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shylarah

These are adorable and amusing.
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Shawny

@Amber, well I'm pretty misanthropic so of course I'm choosing the animals over humans.
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curbdirt

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Ferinsy

@Pinocchio omg I'm cracking hahahhaah I didn't know those were a thing xD
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Immortal

LMAO these feeders are hysterical... also, that gif made me laugh SO HARD XD
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Pinocchio

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Akita

these mother duckers
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Hunger

Oh hahaha XD
Well, here our squirrels became quite the little pests(we have a walnut tree not far from our house) and uh well they were destroying our house. So yeah I don't like them at least not in(or on) my house
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Amber

clearly we need one of those lil baby squirrel picnic tables on a fence just for you squirrel lovers
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Shawny

*runs through feeding the poor squirrels* YOOOOOLOOOOOOO
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Julia

Aww I love that there's a melanistic squirrel since almost all the squirrels near me are melanistic. :heart:
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Valiska

I have been told that birds can't taste and aren't bothered by hot pepper seeds but squirrels can, and are. And I got that from a friend who REALLY loves birds.

So. Just putting that out there.

To those of you that love feeding the squirrels... whatever you love is whatever you love. But squirrels are very good at caching food when it is abundant. Birds can't do that nearly as easily and must compete for food with them, so we feed birds because they actually need to be fed, and squirrels stealing their food kind of defeats the purpose of that.

Also, they WILL tear up your gardens.
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EmilyMae

These are super cute :heart: but I love feeding the squirrels too :D
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LadyTamarwen

I absolutely LOVE them!!!

Uh... but I do feed the squirrels too. Someone has to chew all of the wires in my car, you know.
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Jio

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Avel

I just feed my squirrels.
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Rakumel

Oh good, y'all saw that video too XD Thank you for these!
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Sneaky

For a moment I thought they were going to be birds to go with the bird baths. Oh well, maybe next time. Reminds me of how squirrels kept going at the bird feeder in my Gran's garden (I don't know if she still has it or not).
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Lypsyl

Awww but squirrels need to eat too!
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Minty

Awww what a great idea! :joy:
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Damon

Oh my goodness! How cute!
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queen

These are hilarious and adorable <3
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