Comments on: I Caught My Pumpkin Vandals in the Act!

By: Leticia- Tech Savvy Mama

Leticia- Tech Savvy Mama — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:08:22 +0000

We call the squirrels pumpkin thieves! Every year they eat our pumpkins regardless if they are carved or not. It is so annoying! So this year we hid our pumpkins in the basement, carved them the night before, put them back in our basement, set them out on Halloween, and fed the pumpkin guts to the squirrels to prevent them from eating our jack-o-lanterns. So far it seems to have worked but they have finished the pumpkin guts so it is only a matter of time ’til they go after the rest!

And like De, we’ve had squirrels rip through a pocket in our jogging squirrel to get to acorns that Little Miss Techie stashed in there!

Is it me, or are the squirrels getting fatter????

By: Stimey

Stimey — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:01:34 +0000

I forgot to carve our pumpkins this year, but fortunately the squirrels helped us out by carving big holes in our pumpkins. If I were a squirrel, I think I would be very happy to find a free, stable source of food on a porch. 4-year-olds and all!

By: Shawn

Shawn — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:39:33 +0000

whew! at first glance, i thought they were rats, not squirrels (and for some reason, i’m thankful they’re squirrels).

in answer to your question about the squirrel diet, they are primarily vegetarians, and live on seeds, nuts, fruits, pine cones, etc. so i’m not really surprised to see them eating pumpkins. (i mean, hey! free food!)

i don’t know about the sleep thing… could be a kind of “suspended animation” thing to conserve energy, or to just throw off predators.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:38:46 +0000

Oh Phew! At first I thought that was a rat! Squirrels I know just have good press but they are so much less … scream inducing.

By: De in D.C.

De in D.C. — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:31:44 +0000

LOL, I think it’s normal. I had a bag of corn gluten meal on my porch (natural lawn fertilizer/preemergent) and the squirrels actually ripped through the heavy plastic bag and were eating the fertilizer. I moved it to the shed and that’s when they started eating our pumpkins. I then covered them with a couple milk crates I use for gardening, and they still tried to eat the pumpkin through the crate!