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Originally Posted by jo_thorne
Do they get out of the road when a car comes? The urban squirrels I've seen are very car-savvy.
The only place I've ever seen them get hit very often was once when I lived in an area so remote that the squirrels almost never saw cars and weren't used to them.
I like squirrels, too. They can be a pain if you're trying to feed birds, but they are lots of fun to watch.
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Some of them get out of the road sometimes. Others seem too slow to get out of the way and unaware of danger. I'm tempted to get some fox urine, or something, and put it ONLY in the busier intersections, and only do that a few times figuring that the point will have been made to them (squirrels are smart and have good memories, if the squirrel is normal). My hope is that that will alert them to trouble so they will at least not hang out in the worst intersections. I wish there were a way to keep them out of the roads all together...
Not one of my favorites, but a different squirrel did get hit yesterday. Very sad. Hopefully no more any time soon.
They just play in the road and sit in the middle of the road and eat... Treating the road once or twice with fox urine or Animal B Gon may be the only, or best, solution besides my monitoring my street. Let me know if you think of a better solution or flaw in the logic in this paragraph.
They've really won me over. Nothing like losing a pet... and that's what a couple have essentially become.