HaHaHaHa... This is a little bit unconventional, but will probably work.

Squirrels are cute but they can be pests. I used to have a neighbor that would feed apples to the squirrels right in between our houses. The squirrels eventually decided that they could store a LOT of nuts in my attic. I discovered this at about 3:00 AM one morning as a squirrel went ballistic bouncing around like a superball in my attic. Literally bouncing around from one end of the house to the other.

I discovered the next morning that they had chewed a quarter-sized hole in the eaves of my house to set up house up there. So I decided to find a way to get rid of them.

Unlike my father who barricaded himself under our house on Main Street one Sunday afternoon with a pellet gun and a promise that "It's me or that cat! Only one of us is coming out alive!", I decided to figure out a humane way to drive off the squirrels.

After some unsuccessful attempts with a "live trap" and some peanut butter, I found a solution on the internet... fox urine. Yes, I said it. Fox Urine.

I went down to the local feed store and bought a bottle of fox urine for a few bucks. Who knew that you could buy animal pee? Not me!

Well, I doused a couple of cotton balls and put them in a zip bag with holes poked in it and scattered them around up near the entry point. Oh, I also doused the roof around the area they were getting in. I never heard from the squirrels again.

I have heard that getting critters out of your homestead can be difficult, but now that I know the secret, it's as easy as cake.

Got a bigger critter you need to get rid of? Right there on the shelf next to the fox urine was a bottle of . . . lion urine. Well I just wanted to get rid of them, not give them a heart attack right there in my attic!