Squirrels are chewing my new Hardie board siding

[starnbar]

Traps work so do pellet rifles cats are hit or miss same with dogs neighbors can be a big issue as a lot are tree hugging save the animal types. If you use the trap method be sure to camo the location to reduce attention from neighbors good luck.

[gwpercle]

Get one of these and catch a bunch so you can make less trips to the country.

https://www.ruralking.com/squirrelinator-trap-only

Just make a bigger Gumbo ... invite friends over . Gumbo freezes quite well and is actually tastier the second time .
Gary

[myg30]

Update on the squirrels. Dog hair didn’t work. We made a pepper spray mix, This does work to keep them away and I sprayed some boards and they don’t chew there any more.
NOW, the little ba____ds jumped to the roof and are chewing up there on the wall boards.
A few small trees being cut down this week. The only access to the roof will be are new 6’ vinyl fence and I sprayed it. The wife read that Vaseline should keep them from holding on since it works on bird feeder poles.
If they can climb the gutter drain pipes then I’m declaring war !!!!

Mike

I’m looking into electric fence as suggested.

[10x]

Simple solution. install a galvanized unpainted step flashing under the bottom board to make a drip edge
Connect the flashing to an electric fence controller.

[anothernewb]

The single most effective thing I have ever used on eliminating varmints and strays isn't a gun, or a trap, poison, or device.

It's a pond. A plain old decorative pond. When the water gets more than an inch below the rim. The thing turns into the biggest deathtrap short of nuking the neighborhood. Never seen anything like it. It catches everything. works like a decorative version of the 5 gallon bucket trap.
Mice, voles, squirrels, cats, even the occasional purse dog have made my little cenote their final resting place. (neighbor up the street had a heck of a time denying that little yappy foofy was indeed running loose around the nieghborhood at random times, effectively ending a long standing issue for a number of us.) . The record is 7 squirrels in one evening. The reason it capped at seven wasn't the lack of squirrels. It was the fact that there were enough bodies in the pond the newcomers literally had a raft of bodies to use as a springboard.

[waksupi]

The single most effective thing I have ever used on eliminating varmints and strays isn't a gun, or a trap, poison, or device.

It's a pond. A plain old decorative pond. When the water gets more than an inch below the rim. The thing turns into the biggest deathtrap short of nuking the neighborhood. Never seen anything like it. It catches everything. works like a decorative version of the 5 gallon bucket trap.
Mice, voles, squirrels, cats, even the occasional purse dog have made my little cenote their final resting place. (neighbor up the street had a heck of a time denying that little yappy foofy was indeed running loose around the nieghborhood at random times, effectively ending a long standing issue for a number of us.) . The record is 7 squirrels in one evening. The reason it capped at seven wasn't the lack of squirrels. It was the fact that there were enough bodies in the pond the newcomers literally had a raft of bodies to use as a springboard.

I found out about that, too I went to my forge one day, and had nine dead squirrels floating in my quench barrel. I put a board in it after that, so they could get out.