# Miscreant, Destructive Squirrels

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/miscreant-destructive-squirrels/29044>\
**Category:** The Show\
**Created:** [April 12, 2009, 9:01pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/miscreant-destructive-squirrels/29044 "2009-04-12T21:01:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![LNROBIN](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/lnrobin/32/835_2.png) [@LNROBIN](https://community.cartalk.com/u/LNROBIN)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 9:01pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/miscreant-destructive-squirrels/29044/1 "2009-04-12T21:01:27Z")

</div>

Thank you Show for the suggestion about discouraging squirrels by spraying Peppermint Oil. The miscreant squirrels on my ranch, and neighboring ranches, destroy property, buildings, land, and crops.  
  
 Now all I need is a 55 gallon drum of peppermint oil and to hire an aerial sprayer. I serve squirrel chow (okay, poison), and it doesn’t do the whole job of keeping population down/damage down.  
  
 P  
  
 lease, does anybody know of other remedies to discourage the squirrels from the property? I’m going to spray the inside of some of my buildings with the peppermint oil-I really do need a 55 gallon drum and a paper route to pay for the stuff . . . I’m a lousy shot, so that’s not a viable option-- The cheeky beggars chirk and wave at me from the fence posts as it is. I don’t need to entertain them, too.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![djjackson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@djjackson](https://community.cartalk.com/u/djjackson)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/miscreant-destructive-squirrels/29044/2 "2009-04-12T22:11:35Z")

</div>

Go to the animal shelter and get a couple of cats. Your squirrels will be gone in no time.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/1/d/1d47c66a543aa6c5a7873bb2320858f978ff52ed.png) [@system](https://community.cartalk.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 11:00am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/miscreant-destructive-squirrels/29044/3 "2009-04-13T11:00:37Z")

</div>

Might look at a junkyard for a copper and brass radiator that would be a bit tougher than the new plastic and aluminum radiators. Perhaps go to a radiator shop and talk to them. Maybe braze a steel mesh to the front and back of the core.

My question is what the squirrels are after in the radiator. Are they addicted to antifreeze? Or, is a “non toxic” type of antifreeze being used? Or just water?

Let me apologize in advance, but I think I would take a metal oil pan, and put in a half gallon of pure ethylene glycol antifreeze (or 50/50) and leave it somewhere near the car (and keep the cat out of the garage).