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Dear Gary:
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I was checking out at the grocery store this morning and the customer behind me wondered what I was making with the two (clear plastic vegetable) bags of unshelled walnuts. I told her they were for my squirrels.
She mentioned that her neighbor feeds her squirrels plain popped popcorn and they enjoy eating it! I don’t know if squirrels have human ailments but I also feed my squirrels dry roasted peanuts (hypertension and cholesterol?).
Do you have any comments regarding feeding them popcorn? I have an air popper, so there would be no oil, salt, or butter (they don’t know what they’re missing!).
I thought I’d check with you before I tried this.
Karen Shibata,
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San Carlos
Dear Karen:
Personally, I think if you must feed squirrels, it should only be small amounts of natural food as treats. That means seeds, raw nuts, fruit, vegetables. No cooked or salted foods, like popcorn or roasted peanuts.
At the very least you may be adding weight where it doesn’t belong.
Dear Gary:
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Not all electronic pet doors will keep out raccoons. The least expensive ones don’t have strong enough locks. A raccoon can just push its way through. They are quite strong and may be determined to get through the door.
The best doors can cost a few hundred dollars, have a motorized steel gate, and need to be built into a wall. It may take a cat a few days to get used to the motor sound.
We had a cat door that I tried to close with the sliding panel included for that purpose. Raccoons just pushed it through. I fastened the corners with screws and three-quarter-inch fender washers. They punched that through, too. I finally screwed a steel strap across the door to keep them out.
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David Hale,
Palo Alto
Dear David:
Thirty years ago you could stick your head out the back door and yell at the raccoons and you’d never see them again.
Now we’ve got built-in cat doors with motorized steel gates. I suspect they have a Raccoon Think Tank at Stanford figuring out a way around it, even as we speak.
If you parked a cement truck in front of your cat door to block the raccoons, those “masked marvels” would probably hot-wire it and back it out of the way.
Let the games begin.
Contact Gary Bogue at [email protected]; or write Gary, P.O. Box 8099, Walnut Creek, CA 94596.
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