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A squirrel in my yard in Boise just wrecked my new suet feeder

I hung a fresh block of peanut butter suet on a shepherd's hook near my patio last Tuesday, and a big gray squirrel managed to chew through the plastic cage in under an hour. I heard a crash and found the whole thing on the ground, empty. Has anyone found a truly squirrel-proof way to offer suet without putting it in a metal cage that scares off the woodpeckers?
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aaronlee
aaronlee1mo ago
That "metal cage that scares off the woodpeckers" is the real problem. You could try a hot pepper suet block, since birds can't taste the heat but squirrels hate it. It's a decent workaround that keeps the feeder itself simple.
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kai602
kai6021mo ago
Seriously, @aaronlee, does that hot pepper trick actually work on the big, determined squirrels?
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