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As author Richard Mallery (“Nuts about Squirrels") notes, all that does is make them burn more calories, which makes them do — guess what? Eat more.
To their credit, squirrels are prolific tree planters.
As the saying goes, old squirrels don’t die, they just lose their nuts.
Actually, young squirrels do as well — up to 80 percent of the seeds they bury they never find.
Some of these seeds get eaten by other animals, but many grow into mature plants and help keep the food cycle going.
While some suburbanites see battling squirrels as a lifelong crusade, others give up the fight, for one reason or another.
An Australian friend living in Reston, after many years of dosing bulbs with rodent repellent, then screaming at the squirrels who nevertheless dug up the bulbs and ate them, has finally capitulated and reportedly even fed one.
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