Watered down hot sauce won't work I guarantee but fine ground cayenne pepper might. Also cat box litter (pee no poop) spread around some folks say works for them as a deterrent to Bushy Tailed Tree Rats. Squirrel Teriaki sounds good! Over rice? I have them pretty well thinned out but they just keep on coming no matter what and fried gets kind of boring.
Yep, used, but remove the uh ah big pieces unless you don't mind.......never mind. The supposed reason it works is because prey animals know what predator animals smell like and cats definitely like squirrels. Squirrels can and will be a major threat to your vegetables. Not so much for greens but anything that turns red. What that hole was is a squirrel digging for something like an acorn or a pecan or a tulip bulb etc that he either buried previously or smelled. They have a keen sense of smell. I used to propagate pecan trees from a pecan and the rascals would dig them up out of the pot. I had to cover the pots with chicken wire to keep them out.
