[KimC]

Thanks for your reply. I like that idea; and even thought it would work here. I was sure that at least one of the five neighborhood cats that travel my fence rail, and sometimes come down into my yard, would surely keep the squirrels (and the one rat) out of my garden, but alas, they haven’t even been able to eliminate the rat (and he’s alluded my baited trap so far this winter as well, in favor of eating my oranges on the branch high up in the tree). That’s why I know it’s time to take things to the next level, because when spring hits and my trees begin to fruit, it has to be game on with the squirrels.