Squirrels are awful . We have a ton of them . My husband feeds birds and neighbors on both sides have dogs so all the squirrels hang out at my place . They have destroyed my entire deck , just ate up everything . The trees in the backyard have no bark left on them , l am unable to have pretty flower pots out in the summer , they eat and chew them to death . Tried having some tomatoes and onions in a raised garden box and they ate that too . Dug out my onions and carried tomatoes all over the yard . Everything possible has been done including an electric fence around the garden , they still get in ,