From another Coloradan who is fed up with squirrels--They kept chewing their way into the big rubbermaid-type locker we use to store our bird seed. After many futile attempts to deter them, we finally hit on a great solution---we mixed cayenne pepper into some paint and painted the whole thing. It worked!!! 2 years and counting. The pepper doesn't change the color of the paint. We probably put about 1 tablespoon of pepper into 2 qts of paint. :lol: