:D I use a battery operated water pistol on the critters that bug me in my yard....I started using one that was left over from my boys, then when that one quit, I went out and bought one. If you could hear what that little squirrel is saying to me after it gets a blast of water :lol:...We don't have too much problem with them anymore, just in the spring, when I have to remind them :lol: P.S. I don't hurt them, I have very bad aim....