How do I keep squirrels from eating my porch screen?

Ptp21091857
by Ptp21091857
they eat right thru the screen , get into the enclosed porch and then chew their way out again... Thank you!
  6 answers
  • What are they after? Try eliminating that first. Go with aluminum screening instead of fiberglass. Sure they are chewing in & not just trying to get out? Last but not least, cayenne pepper / stop thumb sucking spray

  • Paula Marie Hyde Paula Marie Hyde on Mar 21, 2017

    Yeah...I was going to say try dabbing some REALLY hot sauce on the area.

  • Shoshana Shoshana on Mar 22, 2017

    Definitely get them with the hot sauce. Hot pepper or pepper flake scattered around the porch will also help. Good luck!

  • BabyBoomerSC BabyBoomerSC on Mar 22, 2017

    Scatter mothballs around the perimeter & exterior of your screened in porch.



  • Patty Patty on Mar 22, 2017

    Years ago I had squirrel problems, I would plant up all my pots for the season and they would unplant them in a flash. I started using Vick's vaporub just spreading a little around the pots. That did the trick now I rub it on rocks and small fallen limbs in my flower beds and that keeps the deer, rabbits cats and anything else out of my flower beds, except my neighbor's little dog, but that is only when he see's me out there. I buy the dollar store brand, so much cheaper. This really does work.

  • Meredith Black Meredith Black on Mar 23, 2017

    Thanks that sound good I have problems with them all the time & also rabbits.