At my parents cottage (real cottage: no running water, no electricity), we’ve waged a years-long battle with a red squirrel who every fall insists on filling the outhouse with hundreds of walnuts. Then when you try to use the outhouse, he sits just outside and swears at you.
We’ve tried tossing the walnuts out dozens of times, but he just brings them all back a few hours later. We eventually built a nice dry, non-smelly squirrel-sized wood cabin (with a “Squirrel Manor” sign and everything) just beside the outhouse, all to no avail.
We’ve given up as he’s a full-time resident of the property, and we’re only weekends-and-holidays landlords, but there’s nothing like having 40 3" “marbles” on the floor of the outhouse when you’re trying to use the facilities at 3 in the morning.
