Re: hot pepper flakes?

**E* Z* <e*@acmeplant.com>**

My only complaint is that it doesn't work.  I've had it fail as an insecticide and also against furrier critters (deer and squirrel).  In fact, I have a charming photo of a squirrel eating bird seed mixed with so much hot pepper that the seed looks entirely red.  I, too, have heard it's supposed to be painful, but this squirrel came back time after time for more spicy bird seed.

LN

On Aug 25, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Colleen Plimpton wrote:

> A reader recently went up one side of me and down the other over a 
> recommendation in my column concerning use of hot pepper flakes to deter 
> critters. I can't find much on adverse aspects of such use. Am I missing 
> something?
> 
> Colleen
>  
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