What Animals Eat Halloween Pumpkins

To avoid waste chop them up and put them in the compost after October 31st.

What animals eat halloween pumpkins. Yep squirrels are one of those animals that eat pumpkins whether they are still growing in your pumpkin patch or whether they are freshly carved at your back door. Woodchucks will surely enjoy pumpkin as well. Pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns are quintessential autumn decorations but unfortunately many squirrels find these decorative vegetables just as appealing.

They are notorious at attacking pumpkins left out on the front step. Shortly after the spooky night though they end up in the garbage or in some cases are left out on porches to rot until someone gets around to throwing them away or little critters. With this do not make the mistake of believing that if you have a fence woodchucks will no longer bother your pumpkin.

Why not ask the local farmfarmer if heshe would like your old pumpkins for an animal feed. Theyve dropped both the pumpkin carvers and the sugar artists. Although dogs are largely carnivores the RSPCA say that some omnivorous foods like pumpkin are ok.

He said this works great because animals think theres already an animal there. Hot pepper sprays should keep them away from ripe fruit. Today animals at Brookfield Zoo were treated to some Halloween treatspumpkins.

This wont smell great but it should work. You can shop for these varieties by. Theyll eat the whole pumpkin and might even roll the pumpkins to play with their food.

The video which first went viral back in 2013 is a. Just as you are ready to harvest your fruit you find they have gnawed through your pumpkin to extract the seeds. How to Keep Squirrels from Eating Pumpkins.