How to Keep Squirrels from Chewing on Your Latch

My father-in-law raised a squirrel named Nibbles.  Once Nibbles was old enough my father in law released the squirrel into his back yard where he flourished for a few years feasting on nuts that were hand fed to him.  Then Nibbles had a lady friend that came around and started ruling the roost. She even got to the point where she would come into the porch and break into the plastic container to help herself to how ever many nuts she wanted.  Even after upgrading containers to one that had a latching mechanism, she would still figure it out.

Now this was very comical to watch and talk about, but what about if the squirrels start doing real damage that costs you money?  We run into this from time to time with our Magna Latches.  There is just something about that release knob that squirrels love to chew on.  Are they just sharpening their teeth or do they like the taste of last weekends bar-b-que?  The world may never know.  Either way there is a solution that is both effective and environmentally safe.   It’s call Scoot Squirrel.  Scoot Squirrel is just simply applied around the area of the latch and it will keep the squirrels away.  Now if you already have a damaged latch, you can purchase just the tower section ( latch body ) and replace it.  Don’t worry the keys are the same.