Trapping the wiley Squirrel.....

I bet those buggers are big in Alaska.

 

Around here it is the little red squirrel, not much bigger than a chip monk, born pregnant and chew like beavers. They can crawl thru a hole about the size of a half dollar, tear the insulation out of the walls, knaw holes in the cup boards, pi** on your pillows, and just make life difficult. Mouse poison doesn't seem to bother them and I hate to use rat traps as the bat population here is on its last legs and you are more likely to catch a bat than a squirrel in the attic. One that I finally caught had made a hole in the back of the cup board and was licking the bacon grease off the skillet and leaving me his or her little calling cards. That was going to far. I tried to buy the Decon bait trays, had good luck with them, warfrin in a pellet, can't buy it any more, isn't child safety compliant, has to be used in a child safe bait box, and the bait boxes are to small for a squirrel to get the food out of. and the Warfin etc might kill what ever animal or bird eats the dead rodent. Dozens of different have a heart traps and I don't think I am up to illegally relocating the beasts and it would take quite a while to get enough for a good mess of them with gravy.

BTPost, need to make a squirrel skin hat for the politicians, the way some act on tv as they parade for their followers, it might be a little large for their pin heads, have make sure it was a small rodent.

 

I had chipmunks raiding my bird feeders until I got tired of it and bought a live trap, 'cause none of the rodent traps were doing anything more than feed the buggers. Caught and drowned 30 this year. I've had a LOT less success with the confounded grey squirrels, they are WAY too fast for the pellet gun solution. I have to stand up for my songbirds somehow.

 

Caught an entire family of five gray squirrels (one at a time) that was living under my shed and gradually undermining it. Trapped 'em and dropped 'em off at an industrial park where I used to work. They can deal with 'em.

 

I have that in mind to solve my packrat problem..

 

You brown those down in onions.

 

I never considered what to do if I had a squirrel issue. I have dealt with mice, body count is current 8 for this years fall invasion. I have a rat trap, looks like a giant mouse trap. I looked on-line and most people seem to do catch and release but if you do not release them far enough away they will be right back.I look forward to seeing @BTPost's trap.

These are two home-made traps I found on-line. The first one seems the most simple.


PVC Humane Capture Release Squirrel Trap

This one takes more PVC-


DIY Squirrel Trap

 

I do the humane treatment.
I beat them in their little head then off to the garbage can!

 

Ninja squirrel puts the move on Evie!

 

I had a serious problem with ground squirrels steeling the chickens food and eggs .my birds were too complacent to stop them so I had to take matters into my own hands .
I tried all kinds of traps and caught a few lost few but then I got an idea , so I took a egg and let it get good and rotten and set that out for them to steal , that was the last egg they ever took . I imagine that if they rolled it into their hole and broke it there, they had to move out indefinitely .

 

Like the way you think!

 

This little guy was tearing up the house when I wasn't there.. Not any more, thank you BT Post!

 

Squirrel - a rat with a furry tail and a better press rep.