Or pet food...

got him

Cool , what Now ??

pics first, watch the lolsqwuurls thread....

Woa! You got him? What's he doing? Laughing maniacally?

What are you going to do with him?

now I put the trap back in there to see if there are any others

Is it just me or is it a little sinister that LJ hasn't said what happened to Sqrl #1?

He's probably waiting for Sqrl #1, wearing a sqrl mask ala Silence of the Lambs.

The fava beans aren't ready yet.

In this instance. Ignorance is bliss.

same thing that happened to squirrel number two this morning. :(

Is the trap back up there?

yebbut....not set. I'll set it again tonight when I get home. fuck

That sucks. Maybe it's just the two.

nope. at least 3.

this is getting harder....not easier. what the fuck

nobody taught the squurls how to use condoms

Ick. I do not envy you this little squirrelly nightmare.

and 4. Holy shit, Houston.... Holy mother of fuck.

Just wait until you catch a baby one, and it holds out its little paw to you with a sniffle and says, "Please, sir..."

the one this morning was growling at me. I didn't know squirrels growled.

ut o
They are pissed and coming to avenge the death of their mates.

I wonder if you are going to spend all fucking winter killing squirrels?
no really, ....It sounds like a nightmare.

What are your options?

I am not sure who/what I feel more sorry for.:(

You guys are probably at your wits end and if the little beasties are going to keep coming like lambs to the slaughter. ugg

Getting rid of one opened a whole can of worms! I can't imagine having to deal with this.

Nature abhors the squirrel-vacuum in your house.

You'll have to shut the valve, or else they'll keep coming.

this is not true.

The sites that I read said get them all BEFORE you close up the hole. Otherwise, they just make new holes.

I read somewhere that if you put some cat or dog fur down around the entrance they're using, they think there's a porential predator and it dissuades them from entering.


[eta] by which I think they meant cutting off a bit of hair, not skinning your pet :P

All those in the house already, or all in the area?
How do you know when you've got them all? - Doesn't seem awfully practical to me.

Maybe plug the hole with something easy to gnaw through? So new squirrels aren't attracted by the constant flow of nice, toasty air, but previous occupants can find their way to your trap with minimal additional damage.

Go further with Dana's suggestion -- move some cat litter box remains up to the attic (temporarily!) That might tell them there's a predator nearby... We got fewer chipmunks pooping on our porch after the dog pissed on the bushes nearby.

Just let the cats loose in the attic. ...oh wait, there's probably dodgy insulation that they shoukdn't come into contact with. scratch that.

Saw a reccomendation to fill the hole with newspaper once you think you got them all. Makes sense.

Just for the record - I have heard squirrels growl.
There were a lot of them in Greenwich Park. The ones close to the lake were semi-tame. They would come up and take monkey nuts from your hands. Probably why there wasn't a surfeit of monkeys in the park.

But the ones closer to Trafalgar Road were the wild boys, running free. I heard them chatter at dogs once they were a safe distance up a tree. And during the Spring I heard them shouting and swearing at eachother from different trees. And I don't mean trees with interlocking branches, I mean trees on different sides of a wide path.

Squirrels are growlers.
But growlers aren't squirrels.

I'd be really cautious about that. Just keep trapping them as you are. The plan is in place.

Putting anything (structure, impediment, scent...) that might dissuade them from entering the hole you already have will lead them to create new ones!

To be clear.... Once the trap is sprung, I need to limit it to one end of the cage. So I made a slotted board that fits that purpose. I poke a chopstick at him to get him to the proper end. This last one grabbed it, bit it and growled like a dog fighting over a chew toy. Grrrr grrrrr grrrrr

I dunno, give it a steak.

How are the swimming lessons coming coach? Do you have any potential medalists?

I run a pretty good swim camp in the summer for possums and woodchucks. So far, most of them liked camp so much they refused to go home.

Our team's swim mom shirts say "underwater, no-one can hear you whine". I'm guessing that works for growling too.....

Oh jeez, jim's turned into a squirrel trapper.

I had no idea this was going to turn into such a long journey road to hell. :)

you did too....

one does what one must

happiness is an empty squirrel trap

Stop up that hole. NOW!

that sounds dirty :eek:

all quiet on the squirrel front. Good thing. it was 13 degrees this morning..... I don't know what I would have done with one if there had been one in the trap.

If all is quiet until Sunday, I'll be spending my morning in the attic.

you can't drown them at 13 degrees? ice too thick to break?

I'm not sure if you have a hole plugging plan in place, but may I suggest coarse Bronze wool and expanding foam? In the spring you can get outside and fix the boards properly but for now if you take coarse bronze wool (doesn't rust, get it at a paint supply store or a boatyard) and gently pull it apart so it very loosely fills the hole, then you spray expanding foam into the mess of wool it will expand and create a nice foam plug that noone will want to chew through.

that's great advice -well at least it sounds like it, I will bear that in mind if we ever need to fill a hole quick in the depths of winter. thanks

i have some hardware cloth: http://www.unexco.com/hwrcloth.jpg in place.....and was planning to get a little bit more thorough with that...and then fill it in with some great stuff:
http://hotdogjam.files.wordpress.com...eat-stuff1.jpg

*sniggers*

Another thing you can do with that can of Great Stuff is squiggle it around to completely cover the surface of a board, then sand it a bit, and give it a subtle paint job of different shades of gray... and you have yourself a pretty good imitation of a stone fireplace for a high school theater set. You know, if that's ever something you need.

Jeez, you're a veritable cesspool of information, good shit that covers the ground. :thumb:

So, I think this case is closed. I left the trap there for a week and there were no further visitors.....

yesterday, i vacuumed up squirrel turds and cardboard shrapnel, filled in the area with steel wool laced expanding foam, and then reinforced it with hardware cloth and another layer of foam. Then I re strung my lights, and tidied up a bit.

now I need to spend another couple days throwing stuff out and reorganizing what I want to keep. bleh