Hello Jim
 

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Make My Day!! :D

Ok not funny.....

gawd, it's like being back in the school playground. Want me to tell him you hate him and if he pulls your pigtails you'll tell teacher, cic?

lol! There's a reason for that Jim. You aren't going to let that asshole squirrel get the best of you are you? :)

The squirrel is going down.

on who?

i was reading up on squirrel trapping tonight.

apparently it takes about a week of incremental baiting and a +25 mile relocate to effectively rid yourself of a squirrel tennant without killing the squirrel.

I'm thinking bb guns at dawn.

You could relocate him to the lake...

you need a squirellapult

Trap? Orlly? I can be of no advice here. I had one that refused to leave my car for hours.

I have a low squirell-set.

And in no way was it the jerk you have on your hands.....

the one site i read recommended drowning them by submerging the trap in a big trash can. :(
i'd rather kill him/her quickly with a projectile or bladed instrument.

Here is one idea

I'm thinking more along the lines of a squirrel a tine

Play three or four cords, then bite his head off.

Why is the squirrel a problem? I must have missed something.

i have a house guest....in my attic.....I've asked him politely to leave, and closed off his entry point..... and yet....he seems to have had a back door.

Thats too bad - but I told ya. He MUST be relocated. Look at it from his/her perspective. Your attic is like the Taj Mahal compared to a bunch of twigs on a tree branch. Get a hav-a-heart, trp him and drop him off at RichL's place. :3eye:

yeah...i'll relocate him to squirrely heaven.

now now - FSM's creatures and all that....
I have a BB gun with a scope if you need to use it ;)
you gotta buy the pellets though - the shot just don't fly straight.

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I recommend the one in the top right of this image.
It will NOT be pretty and the squirrel will most likely NOT die initially. It will be writhing in pain and screaming in agony. Just so you are prepared.

I prefer this:

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from a BB gun? shooting in your yard? at a squirrel? possibly towards our house or other property/people?
Helloooooooooooo???????

This morning there is a very grisly looking squirrel road kill right in front of my house, ......and I wonder if I could be this lucky.

They have extended family. There is always a cus waiting in the tree next door to move into to your house.

is he actually causing any trouble in the attic?

Wild parties, pot, alcohol, poker games...you need to put your foot down, jim, and make that damn squirrel get a job.

yes, he is. or was hopefully.

shitting all over, messing up the insulation, i found a chewed wire, chewed up nutshells all strewn about, etc.

I think what Dana was getting at was, have you really taken the time to consider this from the squirrel's perspective? Being a rich white man who has had it easy his whole life you can't possibly understand the plight of the squirrel just trying to get by in this cold cruel world.

Are you suggesting a symbiotic living arrangement? :D

I'm telling you, the damn squirrel needs a purpose. He can start small, a job at the local market, maybe take a class or two at the community college. Only education and need will make parasites like your squirrel finally start giving to society, and some tough love is in order. Of course no one likes to work, but tell him "fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life" (Animal House)

Hey fuck all of you.

You're not a squirrel, you're a squirell. Big difference!

I loll'd

@ Lj: ok that does sound quite inconvenient :P Have you contacted pest control/extermination services? They can often offer non-lethal solutions.

I asked whether he was causing trouble, because I know very little about squirrels and whether or not they cause damage etc once inside the house. I realise for some people having a 'pest' squatting in their house is enough of a reason to get out the bb gun, but I wasn't sure if that was the case here' or if the squirrel was actually causing damage/trouble.

If he's chewing wires, the problem should eventually resolve itself. :shocking:

And hopefully the house won't burn along with it.

Why? It's a bushy tailed RAT. The only good thing about them is they don't do as much damage to your car as deer, when you run over them.

Never thought of that...does that really happen?

I'm sure it can happen. The little fucker has chewed through 2 wires to date. Fortunately there was no power to them. It's the storage section of my attic, and i have an extension cord running down the length of the inside of the ridge that connects a few strings of c9 christmas lights, an old wall sconce, and one of those clip on metal dish thingers they use for heat lamps. He chewed one of the extension cord, and shortened my c9 string. I don't think there is any loose powered wires up there...but my cable wires go through right where he had been getting in before.

I just invested $50+ in this.....

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fucking thing. I'm not sayning I won't kill the bastard once I catch him, but this seemed more cost effective than buying a higher powered weapon, and probably putting my own eye out.

Hard to shoot your own eye out when your tongue is stuck to the flagpole, lj.
D-

All the time. Up here in the Toolies the FD tells me it accounts for about 70% of the fires we have.

I suppose the next thing you're going to tell me is that squirrel's don't know how too spell?

Squirrelz can haz cheezburgers.

Speaking of Chibbaguh Chibbaguh (No Coke, Pepsi)
My neighbor gives her squirrels the happy dispatch with a little potpourri made of sugar, cornmeal and plaster of Paris, all wrapped up in a little saran wrap sachet, tossed in the attic. They nom nom nom the P o P along with the sugar and cornmeal and then when they drink they beverage the plaster sets in they tummeh. They go to the clinic and usually never make it long enough to see the squirrel doctah.

What will you do with it after you trap it?

That sounds like a horrible way to die.

My bets on LJ driving 30 miles in the boondocks to let it go.

I don't know about Jinx. I keep waffling between benevolence and squirrel stew.

Not worth turning the stove on for 1 squirrel.

lol

Try not to invite moar.:p

i may decapitate it and put it's little head on a little pike outside the hole in my gable.

What could be better than a full tummy?

The worst constipation in the universe?

I have a jump box for jumping a dead battery. if i hook both leads to the cage, will it blow the box out? or just cook the squirrel?

prolly pop the breaker, better to wire it so the squirrel completes the circuit. You'd have to isolate one part of the cage form the otherand when the squirell bridges them the current flows though him.

Electrical wiring isn't a hobby, as my friend the electrician is fond of saying...

yeah, it's a Faraday cage, and the electricity would go around the squirrel. It would be in there laughing at you.

check.

looks like drowning may be the only practical solution. I cant see myself squezzing it to death like this site seems to recommend


relocating them seems fraught with peril:

I've been a big fan of just putting them in the freezer alive. I do it to mice that aren't quite dead yet. Just drop the trap with the mouse in a coffee can and put it in the freezer. Next day, throw it away.

Looking at it from the animal's point of view, I've been really cold before. It's pretty uncomfortable, but not as terrifying as when you are running out of air under water or choking. So it's uncomfortable and then you eventually lose feeling in your extremities and then you go to sleep and die. I think it's probably one of the most humane ways to kill an animal yourself. It's certainly very easy and clean.

A squirrel in a cage is kind of big for a freezer though.

Drive a few miles out at night and release it.

yeah....i don't see how i'd get it out of the cage and into something i could freeze. I'd prefer to squeeze it, but i would be afraid it would escape when i reached in to get it....

for those that are appalled by the prospect....

Why did we rule out poisoning the peanut butter in the cage?

poisoned peanut butter or throw a blanket over the cage and run a hose from your jeep's exhaust into the cage. easy peasy no more squeaky.