Squirrels

[user 7704]

Okay, I have a spot where the electric line went doen and made an opening in my softest.

Now I have squirrels living there. I have set traps and caught zero squirrels. Any other ideas.

It sounds like a scene from the Exorcist.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Okay, I have a spot where the electric line went doen and made an opening in my softest.

Now I have squirrels living there. I have set traps and caught zero squirrels. Any other ideas.

It sounds like a scene from the Exorcist.

What are you using for bait? I use peanut butter with good success on the chipmunks. I also use a sweet food bait that I normally use for trapping 'coon.

 

[user 7704]

I'm using freshly cracked black walnuts and peanuts

 

[DrHenley]

They must really be driving you mad! LOL

In your other thread I said I used hardware cloth.

 

[Proud Prepper]

They must really be driving you mad! LOL

In your other thread I said I used hardware cloth.

I've had a war with squirrels ever since we bought this house. I've tried everything...traps, poison, shooting them with air rifles, electronic pest repellers, you name it. One squirrel even got into the house somehow and jumped on me! They chewed through the gable vents, chewed holes in the soffit, etc.

I ended up having to use hardware cloth everywhere they were trying to get in.

 

[user 7704]

When the electric conduit tilted because of a limb across the line, it opened a hole and they just took it from there.

Husband wouldn't get it fixed and the line kept sagging more and it pulled the siding and wood away from the frame. I finally got the electric part fixed, but the wood had rotted so we just pulled it off. Now the squirrels have their own apartment. I have to get them out prior to replacing the wood and vinyl.

I have two traps now and I'm baiting with peanut butter

 

[DrHenley]

I put some bug bombs in the attic to drive them out prior to putting up hardware cloth.

 

[brandx]

I've had a war with squirrels ever since we bought this house. I've tried everything...traps, poison, shooting them with air rifles, electronic pest repellers, you name it. One squirrel even got into the house somehow and jumped on me! They chewed through the gable vents, chewed holes in the soffit, etc.

I ended up having to use hardware cloth everywhere they were trying to get in.

That's a bounty for the stew pot. Love squirrel.

 

[brandx]

Okay, I have a spot where the electric line went doen and made an opening in my softest.

Now I have squirrels living there. I have set traps and caught zero squirrels. Any other ideas.

It sounds like a scene from the Exorcist.

That is not good at all. they will reek havoc with your wiring and can cause a fire. Maybe they are busy getting ready for winter. You might try another type of nut, perhaps hickory. Squirrels love those. Good luck.

 

[Proud Prepper]

I've had a war with squirrels ever since we bought this house. I've tried everything...traps, poison, shooting them with air rifles, electronic pest repellers, you name it. One squirrel even got into the house somehow and jumped on me! They chewed through the gable vents, chewed holes in the soffit, etc.

I ended up having to use hardware cloth everywhere they were trying to get in.

This is DR. Henley post. I mucked it up trying to merge it over and just copied it.

 

[user 7704]

That is not good at all. they will reek havoc with your wiring and can cause a fire. Maybe they are busy getting ready for winter. You might try another type of nut, perhaps hickory. Squirrels love those. Good luck.

They have already eaten my satellite wiring and my solar motion detector lights.

 

[user 7704]

This is DR. Henley post. I mucked it up trying to merge it over and just copied it.

You will never be a SCOTUS moderator.

 

[user 7704]

I put some bug bombs in the attic to drive them out prior to putting up hardware cloth.

I'm afraid to use any pesticides because of bees and chickens.

 

[DrHenley]

I'm afraid to use any pesticides because of bees and chickens.

 

[DrPrepper1]

I've had a war with squirrels ever since we bought this house. I've tried everything...traps, poison, shooting them with air rifles, electronic pest repellers, you name it. One squirrel even got into the house somehow and jumped on me! They chewed through the gable vents, chewed holes in the soffit, etc.

I ended up having to use hardware cloth everywhere they were trying to get in.

Oh ... my... word! If a squirrel had jumped on me in my own house..you would have seen me on the news! I would have lost my mind... and my religion too! I can’t even imagine.

 

[user 7704]

This is what I use on the chicken windows and doors. It's more expensive than chicken wire, but so much better

 

[lonewolf]

we have them around here but they stay in the woods and don't come into the garden, we had a war back along with rats coming after the bird food but we managed to poison them all, we are currently rat free.

 

[Proud Prepper]

we have them around here but they stay in the woods and don't come into the garden, we had a war back along with rats coming after the bird food but we managed to poison them all, we are currently rat free.

So you think your rat free....lol

 

[lonewolf]

haven't seen any, they pass through now again but not for a couple of weeks, I don't mind the odd one or even 2 but when they bring the babies AND the teenagers its a bit much. like I say not for awhile.

 

[brandx]

They have already eaten my satellite wiring and my solar motion detector lights.

You'd think they would electrocute themselves. Then fried squirrel for supper. I think I would go hunting. I don't like killing animals, but would if I had a legitimate reason to do it, then yeah. I killed a snake for eating eggs, and a duck for killing baby ducks, a water snake to keep my dogs from getting bit while wading, a stray dog(terrible experience, I won't repeat). I killed a cat for biting my father, it was just plain mean and unpredictable and was pushed on me by a sister, someone had left it at a neighborhood house when they moved. When it bit Dad and I mean it really bit hard and hurt him, that was it. Pet the cat, take to the woods, it is purring, shot to the back of the head. Done deal.

 

[brandx]

we have them around here but they stay in the woods and don't come into the garden, we had a war back along with rats coming after the bird food but we managed to poison them all, we are currently rat free.

RATS! Yikes!

 

[lonewolf]

RATS! Yikes!

these are not your brown sewer rats, these are grey field rats.

 

[brandx]

these are not your brown sewer rats, these are grey field rats.

When I was a kid I paid to get into a side show to see the" Largest Rat in the Known World!". I think it was a ground hog or something. LOL

 

[Gazrok]

Get cats.

 

[brandx]

Get cats.

And end up like The King, The Mice and The Cheese. LOL. No, but really cats are a good idea.

 

[lonewolf]

we don't have groundhogs in the UK.

 

[DrHenley]

When I was a kid I paid to get into a side show to see the" Largest Rat in the Known World!". I think it was a ground hog or something. LOL

Probably a nutria

 

[user 5745]

Grey squirrels in the UK are just rats with good PR staff.

 

[Proud Prepper]

Probably a nutria

Hey that's my dinner he is feeding! Breaded and deep fried!

 

[lonewolf]

Grey squirrels in the UK are just rats with good PR staff.

grey squirrels are tree rats.
our native squirrels are the reds and they are a totally different animal.