Posted: 5/21/2013 6:59:08 AM EDT
|
I arrived home last to find that a red squirrel has taken up residence in my spare bedroom. I very nearly shat myself when the fury little fucker decided to come out of nowhere.
Whats the best way to get rid of this little ashore? The nuclear option of "shotgun to the face" is out thanks to nosy neighbors. I almost had him with the blowgun while he was sitting in the window. Ps I patched the site of entry. |
|
I don't know about where you live, but around here, red/fox squirrels are much larger than greys. I'd even say twice as large sometimes.
Quoted:
Rat traps - use a little peanut butter and you will get him! I use them on grey squirels that chew through the fence of our strawberries. If it will kill a grey a red is easy! http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/images/victor_snap_trap_pro.jpg ETA: To the OP: call the turtleman! |
|
Quoted: The red squirrels i know of (used to live in Michigan) are maybe 1/3 the size of a fox squirrel. They are like big chipmunks.I don't know about where you live, but around here, red/fox squirrels are much larger than greys. I'd even say twice as large sometimes. Quoted: Rat traps - use a little peanut butter and you will get him! I use them on grey squirels that chew through the fence of our strawberries. If it will kill a grey a red is easy! http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/images/victor_snap_trap_pro.jpg ETA: To the OP: call the turtleman! |
|
Quoted:
I don't know about where you live, but around here, red/fox squirrels are much larger than greys. I'd even say twice as large sometimes. Quoted:
Rat traps - use a little peanut butter and you will get him! I use them on grey squirels that chew through the fence of our strawberries. If it will kill a grey a red is easy! http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/images/victor_snap_trap_pro.jpg ETA: To the OP: call the turtleman! Yea, our Greys are pretty large and our Eastern Red Squirels are smaller... Here is our reds: 
Our red squirels are more agressive then greys however so they will run off grey squirels. Our Greys are twice the size of our red squirels. |
|
Quoted:
Get a dog  Actually, I believe a cat would work a lot better. I find dead cat-killed squirrels all the time around here. They are much more stealthy than dogs and can climb trees. The squirrels don't have a chance, especially if locked up in the room with the cat. LC |
Holy shit.  I am in the same boat, except I have a family of em living above my bedroom. I have tried traps, cages, poison and the rat sticky pads (which they could get off of). This morning I bought a daisy pellet rifle with some pointed tip pellets. I am gonna camp out with a case of beer and pop em all. then I gotta climb up on the roof and figure out their entry point..... maybe I should hold off on the whole case of beer.
|
|
Quoted:
Take a shit on him. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQyA1BENvPH4hN8fjvJdIetdJvafzUMhGnL9eOQ9dZjfcCzfi5q Awesome Poop thread is awesome Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
|
Thanks for the replies guys! I'll try the rat traps and if that doesn't work, the live trap. I'm trying to avoid holes in the walls.
Although the squirrel launcher seems more fun. Maybe I could set one up out at my parents place and shoot em like skeet with the shotgun! |
|
Quoted:
Thanks for the replies guys! I'll try the rat traps and if that doesn't work, the live trap. I'm trying to avoid holes in the walls. Although the squirrel launcher seems more fun. Maybe I could set one up out at my parents place and shoot em like skeet with the shotgun! Or, you could feed him and not kill him. Just sayin' Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
|
Quoted:
Thanks for the replies guys! I'll try the rat traps and if that doesn't work, the live trap. I'm trying to avoid holes in the walls. Although the squirrel launcher seems more fun. Maybe I could set one up out at my parents place and shoot em like skeet with the shotgun! Good luck with that. I set rat traps out for the grays that get in our animal feed. I have yet to catch one, but they do activate the traps all the time and it has at least been effective in getting them to scamper on. A colibri 22 primer only round would take'm out quietly. |
|
Quoted:
Thanks for the replies guys! I'll try the rat traps and if that doesn't work, the live trap. I'm trying to avoid holes in the walls. Although the squirrel launcher seems more fun. Maybe I could set one up out at my parents place and shoot em like skeet with the shotgun! They are rats, so rat poison would probably work also. Make sure, no matter how you kill it, that it doesn't run off and die somewhere in the house you can't get too. Bad smell. |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
Thanks for the replies guys! I'll try the rat traps and if that doesn't work, the live trap. I'm trying to avoid holes in the walls. Although the squirrel launcher seems more fun. Maybe I could set one up out at my parents place and shoot em like skeet with the shotgun! Or, you could feed him and not kill him. Just sayin' Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Wa? you want a rodent tearing up your house? How you are both from TX and an Arfcommer are truly shocking......just sayin. |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
Thanks for the replies guys! I'll try the rat traps and if that doesn't work, the live trap. I'm trying to avoid holes in the walls. Although the squirrel launcher seems more fun. Maybe I could set one up out at my parents place and shoot em like skeet with the shotgun! Or, you could feed him and not kill him. Just sayin' Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Yeah, I had that mentality. Not in the sense I would feed something wild in my home, but I would catch and release whatever wild creature entered my home. Until one day, I caught a bat with a gloved hand. The bat was acting strange, as in it wasn't motivated by a ginger dude trying to remove it from its roost on my wall. I got frustrated, put a glove on and grabbed it. When I closed my hand on the bat, it bit me through the glove. The bat was rabid. Had to get a rabies PEP course, 7 injections in the first set. Including an immune globulin injection directly into the hand. If there is one experience that is truly unpleasant, it's having 2 mils of any kind of fluid injected into the hand. Now, I kill everything wild that finds its way into my home. |
|
Quoted:
Holy shit. I am in the same boat, except I have a family of em living above my bedroom. I have tried traps, cages, poison and the rat sticky pads (which they could get off of). This morning I bought a daisy pellet rifle with some pointed tip pellets. I am gonna camp out with a case of beer and pop em all. then I gotta climb up on the roof and figure out their entry point..... maybe I should hold off on the whole case of beer.Wow, I had the exact situation ten years ago. Two reds got into my attic and we'd wake up at 4:00 am to sound of them running around above the ceiling of our bedroom. Then they started dropping walnuts (from our neighbor's tree) between the walls, directly behind the headboard of our bed. Sounded like a friggin pachinko machine. Traps in the attic didn't work. I spent a Saturday afternoon figuring out their routine between my neighbor's walnut tree and my house, then took them both with my Crosman 760. Things have been quiet ever since. |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
I don't know about where you live, but around here, red/fox squirrels are much larger than greys. I'd even say twice as large sometimes. Quoted:
Rat traps - use a little peanut butter and you will get him! I use them on grey squirels that chew through the fence of our strawberries. If it will kill a grey a red is easy! http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/images/victor_snap_trap_pro.jpg ETA: To the OP: call the turtleman! Yea, our Greys are pretty large and our Eastern Red Squirels are smaller... Here is our reds: http://www.uvm.edu/giv/2002/summer02/upland/red_squirrel2.gif Our red squirels are more agressive then greys however so they will run off grey squirels. Our Greys are twice the size of our red squirels. While I know this answer will get me in trouble ... Around here those are called Fairydiddles ... Fox squirrels around here are called Red Squirrels. Go ahead ... |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
Holy shit. I am in the same boat, except I have a family of em living above my bedroom. I have tried traps, cages, poison and the rat sticky pads (which they could get off of). This morning I bought a daisy pellet rifle with some pointed tip pellets. I am gonna camp out with a case of beer and pop em all. then I gotta climb up on the roof and figure out their entry point..... maybe I should hold off on the whole case of beer.Wow, I had the exact situation ten years ago. Two reds got into my attic and we'd wake up at 4:00 am to sound of them running around above the ceiling of our bedroom. Then they started dropping walnuts (from our neighbor's tree) between the walls, directly behind the headboard of our bed. Sounded like a friggin pachinko machine. Traps in the attic didn't work. I spent a Saturday afternoon figuring out their routine between my neighbor's walnut tree and my house, then took them both with my Crosman 760. Things have been quiet ever since. Recommended number of pumps on the Crossman  LOL? Glad to hear there can be a success story here. My wife is going crazy listening to them. She said she saw 4! on the roof. We have two huge grapefruit trees by our bedroom. 
|
|
I'll be darned.
I didn't know there was a "more eastern" squirrel like that. We've always used red and fox interchangeably to describe what I guess is a fox squirrel. I are smarter thanx to arfcom. Quoted:
Quoted:
I don't know about where you live, but around here, red/fox squirrels are much larger than greys. I'd even say twice as large sometimes. Quoted:
Rat traps - use a little peanut butter and you will get him! I use them on grey squirels that chew through the fence of our strawberries. If it will kill a grey a red is easy! http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/images/victor_snap_trap_pro.jpg ETA: To the OP: call the turtleman! Yea, our Greys are pretty large and our Eastern Red Squirels are smaller... Here is our reds: http://www.uvm.edu/giv/2002/summer02/upland/red_squirrel2.gif Our red squirels are more agressive then greys however so they will run off grey squirels. Our Greys are twice the size of our red squirels. |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
Get a dog Actually, I believe a cat would work a lot better. I find dead cat-killed squirrels all the time around here. They are much more stealthy than dogs and can climb trees. The squirrels don't have a chance, especially if locked up in the room with the cat. LC Ive seen squirrels kick the crap out of dogs and cats. I wouldn't put an animal with a caged squirrel if I cared about it. |
|
BB gun.
A Squrrel will fuck a cat up that hasnt killed them before.. And if a dog isnt used to killing stuff, they will mess them up to. I had a cat lose and eye and cunk of ear in a tangle with a big ole fox squirrel. A big male grey squirrel is even meaner. Fox squirrels are generally much less agressive. |
|
We can all stand down. I arrived home today victorious the fuzzy little bastard got caught in a snare I set up in a piece of PVC tubing. He was only caught though so I had to finish the job by braining on the garage wall. Already disposed of the body. Regretfully, no pictures taken.
I really do appreciate all the ideas, now apparently I have bees in one of my windows. |
|
Quoted:
I don't know about where you live, but around here, red/fox squirrels are much larger than greys. I'd even say twice as large sometimes. Quoted:
Rat traps - use a little peanut butter and you will get him! I use them on grey squirels that chew through the fence of our strawberries. If it will kill a grey a red is easy! http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/images/victor_snap_trap_pro.jpg ETA: To the OP: call the turtleman! Reds are slightly larger than chipmonks |
|
Quoted:
We can all stand down. I arrived home today victorious the fuzzy little bastard got caught in a snare I set up in a piece of PVC tubing. He was only caught though so I had to finish the job by braining on the garage wall. Already disposed of the body. Regretfully, no pictures taken. I really do appreciate all the ideas, now apparently I have bees in one of my windows. Stand down?...... My war has just begun.
Daisy pellet rifle, check. pointed tip pellets, check. Case of cold beer and a 1/2 bottle Johnny Walker Blue, check. BDU's, Check. Can not wait to get home and fuck these bastards up.
|
|
I moved from Indiana to Pennsylvania when I was a kid, and up until that time I only knew the two color phases of the Fox Squirrel.
When we went down into the southern part of the state, we would see Eastern Gray Squirrels, and they looked pretty funny because they were so much smaller. Then when we moved east, I didn't know what Red Squirrels were. I shot one and asked a buddy of mine what the hell it was. I understand they taste like pine cones because of their diet. They are nervy little bastards and they will scold the shit out of you if they don't want you in "their" area. |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
We can all stand down. I arrived home today victorious the fuzzy little bastard got caught in a snare I set up in a piece of PVC tubing. He was only caught though so I had to finish the job by braining on the garage wall. Already disposed of the body. Regretfully, no pictures taken. I really do appreciate all the ideas, now apparently I have bees in one of my windows. Stand down?...... My war has just begun.
Daisy pellet rifle, check. pointed tip pellets, check. Case of cold beer and a 1/2 bottle Johnny Walker Blue, check. BDU's, Check. Can not wait to get home and fuck these bastards up. I wish you the best of luck. I wish I would've kept the on a stick outside as a warning to other home invaders. |
|
Here kitty, kitty! I may need to borrow that "cat"..... Well, after two nights of posting up in my squirrel sniper's nest, (out door bar across the pool and backyard) no fucking joy. I even put out bait (peanut butter, nuts and jam mixed up). Havent seen a one. Im out of Johnny walker Blue, beers and patience (possibly a little pride)......any ideas GD?
|
