A rat trap and a peanut. Squirrels are merely rats with cute fluffy tails. It works for chipmunks too!

I used a live trap and baited it with peanut butter. I would lay a trail of peanut butter on short sticks,stuck in the ground,bait up leading to the trap and in the trap before the bait / trip pan. Removed 12 one summer.

we have them on the front and side yard    I catch them and paint them white  

 

 

 

 

 

poncho62 wrote:

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Never seen a white squirrel......Just one or is there a bunch?

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 I thought the same thing. Must be a rare occurrence!! Albino maybe?? 

we have several in Clinton    check out Exeter Ont    Home of the white squirrel

 

http://www.blogto.com/travel/2009/10/the_white_squirrels_of_exeter/

 

 

like fordy says, "Squirrels are merely rats with cute fluffy tails. It works for chipmunks too!" you have stay on top of them. when i bought my house, an 1867 stone house, 13 yrs ago, i had to completely gut the inside and throw it away due to squirrels. the lady who lived in it her husband had passed 20 yrs before her and the squirrels owned the house, completely. when i got finished removing **** all i had left was the roof and 2 floors, period. the squirrels had the house, racoons owned the summer kitchen and about 2-300 bats in the attic. the stone you see outside i was looking at from the inside. with 30 acres mostly wooded and several nut trees close to the house, there was maybe a dozen or so, it became a kill zone around here for some years. i still have about a dozen or so a year that meet their end. luckily i can use a 22 where i am at. the coons lets say are smarter and only a couple a year now. oh, the beavers in the creek had about 1/2 the property flooded. another rat with a flat tail. an old trapper keeps that in check now. i get fox's under the barn every once in awhile but they learn quick also.
i know a couple of guys living in town that use high powered pellet guns to keep them in check. but you have to stay in control. i have seen what can happen with no checks and balances. its incredible the damage they can do if left unbalanced. good luck and don't give up.

I have chipmunks living around my garage, I have tried to "persuade" them to live elsewhere with no luck...in fact I have made "friends" with one and every so often it will come and stand on my shoe.

It drives me nuts.

Fordy Acres Car Farm wrote:

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Why can't they just go live in the woods where they belong? 

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I don't speak Rabbit, but they are probably saying the same thing about us !! LOL

 

I haven't had any luck with the trap and peanuts, the bastards stay off the ground and jump from tree to tree.
I'll try with popcorn for bait, or maybe a buffet of peanuts, peanut butter...For some reason they go for the cherries, but only in the tree. I wish I could just poison them, without hurting/damaging anything else.
The pellet gun was great up to a couple years ago, but now I have neighbours all around me.
I was also thinking of building a propane canon, and fire it when needed to scare them away, but again...the neighbours.

My next door neighbours lab keeps chasing them away, our properties are not fenced, but they keep coming back, they just stay off the ground.

Maybe I should get one of these, http://rodentstrobe.com/ , before they decide to move in.

I need to find a better way to lure them to the trap, or a pet Boa.
I kinda need to trap them in the tree it seems like.

sasquatch wrote:

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Why not bait the trap, (Rat Trap) and just wire it to a tree branch?

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 Mainly because my neighbour has a daycare, and as I mentioned before, our properties are not fenced. With the wife and the young kids etc... I want to keep it somewhat humane.

But I love that catapult idea, Hemi posted, that'd be even more fun, I'd want them to come back, LOL.