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BADEN, ONT

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No not cookin', get rid of the pests. I've got a few plant hangers, like the one's grumps posted, but I have yet to snag one by the gonads.

They are just simply making a mess of our bird feeders and braking branches off the cherry tree.

I can't shoot them, unfortunately with urban growth, I'm in too close proximity to discharge. I've got a few trap from TSC last year, but it's like they know to stay away from them.

I wasn't really concerned a couple years ago, but now they're just multiplying, the last thing I need is a nest in the addic.

Any suggestions? aside from the motion sensor, strobe light, noise activator.



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WASAGA BEACH, ONT

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Do you have a dog. My dog will not allow any creature, anywhere near the place. He just wont have it.



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DORCHESTER, ONT

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

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PORT HOPE, ONT

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Ya I was going to say get a dog as well .Works for us out in the boonies. Ed

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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.



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I been catching them with popcorn in a live trap. Thread the popcorn on a piece of wire and let it hang from the top of the cage just past the trip plate they step on. Seems to work great with this bunch of tree rats. If you find them in your vehicle honking the horn...that's because they want an other ride and more popcorn. Take them for a loooong ride, or you'll have them back. I think they know how to hitch hike.

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we have them on the front and side yard    I catch them and paint them white  cool white one.jpg

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

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poncho62 wrote:

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


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



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I use a live trap with peanuts for bait , 208 have met their maker

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CLINTON, ONT

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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/

 

 



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Nice squirrel pics , and nice Chevelle.

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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.


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NORTH BAY, ONT

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Squirrels are good eating.

Back almost 50 years ago, i had a job painting houses and worked for a guy who was a real outdoorsman. Super old guy.

Whenever we had a large job out of town , the old lad would supply us guys with the lunch, which at times included a few wild plants he had harvested, and occaisionaly wild game.
At one job one day he spread out lunch for us out of a cooler, and that day he had brought us "Squirrel" sandwiches.

Cold,, like cold chicken sandwiches, that was pretty darned good eating. (All dark meat).

So, if you have a hankerin for some squirrel sandwiches, someday, try it, it is pretty good.

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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.

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They are all very destructive. Mice, rats, chipmunks, squirrels and raccoons. It has to do with their ever growing teeth - they can and will chew anything and everything to maintain the length, including cinder block!!!!

Rabbits can even be a problem, as I have had them borrowing under one of my shops to keep cool in the summer. They go several feet in and now I have no support under that area. One day I'll drive something in there and it will break - hasn't yet though. The only way I can think of to fix it is to bore core holes from the top and add a soupy concrete mix in from the top.

Why can't they just go live in the woods where they belong? You'd think that with all the coyotes I hear at night there wouldn't be anything but birds in my yard.

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Fordy Acres Car Farm wrote:



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 !! LOLsmile

 



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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.

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You could build a squirrel cannon !!
At work we had lots of mice, so I built a cannon from a 2" dia pipe about 2 feet long. It was open at one end, and the other end had a photo eye and an electric quick release valve. I placed a bit of peanut butter between the photo eye and valve so when the mouse triggered it the valve would open with 120 PSI fed from a small ballast tank. They would hit mach1 instantly right into a steel column.
Increase the pipe to 4" and you're good to go !!

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look up the squirrel catapault of squirel-apault on youtube, pretty funny



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NORTH BAY, ONT

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

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sasquatch wrote:

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


 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.



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Gazoo wrote:
sasquatch wrote:

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


 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.


 The good part about the catapult is that if those kids from the daycare next door ever trespassed on your property......... Ah, never mind !!! LOL



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I have "munks" and squirrels.......... because I give away free food.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C0P1p0VWxg

Stop the food and they will disappear


1 Squirrel chewed all the roll bar padding off my car.... Ouch!

It's my fault.....

The Coons and squirrels hate anything on shelves in the garage too.

But.......


with no children they are named in the will.

When I am gone I bet my car stuff will sell for peanuts.

Now cats..... little forkers, do they make a cannon for them?


The neighourhood "Foxy Lady" is taking care of my cat problem, after all she has 4 babies to feed.
Back to topic.........
It is true, take a squirrel for a long ride..... they do find their way back home.




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