I Hate Squirrels

[asta]

Nothing personal but you move in my attic, have early morning parties and chew on the wiring and I'd be trying my best to get rid of you.

 

[tiggger1]

you can get the One-Way Exclusion Door, Squirrels can get out but not back in. Just make sure there are no babies...

http://www.wildlifecontrolsupplies....=PROD&Store_Code=NWS001&Product_Code=NWS53120

 

[asta]

you can get the One-Way Exclusion Door, Squirrels can get out but not back in. Just make sure there are no babies...

http://www.wildlifecontrolsupplies....=PROD&Store_Code=NWS001&Product_Code=NWS53120

Your link has several interesting things. My problem is that the roof line is so high that I don't think I could get up there to attach anything. I think that my only choice is to pay the animal removal people.

I hate these things so much that I don't think I care about the babies.

 

[debknight]

I don't believe there would be any babies at this time of the year.

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

Agreed!!!!!!

 

[Buckalew11]

Lol.... we have a "pet" squirrel. we buy peanuts for it at the grocery store. we have his feeder attached to the house beside the window so we can see him, and his name is Joey. I'm guessing I would not be happy to have all his kin move into my attic, but fortunately he seems content with the roof over our porch.
racoons on the other hand....

Same here. I hope my time never comes with the squirrels attacking our house but we feed them daily and even build a cover for them to eat under in the snow. I squirrels. Hoping I never go through what the OP is with them but I guess it could easily happen.

 

[Green Tea]

Get Red Fox urine from the hardware store. This critter is the most feared predator of squirrels, so I found out. The urine comes in a bottle or in disks, which is what I used. Put a disk into the attic any way you can get it into there. The squirrels will flee in terror. No more squirrels. And no bated dead squirrels inside to stink.

 

[ccgirl]

Your link has several interesting things. My problem is that the roof line is so high that I don't think I could get up there to attach anything. I think that my only choice is to pay the animal removal people.

I hate these things so much that I don't think I care about the babies.

The pest control is waiting until the snow clears to get on my roof and do more exclusion traps. They said there will not be babies now...but they will be mating in the Spring so it is best to get rid of them before that happens.

I so feel for you...I know exactly what you are going thru.

 

[antsss]

If you are using traps and the squirrels are not interested you may need to vary your bait. We went from peanut butter to peanuts in the shell to walnuts in the shell before we realized our squirrels liked a combination of shelled pecans and pecans in the shell. Good luck!

 

[overlyspoiled4sure]

When we bought our house almost 20 years ago, we thought it would be so fun to feed the birds & backyard animals.

Mistake. BIG BIG BIG mistake! Now the yard is full of critters & they won't leave!

DH retired last winter & we knew money would be tighter so I gradually quit feeding the birds & critters the spring & summer of 2009. No feeding at all last winter & we took all the bird feeders down spring of 2009. We quit putting empty peanutbutter jars out too. I miss the fun watching squirrels doing their best to get all the leftovers in those jars but we want them to find their own food these days.

I do miss feeding the birds; our yard is so bare without them. We did keep the upside down feeder, however, for the goldfinches. Squirrels don't seem to like thistle seed.

We don't bother planting bulb flowering plants either. Squirrels just dig up the bulbs for lunch!

Good luck OP, with your problem. I hope you're able to find a solution soon!

 

[samshane]

I hate squirrels... we had one come through an opening in an attic vent (we lived in an older house) and then couldn't figure out how to get out so she literally chewed a hole right through the house under that same vent she came in through.

We had to have someone with a special license come to trap and release her (he could only release them in certain areas). Thankfully they did that case she was pregnant and making a next. Then we paid someone $500 to fix the hole in the house. I forget what we paid to have her trapped...

 

[Planogirl]

The pest control is waiting until the snow clears to get on my roof and do more exclusion traps. They said there will not be babies now...but they will be mating in the Spring so it is best to get rid of them before that happens.

I so feel for you...I know exactly what you are going thru.

This might vary depending on location. This is from Texas Parks and Wildlife:

Older females usually breed twice a year (January-February and again in May-June), but the younger females breed only once. Hollow trees are preferred den sites and nurseries, but if none is available the fox squirrel will build an outside nest from twigs and leaves cut from the tree. This ball-like nest structure will be twelve to twenty inches in diameter, surrounding an inner cavity six to eight inches across. Two to four helpless young are born six or seven weeks after breeding takes place. They are blind and nearly naked and develop slowly. Their eyes open at five weeks, but they do not climb out of the nest for at least seven or eight weeks.

Anyone dealing with this might want to contact their local parks department to see what is normal in their area.

 

[bumbershoot]

I do have a cat and she is great at catching field mice and chipmunks. I think that the squirrels must be too hard and too mean to catch. I let her out this morning to chase a squirrel off of the porch. It got away by running up the bricks (and probably into the attic). My cat's response was to go sit by the spot where the chipmunks nest.

We had a mama cat who could catch squirrels (when her kittens were just becoming fierce weaned things), but she also once caught a gopher that was as big as she was. She was an incredible hunter, and pretty unique. I think you're right that squirrels are very mean as well, when being hunted.



We lived in a top floor apartment once, and squirrels got into our attic. Our first notice that they were there was the stink. This deep gross musky smell that just permeated everything. It was SO gross. And I was pregnant (which made the smell worse) so the maintenance couldn't use chemicals even if they wanted to. It took months of traps, and having the maintenance people come in and out of our apartment...I hated it.

The smell of the squirrels also messed with our indoor-only, non-hunter, cat. She got even more neurotic while they were up there.

 

[mlynn]

Just got an email from a company called havahart.com.they are having a sale on Repellent. 15% off until the 30th

 

[Kat77]

In our city, animal control loans out have-a-heart traps for free. They will remove the animals once trapped.

 

[kirbsam]

ironic, but today is squirrel appreciation day

 

[Squirlz]

ironic, but today is squirrel appreciation day

 

[PrincessKsMom]

ironic, but today is squirrel appreciation day

I just saw this on AOL:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/...1_n_812060.html#s227411&title=Eddy_Hall_Feeds

 

[ccgirl]

ironic, but today is squirrel appreciation day

And to show my appreciation..I would like to trap them so they can go be with their mommy and daddy!!!

 

[Cruisin]

racoons on the other hand....

I can tell you what my mother did for raccoons in her attic which seems to have worked really well and also might work for squirrels.

She put a radio up in the attic and left it on a station that was basically talking the whole time.

That seemed to be enough to discourage the raccoons because they thought there were people around, I guess.

I googled how to get rid of raccoons and that was one suggestion.

Another one was to leave a light on all the time in the attic.

Simple things to try and if they work, great.