Remember this as a kid, shooting tree rats and getting the bounty. We had a chance of saving the reds back then, sadly those days are long since past. It’s all a bit like our native crayfish being decimated by the signal crays...
Exactly, it's been snacking on my wiring and soundproofing even though I go into it almost every day
I can beat you on that count, 63 so far. That’s since the beginning of last year, plenty more before then but didn’t count them then.It's a "touchstone " subject with many people. I'm firmly in the "their vermin camp ", having had one particularly destructive varmit chew all the lead flashing to my windows, and garage valley roof. Catching them is simple as described by others. I would say put the trap up off the ground so as not to end up with birds in the trap. I baited it with loose peanuts placed in a tennis ball cut in half and zip tied to lever but without setting the trap door initially, they soon got used to the freebie hand outs. The only down side is, when one is removed from an area, that space gets quickly filled by another male youngster waiting in the area for a territory of it's own, but that one might not fancy a diet of Motorhomes. I found this out after removing 50, [ yes 50!!] of the pesky little blighters. So unless the entire neighbourhood decides on the same policy, you won't win, and they have all day to sit around and have sex to increase their numbers, the squirrels that is , not the neighbours, well I assume not.
Mike
Yes, helped a pigeon once, won't do that again.For someone else to suffer
Unless it’s one of those homing squirrels, then it’s on its way back
Grey Squirrels are just Rats with a good PR company. A .22 will solve the problem.
Fur on the tail
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As Ned Flanders might say,Hello neighbouroony, yes where you live is an island surrounded by woods, perfect for the little varmits.Anyone who's had to rewire their house because of grey squirrels in the attic should have no qualms about dispatching them, I certainly didn't. My method was to use a no 4 fenn trap inside a proper mesh tunnel in the attic, over the space of 20 years I had about 6 or 7. As well as the rewiring, every time one chews his way in you have to repair wherever they chewed through to get in. As has been mentioned moving them somewhere else is illegal as is dispatching them (once caught in a humane trap) in a cruel manner (ie drowning, a common method in the past).
Probably the cleanest method is the A18 trap which uses a Co2 cartridge to fire a pin that kills them outright but they are expensive. By humane, they mean a humane death not a no kill trap.
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Yes. This is important to emphasise. If it is a red squirrel it is indigenous and so not vermin. Just saying this because the vast majority of squirrels round us are reds.
Haven't just popped a red coat on have they? Their sneaky little buggers you know
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Solely grey where I live.
You’re not the only one
Yep, same story, those things can shift.You’re not the only one
We took one miles away and the bloody thing beat us back to the house
These work well as they’re off the ground and don’t therefore trap things like hedgehogs. They also feed the birds which is great, and the birds feeding helps to attract the squirrels.
You just need a couple of cage combs to contain the squirrel and then it doesn’t matter whether you use a .22 or .177 pellet ......from two inches both are very humane
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