Red Squirrel or Chip Monk
How to rid RV of rodents the small type. Caught a red squirrel last fall gave him a toss out the door to a tree, made very effort to break his neck as he hit the tree. Now it seems a relative has take...
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mich800 wrote:westend wrote:
Chipmunks live underground. You'd have to have a pretty poor environment for a chipmunk to live inside a structure. Red squirrels, on the other hand, love to gnaw through buildings to gain entrance and build a Winter nest. The easiest way to get rid of rodents is to remove the food source, they will move on if there isn't any of their favorite foods available. Cats are an excellent control for rodents. My new cat is on the hunt every day and is decimating the mice population.
They do not live there but hide their loot. I had trouble with them once. They got in somewhere by the propane tanks and went straight up and stored their acorns between the ceiling and roof. So removing the food source will do no good. They are using it as their pantry.
FYI, my dog ended up capturing all of them. I think she is part cat. She is constantly getting chimpmunks, birds and other rodents.
Well, you can come out and see the "renter" that is using my yard barn as his pantry and apartment. He eats his meals there as one year I emptied 4 garbage cans of opened Butternuts. Those nut hulls burned for three days, lol.
When I said, "remove the food source", I was referring to anything in the immediate area, not just the inside of an RV. It's difficult to do, although, one year I confiscated the food pile before Winter and Mr. Red moved out. I know he was pissed because he sat in a tree above the nuts in the buckets and scolded me for a few hours.
