Dang Squirrels

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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
From my original reply...

Howzabout a pet store? Just ask any ten-year-old boy.

Take an old, empty pill bottle.

This place had a mice problem. I gave Angel, age 11 a pill bottle and a promise of 50 pesos. Three days later the bottle came back stuffed. Out on the patio I carefully sprinkled some on two-sided tape. A few days later no shredded paper in the cupboard. Snake stuff was hidden behind the stove.

Works like a charm.costs less than poison or glue trap. At home it saved my tomatoes from full size rats.

You have a very lucrative potential business there.
Every year hundreds of vehicles are damaged by mice and squirrels getting in and chewing through wires.
And hundreds (thousands?) more put rope lights under their RVs and leave the hoods open on their trucks.
If that stuff works as you say, your sitting on a small gold mine.
Take a bottle of it to Organ Pipe National Monument near Sonoyta and give it to the RV park hosts for a trial run. I bet you get a lot of demand from there on out.

edatlanta wrote:
I give all squirrels around my home base site lead poisoning as soon as I see one. I am currently sitting by my back window and a .22 cal pellet rifle beside me. I got 2 yesterday. No takers this morning.

My solution is identical, down to the .22 cal pellet rifle. In the last 3 weeks, I have removed 7 squirrels from my yard, and am playing hide-n-seek with another.

My Dad used to trap squirrels in his back yard. Used a "Have-a-Heart" trap. Works well. Then he'd put the trap with the squirrel still in it to a local golf course, and release the squirrel. Once day he got "caught" by a grounds-keeper. They guy was upset. Not sure why as there were no RVs on the fairways or greens.

Squirrels don't just damage RVs. They like to dig holes to bury nuts that they scavenge. If there are any Acorn or nut-bearing trees around the golf course I can see where they can be a huge problem to the groundskeepers when maintaining the sand traps and the greens. They can also create other problems such as chewing on their wiring or nesting in the attics of buildings at the golf course.

There are usually state laws and local ordinances that forbid the relocation of Wildlife. When you relocate wildlife your problem can become somebody else's. There is new competition with the animals in the area where you are dropping them off and a new pecking order to be established. You are relocating an animal to an unfamiliar area with no established nest or shelter in the new location.

I'm not condemning anyone from trapping and relocating animals. Although it is more humane then just killing them, I'm just trying to provide some things to think about if someone is going to relocate them.

DarkSkySeeker wrote:
My Dad used to trap squirrels in his back yard. Used a "Have-a-Heart" trap. Works well. Then he'd put the trap with the squirrel still in it to a local golf course, and release the squirrel. Once day he got "caught" by a grounds-keeper. They guy was upset. Not sure why as there were no RVs on the fairways or greens.

Every state is different, but TN prohibits relocating wildlife that you trap unless you have a state permit. The concept is to prevent the spread of disease from one area of the state to another.