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re: Squirrel in the attic. UPDATE: Squirrel captured and I’m an awful human being
Posted on 1/19/25 at 3:55 am to SquatchDawg
Posted on 1/19/25 at 3:55 am to SquatchDawg
I think we all want to watch you just try snag it yourself
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Posted on 1/19/25 at 12:26 pm to ugasickem
Trap was a bust last night. Going to rebait with some peanut butter and try again tonight. Heard his little arse up there running around this morning too.
Posted on 1/19/25 at 3:31 pm to SquatchDawg
Buddy of mine had to go out of town one time and he decided to let his cat and his fisher cat out in the house to coexist while he was gone...
Long story short, he came home to find pieces of the cat scattered all over the house but the fisher cat was doing quite well.
Moral of the story, find a fisher cat and put him in the attic but don't let your house cat or dogs out in the meantime......
Long story short, he came home to find pieces of the cat scattered all over the house but the fisher cat was doing quite well.
Moral of the story, find a fisher cat and put him in the attic but don't let your house cat or dogs out in the meantime......
Posted on 1/19/25 at 3:32 pm to lewis and herschel
Yankee animal. Too soft to survive in the south
Posted on 1/19/25 at 3:33 pm to K9
shite......
Posted on 1/19/25 at 4:53 pm to lewis and herschel
What's a fisher cat?
Posted on 1/19/25 at 4:56 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
Weasel like creature that can be mean as shite. Was bear hunting in Maine and had one walk right by me, thought I knew all the Critters, but not that one.
Posted on 1/19/25 at 4:56 pm to lewis and herschel
Thanks
Posted on 1/19/25 at 5:56 pm to SquatchDawg
Solution:
- Invest in a recurve bow
-Shoot and kill a random squirrel on your property
-Then take it up to your attic
-behead and dismember it, then leave the body parts in a pile
-with a flashlight left shining on the pile
- as an example
-Start looking for how they got in
- Then, in a couple days after they have fled town in fear
-patch the hole
- Invest in a recurve bow
-Shoot and kill a random squirrel on your property
-Then take it up to your attic
-behead and dismember it, then leave the body parts in a pile
-with a flashlight left shining on the pile
- as an example
-Start looking for how they got in
- Then, in a couple days after they have fled town in fear
-patch the hole
Posted on 1/20/25 at 2:00 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
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All they had to do was not come in the house like all of the other animals in the neighborhood.
In theory if we kill all the squirrels who are genetically inclined to go into an attic, the ones who won’t go into an attic should proliferate, and the others die out.
Posted on 1/20/25 at 2:44 pm to Rules
Still up there but it toyed with with the trap so I’m going full tilt this afternoon and going to pull back all insulation in infiltrated area. I also trimmed back a Holly that could have given it roof access.
I did see a piece of gutter guard that could give it access to the gutter near the spot but don’t know how it could get from inside a gutter into the house.
I did see a piece of gutter guard that could give it access to the gutter near the spot but don’t know how it could get from inside a gutter into the house.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 5:31 am to SquatchDawg
I didn't know trailers had attics. Must be a newer one.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 4:42 pm to Rules
Ha ha
So anyway, wife texts me that there’s a lot of noise coming from the attic and we caught the little bastard. This ends a 3 day game of cat and mouse, including me spending hours up there digging through everything looking for a nest.
So I come home and want o get him out of here ASAP…because if he gets out he’ll probably never set foot in a trap again. I make sure he’s secure, load him in my trunk and drive him over to a big spread of public land over the river and let him go around 10am. From what I read you have to take them pretty far or they can come back. This one will have to swim across the Saluda River to get back to my house.
Now the tough part…on the way back it dawns on me that we’re going to have 2 days of 20 degree weather and a snow storm and I just dumped this creature in an unknown land. It probably knew this was coming due to its squirrel sense and found its way into my cozy attic to weather it out. Then I trap it on the morning of the storm and exile it to the wilderness.
So I basically sentenced this squirrel to an icy death.
Am I going to hell?
So anyway, wife texts me that there’s a lot of noise coming from the attic and we caught the little bastard. This ends a 3 day game of cat and mouse, including me spending hours up there digging through everything looking for a nest.
So I come home and want o get him out of here ASAP…because if he gets out he’ll probably never set foot in a trap again. I make sure he’s secure, load him in my trunk and drive him over to a big spread of public land over the river and let him go around 10am. From what I read you have to take them pretty far or they can come back. This one will have to swim across the Saluda River to get back to my house.
Now the tough part…on the way back it dawns on me that we’re going to have 2 days of 20 degree weather and a snow storm and I just dumped this creature in an unknown land. It probably knew this was coming due to its squirrel sense and found its way into my cozy attic to weather it out. Then I trap it on the morning of the storm and exile it to the wilderness.
So I basically sentenced this squirrel to an icy death.
Am I going to hell?
This post was edited on 1/21/25 at 4:55 pm
Posted on 1/21/25 at 5:55 pm to SquatchDawg
Buzzard, fireants, and maggots gotta eat too.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 6:01 pm to SquatchDawg
He'll be fine. That's what instinct is for
Posted on 1/21/25 at 6:01 pm to SquatchDawg
You did the right thing.
He's obviously an advanced squirrel if he chose to find a pre-built shelter instead of toiling in the wild building a nest. If you just let him live his life in the attic he would have passed his genes onto to several children.
Eventually, his line of squirrel may evolve enough to overtake the human race.
You did the right thing.
He's obviously an advanced squirrel if he chose to find a pre-built shelter instead of toiling in the wild building a nest. If you just let him live his life in the attic he would have passed his genes onto to several children.
Eventually, his line of squirrel may evolve enough to overtake the human race.
You did the right thing.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 8:19 pm to SquatchDawg
A live squirrel in a hav-a-hart trap in the trunk of an old Lexus crossing the Saluda River in upstate South Carolina as a snow storm approaches is the foundation of an epic folk song.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 9:06 pm to deeprig9
I wish I had a knack for writing music.
The days getting old
The Saluda runs cold
And the weather, she is a comin’
My hearts dark with rage
In my trunk there’s a cage
With a squirrel that wore out his welcome
The poor squirrel wore out his welcome.
The days getting old
The Saluda runs cold
And the weather, she is a comin’
My hearts dark with rage
In my trunk there’s a cage
With a squirrel that wore out his welcome
The poor squirrel wore out his welcome.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 9:14 pm to SquatchDawg
Do you have a copyright attorney retained yet? Post no more until such time.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 9:36 pm to deeprig9
This might be a good chorus or bridge
And as I grow old
I’ll never know
The fate of that squirrel
In that blizzard of snow
He was just looking
For a place to call home
So if God has Grace I want some
For the squirrel that wore out his welcome
shite…I think I can do something with this.
And as I grow old
I’ll never know
The fate of that squirrel
In that blizzard of snow
He was just looking
For a place to call home
So if God has Grace I want some
For the squirrel that wore out his welcome
shite…I think I can do something with this.
This post was edited on 1/21/25 at 9:38 pm
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