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ChadTower:


--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on September 12, 2007, 11:18:15 am ---You have to kill them.

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--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 12, 2007, 11:19:55 am ---A dog will do that for you. 

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See where I'm going?  Dead squirrels don't come back.  A dog isn't poison and it's not illegal.  Some small dogs live to hunt, and they don't mind spending long periods in the garage if there is something to do in there...

mr.Curmudgeon:
I'm not buying a dog, just to kill Squirrels. We don't even have a fenced in yard.
I want LESS animals...not more.  :P

ErikRuud:
I had an issue with squirrels getting into the eaves and attic of my house.  they had chewed holes through the cedar facia boards.

I tried a number of various repellants to discourage them, but nothing really worked.  They were actually tearing up the fiberglass insulation to make nests, so i don't know what it would take to really irritate a squirrel.

I finally bought a live trap.  I used a peanut butter and bird seed mixture as bait.  Each morning I would load the trap and each evening I would release a trapped squirrel into the woods west of my house.  The advice I found on the web suggested that the squirrels have to be released at least 10 miles away so that they don't find their way back.  After a couple

You are never going to build a catapult that will fling them ten miles away!  ;D

After a few weeks of trapping the squirrels, we had the soffit and facia redone in aluminum.  they have not come back in since.

FrizzleFried:

--- Quote ---You are never going to build a catapult that will fling them ten miles away!  Grin
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That is why you aim the catapult STRAIGHT UP...just come out to clean up every once in a while...most would likely limp away before finally succumbing to the damage inflicted by a 40' drop...

 >:D

ChadTower:

Fling them into the neighbor's pool.

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