squirrel!
 

In the wall right now. I can hear the little ba###rd as I type this... it's driving me CRAZY. I found where he got in too... and just set a trap, so I'll get him on his way out. Then I'll cover the little doorway he conveniently chewed. I won't cover the doorway first this time...learned that lesson last year.




I love old homes.

Be careful that it does not bite you if you get near. Rabies and all the other wonderful diseases they can carry...

Make sure you don't wound it. A vicious trapped animal might attack!

One word.
Dumplings....

It may be a KILLER BUNNY. Run away! Run away.

Killer Bunny?

Nope.

Its a BLOODY RABBIT!! Run!!


Fireplace poker through the wall over and over until the sound stops.

http://www.havahart.com/ (then relocate the little pest to the home of somebody you don't like)

And I thought this Thread was going to about PWD72s or the R Gruppe.....

Sure it's a sqirrel? I don't think sqirrels do that. I know rats do.

Christmas Vacation!!

rats?? eeek ! Better not even mention that possibility to wifey.

The little ba###rd, and perhaps his extended family, have apparently been at work in the basement/crawlspace, pulling away insulation and making a mess.

I'm using a humane live trap with some peanut butter. I want to catch the little ba###rd alive, so I can beat him to death with a piece of firewood. (kidding)

I had a mouse stuck between the studs of a wall once, and I could see him from a hole in the top plate of the wall. The little bugger fell in and was exhausted from trying to get out. So I toss down a little water and nuts and a line of rope so that he'd get nourished and hydrated and crawl up the rope and get out. Sure enough, in the morning he walked right into the trap at the top of the hole. On afterthought, I realized that I should have attached the trap to the rope and gone fishing. Whatever gets him out of the wall before he dies. Covered the hole with screen afterwards.

Years ago my room mate came knocking on my bedroom door in the middle of the night complaining about noises in his wall. I told him they were mice and to go back to bed. He said "no way; if they are mice, they must be moving in the furniture". So I went to listen. Too big for a mouse, so I went and grabbed my Single Six. There was an access hatch in his room to get to the shower plumbing in the adjoining bathroom, and it sounded like it was behind it. So I popped the hatch. We looked at each other and simultaneously exclaimed "it's a possum!". So I shot it in the top of the head, put the hatch back on, and went back to bed.

After catching @ 8 squirrels, getting my chewed up soffets replaced, getting the house sealed by a pro trapper, i still heard something running around up there. Well when i went up the check the traps a few days later, they were alll full of RATS.! He said they are THE most common rodent in peoples houses. I have sinced switched from the squirrel traps to big rat traps and have caught about 6 overall. Hopefully thats the end of them.

F.Y.I. my house is only @ 8 years old and is 3 stories tall from the ground. The most common way in, is up through the gutter downspouts, into the gutters, and they squeeze through the vents. It costs about $700-1000 to get your house sealed with a 1 year guarantee.

Jeff

Didn't it start stinking really bad after a week?

I don't think squirrels make nests and tug at insulation in basements! That sure sounds like a rat. Living in the LA area I've sure had enough experinces with them. Long ago I used to live in the Wilshire area in a second floor apartment. I used to sleep with the window open in the summer. Next to my window was this avacodo tree. I could nearly reach out and grab a branch from my window. One night I awoke a noticed a slew of these things making their way along the branches. There must have been about ten to fifteen. That was the last time I slept with my window open. BTW, squirrels are the ones with the twitchy bushy tail, and you need to change this threads title to " Rats!".

Whatever it is, it must be an illegal.

BTW...If you have trouble with rodents eating through soffits, one of the only really permanent fixes I know of is aluminum over the wood. It has the additional advantage of never requiring paint!!!

I had that happen once. Someone advised moth balls. THe little stinker just kicked them back out the hole. Problem was, she had her litter and when I did get her out and sealed the ares with aluminum, she tried to get in the house by hanging on the overhang of the front door. Finally had to shoot her. They are tenacious.

Killers of furry aminals! mad:

:D

Want squirrels to move? Get peanuts...:

And I thought this was a continuation of the "Why Momma's a democrat" thread....

No more talk about rats! It's a squirrel, OK??

Update: The trap is still empty. I'm hoping he'll go for a walk while the house is empty today.

+1 in arkansas, we tend to eat things, which get into the house uninvited..:D
ryan

Sounds like rats to me too. I had the same problem a couple years ago. Got a cat? Put it up in the attic for a few hours. The scent will drive the rats out for a few days...seal up the house before they come back. Once they are locked out they will be killed and eaten by other rats as they are very territorial. worked for me.

Ummm.... yeah. It's not like he has a coyote in the wall... It's a frikkin squirrel!! (Or a rat/mouse.)

"Ooohh, help me , help me... a vicious squirrel is nibbling at my bottom... Ooohhh, I'm a little girly man and can't get my skirt dirty... "


I used to live in a somewhat rundown old rental property. I have had squirrels in the attic, and mice in the walls. You know what you do? You corner them, you grab the little rodent, and you chuck them in the yard. Then patch the holes until next time.

Unless it's a squirrel. You eat them.
Possum, too, but you have to catch them live and feed them grain for about 2 weeks to get some of the gaminess out of them.

Mice... well, not so much. They're too small to make much of a meal. I guess you could skin a whole mess of them and then deep fry them like chicken wings. That might be good with a little Texas Pete.




My God, what a bunch of pansies.... and to think you people make fun of rednecks and southern people.

It's a squirrel, ok?

OK, maybe it's a rat. I was talking with my neighbor last night, and he said they had rats a few years ago in the neighborhood. UGH

Squirrel = tree rat.

You guys crack me up.

A few years ago one of my friends frantically calls me around 7 pm telling me they were eating dinner and a raccoon fell through the ceiling and landed on the table. Stunned it looked at them and then hissed and ran into the living room and was hiding under the sofa. After I stopped laughing I asked what I was supposed to do? Bring your guns and a trap was the answer. So I get to their house and there is a large adult raccoon hiding under the sofa who has very large claws and teeth--did I mention he is quite pissed by this time too?

My friend is poking him with a broom that the raccoon soon grabs and shreds. So they want me to shoot him--I don't think a 12 guage is going to work in the house, nor a 9mm at close range. We decide to trap him with tuna and peanut butter. Set the trap, dim the lights, and in an hour we have him. They tell me to take him out to the country and make sure I kill him--like he is going to walk 15 miles back to the house. I agree and off we go. Get out to the country were there is a nice lake with a stream and let him go.

It can definately be a squirrel. Thought we had a rat in our office--could hear the bastard scratching in the wall right behind my chair--set some traps in the basement crawlspace and ended up catching 2 squirrels.

No more scratching.

I'm taking bets. Rat or squirrel?

LMAO!

No, my room mate took care of it. I told him to just go throw it out in the road (it would look natural there), but nooo, he called animal control to come pick it up. He thought they might want to check it for rabies or something.

So I worked days and he worked nights (he heard the thing when he got home that night). He called it in while I was at work. Apparently a rather hot little officer showed up to retrieve the possum. Now imagine this... "it's right here, down in my bedroom..." He was still laughing when I got home after the look on her face made him realize how all of this was starting to look. He did get a date with her...

dan..funny story..and props for letting him go free. :)
ryan

Jake,

It's a rodent. Makes little difference. A squirrel is just a rat with a press agent. It's a toss-up which can do more damage.
Good luck getting rid of the furry b@stard.

Les

I know the PETA people are going to kill me but...

I always kill any animals that get into my house. (I've had birds, rabbits, and mice.) Why? They've learned a way in. If I set them free, they may come back, and they may teach their young the same. I've had no "repeat" offenders. There are more than enough rabbits, mice, and birds in the neighborhood that I'm not driving them to extinction...

12Am update... trap still empty, haven't heard a thing since yesterday. Will cover the hole tomorrow, and move the trap inside just in case I seal him in.

I'm not PETA but...let's not forget that we came into thier house...

Squirrels build houses?

Re: squirrel!
 

A few years ago I lived in a house up on a hill away from the city. I was laying in bed and my eyes were just about to close for the evening when I start to hear this faint scratching sound from inside the wall. My eyes opened wide and I looked around nervously. "Is that coming from inside my room?", I thought to myself as my eyes darted about the darkness.

I turned the light on and stocked around the room, adjusting my direction each time I heard the noise until I came to the wall on the far side of the bedroom. Something was in the wall. But what could it be? I knocked on the wall in front of where the noise was originating and heard whatever it was moving about. Seeing that there was no immediate danger I returned to my bed and went to sleep. The scratching noise continued for another five days before it went silent. Whatever it was must have found it's way out - so I thought.

A few weeks had past and I started to smell this mild but distinct smell. I couldn't put my finger on what it was but it was definately there. The smell grew stronger over the next several weeks, at which point I knew exactly what it was: the smell of decaying flesh. After several more weeks it began to go away but it was never completely gone. I moved out soon afterwards, but I heard that when they remodeled the house, they found the corpse of what they thought to be a racoon in the wall. The fluids had permeated and stained the sheetrock.

I thought a squirrel was a rat with a stylist and a 2 picture deal...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1144476056.jpg


Tim

Talk about big nuts!!!

Rat. He was in the trap this morning. Wifey wouldn't ley me take a picture of the detainee, citing the Geneva convention.

The trap went into a big bucket of water. Being a softie, I made sure the water was warm. Goodbye, Mr. Rat.