Red/Piney Squirrels

[glank09]

These little *****s are on my last nerve. They have chewed through car wires, gotten into my workshop, and now getting into my house/attic. I have tried both rat snap traps and live traps with quit a lot of different baits. I would try shooting them, but the only time I see them outside is on neighbors property. Today I managed to corner one in the basement and took care of it with a baseball bat. Any thoughts on what I can do to successfully trap these damn things?

 

[flyingsquirrel]

I use the large plastic rat traps baited with birdseed covered with 4 gallon milk crates. My daughter used this method and got 8 pineys and 18 chipmunks this year.

 

[jwamplerusa]

Rat poison, with a bait food?

 

[rosejm]

Have you tried uncoiled rice?

Raw walnuts seem to be pretty popular as bait, but squirrels are darn crafty vermin.

 

[natdscott]

Know what we did?

We started leaving the cats alone, and acquired a few more.

Problem solved.

 

[tmschuller]

5 gallon bucket 1/2 full of water and sprinkle sunflower seeds on the water. Wallah squirrel soup

 

[bwframe]

I put one of these next to my truck in the old barn, the other in my shallow basement. Both produced well in the beginning, then gradually tapered off to a couple/three catches a year.



I put out three small hav-a-hearts in proven spots outside in the early chipmunk season. Same results. Used to catch a bunch, now days 1-2 a season.

Seems as if you can clean out the area over a few years of eliminating generations?

 

[Max Volume]

I know grey squirrels love peanut butter and it works great in a live trap then do with them as you wish. Little bastards chewed threw the fuel line on my truck last year.

 

[Mongo59]

I know grey squirrels love peanut butter and it works great in a live trap then do with them as you wish. Little bastards chewed threw the fuel line on my truck last year.

So the fuzzy tailed tree rats a stealing your gas, I hand down a death sentence...

 

[Michigan Slim]

Had two get in my camper a couple years ago. They chewed through a side vent. Ate all the wiring off my furnace and stored hundreds of walnuts in the cupboards and under the tub. Ate some towels and a bedspread.
I do not recommend rat poison as they can crawl into places you can't and then die. Trap them then kill them. Got a new shooter? Release them where they can practice on running shots with a scattergun.

 

[dekeshooter]

My neighbor’s semi tame snake eliminated one of the neighborhood’s problems earlier this year and I’ve helped remove a couple of more myself. I detest the little rats.

 

[firecadet613]

Has anyone had squirrels and not had damage?

We had next to none last year but this year we've seen quite a few...so much so that we have zero hickory nuts on the ground. Last year, we were picking up trash bags full of hickory nuts and had to buy a roller to pick them up.

 

[Max Volume]

I've got a big old white oak in the backyard that's having a bumper crop of acorns. Needless to say it's a tree rat
heaven that needs to be addressed. Last year a young one was dead on the driveway. It apparently fell out of a tree
onto the concrete and became garden fertilizer.

 

[bobjones223]

Seagulls!