Oct 31, 2008
How to trap squirrels: A video tutorial
As long-time readers know, I’m continually battling those alley-fed vermin, benignly labeled “gray squirrels.”
If you are too, this may be helpful:
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Awesome
Fantastic! I love the commentary. So very scholastic… Result!
That was great! I found my self saying ” wait for it, wait for it…” and finally, SCORE!
Ohhhhh, poor little thing. His little heart was probably beating 500 beats per minute.
BUT we are with you. Without the cute bushy tails, they would just be another bunch of rats.
They ate through our phone line. They dig up our flower bulbs and put them other places. One year we had a tulip growing all by itself next to the curb. Some landscaping!
LOL. Brilliant.
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GENIUS!!!
but, pray tell, what happens to them afterwards? You’ve said before its beyond the ken of this blog, well i checked with Ken and he wants to know to… :)
There are several options for after trapping. It depends on the trapper’s conscience.
I don’t suggest/promote/endorse any of these options. It’s safer that way.
Is the last bit real?, it freaked me out… like the scream bit? or is that sound effects…
My solution for tree rats? Sixteen gauge.
Course, I live in the country.
I’m seeing Proverbs 6 all over this. :o)
As a fellow squirrel hater, I love this video. I have a funny story about squirrels, that I will probably blog about soon.
Thanks for the commentary.
I was sipping my coffee when that thing went off….thanks for that.
As a home schooIing mom, I gathered my children around to see this “educational” video. They all watched in amazment and great intent, and then, they all jump with surprised. Laughter was heard from all!
Nice!
My husband just spend the morning putting more of our siding up. We are still building our home, and last year squirrels ate their way through the plastic sheeting and lived in our walls! We would hear them all winter long scurrying about. UGH!!!!
I appreciate this video SO MUCH.
I agree with Rob…some great analogies for sin and it’s consequences there.
That was unexpectedly both hilarious and scary. Great job!
i like the trap, but there is an even better (and more more fun) way to indulge your inner squirrel revulsion. growing up in the south, we went squirrel hunting every year after the first major frost. go into the woods just as the sun is rising. take your shotgun (rifle if you wanted more of a challenge) and cut down a few squirrels as the noisly wake up and start bustling about. then head home, skin them, and fry them up for a nice breakfast – squirrel, gravy, eggs, bicsuits, and more. yummy. now, this might not work in your urban environment in downtown minnesota since your neighbors might dislike your shotgun blasts at daybreak even more than they dislike the squirrels. but i thought i would share anyway. just an idea. (and, yes, it tastes like chicken!)
squirrels are rats with with a good pr firm.
The scream at the end made it perfect for Halloween.
HAHAHA!
Now… do tell us, what do you do after you trap them? I think we need an informative video on that inspired wisdom, Abraham.
i had no idea squirrels were so maligned. i thought everybody loves or at least tolerates those guys.
the end was scary. you’re not going to kill it, right?
I’d be willing to go on-record to say that any squirrel which you do not thantize in some way will return to your yard for more mayhem.
The funny thing about nature is that if you kill these, they’ll make more. Just not in your yard or your attic.
And the same goes for moles, too, of which there will be none in heaven as they are plainly hell-spawned destroyers of the fruit of man’s labors. Plainly consequences of the fall.
I think it would be best if you refrain from doing a video of “putting the squirrels goodnight” (that is what we call it at our house).
Okay, now you have caught the critter. What do you do with him now? Drop him in the yard of your nemesis? Set him loose near the interstate? Lecture him about the wrong-headedness of his behavior? Start a sort of squirrel penitentiary?
It seems to me that this is not a solution, it is simply trapping your problem…..
Not that anyone is defending squirrels here, but I will agree that they are a nemesis. One time we had a huge summer storm and a fallen limb knocked out a power line running from the alley to our house. Well, a utilities worker came out to repair it. I asked him if this was what kept him busiest and told me that, actually, squirrels do more harm to power lines then storms. (Gnawing on then or getting fried, I suppose?) As if to confirm it, a squirrel appeared on a nearby line. He then proceeded to shake the wire in his hands as if to shake the squirrel down! A funny moment.
I have since used that conversation as permission to “put to bed” any squirrel that is lingering on the street as a drive by. After all, just keeping the power lines safe!
the question is… how do I get them out of my attic when I rent an apartment?
Time for the fluffy rats to go swimming.
LOL.
Abraham: I live in a squirrel-infested neighborhood as well next to the Mississippi River. I prefer the “whisper” method myself.
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Advantages: Hardly any noise, no need to relocate them, thins the herd, neighbors are happy, I’m happy and my backyard trees and shrubs are well “fertilized” (if you know what I mean).
Dave
I. Hate. Squirrels.
I. Love. Your. Video.
I. Want. That. Trap.
Not even my amazing Jack Russell Terrier can catch the one million squirrels living in my backyard.
The scream at the end is what sold me.
There are some .22 bullets they make that are sub sonic. Your neighbors will never know you are out capping the little rodents. If you cook them right they can be quite tasty.
Funny.
love it!!