They will get yellow in spring time from pollen. We used to get so much pollen from 200 foot douglas firs that you would have to turn on your wipers in the morning to see!......
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friggin $%&@ squirrels !
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Personally, I use a Winchester lever action trap. Size .22 calibre. There are no repeat offenders!
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Personally, I use a Winchester lever action trap. Size .22 calibre. There are no repeat offenders!
***********************I live in suburbia so using a gun is out of the question and besides my 357 would probably be overkill.
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Yea, you need to cut/trim all trees or branches that are within jumping distance to your roof. This is not a secret and is rather a common sense item.
Once they're in your house, you have a whole different problem to deal with and you need to get them out because they will live there for a long time breeding and infesting your attic.
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Squirrels are a dynamic population. Trap and move doesn't help, they just come back. Shooting doesn't help, either. One of my father's friends shot
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I heard it was any aftershave, so if you don't have the cheap stuff, till you get some, you can use any. But get the cheap stuff, to save some cash.
Oh, I was told that you just have to leave the open bottle, don't poor it. So when you get rid of the squirrels, you just recap the bottle, and get rid of the smell too.
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Maybe he should have tried shooting the live ones.
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seriously, the only way I've found to solve this problem is to kill them with a gun. I've used a 12 gauge (overkill, but an easy shot) a .22 and a pellet gun. I recommend the pellet gun because it's much safer and quieter.
I'm not a troll, I've had serious problems, I've tried all sorts of traps and other methods, and have learned that I just need to shoot all the squirrels in my property. Just like mice or rats, just kill them as humanely and safely as possible. jmho.
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Maybe you could get away with a pellet gun. I've never had luck with the havaharts.
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I've been surrounded by heavy spruce woods with lots of squirrels. Believe me, if you shoot every squirrel you see and hear, it will solve the problem. I also agree with all the suggestions to make other changes such as trimming trees, etc. etc.
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Maybe you could get away with a pellet gun. I've never had luck with the havaharts.
************* I trapped two last weekend with a Havahart. I took 'em 7 miles away with a river between me and them. :)Bonnie
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I'm speechless. that was either funny or idiotic. Which?
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both?
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Neither.
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It does no such thing if you live in a heavily wooded area as you claim. Unless you sit outside all day, every day, this just isn't an option for someone serious about the problem.
If you just like rodent sport shooting, have at it.
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Put wire mesh along the entire botton of the roof line (under the shingles and gutters -- you can't see it from the ground). Put wire mesh around attic vent fan openings, as squirrels who want to can peel the weak mesh really there. Put wire mesh at all other possible ingress points (all a squirrel needs is enough space to fit a tooth under wood in order to get started chewing). Put escape hatches in for
30 days to get the squirrels who have hoarded food inside and therefore don't need to leave for a while (the escape hatches are one-way, obviously).The problem you have now is the squirrel or squirrels have marked their entrances. Every squirrel in the neighborhood now knows your house is fair game. They will keep coming until they realize they can't get in.
Trust me, hire a professional.
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Reminds me of a story from "The Best of Ann Landers."
The thread was wives should take an interest in their husbands' hobbies and, if possible, participate in them so that they could share activities to have quality time together.
So this Mrs. wrote back that her husband's hobby was hunting. She rather liked that part of it. But off season he keeps in practice by going to the city dump to shoot rats. What should she do?
I can't recall the advice on this one. But that guy is a genius and gets to rid vermin too.