Hey Meathead

[Oss]

Sent two squirrels for a swim this morning off the Croton Bridge

Both of them went right toward Ossining again altho the gate was neutral position

So it is like groundhog day, only the squirrels went Trump

Maybe next time Meat  

Oss


They go into the havaheart traps and since wife wont let me dispatch them I came up with a method of
making sure they get a swim and then pick a shore (only a short swim) unless like one idiot she decides to swim toward the Hudson River.  I called her AOC

[Jess from VA]

Evan, with Havahart traps, note that if you tip them up (or over), gravity will let the doors open and the squirrel will shoot out and climb your face with sharp claws.

If transporting (or drowning in a garbage can of water, which takes about 20 seconds), you need to clamp both doors shut with small vice grips to ensure the doors stay closed.

Most of mine went in the trash but a few went on a crummy neighbor's roof. 

[The emperor has no clothes]

  I'll never forget your telling of the stories.  I've had my own jihad here lately. I think I've dispatched 5 or 6 rats, 3 mice here in the last couple months. The other night Brenda was taking the dog out to do his business. She came back in all freaked out. She said there was something jumping around out there. That sucker was caught right on the head, but he wasn't giving up the ghost. He (or she ?) was flipping, jumping, scratching, and generally thrashing about, trying to free himself. A couple blows from the shovel sent him to his maker. I think I'm close to annihilating the neighbor of vermin. Haven't got one for a week or so.

[Oss]

Get me enough to drink I may tell the story at Inzane for you Jess

[John Schmidt]

I'll never forget your telling of the stories.  I've had my own jihad here lately. I think I've dispatched 5 or 6 rats, 3 mice here in the last couple months. The other night Brenda was taking the dog out to do his business. She came back in all freaked out. She said there was something jumping around out there. That sucker was caught right on the head, but he wasn't giving up the ghost. He (or she ?) was flipping, jumping, scratching, and generally thrashing about, trying to free himself. A couple blows from the shovel sent him to his maker. I think I'm close to annihilating the neighbor of vermin. Haven't got one for a week or so.

That reminds me of how I sometimes spend an evening with a lousy TV schedule. I go on Youtube and watch a number of videos of various mouse/rat traps and also how some inventive people handle their squirrel population. One guy created what he called a squirrel chucker....made along the lines of the Trebuchet(catapult). It had a small bowl on the business end with seeds or other bait in it, the squirrel's weight triggered it and wham...it was tossed 30ft. into an adjoining pond. He said it didn't keep them from coming back, but did give hours of amusement watching the show. Obviously not a man with a heavy schedule. We used to have a birdfeeder outside our kitchen window, placed just far enough from the roof so they couldn't jump to it so had to climb the pole. The fun part was watching a whole bevy of them trying to climp the pole after I had covered it with grease. They all would get so mad they'd start fighting amongst themselves. 

[Wizzard]

So far since last May I have trapped 36 ground squirrels and chipmunks here. My wife says they are reproducing faster than I am trapping them.

[The emperor has no clothes]

So far since last May I have trapped 36 ground squirrels and chipmunks here. My wife says they are reproducing faster than I am trapping them.

Dang ! You could go into the furrier business. 

[Bighead]

So far since last May I have trapped 36 ground squirrels and chipmunks here. My wife says they are reproducing faster than I am trapping them.

Dang ! You could go into the furrier business. 

Coats for midgets 

[John Schmidt]

So far since last May I have trapped 36 ground squirrels and chipmunks here. My wife says they are reproducing faster than I am trapping them.

Dang ! You could go into the furrier business. 

Coats for midgets 

Or....up here in Wisconsin, just cut the tail off, remove the internal stuff and you have a long furry muff to keep your "stuff" warm in winter....kinda like a mitten. After my prostate cancer treatment, I'll need to find a small squirrel. 

[da prez]

A loaded spud gun on the retaining wall with a remote trigger. Curious chipmunk (ground squirrel) goes inside .
 Then it goes for an extremely fast ride to the lake.

  Last year I dispatched 78 of them.  My neighbor claimed 80.

             da prez

[Rams]

A loaded spud gun on the retaining wall with a remote trigger. Curious chipmunk (ground squirrel) goes inside .
 Then it goes for an extremely fast ride to the lake.

  Last year I dispatched 78 of them.  My neighbor claimed 80.

             da prez

Sounds like a fun time (for me, not the squirrels).   May have to look into that.   We've got several bird feeders, some for seeds and I think she has 7 or 8 humming bird feeders.   She's also started feeding the deer that come into our yard.  At least, that's what she thinks she's feeding.   We've got several furry tree rats I see scrambling up and down our trees.   I have no doubt they are the consumers of her deer feed.   I keep telling her she is drawing those furry tailed rats to our home and eventually, it's gonna be a problem.  

We see a lot more of the rodent action than the deer.   I'm not a fan of deer either, having paid to have two vehicles repaired due to impacts with them.  

Rams

[MarkT]

I got fed up with the squirrels munching down the bird seeds.  So I wired up the bird feeder with a fence energizer.  Turned on by a motion detector with LED's indicating it's fired up.  Put the wires so a squirrel would bridge between the hot and ground wires but not birds.  Worked for awhile - entertaining to watch the bush-tailed rats get a charge out of 10,000v.



Then there was one who stood there w/o bridging the wires scarfing down on the feed.  So I got out the .22.  Turns out his little carcass didn't stop the bullet and it went through the wood side and busted the plexiglass.  No ѕhit I shoulda been more careful with the angle.

If you really want to defeat squirrels eating bird seed the easy way - but less entertaining - is to put hot pepper powder in the seed.  Birds don't have capsaicin receptors but mammals do.  A nice dose of Chili Molido Puro will do it.

[Jess from VA]

Hey I shot up my feeders too.  Until I just quit feeding everything, forever.

As much as like my wide variety of small wild birds, all the critters, big migratory flocks, squirrels, coons, possum, mice, bugs, bees, ants, bird crap just becomes a big derivative problem.  Pantry flies get in the shed with the food, and you don't want those in your house either.

I have enough work taking care of my place as it is, without adding to it.

No critters go hungry where I live anyway.  (let them eat cake)

My new hobby is using a wrist rocket on the squirrels.  That is also illegal where I live, but not the trouble I can get in for shooting.  I am a lousy shot with the slingshot, and only hit one every Tuesday, but over time they get trained out of the yard.  Now, all I have to do is open the window and they run across the street for (relative) safety (after giving me the finger).

If I lived out in the country, i think it would be great fun using the M1 Garand on squirrels.

Overkill, you bet.  But fun.  And I'm pretty good with one too.


Die Nazi squirrels. 

    

[The emperor has no clothes]