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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:27 pm
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Cubbe is still going nuts whining and wagging at particular walls. We
can't keep her away from the spot behind the CD player. If I didn't
know better, I'd say it was our taste in music.
On the advice of this group, I bought snap traps, put peanut butter in
them, and put them in the basement. I believe they wouldn't harm Cubbe
if she did put a paw or nose on one, but I'm super-cautious about these
things and haven't been letting her down there. It's a shame because
she's really really interested in the basement.
I should have been checking regularly, but I put the job off until Jim
got home yesterday from Philadelphia. His report: One of the traps is
gone altogether. Don't know if it snapped or what happened, it's just
gone. And there's a glass broken, perhaps a decorative souvenir from
the Red Hook brewery. Our conclusion, though we don't want to believe
it, is that we have big bushy tailed mice. They could be getting in
through the chimney to the wood stove down there, scouting around for
things with peanut butter, and taking the tasty morsel back to the trees
outside. I'm trying to convince myself that that's better than moving
in. Of course, they could have moved in, too. Any ideas on how to rid
a basement of squirrels?
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:39 pm
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"Julia Altshuler" <jaltshuler.TakeThisOut@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Cubbe is still going nuts whining and wagging at particular walls. We
> can't keep her away from the spot behind the CD player. If I didn't know
> better, I'd say it was our taste in music.
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> On the advice of this group, I bought snap traps, put peanut butter in
> them, and put them in the basement. I believe they wouldn't harm Cubbe if
> she did put a paw or nose on one, but I'm super-cautious about these
> things and haven't been letting her down there. It's a shame because
> she's really really interested in the basement.
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> I should have been checking regularly, but I put the job off until Jim got
> home yesterday from Philadelphia. His report: One of the traps is gone
> altogether. Don't know if it snapped or what happened, it's just gone.
> And there's a glass broken, perhaps a decorative souvenir from the Red
> Hook brewery. Our conclusion, though we don't want to believe it, is that
> we have big bushy tailed mice. They could be getting in through the
> chimney to the wood stove down there, scouting around for things with
> peanut butter, and taking the tasty morsel back to the trees outside. I'm
> trying to convince myself that that's better than moving in. Of course,
> they could have moved in, too. Any ideas on how to rid a basement of
> squirrels?
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> --Lia
After reading your first paragraph, I was going to suggest you must have
some damn HUGE mice. ;) But then I saw you already realized that. Not a
clue how to get squirrels out of a basement though. Other than perhaps
removed the remaining traps and allow Cubbe back down there once again.
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:42 pm
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In article <_sidnXFt9cqRcQbanZ2dnUVZ_umlnZ2d.DeleteThis@comcast.com>,
Julia Altshuler <jaltshuler.DeleteThis@comcast.net> wrote:
>Any ideas on how to rid
>a basement of squirrels?
Hav-a-hart traps work well with squirrels.
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:12 am
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"Julia Altshuler" <jaltshuler.DeleteThis@comcast.net> wrote in message
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.. Any ideas on how to rid
> a basement of squirrels?
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I battled squirrels in the attic from spring till fall a few years ago...I
finally got them out for good but it was uphill all the way.
Here's what I learned-
You need to make the area uncomfortable for them-lights and noise 24/7. A
radio tuned to all talk, as loud as you can stand it.
I pitched stockings full of moth balls all over the place, but I don't think
that's something you want to do as the fumes would probably rise and not be
good for you or Cubbe.
They will vacate at dawn to feed and return at dusk, so as soon as you are
relatively certain that they are out you need to seal any entrances, and you
need to use metal to seal with. They will try to return and can make their
way through about anything else.
They are persistent, so you should be more persistent. Horrible creatures.
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:36 am
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"Melinda Shore" wrote:
> Hav-a-hart traps work well with squirrels.
Yep. Only caveat is that you've got to have a legal place to release them
that is ALSO far enough away they won't find their way back.
We had a squirrel infestation some years ago - they got in through a hole in
the roof, took up residence in the inacessiable crawl space, and were also
heard chewing and quarreling inside the wall on the second floor. We finally
hired a guy who does humane pest control. Over the course of two weeks,
resetting the Havaharts every day, he removed 15 squirrels and one young
raccoon; the squirrels were taken to a state park about 20 miles away and
released, but by law he was required to kill the raccoon for rabies testing.
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:38 am
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:45 am
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:55 am
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In article <603fn3F1ok6flU1 RemoveThis @mid.individual.net>,
sionnach <rhyfelwr59 RemoveThis @verizon.net> wrote:
>Yep. Only caveat is that you've got to have a legal place to release them
>that is ALSO far enough away they won't find their way back.
We certainly have no shortage of those here.
On a related note, last night one of the snap traps finally
got that rat that's been plaguing me. I don't think there
are enough words to describe how much I hate killing animals
but rats are filthy, diseased voracious things and they're
nearly impossible to trap humanely. At least it didn't take
a glue trap to get rid of it.
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(Msg. 9) Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:02 am
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filly wrote:
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> They will vacate at dawn to feed and return at dusk, so as soon as you are
> relatively certain that they are out you need to seal any entrances, and you
> need to use metal to seal with. They will try to return and can make their
> way through about anything else.
Good information, thanks. I'm going to start paying attention to WHEN
Cubbe is doing the wagging and whining. It's hard because she's always
done some residual pawing at places. That is, she's not crazy when she
identifies a spot where there's a critter, but she stays fixated on the
spot long after the critter is gone.
I suppose we should be spending more time getting rid of them than
figuring out how they got there, but I can't help wondering what was
appealing about the basement in the first place. With mice, you figure
it's warmth. With squirrels, assuming it is squirrels, why would they
be interested in the basement?
We love watching them through the dining room window. They're amusing
critters darting up and down trees. Cubbe sometimes barks at them. As
she's gotten older, she hasn't bothered as much. But what would they
want with the basement? We bought a bird feeder at a garage sale once
that had some seed in it, so we wondered if that enticed them, but that
was years ago.
Other than that, there was no food down there UNTIL we put out the
peanut butter in the traps.
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(Msg. 10) Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:08 am
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"sionnach" <rhyfelwr59.TakeThisOut@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>snippped>>>
Over the course of two weeks,
> resetting the Havaharts every day, he removed 15 squirrels and one young
> raccoon; the squirrels were taken to a state park about 20 miles away and
> released, but by law he was required to kill the raccoon for rabies
> testing. Or at least that's what he told my father.
When we lived in the city, we had a couple stray cats we were trying to
'relocate'. The humane officer told us 'if she came back and found a possum
or raccoon in a trap, they would have to put them down'. She *implied*
that, were we to find them first, we could let them go. Dh would check the
trap first thing in the morning, before going to work. We had caught both a
baby possum and a baby racoon, but were able to free them and reset the trap
for the two cats.
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(Msg. 11) Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:08 am
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Our animal control doesn't allow the general populous to transport a possum
(or other "wild"animal) in a trap, but my area is literally over-run with
feral cats and possums. It's not unusual to see possums traipsing down the
street in the darkness of night. I've got three possums so far in my trap,
and the first time I took it in, they told me the wild animal "leave it
there, call us, we'll come get it" routine. The second time, they told me
the same thing. The third possum, I brought in my cage to the center, all
the workers were in the back, when they saw me...they said "hey, perry! got
something?" I said "yes, I have a large gray cat"....we walked to the front
where the worker giggled at my "confusion"!!
BTW, our animal control here is wonderful. I've caught over twenty cats and
the three possums. They work with several rescue groups and some of those
groups have special interests. I had tom in the 'hood who was a Siamese and
those kittens were really popular to adopt out.
I even took a gerbil...a tenant had abandoned it in a rent house, and the
worker had a neighbor that had just had a long time gerbil pet die, so good
home for Mr. Gerbil.
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(Msg. 12) Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:08 am
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I found out that squirrels have an incredibly long life, something like 10
yrs in the wild and more than that if they get human help...such as "bird
feeders"
I have bought every squirrel proof bird feeder known to man...
there is no such thing as a bird feeder in south louisiana, they are all
squirrel feeders.
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(Msg. 13) Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:56 am
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"perrylep" <perrylep RemoveThis @bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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>I found out that squirrels have an incredibly long life, something like 10
>yrs in the wild and more than that if they get human help...such as "bird
>feeders"
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> I have bought every squirrel proof bird feeder known to man...
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> there is no such thing as a bird feeder in south louisiana, they are all
> squirrel feeders.
> Perry
Hey Perry! Good to see you again. If you remember, we fed the squirrels
and birds at our old place and we had lots of them. But we didn't have any
problems with the squirrels trying to come into our house. Don't have any
idea why they might have invaded Lia's basement. You are correct, it's
nearly impossible to find bird feeders that are squirrel proof, which is why
we eventually just gave in and began feeding the squirrels too. We haven't
really seen any squirrels since we moved, I'm guessing they stick to the
woods. So far, only birds at our bird feeders. Although I did put out a
fruitcake for them just after Christmas. It wasn't thirty minutes later,
when I checked out the front window and found every morsel of fruitcake
gone, vanished, not a crumb left. Dh went outside to check, and said from
the size of the paw prints, it appeard that Drake, the big CBR from down the
road ate the fruitcake. I knew the birds couldn't have eradicated it that
completely in that short a time span. ;)
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In article <QI2nj.59219$Mu4.36034@bignews7.bellsouth.net>,
tiny dancer <tinydancer357 RemoveThis @nospamhotmail.com> wrote:
>Don't have any
>idea why they might have invaded Lia's basement.
Exercising your brain helps keep it healthy! Maybe it even
could undo some atrophy!! So, let's do an exercise, and
make a little list of the differences between "inside" and
"outside." Can you think of any?
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(Msg. 15) Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:35 pm
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tiny dancer wrote:
> Don't have any
> idea why they might have invaded Lia's basement.
It may remain a mystery. Nothing has changed about the house or the
squirrels since we moved in 11 years ago. Suddenly this year, we have
critters. Last post I was sure they were squirrels. Now I'm not so
sure. The broken glass and missing trap would suggest something big,
but it's not like we're infested with many of them. The humans haven't
heard anything, and there's no other evidence of nesting or scat.
Jim wondered if the fact that the broken glass was a Red Hook one
contains a message, perhaps a threat of what they'll do if we let the
dog down there or a request for (grain-based) beer.
Our next step is an investigation of the chimney to see if that yields
more clues.
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