For the last 2 months this damn squirrel wont leave my backyard !!!...Im going nuts!..My dogs consistently barking non-stop! and this squirrel running around my backyard like he owns it HAHA!...Please tell me what I can do? (Please dont say shoot it or anything..because I never would hurt an animal) But can I call the CITY or something...ahhhhhHow can I get rid of this damn squirrell?
set up a trap, and set it free somewhere very far from your house
How can I get rid of this damn squirrell?
If it was a larger rodent like a possum or raccoon most cities or towns would have animal control to lay traps to catch them but not for squirrels. Your new pet squirrel, like it or not, is going nuts too! Just looking for food to store for cold winter. Or has already stored food in your yard somewhere and can't find it. Squirrels do not remember where they hide their nuts and the like. Chipmunks on the other hand remember where everything is and then some. Why not get some peanuts or black walnuts, when your dog is inside, lay them a path going away from the back yard - guiding the squirrel in another direction.
You can buy a trap that won't harm it. However, these animals have incredible homing sense. If you don't drive it very, very far away it will just return to where it likely has a family, a stash of food, and/or a nest. If anyone has fed the squirrel, or it has eaten from a bird feeder it will be even harder to get rid of it.
Your best bet would be to train your dog not to bark at the squirrel. Squirrels can carry rabies and if frightened (say, by being trapped in a cage) can run up the body and bite! If you don't catch it you'll have to endure the 13 painful belly shots to treat for rabies. In fact, even if you do catch it, they still give the shots until the severed head (only way) of the squirrel yields test results.
See why I say teach the dog to stop barking at it? A spray bottle and a loud no! usually work like a charm, but you have to be consistent.
Good luck.
Sometimes you can get a trap from your local animal control center.
I'm not sure of the specifics for different places, but sometimes you can rent one for cheap, or even borrow it for free.
The type you see in movies (think the trap that Remy gets caught in in Ratatouille) is probably the easiest to use.
Obviously, you need some bait. Squirrels will go for birdseed or corn.
(On a side note, should you ever have an issue with mice, they love peanut butter and cat food.)
Once you catch the squirrel, all you have to do is take the trap a ways from your home and let the little bugger go.
Here's a picture of one of those traps, in case you weren't sure:
http://store.doyourownpestcontrol.com/is鈥?/a>
Hope this works for you.
I don't know where you live, but if you can find some kind of farm store, usually some kind of feed 'n seed place, they usually have a live trap. You might even be able to get one at Home Depot.
Anyway, it does what it says; it traps live animals, like cats and squirrels, without harming them. But that's the easy part. Now you have to try to release it.
The poor animal will be frightened, which may prove to be mortally traumatic. Assuming it isn't, you have to transport the animal somewhere and then trigger the release mechanism, which in the one I have is absurdly complicated. You should also be aware that relocating a wild animal, even if the capture, transfer and release are relatively smooth, is often fatal. You plunk an animal down in an environment in which he's not familiar, he now has to find food and shelter from scratch, and avoid predators he may not be familiar with. He often runs out of time before he can do all of that. It looks good on those various Nature TV types of shows, but when they relocate those ';nuisance bears,'; they're just doing it for public relations. The bears almost always die because they're displaced into unfamiliar surroundings (or worse yet, another bear's territory) and waste away before they can learn to cope.
Well, hopefully someone else has a better solution. Good luck!
No you cant call the city.
Squirrels are a pest. The only solution is for you to shoot it. My wife used to be the ';dont hurt it'; type. Then we had a squirrel get in our house and it did about 1500 dollars worth of damage. Now any squirrel that comes to our backyard is killed immediately. Get a good pellet gun, a .22 with subsonic rounds or my favorite, my compound bow I use for deer. Great target practice.
What is wrong with a squirrel in the yard? There would be no problem unless the squirrel is causing damage of any sort. Your backyard is the squirrel's home, he chooses to live there. Even If you remove that squirrel, wouldn't another squirrel come eventually? If you must remove the squirrel, try to remove it humanely. You just have to accept the presence of wildlife. Animals have a right to a home as much as we do.
There is nothing you can do. The city will not come and get it unless it is suspected of having rabies or something...in that case, you're dogs would probably be under suspicion as well as they seem to cohabitate. So...sorry...unless it dies, it yours to keep...oh, and unless you drive it SEVERAL miles away...it will find it's way home...but would you really even want to do that with winter coming and his nut/food storage in the area of your yard...that would be like killing him slowly...??
I'm a biologist and we use Sherman Traps all the time to catch rodents. I'm sure it would work with your squirrel too. Just bait it with something super tasty like peanuts or dried fruit... maybe make a short trail of them leading to the trap.
http://www.shermantraps.com/
check out these websites for help....
http://www.ehow.com/how_2343070_get-rid-鈥?/a>
http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Squirr鈥?/a>
http://www.getridofthings.com/get-rid-of鈥?/a>
Hope they're helpful!!
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Call animal control. You can also buy a small live animal trap at a outdoors store, catch the squirrel, then release it a few miles away from your house.
Explosives. Then you're not hurting the animal, the explosives are. Or, you could get your neighbor to shoot it. Or you could buy a live animal trap.
You could try to tempt it like Hammy and give it some Love Handles, Skinny Mints, Neener-Neeners, and Smackeroons...... oh, and don't forget the energy drink!
you dont have to shoot it but just make traps...then take it into the wild and let it go..or when you capture it keep it in the box and through it off a bridge,problem solved!!!
Catch it in a trap or something. Drive a few miles away from your house with it and let it go. It shouldn't find its way back.
Throw nuts over the fence into your neighbors yard. He may thank you for it since he won't have to hear your pooch bark all day!
Get/make a squirrel trap and take the squirrel far away from your house.
Let your dogs out, chuck some nuts into nextdoor's garden =]
Just nature take care of it... get a Lion or a Tiger to eat it and problem resolved. ;-)
throw a whole bunch of peanuts and bird seed on your neighbors lawn everyother day, then it will bother them
Is it making you go nuts? HEHEHEHE
live trap they don't cost much
take him somewhere and let him go
Get a ';Have-a-Heart'; trap if you dont want to kill it.
Basically it's a small spring-cage trap that you bait with food... toss some bread and cheese in there and you should capture the little bugger in no time.
Then just go release him far away from your house.
But no.. the city wont come for a squirrel. Dont you know there's an economic crisis? (Besides the fact they'd laugh at you even if the economy was fine)
Your only other option is killing it of course, via gun or poison.
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