Cute....

[cookiesdaughtersdad]

.... but I think they may have to die!
Unfortunately a squirrel or three have found their way though the eaves of our roof and into the loft space and with the roof design I think the best way is to kill them so I am wondering the best way of going about this?
Can they be trapped or is it baiting?
I would rather not have to kill them but I think its the only way.

Cheers, Alan

[davelumb]

If you trap them you could get some tasty meals out of the tree rats so they wouldn't have died in vain.

[Chico 48 PAC]

I have not seen it for years but perhaps you could kill them and then hang their bodies from barbed wire at the entrance to your drive to deter others. It is something farmers used to do. As a child I have seen rabbits, hares, stoats, weasels and magpies strung up at the same time. Thinking about it I had never even seen a live stoat in that area before the dead one, perhaps it works.

[Bob Watson]

A fishery a couple miles away from me had a cormorant hung on a fence quite a few years ago.

I'd tempt them with a feeder and shoot them, quick and humane, poisoning is a bad way to go and a bad thing to do IMO!

[Steve Dennington]

I have not seen it for years but perhaps you could kill them and then hang their bodies from barbed wire at the entrance to your drive to deter others. It is something farmers used to do. As a child I have seen rabbits, hares, stoats, weasels and magpies strung up at the same time. Thinking about it I had never even seen a live stoat in that area before the dead one, perhaps it works.

Was one of those farmers called Ed Gein?

[Chico 48 PAC]

Doubt it, March Cambs and I have seen them in Norfolk too.

[cookiesdaughtersdad]

A fishery a couple miles away from me had a cormorant hung on a fence quite a few years ago.

I'd tempt them with a feeder and shoot them, quick and humane, poisoning is a bad way to go and a bad thing to do IMO!

I have started off with a sonic scarer and a live trap, for me baiting isn't an option and if I had to, I would shoot them.
We have been here nearly 8 years and never had a problem, I think its just one or two animals that need removing before all the others learn if they have not already.

Cheers, Alan

[whitey79]

If you shoot them you could skin them and make a hat have a meal and crush the bones and remains for fertiliser waste not

[martin(rockape)]

I have not seen it for years but perhaps you could kill them and then hang their bodies from barbed wire at the entrance to your drive to deter others. It is something farmers used to do. As a child I have seen rabbits, hares, stoats, weasels and magpies strung up at the same time. Thinking about it I had never even seen a live stoat in that area before the dead one, perhaps it works.

I believe it used to be common practice let's say in the days of old and I too can remember seeing dead Stoats, Weasels, Rooks etc impaled on barbed wire fences. Most likely considered distasteful and unnecessary these days.

Regards

Martin

[martin(rockape)]

A fishery a couple miles away from me had a cormorant hung on a fence quite a few years ago.

I'd tempt them with a feeder and shoot them, quick and humane, poisoning is a bad way to go and a bad thing to do IMO!

I have started off with a sonic scarer and a live trap, for me baiting isn't an option and if I had to, I would shoot them.
We have been here nearly 8 years and never had a problem, I think its just one or two animals that need removing before all the others learn if they have not already.

Cheers, Alan

A bit of sweetcorn/cob in a cage trap then humanely despatch them.......just a note it's illegal to release grey squirrels back into the environment being an invasive species.

Regards

Martin

[cookiesdaughtersdad]

A fishery a couple miles away from me had a cormorant hung on a fence quite a few years ago.

I'd tempt them with a feeder and shoot them, quick and humane, poisoning is a bad way to go and a bad thing to do IMO!

I have started off with a sonic scarer and a live trap, for me baiting isn't an option and if I had to, I would shoot them.
We have been here nearly 8 years and never had a problem, I think its just one or two animals that need removing before all the others learn if they have not already.

Cheers, Alan

A bit of sweetcorn/cob in a cage trap then humanely despatch them.......just a note it's illegal to release grey squirrels back into the environment being an invasive species.

Regards

Martin

I have a live trap out with bait as I write and intend to take them for a drive, let them out and them dispatch them after giving them a 10 seconds head start!

Cheers, Alan

[wid]

I have not seen it for years but perhaps you could kill them and then hang their bodies from barbed wire at the entrance to your drive to deter others. It is something farmers used to do. As a child I have seen rabbits, hares, stoats, weasels and magpies strung up at the same time. Thinking about it I had never even seen a live stoat in that area before the dead one, perhaps it works.

I can remember seeing it many times, my old man told me that it was how game keepers showed land owners that they were doing their job, I don't know if that's correct but does seem to make sense

[EddieB]

I have not seen it for years but perhaps you could kill them and then hang their bodies from barbed wire at the entrance to your drive to deter others. It is something farmers used to do. As a child I have seen rabbits, hares, stoats, weasels and magpies strung up at the same time. Thinking about it I had never even seen a live stoat in that area before the dead one, perhaps it works.

I can remember seeing it many times, my old man told me that it was how game keepers showed land owners that they were doing their job, I don't know if that's correct but does seem to make sense

Farmers or the game keepers who looked after the land use to do it with Moles they had caught, all hung by there noses on the barbs of the wire, remember my granddad doing it on the farm, looked quite a strange ritual when you had a couple of dozen hung up in a line. Maybe it was proof of capture before you got paid per mole!

[davelumb]

It's done to prove the mole catcher is doing his job. It still goes on.

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If they don't drop them in a lick bucket!

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[cookiesdaughtersdad]

It's done to prove the mole catcher is doing his job. It still goes on.

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If they don't drop them in a lick bucket!

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Lick bucket?

Cheers ,Alan

[davelumb]

It's done to prove the mole catcher is doing his job. It still goes on.

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If they don't drop them in a lick bucket!

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Lick bucket?

Cheers ,Alan

A bucket with a mineral lick for livestock. An empty one for the moles, of course.

[EddieB]

It's done to prove the mole catcher is doing his job. It still goes on.

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If they don't drop them in a lick bucket!

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Too many for the fence to handle by looks of it

[davelumb]

It's done to prove the mole catcher is doing his job. It still goes on.

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If they don't drop them in a lick bucket!

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Too many for the fence to handle by looks of it

[wid]

It's done to prove the mole catcher is doing his job. It still goes on.

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If they don't drop them in a lick bucket!

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have you trapped those dave

[davelumb]

It's done to prove the mole catcher is doing his job. It still goes on.

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If they don't drop them in a lick bucket!

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have you trapped those dave

No. Just spotted them on my travels.

[whitey79]

It's done to prove the mole catcher is doing his job. It still goes on.

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If they don't drop them in a lick bucket!

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Any chance we could do this with rats

The ones of the council estates

[wid]

It's done to prove the mole catcher is doing his job. It still goes on.

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If they don't drop them in a lick bucket!

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Any chance we could do this with rats

The ones of the council estates

And squirrels, bloody sick of them on my bird feeders,ive shot 7 in the last week