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SQUIRREL!
5 years ago
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Yes... this all deals with a squirrel. Specifically a local gray squirrel in the yard.
With the mating season for these fuzzy critters long past for the year, they've all been busy hunkering down for winter. Now, it's not snowing in our area (I'm 35 minutes East of Sacramento... you know... where our loony legislators hang out)... but, the animals have their wintering never the less. They look for nice... warm... cozy places to hide overnight.
Well, were I'm residing (temporary, until I can actually BUY a new house) has had mice, roof rats, and now... SQUIRRELS!
Okay.. 1 squirrel. One gray squirrel. ONE 9 inch long PAIN IN THE... This thing has kept me awake in the middle of the night at times... (like at 3 am, on work days).
Question: How do you rid yourself of a squirrel, without killing it?
Answer: LIVE TRAP!
So, with a little help from a brother, we put peanut butter into the trap 3 days ago, and set it.
Day 1 - nothin'!
Day 2 - moved it closer to where it was curling up in my attic (having chewed timber, and such). Nothin!
Day 3 - Nothing in the morning and then.... 5 pm... BINGO! Caught it (looks like a young male).
So now.. this little gray squirrel was not happy. Okay... SERIOUSLY PISSED! I'd never seen such defiance! Human primates like us are... what 10 to 15 times larger? This thing was stomping it's paws and making all sorts of angry barks!
Now what? Mmmmm... Yeah.. .got to let it go, but where? WHERE!? AH!
The local park! That's the ticket! Tons of local trees, just like the scrub oak's in the back of my current yard, of the house I'm renting.
"Hey Bro?! HEY SQUIRREL! Wanna take a ride?"
So, over we go... angry squirrel, in live trap, in the back of my Subaru, cussing ... all the time wondering... will we experience the "National Lampoon Christmas Vacation" Christmas tree squirrel reenactment... in my car? Yeah.. this guy was seriously uptight.
So.... get to the park, put the cage on the ground, begin to release the safety on the cage doors and.... BINGO! This gray squirrel took off! I mean TOOK OFF!... I think if I'd clocked him, he'd traveling about 15 mph (squirrel speed). DAMN.. a direct beeline for the oaks!
1) Bugger trapped safely.
2) Bugger released safely.
3) Bro and me laughing our ass off at the speed of that squirrel... priceless!
With the mating season for these fuzzy critters long past for the year, they've all been busy hunkering down for winter. Now, it's not snowing in our area (I'm 35 minutes East of Sacramento... you know... where our loony legislators hang out)... but, the animals have their wintering never the less. They look for nice... warm... cozy places to hide overnight.
Well, were I'm residing (temporary, until I can actually BUY a new house) has had mice, roof rats, and now... SQUIRRELS!
Okay.. 1 squirrel. One gray squirrel. ONE 9 inch long PAIN IN THE... This thing has kept me awake in the middle of the night at times... (like at 3 am, on work days).
Question: How do you rid yourself of a squirrel, without killing it?
Answer: LIVE TRAP!
So, with a little help from a brother, we put peanut butter into the trap 3 days ago, and set it.
Day 1 - nothin'!
Day 2 - moved it closer to where it was curling up in my attic (having chewed timber, and such). Nothin!
Day 3 - Nothing in the morning and then.... 5 pm... BINGO! Caught it (looks like a young male).
So now.. this little gray squirrel was not happy. Okay... SERIOUSLY PISSED! I'd never seen such defiance! Human primates like us are... what 10 to 15 times larger? This thing was stomping it's paws and making all sorts of angry barks!
Now what? Mmmmm... Yeah.. .got to let it go, but where? WHERE!? AH!
The local park! That's the ticket! Tons of local trees, just like the scrub oak's in the back of my current yard, of the house I'm renting.
"Hey Bro?! HEY SQUIRREL! Wanna take a ride?"
So, over we go... angry squirrel, in live trap, in the back of my Subaru, cussing ... all the time wondering... will we experience the "National Lampoon Christmas Vacation" Christmas tree squirrel reenactment... in my car? Yeah.. this guy was seriously uptight.
So.... get to the park, put the cage on the ground, begin to release the safety on the cage doors and.... BINGO! This gray squirrel took off! I mean TOOK OFF!... I think if I'd clocked him, he'd traveling about 15 mph (squirrel speed). DAMN.. a direct beeline for the oaks!
1) Bugger trapped safely.
2) Bugger released safely.
3) Bro and me laughing our ass off at the speed of that squirrel... priceless!
I haven't had any squirrels munching on my house since then.