I Hate Squirrels

[woodybeetle]

Looked out the window today, saw Mr S sitting on my fence chewing something. Did not think about it until 9 Pm when my sat signal went to 12 on the 101 then I remembered that cute and fuzzy moment. Time to do some late night splicing.

[KAL]

Looked out the window today, saw Mr S sitting on my fence chewing something. Did not think about it until 9 Pm when my sat signal went to 12 on the 101 then I remembered that cute and fuzzy moment. Time to do some late night splicing.


:eek2:

[Grentz]

Sounds like you need a pellet gun :p

(Or just better cable protection/cover)

[K4SMX]

"Splicing"? :eek2:

Squirrels can do a lot of damage. You may have to "take action." Reminds me of a problem my dad had with crows eating his corn seed. The guy from across the road showed up with a quart jar full of corn immersed in some liquid. I asked him, "What's the liquid?" "Battery acid. You might have crows, but they won't be the same crows....." :)

[Jimmy 440]

Those little *^#*ers did massive damage to my RG8U cables for my cb radio back in the 80s.I was replacing the coax every year or so.I agree with Grentz in this case.

[Supervolcano]

Happens all the time.

Back when I used to (privately) set up dishes for friends and their friends, you wouldn't believe how many times I'd get a call about signal going out and drive to the house to find chewed cables.

Problem gets even worse in the winter when animals are looking for food in snow covered regions.

[bwaldron]

Squirrels can do a lot of damage.

They sure can. The tree rats are evil critters.

[EVAC41]

Sounds like you need a pellet gun :p

(Or just better cable protection/cover)


My uncle and I had the same problem one chewed thru his cable and the same one got into his house and scared his wife to death when she awoke and found this critter on her stomache staring right at her :eek2: Boy I never heard her scream as loud as she did. So lets just say slug and squirl don't mix very well :eek2: :lol:

[Supervolcano]

My uncle and I had the same problem one chewed thru his cable and the same one got into his house and scared his wife to death when she awoke and found this critter on her stomache staring right at her :eek2: Boy I never heard her scream as loud as she did. So lets just say slug and squirl don't mix very well :eek2: :lol:
He was just trying to catch a program on Animal Planet.

He went inside the house to catch it after finding out he couldn't tap into the line outside to watch it (he tried to get an account and a receiver of his own, but DirecTV didn't approve of his credit status so he got declined).

Cut the little guy some slack!!! It was probably your uncle's dog or cat who told the squirrel about the program in the first place!!!

[paulman182]

"Splicing"? :eek2:

Squirrels can do a lot of damage. You may have to "take action." Reminds me of a problem my dad had with crows eating his corn seed. The guy from across the road showed up with a quart jar full of corn immersed in some liquid. I asked him, "What's the liquid?" "Battery acid. You might have crows, but they won't be the same crows....." :)

Surely there is a less-gruesome way to get rid of them than battery acid.

[CoramDeo]

Squirrel are very tasty, especially in a gumbo or jambalaya. It's squirrel season, so be sure your hunting license hasn't expired. I've never killed a squirrel with a pellet rifle; use a .22 rifle instead so you don't have to pick out the shot.

[mobandit]

Squirrel are very tasty, especially in a gumbo or jambalaya. It's squirrel season, so be sure your hunting license hasn't expired. I've never killed a squirrel with a pellet rifle; use a .22 rifle instead so you don't have to pick out the shot.

Pellet rifle is better inside a city limit...

[HDTVFreak07]

OH! DON'T REMIND ME!!! Last year, around this time or maybe October, the squirrel went underneath my 2002 Trailblazer hood and dropped its chestnut under the wires. The squirrel chewed apart my wires and I ended up paying over $1,000 trying to get things straightened out. My clutch fan quit working (when I accellerate, it sounds like you're taking off in an airplane), air conditioner quit working and my mirror was showing "OC" instead of outdoor temperature. I took it to one Chevrolet dealership and they totally ripped me off. They said it was just a coincidence that my clutch fan wasn't working right and the air conditioner quit working. I had to pay $200 deductible, spent some $$ on a new clutch fan (only to find out there was nothing wrong with the original one), paid labor for replacing the fan, etc. Then come inspection time this past June, nobody would pass it because of "service engine soon" light that was on. Finally took it to another Chevrolet dealership and paid a measly $268.11. This time, they actually fixed it because the wires were reconnected wrong.

[K4SMX]

Squirrel are very tasty, especially in a gumbo or jambalaya. It's squirrel season, so be sure your hunting license hasn't expired. I've never killed a squirrel with a pellet rifle; use a .22 rifle instead so you don't have to pick out the shot.
Some folks would argue that gray squirrels are varmints, not subject to seasonal regulations. :)

[dhhaines]

Some folks would argue that gray squirrels are varmints, not subject to seasonal regulations. :)

Which is why a pellet rifle is the weapon of choice.;) Can shoot them in the backyard without waking the neighbors nor alerting any authority type folks. :D

[techgirl]

I once heard an N-Star lineman refer to squirrels as rats with good PR. That was after one had fried him or herself in an underground transformer. Of course, the incident caused a massive power outage for the office park that I was working at

One other squirrel tidbit - my father once rode horses with a guy who swore that Shake-N-Bake was the key to tender, tasty squirrel.

[BkwSoft]

Which is why a pellet rifle is the weapon of choice.;) Can shoot them in the backyard without waking the neighbors nor alerting any authority type folks. :D

A 22 short can be just as quiet as a pelet gun and much more effective. :D

[CCDMan]

Ha! Here is the fun and amusing way to get rid of them - this one won't be back, that is for sure! He is now scared *hitless<VBG>

Squirrel Launcher (http://gizmodo.com/5048294/vertical-squirrel-launcher-takes-furry-terror-to-new-heights)

[dettxw]

One of my little friends.
Bearing grease on the pole didn't keep him from climbing up into the feeder.

15572

Haven't seen him around lately though, I think he got himself squashed.

[iluvtv]

i have a lot of bush rabbits where i live and my cable has a fairly long run from the dish to the house, so i have my coax inside 3/4" plastic hose, i had to splice (plastic hose that is) it in a few places cause you can only shove the coax it in so far.

[joe diamond]

And so as you new satellite school graduates go out into the world to hang cable and dishes I would give you this word of commencement advice. Watch out for squirrels! Be careful as you drive that you not squash our animal friends. Remember that after you are paid for an installation you can expect to get paid to do it again after the squirrels visit. Learn phone work because squirrels will shred phone lines also. Squirrels are your friends!

Joe

[bwaldron]

Learn phone work because squirrels will shred phone lines also. Squirrels are your friends!

:)

[tcusta00]

Got me a pellet gun last year when the varmints chewed through my trash cans, chewed through the string on my birdfeeder and it crashed to the ground and shattered, and started raising hell in my attic.

tcusta00 = 2
varmints = see above

I still have more killin' to do. I considered breaking out the 22 but I didn't want to alert the neighbors. The pellet gun is almost silent and a shot to the torso stuns it while I can approach more closely and make the kill.

[dhhaines]

A 22 short can be just as quiet as a pelet gun and much more effective. :D

Yea but I can sit in my lounge chair in the den with the window open and pick them off with the pellet gun. Even a 22 short is too loud for inside. :D

[finaldiet]

If I can see it, it's within range!:D

[jodyguercio]

Gunnery Seargant Hartman would be proud.....me personally a pellet gun would be the way to go.

[curt8403]

Surely there is a less-gruesome way to get rid of them than battery acid.


yes there is. this unit connected with one connection on one rail of model railroad track (HO scale) and the other rail connected to the ground connection

http://www.fence-electric.com/ShopDetail.php?recordID=EM2

the squirrel steps on the track, and the shock knocks them right off the roof or fence or whatever.

[tcusta00]

yes there is. this unit connected with one connection on one rail of model railroad track (HO scale) and the other rail connected to the ground connection

http://www.fence-electric.com/ShopDetail.php?recordID=EM2

the squirrel steps on the track, and the shock knocks them right off the roof or fence or whatever.

Hmmm, I'm wondering how that would work if I hooked it up to my gutters... or if it would just be a tremendous fire hazard.

[jodyguercio]

Hmmm, I'm wondering how that would work if I hooked it up to my gutters... or if it would just be a tremendous fire hazard.

Should work, just dont forget to unplug it when you are going to clean out the gutters so that they dont become the fire hazard.

[curt8403]

Hmmm, I'm wondering how that would work if I hooked it up to my gutters... or if it would just be a tremendous fire hazard.
the two connections must not touch each other and the hot side cannot contact a ground source. it is the foot on the rail that completes the circuit and does the job, in this case, a shock strong enought to possibly stop the squirrels heart, no great loss to anyone except the squirrel

[joe diamond]

Q. How can you kill those beautiful creatures?
A. You gotta lead "em. They are fast!

And squirrels were reported to get Whitey Ford his first professional pitching job. A baseball scout came upon Ford while he was squirrel hunting with rocks.

"Boy, do you always hunt squirrels like that?

"No sir. I used to throw at them with my right hand but it dinged the pelts up too bad. Pa told be to switch to left hand, use bigger rocks and try to take a little bark off with the squirrel; works pretty good. Wanna buy some pelts?"

The rest is history.

Joe

[cweave02]

Christmas Day, 2001. Snowy and windy in SW Va - one decided to get warm up on top of the transformer pole and committed suicide instead. Knocked out half the neighborhood. Good thing my parents have a wood stove in the den - the rolls were a little crispy, tho.

[Birdieman30]

Try a CB (conical ball) .22 load or a BB cap (bulleted breach) .22 load. They are much more quiet than a .22 short. They should only use the primer with no additional powder and carry much more energy than a pellet gun. They would probably violate any local firearms discharge laws, but are much more effective and much more accurate.
Did I say I hate squirrels?

[houskamp]

http://www.monroesavethesquirrels.com/ :lol:

[teebeebee1]

I used to have a couple racoons that lived in my neighborhood, no clue why, they'd crawl up to my dish and unplug the cables (for some reason i used the coax that just plugs on instead of screws one, duh!)

new cords fixed me up , wish i'd have thought of battery acid

[Sharkie_Fan]

28 years ago, or so, when I was still a little tyke, my parents bought a nice new house out in the country on 2 1/2 acres.

Said 2 1/2 acres were infested with ground squirrels. It was deafening listening to their chatter in the afternoon.

My mom, who grew up in the woods of Oregon, and whose family hunted for their food, sat on the deck every afternoon for several weeks in a lawn chair with a .22 and an iced tea (she's a preacher's kid, otherwise, it surely would have been something alcoholic)

She'd pop one of the little buggers and all of them would dive underground. A few minutes later, one of them would pop their heads up to see where their friend went. That, sadly, was the last thought they ever had, as my mom would take deadly aim.

Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

After a few weeks, no more ground squirrels. And they've never returned.

[gfrang]

Squirrels ate my blow up boat last fall in the shed.Reading this tread i just broke out my .177 cal pellet riffle and declared war,sorry Rocky.

[curt8403]

Squirrels ate my blow up boat last fall in the shed.Reading this tread i just broke out my .177 cal pellet riffle and declared war,sorry Rocky.

rocky (Rocket J. Squirrel) is a flying squirrel, the ones that are your boad are not, they are no relation.

Blaze away

[gfrang]

Thanks Curt now my concuss is clear:D

[RobertE]

~ 2 - 3 squirrels cut up in pieces
~ 1/4 cup flour
~ garlic salt
~ black pepper
~ 2 tbsp oil
~ 1/2 tsp oregano
~ 1/4 tsp ground cloves
~ 1 4oz can sliced mushrooms, drained
~ 1 medium green pepper, chopped
~ 2 onions, sliced
~ 1 rib of celery, chopped
~ 1 15oz can tomato sauce
~ 1/2 cup dry white wine
~ 1 small can(2oz) ripe sliced olives


Shake the squirrel pieces in a bag with flour, garlic salt and pepper. In a Dutch oven saute the pieces in the oil until golden brown.

Add the remaining ingredients, except for the olives. Cover and simmer over low heat about 1 hour, or squirrel is tender.

Stir in black olives simmer 10 minutes more.

Serve with rice or noodles if desired.

Enjoy!

For more, look here:

http://www.backwoodsbound.com/zsquir.html

[K4SMX]

Squirrels ate my blow up boat last fall in the shed.Reading this tread i just broke out my .177 cal pellet riffle and declared war,sorry Rocky.
Yup. RWS Model 350 w/ Beeman Air Rifle Scope. Also good for rats at dusk. Bird seed makes great bait.

[crashHD]

2 step solution:

1) Catch/trap squirrel.
2) Send squirrel to this guy (http://www.willitblend.com/)

[joe diamond]

Yup. RWS Model 350 w/ Beeman Air Rifle Scope. Also good for rats at dusk. Bird seed makes great bait.

Stew,

It is just not the same without all the smoke and noise. I did pass up a shot at a rat.......(squirrel pal) because there was a $900.00 tractor tire behind it. But I did take a shot at a goose on the ground in front of a stick up decoy. When the smoke and dust cleared the goose head & decoy were gone. Almost as good as napalm in the morning!

And you can't prune trees with an air rifle.

Joe

[K4SMX]

Well, here in the mountains I can shoot off the front porch. Do other things that usually require aiming, too. ;) But in the FL location I have to drop back to quiet mode and concealment..... :)

[armophob]

~ 2 - 3 squirrels cut up in pieces

Enjoy!

For more, look here:[/url]

I think you missed step #1. Take shovel and scoop varmit from road