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Best bet is to simply close up any areas where they might be able to get into your house. Beyond that, trapping them is a losing battle. They will just keeping coming......
Best bet is to simply close up any areas where they might be able to get into your house. Beyond that, trapping them is a losing battle. They will just keeping coming......
I am just imaging waves and waves of squirrels attacking.
We have a neighborhood hawk family. No problem squirrels ;-)
Wow! that's why I don't see squirrels in my neighborhood! I never thought about that! Between the hawk and coyotes we have, it's wonder anything under 30lbs makes it around here We have loads of very fat geese.
One tip for those drafted into the Squirrel Wars: I had a long battle with them in my house. Trial and error and some suggestions from a professional let me to a combination of:
1) The havahart trap: peanut butter as bait, and make sure you road trip them far away both from you, and from any other houses so you don't export to your neighbors, squirrels who have learned how nice and warm attics are.
2) Sealing openings with Great Stuff expanding foam-in-a-can (Lowes or Home Depot), layered with thin layers of steel wool. The form fills any shaped openings you can identify and get close. and the steel wool is like dental floss (can't bite through it). Foam a layer, then stretch a layer of steel wool, then foam. Use disposable gloves and t-shirts/pants when working with the foam.
Home Depot also sells tubing the same size as the dispensing stray, and you can use it as a flexible extension to the can's tube to reach out long distances from where you can get to.
My experience from talking to both of these companies today. A CC person came to the house and performed the inspection; I only talked with TD by phone.
Both CC and TD had the same basic approach - lethal or "non-lethal" traps. (We had a squirrel die in the "non-lethal" trap when it was exposed to the elements all night so non-lethal may be less humane.)
Rates may change so I'll keep them relative & compare their rate structures. CC charges twice what TD charges to come out. If you give them the business, TD will wave the charge. Not so with CC. The person that came out wasn't sure if I'd need to pay the fee again if he had to come out a second time. I'll take that up with their office since that would kill the deal & TD would be the cheaper option at that point.
CC charges a per suirrel fee & TD is a flat rate. The break even between the two (including the inspection fee) is about two squirrels. TD charges twice what CC does to patch a hole, but if there are multiple holes, TD lowers the cost per hole until the cost between the two companies becomes the same. I don't know how many holes it would take to get to that point. If the hole is on the roof itself, the repair isn't guaranteed to not leak; I will need a roofer to fix it.
Related point: The inspection report itemized $1200 to $1800 of additional work that was recommended. Know what you're willing to sign for before they arrive.
In my case, I hear more than one squirrel up there, I just don't know how many will be there when the put the traps up. They both seem competent & capable but I'm leaning to TD at this point.
Have you considered trapping them yourself using a havahart trap? Before we moved in, the people who owned our house did that repeatedly and released them at blue jay point. Our squirrel population was down for years as a result.
No wonder I can't get rid of hem! I live right down the road from Blue Jay Point! Been trying to get rid of squirrels around here for years with no success!
We have cats and dogs and the squirrels thrive, they can climb a tree like no ones business.
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