My mom officially declared war on SQUIRRELS!

[WickeDKlowN]

We have the same problem, but I just shoot em with an old .22 then lay them out in the pasture for hawks or snakes or w/e the hell eats them. They're usually gone within a few hours. Same goes for armadillos(they tear up the yard) but they usually get ate up by the buzzards and eagles.

[PyRo]

We have just been trapping them and taking them on 10 mile trips to someone elses house

[Bad_Dog]

well well well

you've discovered my other hobby besides paintball and hunting

Technically between my neighbors and I, I am considered to be "Urban Management" and I controll the rabbit, gopher, chipmunk, squirrel, and any other varmit in the area surrounding my house... and while I do like the .17HMR approach, sometimes there indeed is a need for a less than lethal approach to the situation.

I ususlly use live traps and relocate the animal (more than 15 miles) but sometimes that doesnt work since populations of some critters are so high; it can bee like a waiting line... when you remove one animal, the next takes its place. So the second method is deturrance, find somethng that squirrels hate, and use it to your advantage. I had a problem at a relatives house with squirrels eating feeders and then gorging on the bird seed and we solved it by mixing hot pepper dust with the bird seed (it can be found at most pet/bird stores).

as for an electrical device your most likly not going to be able to do something with that isea unless it kills the animal. The fact that squirrels are furry animals makes it very difficult to make them complete an electrical circut without a great amount of voltage; thus limiting that method to lethal or supertough squirrels only...

heh, look... I even express my feelings towards squirrels in my sig

[Skoad]

I think it won't have much of a problem with completing the circuit. I plan to either run a wire or some mesh material on the bar where they hang, so their paws will be touching it. I am worried about frying the little buggers, I guess I'll have to start with a low amount of power and move slowly up.


I remember now that a friend back in school rigged up a disposible camera to his doorknob and shocked people. Capacitor stores a charge for the flash bulb and zap! I might try that if i can find a disposible camera.




Alternate idea is not to shock them, but to hook up a speaker or something that makes noise, when they jump on....blast em with a horn!

[magman007]

the disposable camera thing tho, doesnt provide that big of a shock, it really isnt any thing that will piss off a squirel. HOnestly, fry em and be like, oops sorry ma, it didnt work like i wanted to, then chuckle to your self, or do the hot peper dust thing. The motorizd feeder is a cool idea, but onl yif ya wanna spend the dough... or quit feeding birds, and let em find their own stuff

[dj89]

HAVE A HART TRAP you can get them at your tractor store. or a .22 will do it

[Trina]

There is this bird feeder, that when any pressure is put on the bar for the birds, it starts spinning... I love watchig my stupid squirrels jump on it, start spinning around like mad, holding on for dear life... falling off and flying into a tree... never gets old...


here

http://www.yankeeflipper.com/droll/index.cfm

BWAHAHHAHAAHA!!! OMG that was awesome!

[behemoth]

heheh, disposible camera internals are fun, my buddy's dad is an electrician, so he gets us larger capacitators, THEY HURT, he says its a little less than a stun gun, just enough that you WONT get knocked out...

So we run around school with em

[Skoad]

Yea i know they will DEFINATELY knock a squirrel off the feeder, but I'm worried they are gonna be smoking afterwards.