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How do you get rid of a family of squirrels who have taken up residence in your attic?
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∙ 12y ago
We had the same problem a few years ago. I enjoyed hearing them run around, but did not enjoy their mess!! We first made sure that the babies were big enough to live on their own by placing a 2 x 4 from the ground to the roof. Sure enough, the little ones eventually began to use it in order to get in and out. One caution. Getting them all to leave at the same time doesn't happen. Plus, when we did think they were all out at one point and we took the board down, the mother got back in the babies ran around like chickens with their heads cut off. One actually jumped onto my pants leg and climbed up onto my head trying frantically to get back to Mom. We put the board back up.
Sooooo, how did we get rid of the uninvited freeloaders??
We hired a professional with 2 or 3 Have-a-heart traps. These were secured to our roof and around the property. They do not hurt the animals, but they do allow you to catch them. Once we saw that we had one, we called the professional who came and picked up the cage and brought the critter about 30 miles away to a heavily wooded area. Each new animal we caught was released to the same spot 30 miles away. Soon, we had no more pests.
Try the Have-a-Heart traps as long as the babies are big enough to survive out of the nest.
I had flying squirrels in the space between my 1st & 2nd floor. They entered from the roof to the gutter and into the covered porch and into the space between the floors. They nested and had a litter. They would play all night running around and had a store of nuts and chomped on them everynight above our bedroom. Well they were cute so I got a harmless cage trap to catch them but they were so light they couldn't set it off so I took a whole hickory nut (the only thing that would work) and put it on a rat trap (mouse traps are to small) and that caught them (all 5) and I hated to kill them but had no choice. I think one of them left on his own and brouht back his wife the next winter and had their family and I had to catch them also. After that I cut the trees within close proximity to the house so they could not get back up there.
We had squirrels in our attic too. They chewed a hole in a place under the eaves and got in that way. We hired a local company (Cridder Ridder) that humanely traps and takes them to a wooded area for release. $30 per quirrel plus a truck fee. They caught only two...thank heaven they hadn't had babies yet!
We had a mother squirrel and her babies take up in our basement! I'm still not sure how she got in and out of the house. I tried at first to open a basement window to encourage her out but she wouldn't go for it. I think something happened to the mother because we started hearing the babies but they wouldn't stop calling for her.
We live in a city that has a very generously spirited animal control department. I called them and an officer came out and helped me catch the squirrels. She was going to take them to somebody who helped rehabilitate them. We found one baby but another one hid to where we coudn't find it. I found it a few days later dead in a bag of clothes.
So long story short, contact your city or county's animal control policy and see what they can do. Mine has also helped me remove a bird of prey from my back screened in porch (I'm sure my cats were happy about that) and she gave me advice on how to help some birds that kept falling out of a nest in our car port.
We actually got rid of our squirrels without hiring professionals, but only because we knew exactly where they had entered, there was only one point of entry, and the hole was easily accessible from the ground via a stepladder. It took us 5 days. Step 1. Put boombox in attic playing FM rock at full volume throughout day. Burn incense to contribute to olfactory overload. Seal opening at dusk w/heavy gauge wire mesh, hoping most squirrels have moved to better neighborhood. Step 2. The next morning, outraged hare Krishna squirrels not put off by boombox and incense make presence heard. Scrabble at opening trying to get out. Husband removes mesh. Stands at distance from opening to prevent more squirrels going in before these guys leave. Wife pounds on ceiling with cane from inside, driving squatters toward exit. Squirrel is seen to leave. Mesh is reinstalled. Step 3. Repeat step 2. Step 4. Repeat step 3. There were five squirrels left post boom box episode. Step 5. Silence from attic for over 24 hours. Squirrels start trying to break in from outside. Husband nails board over hole.
The question of whether it is more humane to relocate squirrels or to kill them is a subject of controversy. Some experts believe that relocating them is inhumane because the squirrels who are already in the area of relocation will not accept the relocated inhabitants.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 15y agoUse a squirrel trap, you can get them at the local outdoor/farm store. I tried the Evictor Strobe Lights.... holes left open for 3 years...squirrels never returned.
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∙ 14y agoMouse traps! or poison bait, but I like traps better because then I can dispose of the carcass.
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