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Home Invasion by Rodent
allen griggs
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Daisy the Beagle began barking at 6am. I went in to the living room, Daisy had a flying squirrel treed on the curtain rod.
Any suggestions on how to get rid of a flying squirrel? I'd rather not kill it.
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Do you have a hat? Don
The little rat ran off up into the ceiling.
Live trap baited with peanut butter. 100% result.
Think I’d try a fishing net in one hand and yard stick in the other, then take him outside for release.
Any clue to his access point?
Mule
Agree with Dave, I had a couple of bats come in our old house and a trout net did the trick. I'd try one with nylon string to lessen the chance of getting caught on his claws.
Fly paper?
Say how did it get in? A hole in a wall? I'd get a net on a stick or you can get all "Great Outdoors" on it.
Well at least it's partner did not come in with it.
Rember Rocky the flying squirrel and bullwinkle The moose
Good luck and not wanting to kill it good for you
that feeling of live and let live seems to come with age at least for me
I was awakened at midnight. Daisy had the squirrel cornered under the sofa. Daisy wanted to kill the little guy and I have seen her kill moles, rabbits and voles. Loves to kill rodents.
I saw the little guy bolt from the sofa and run behind the dresser and Daisy was jumping at the dresser, growling. This went on for 2 hours, Daisy chasing him up the stairs and attacking him under the bed. There was chaos throughout the house.
Finally, at 2 am he ran into the bathroom. Following Rocky's advice, I had set the Havahart trap out on the porch, and baited it with peanut butter. I brought the trap inside and set it on the bathroom floor. In a minute, I saw run all the way through the trap, in one end and out the other, and the trap did not spring! A real Houdini act, I think he just jumped over the bait tray, not sure how he did it, happened really fast.
I put on some heavy leather gloves and I went in there and caught him. Thank God for the heavy gloves because he was seriously biting, but the little mite couldn't bite through the heavy leather.
I took him for a 5 mile midnight ride out into the country and turned him loose. He was uninjured. With memories of the ferocious beagle fresh in his mind, hopefully he won't come back.
Daisy the Rodent Hound.
This ..... works every time.
Sounds like it's 50/50 now......
That flying squirrel just did what flying squirrels do. He FLEW over that traps bait release! 😁
I think he did fly over the bait tray. Supersquirrel.