Not dealing with Marine animals, but I still need help please!

[OUBrook]

What should someone do if they have an enormous rat or large squirrel in their house??

Yes, there is a point to this. All suggestions are appreciated! I'll update the story tomorrow. What can you do to get it out without having to worry about getting bitten/rabies?

Sheri, I'll tell you when you get home.

Thanks-

 

[papagimp]

Rat trap, rat bait (poison). big mean cat, or you can just do what Jess does everytime she see's a mouse, jump on the kitchen table and scream "EEEEEEKKKKKKKK".

 

[OUBrook]

Got the cat, she'd get the crap kicked outta her. If it's a squirrel... I just don't think I could kill it. I love squirrels.. That's counterproductive, I know. And I'm afraid the EEEEEEEKKKK!! didn't scare it away. What else?!

 

[OUBrook]

I have our dogs locked in Sheri's room which she hates (Sorry Sheri, you're just going to have to take one for the team). And I think I've got it trapped where it came in. But I am just wanting advice for if it becomes untrapped...

 

[ReeferRyan]

Call animal control and they will bring you out the appropriate live traps. When you catch it, they will come get it and take care of it.

 

[OUBrook]

Really? That's Awesome! Thanks!!

 

[ReeferRyan]

Yeah, I had a ferral cat problem at my apt. complex. The animal control officers will seem annoyed at having to work, but they will get over it.

 

[OUBrook]

I know it's ineluctable, but does "take care of it" mean kill it? Do they release squirrels?

 

[OUBrook]

Great, animal control is closed on Mondays... And the exterminator won't answer

 

[OUBrook]

Okay, now they answered and said they couldn't help me with that. But watch out at night because they're nocturnal... Gee, thanks. And now the paranoia sets it..

 

[papagimp]

Get a burlap sack and a few friends over.......ever been snipe hunting?

 

[OUBrook]

Not personally. But we are pretty familiar with it, so I'm afraid that won't work, lol. I think I have him pretty contained. Well, contained to the strength of a Walmart sack and Scotch Tape on paint. Don't ask... I'm desperate here.

I am pretty worried about it getting loose in the house.

 

[Radcat]

Go to the local feed store. They should have small animal traps. Put in some cheese and wait. The big traps won't kill them either.

 

[papagimp]

If you got em in a bag, taped to the floor, why not get some heavy duty gardener gloves and just grab the fool and throw em in the neighbor's back yard?

 

[janderson8]

Brook!!!!!!

I think I can help. First go to the garage!!!! Get a hammer and some wood. Remove the bag from the whole and nail the the wood to cover the whole. DONT THROW THE HAMMER TO FAR YOU WILL NEED IT AGAIN. Now make sure the whole is secure and the squirrel can not get out!!! Now this is where you need the hammer ok. Clime in with the squarl and just start swinging we will see at the next meeting who won LOL


No Realy good luck I have never had that problem so I dont know how to help.

 

[papagimp]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8779223#post8779223 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by janderson8
Clime in with the squarl and just start swinging we will see at the next meeting who won LOL

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[captbunzo]

I think you should eat it.... (before it eats you, muwhahaahahaha!!!)

 

[OUBrook]

Jason! That doesn't help! And I can't get a cage in where he is. He's trapped with my hot water tank. On top of it actually. So that little closet is the space I have to work with. There are completely ridiculous holes cut into the door in the shape of a diamond and a triangle. So I have Sheri's stool in front of the triangle and the sack taped over the diamond. I wish my other sister was here. When she (Sara) was 3, she hid under a turtle sandbox lid for hours trying to catch a squirrel. My aunt had to call the police and all our family trying to find her. They yelled and yelled, then finally a cop saw the lid move. He lifted it up and she said, "I twying to catch a squiwwel, Auntie! I gonna catch a squiwwel!" Sadly, you add 18 years on to that and all courage vanishes with childhood

 

[OUBrook]

Boys... typical. Just typical...

 

[papagimp]

Just don't be surprised if the "squirrel" isn't in that closet anymore. They have a knack for removing theselves without you knowing. If we were in New York, you'd just have to toss a cigarette butt on the ground to get em out.