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

I think mice actually prefer peanut butter. I think both will eat bread. I don't know if either would be dumb enough to voluntarilly go into a box or trap, but that is what I would try without a boy around. Use rubber or leather gloves.
 
Grab a can of hairspray and a lighter, have someone open the door for you and then start the flamethrower! It defnitely wouldn't attack you but I don't know how much good it would do. I just like to play with fire. Lol.

Is this closet next to your front door? There are ways to just get it outside
 
Heck, if you don't have little kids running around, just poison something tasty and leave it out... Make sure you warn Chris, though, so he doesn't take a bite.

Of course, then you can't eat the dead rat...
 
Lol! I have other animals, so I can't just leave it out. And yeah, it's a gas heater. I have to go warn the guy that lives on the other side of the duplex that he may get a squirrel (or more) inside his house. I'm also going to have to go buy some screening to put where the Walmart sack is. No heat is able to escape...

:( This sucks, lol. But admittedly, pretty funny
 
Well, coming to my rescue, Chris wanted to survey the situation. He opened the closet and the little squirrel was still sitting on the hot water tank. He looked kind of cute actually. Much better than my experience:

I took a nap today, and when I woke up, Sadie (my cat) was pawing under the door to the heater. I thought she found a mouse and chased him under the door. I think mice are kinda cute, so I opened up the door and couldn't find it. I looked up at staring eye-to-eye with my was the head of an enormous rodent. I've been sick so when I tried to scream, not much came out. But it was running around in there. When I noticed it was a squirrel, the squirrel-lover came out in me and I go get it something to eat. Lol.. flash-backs of my mom saying "Don't you feed that cat! It will never leave." Well, all I had was frozen pecans so I put some in there with it, VERY carefully. Haha, I don't know if squirrels eat pecans, lol. I'm an idiot. Well, my aunt used to raise squirrels (what can we say, we're from Oklahoma), and she has told us how mean squirrels can be. And I know how bad rabies shots hurt, so I was very cautious. Well, Chris and I were going to build my new seahorse stand tonight, and so I had to go take a shower before he got off work. I leave the bathroom door open and decide to take a bath so I could see if it ran out. While I'm taking a bath, my dog wants to play fetch so I throw the ball down the hall, past the door, and this squirrel FREAKS! It is making this horrible battle cry from the closet and my dogs zone in on it. Now I'm really worried. This is like DEFCON1 now. I gave it a peace offering and now it's threatening my little family. I know if that squirrel bolts out of that closet, my dogs are gonna be on it like a 3-legged cat. And mentioning cat, my cat thinks it's the coolest toy mom's ever brought home. I know I couldnt' make it out of the tub fast enough to keep my dogs and cat from getting bit. So I get out of the tub, rush down the hall soaking wet in a towel and grab the Walmart sack. I tape up the sack in a mad frenzy because I have to reach across the hole that it could lurch through and bite me. And I put the stool in front of the other hole. Occasionally I would go by the door and bang on it, trying to scare it away. It probably thought the nice lady would drop off some more tasty pecans... Not this time, sucka!

I didn't open the door again till Chris got here. He thought it was cute. Well I did too till it cussed me out! When I went outside to get my mail there was another squirrel hovering over my house making the same battle cry. Think I'm going to get ambushed?
 
OOOOOOOOOk..... I went to wally world after work today, and I called Brook to see if she needed anything. "Ummm, just milk. Oh, read my post on rc when you get home too. I am going to Chris's". When I get home, the dogs have gotten into the trash again. Not in a good mood. I go into the bathroom, and have to wash my hands in the tub cause my stool is MIA. "What the crap? Honestly!" Then I see my stool in front of the hot water heater closet, a walmart bag covering the top hole. ????? So I figure screw it, I'll go see what's on RC. Then I see that the little hefier, aka Brook, has eaten almost all of my Reeses Pieces!!!! ARGHHH!!!! If it's MY dark chocolate or peanut butter, eat it and suffer the consequences. Then I got on here and see why my stool is in the hall. (I honestly don't know how I didn't see it going to the bathroom in the first place.) HAHAHA..... Since Brook is the PETA person in this house, anyone got a pellet gun I can borrow? I'll buy the beer! I used to make decent bows and arrows as a kid, but the sap is gone and the bow would snap.... Brook keeps all of the knives up high..... If we can get the squirrel, there is a fishing lure company that pays $2 a tail, or free lures..... maybe I should dig out the camo and grease paint. ;-)
 
sounds like speedies a tad miffed (or as we Brits would say, distinctly dischuffed).

Go get it Sheri! Make a hatband! Sheri Crocket.

better still....catch it an leave in under Brooks sheets. She said she likes Squirrels.

lol....you guys are cracking me up.
 
This is too funny.

Sheri, I think you are entitled to some retribution since she took your stool and locked the dogs up in your room.

Brooke, I feel your pain. I hate rodents. Squirrells are cute from afar - until they torment my cat or chew on wires, or get in the attic.....
 
Paul, I have no idea what all you just said. Crazy Brit.

Haha, I came home from Chris's tonight and asked Sheri if she wanted to see the squirrel. I told her where to stand, cracked open the door... then I had to make the choice of bending down, losing eye contact with the beast, and pick Sheri up to see it. Had it blinked I probably would have peed my pants and dropped Sheri on her face. Those exact things entered my mind as I bent over. But he remained still and let me exhibit him. He was panting too. So now I'm afraid that he can't get back out the hole and is roasting in there. Can you imagine what that would smell like?!

The irony of this, I ran to grab some sort of nuts from the kitchen, only finding pecans, and Sheri had just bought squirrel food to hang in the tree for the winter. Uh... now my wheels are turning... isn't that a little coincidental? I think we shall talk..
 
I have raised a few squirrels, and most importantly DO NOT try gloves and grabbing it it all costs lol. A squirrel can bite through a shark suit like butter. Gloves are nothing. His little teeth are wayyy longer and sharper then they appear lol. As for feeding until you get him out, they are suckers for chocolate. Especially those reese's pieces. I would say he is trapped and can't get out the way he came in, so you are going to have to get a trap in there. Put a chocolate bar in the trap and he's your's. If you like your pets, don't let them get a chance at it, squirrels are very capable of tearing them a new one quick. IT will be the last one they chase unless they are real quick and know what it means to catch a squirrel lol. If you tell animal control that he is trapped and cannot get out, and he is growling insainly, they will come out. They won't just come out by telling them he is in your attic, but when he is trapped, confined, and a danger, they have to respond.
 
Oh, and if you try the pellet gun, it better be a high powered one, and hit him in the head. Squirrels have extremely tough skin from the neck down.
 
Ladies, Have you got a bucket and a fish net? Maybe one of those long handles reach grabber things? Get Chris to snag it and drop it into the bucket and put a top on it. Then toss it in the neighbors yard.

You also need to find the entry way from the outside and plug it up. Use steel wool to plug a hole. They can easily chew through most anything else. The steel wool bothers their teeth.

If I lived in Norman, I would show mu chivalry and get the sucker for you. But since you are not in OKC, you are stuck with the wimpy Norman COMAS members. hehehehe
 
You might try a squirt bottle with an ammonia solution: it's winter, they're looking for a place to den, and ammonia or predator-urine [which you may be able to get at the feed store] will discourage them...
On the other hand, it's not too great when the smell gets somewhat heated...
 
Morning Sherri, part of my job here at the plant is to remove any animals that manage to get inside before they cause any damage or contaminate product. I've caught 2 bats, a beaver, a couple of owls, ect and not had to hurt anything yet. I can get a trap that won't harm him but it will more than likely in this case be to large to fit in the space. If you want let me know and I'll come by and see if I can't talk him out;)
Pamela
 
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