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[Isaac Sauvage]

elton, don't quit your day job. :D


and i confess boredom at the moment. it will probably pass when i figure out where to direct this loose energy.

 

[elton]

You have spare energy .... I'm impressed.
If ya bored you could always take up shooting - nothing like blowing the head off a squirrel to cheer ya up works for me

Be well and prosper my friend

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

dang... what did squirrels ever do to you, elton?

 

[elton]

Well where do I start?
They invaded my loft space - nearly drove me wild with their scratching to get through the plaster ceilings, chewed up the insulation, ate up the cables coming from my solar panels, made the wiring in the roof space hazardous to say the least by removing the plastic covering off it, chewed up just about everything stored up there, shit absolutely everywhere and some, cost me a friggin fortune financially to get rid of, exasperated me and the infestation companies to boot.

Had to remove the first course of tiles from my roof to totally squirrel proof the property with wire [incidentally, home owners in the UK are not covered by contents home insurance policies for damage caused by squirrels!] and shooting the little fukkers is my payback sayeth the 'elton'!

The only good 'un is a dead 'un!



Yeah, that just about covers it :)

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

haha... i see your point on that one, mate.

IIRC those are the same grey squirrels from the UK / europe that got introduced to the eastern US 100+ years ago. they decimated our native species, including the friendly, placid red squirrel in PA and OH.

back in philly a nest of them got in to our attic and i spent a couple weeks trapping the kits and releasing them outdoors after the big hole they had chewed had been cemented over.

i'm a big animal lover, but i see your point. so i withdraw my idiocy... this time, elton... this time!

 

[LeeVanCleef]

Good on you, Elton. I fucking hate squirrels! One got into my mom's basement once upon a time. An exterminator set out one of those trap cages with bait in the middle and that Christless demon sped through, grabbed the bait and got out before the doors closed! Long story short, my mom said a friend managed to chase it out of the basement. The smell I encountered when I came over to do laundry told me different. Fucking squirrels!

 

[GSGregg]

Shit, Elton! I thought the twenty-or-so daily holes in the brown patch that used to be my attempt at growing a front lawn would drive me to marksmanship, but you trumped me!

 

[elton]

I'm really looking forward to the colder weather when the little furry fuckers make an appearance in my garden - have a feeding station already set up to entice them

A friend has a Harries Hawk, so every dead one does not go to waste. He did offer to get the hawk to walk my attic to get 'em - but as poison had been put down we didn't want to risk the bird.

But they were clever up the attic. Managed to get food out of the 'killing' traps and also the 'live capture' traps before we had to finally resort to poison. It's been a year now but there is still a smell up there. And an 'elton' never forgets. They are now a doomed species in this household.

 

[JonPurpleHaze]

Ha, all this talk about squirrels has me laughing, I've never had a problem with them but my little brother just finally moved out of a second floor apartment where he lived for 21 years, he had major problems.

It started one day when he got home from work, he heard something scurrying around in his kitchen and thought he might have mice, but it was a squirrel and decided to see if he could train it to be a pet. That was a really dumb idea, it started to destroy stuff so he trapped it inside a metal pot with a weighted down lid and then released it outside his apartment house. He never knew how it got inside his apartment until one day he was home and saw one fall through his ceiling from the attic!

He kept trapping them and releasing them and kinda enjoyed the excitement for awhile until one day he recognized one squirrel that he already had trapped and released once before. He then trapped that one again and released it in a park a few miles away. The trap and release program of his continued until a new landlord finally fixed the attic, they can do some massive damage but he mentioned recently that he misses the critters. So Elton, it sounds like you miss them too as you are looking forward to their return....
:bunny:

 

[elton]

Oh yeah, I miss them. But its okay, I've fixed the sights on my rifle so they have nowhere to hide now


Come on squirrels ... look at all the nice nuts elton has put out for you. Its the last thing they gonna see lol.

 

[Coil_Smoke]

Squirrels In The Attic , Going Bat Shit...

I Don't know which to hate more. Squirrels or Bats. Both these critters made a mess out of everything in the attic. Squirrels were just a nuisance at our old place. One did invade the ceiling over our bathroom. Late one night the noise got to me. I shot that bitch with a BB gun right through the drywall. It flopped around for a few, then silence. When we moved here my cat took care of our Chipmunk problem. Who Knew Squirrels and Bats could destroy so much property? Once a Squirrel emerged from my fireplace, ran around the room and jumped right on top of my head. Do Squirrels get Rabies? I bagged it and gassed it with starting fluid. Squirrels do get rigor mortise.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

i don't know why anyone would hate bats. at their most invasive i think they would just set up colonies and guano over everything. that's more on the homeowner than anyone else, i reckon. a far cry from the invasiveness of grey squirrels.

by contrast, bats are most excellent mosquito catchers and pest control. they are also fragile little mammals who can't afford to store fat reserves (for aerodynamic needs). that means if you corner one indoors and exhaust it in the chase, it will likely not have enough energy left to fly effectively and recover... thereby dooming it.

 

[elton]

Good shooting Coil Smoke. There were so many in out attic - while they were scratching above me in the lounge, my wife and daughters would be complaining about them scratching in other rooms. If you did venture up into the attic you couldn't see anything because the furry bastards were under the insulation. Only venturing above the insulation to relieve themselves or chew on even more insulation. I tell ya, its a right mess up there.

 

[Shooby Doo]

You can get a strobe light specifically made for rodents in your attic. It flashes every second or two and drives the little bastards insane until they high-tail it out of there. This one is kind of expensive, but I'm pretty sure there are cheaper ones:

Amazon.com: Evictor Strobe Light 10K: Patio, Lawn & Garden

 

[Coil_Smoke]

I got that squirrel with my first shot. First and only time I used just my ears to aim at something. I figured the roof above it could handle a couple BB's. OK, I don't really hate bats. Just when they piss and crap in my house. Actually they are kinda entertaining swooping around at dusk. Something is suppressing the mosquito population in this neighborhood. There are the urban legends about bats. Does anyone here have a story about a bat, like actually getting in someones' hair?

 

[elton]

Urban myth my friend.

Still a good shot though :)

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

haha, well now that you've admitted that you are a terrible human being, not even deserving of the slightest shred of mercy or compassion upon yourself when your grand time of need arrives...

i'm genuinely curious: as in, who do you expect to roll along and bail your sorry asses out when the excrement truly hits the ventilating device in the near future?

god? santa claus? the great pinball spirit in the sky? the glory of nuclear power flooding the pacific? all the other species we trampled on in order to assume prime position? your local cult? benny hinn?

this is all proposed in jest, of course. :)

 

[elton]

Well, I figure squirrels will taste like shit - especially if they got pellets in 'em, and there's not much meat on bats. Bit like a chicken wing if you like. No, I'll continue eating chicken [even the glowing ones] :)

 

[elton]

Mmmm bail out ...... let's see, was it fanny and freddie or something? No I think Obama will save the world of starving people, free food for everyone and plenty of Obama-bucks for the kids to enjoy .... saves any honest work. Let Gov't pay .... yeah that will do it :)

 

[elton]

Obama is to fiscal policy what King Canute was to the waves

I'm only saying what most peeps are thinking

 

[elton]

... and this is a great way to get my post count up.

Anyway, gotta go now, have to get my quota started for the day

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

sounds like you needed that, elton. :)

 

[Coil_Smoke]

Post Count...?

Yeah look @ that. I'm closin' in on 200. A few short of you guys.I think a couple were actually about pinball. Most about more un-usual shit. Like did that comet hit the sun yet? Half of the people I know are living on those Obama Bucks. They can't afford to work. They got cars, homes, Sonys, I-Phones, Kids, dogs you name it. Every thing but a fuck'n job. IT BLOWS MY MIND. Oh yeah they have about 30 thousand dollar debts too. And maybe a mortgage on top of that. They would be ruined if they got a freakin job. I think the thing that bugs me the most is they never seem to appreciate how good they have it.

 

[Coil_Smoke]

$200 Squirrel Disco...?

You can get a strobe light specifically made for rodents in your attic. It flashes every second or two and drives the little bastards insane until they high-tail it out of there. This one is kind of expensive, but I'm pretty sure there are cheaper ones:

Amazon.com: Evictor Strobe Light 10K: Patio, Lawn & Garden

"Shooby Doo" Where did you find out about the critter strobe? That would look good on my antenna mast. ..."Shooby Doo" ? Did Barney Rubble used to say that? C_S

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[GSGregg]

At my previous house, gophers used to move dirt into the water meter cavity until it was full, and the 'we don't have time for this shit' meter reader/s would just scoop and toss until the gauge was uncovered, not concerned with where the tossed dirt landed. So I got one of the sonic repellers that 'drove the little bastards insane', etc...

...and they moved dirt, trying to mute the sound, until the cavity was full. Repeatedly. Net benefit with the humane method: Zero. Edit/P.S. I think the product was "Gopher-Go", in case somebody is trying to wax fondly.

Got a chirping cricket somewhere, so I'm off to the munitions dump.

INCOMING!!