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Re: squirrel expert needed [Re: Throw Back] #5008151
04/13/15 07:54 PM
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Grey Squirrels are easy... until they escape a trap. Won't catch 'em the same way, nor likely in the same spot, a second time. Put a different style trap a bit further away and back in business. Hickory, Black Walnut, PB then sunflower in that order around here. Agree on roughing up the hull a bit for attractant, spreading a few around the trap for confidence and placing as near as possible to where they are already travelling. Good luck!


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Re: squirrel expert needed [Re: Throw Back] #5008535
04/14/15 07:02 AM
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I don't know that I can add anything to the bait side, but I'll second needing to get to the hole in order to patch it. We've gone to sets with 2 tubes on opposite sides of a hole and hardware cloth to funnel.

Re: squirrel expert needed [Re: EatenByLimestone] #5009524
04/14/15 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted By: EatenByLimestone
I don't know that I can add anything to the bait side, but I'll second needing to get to the hole in order to patch it. We've gone to sets with 2 tubes on opposite sides of a hole and hardware cloth to funnel.


My favorite set exactly!

Re: squirrel expert needed [Re: Throw Back] #5015621
04/18/15 03:15 PM
04/18/15 03:15 PM
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Here's my new top secret squirrel set. I have a bunch of the old clunky 2-door Havaharts that were given to me by customers. You

know, the ones with the peddle in the middle than can spring both ways. Anyhow, I put pieces of thin plywood on the floor and fence

them in to catch rabbits using hay for bait. I caught the rabbits but the squirrels were raising havoc with the mulch and the lawn so

she wanted those gone too. All I had to do was remove the hay and put in my combination bird seed, rabbit pellets, and whole kernel

corn. All three cages held grey squirrels today. The customer was thrilled but she wanted to know when I was going to get rid of the

raccoons too. I told her it's hard to get a raccoon in a cage that already holds a squirrel, but we'll catch them too, eventually.

Re: squirrel expert needed [Re: Throw Back] #5016127
04/18/15 10:26 PM
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Well I think what I learned is that bait is probably the least important thing. If you are on location you will get them and if you aren't you won't.

Re: squirrel expert needed [Re: Throw Back] #5016846
04/19/15 01:28 PM
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I hope you didn't learn that from me! Squirrels have excellent noses. ( They claim a male can smell a female in heat for a mile ) You

can have all the great locations, but if you have unappealing bait, you will probably catch zilch. I could probably set a cage inside

a dog kennel and if I had great bait I could still probably nail a few. Squirrels aren't hungry all the time like raccoons but they

just can't resist taking some good bait and burying it for later. Of course, then they forget where they buried it and are hungry all

over again.

Re: squirrel expert needed [Re: Paul Winkelmann] #5019185
04/20/15 08:53 PM
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I told her it's hard to get a raccoon in a cage that already holds a squirrel, but we'll catch them too, eventually. [/quote]...tell that to a coon, Wink! (Mr. Bandit might not get into the trap...but he'll get the squirrel out...one bite at a time!)


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Re: squirrel expert needed [Re: Throw Back] #5019414
04/20/15 10:53 PM
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This isn't my first go-round at this place. The animals are all very cordial to each other. The only go in the cages that are baited

for their species. Today I had an opossum next to a squirrel.

Re: squirrel expert needed [Re: Throw Back] #5022116
04/22/15 06:53 PM
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Mr. Schmidt makes a good point. I've found a lot of squirrels in my cages that were killed by raccoons. My question is why? When the

raccoon sticks his paws into the cage, why doesn't the squirrel bite one of his fingers off? Having been bit by a grey squirrel, I

know they can do it and losing a finger would probably be a pretty good deterrent. I know one squirrel bite was enough for me.

Re: squirrel expert needed [Re: Throw Back] #5025315
04/24/15 11:37 PM
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I know every one of my fingers that goes into a cage with a coon or a squirrel gets bitten!


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Re: squirrel expert needed [Re: Throw Back] #5035856
05/03/15 11:13 PM
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I put a little platform in the fork of a tree and set a 110 conbear upright on the platform with a chunk of corn on the cob on the trigger. Works great. If they are stealing tomatoes I use tomatoes for bait.


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