I’m beginning to think some people are too stupid to own a house

[Captain Colonial]

Behold…

 

(You know you can buy a cat or two, don’t you?) 🤦‍♂️

[evosteve]

Greys can be shot, just need a air weapon.

[Blatman]

10 minutes ago, evosteve said:

Greys can be shot, just need a air weapon.

 

That would just mean a lot more holes in my doors/windows etc

 

[jeff oakley]

We had squirrels invade our loft. The problem is that some people love them yet they are just rats with good PR.

 

My answer was to buy an air rifle and deal with them in the garden. They had got in by eating the felt to create a hole. 

 

You have to be patient and be a good shot but the damage they can do is immense. 

[Arm]

Would have been easy to fix the problem but then it wouldn't have made for a good (pathetic) story

[Nic Chase (NICO) - Shropshire & Mid-Wales AO]

I saw this story on the BBC this morning and thought exactly the same thing. They are squirrels and not a marauding horde.

Can’t be that hard to get rid of 😂

[Blatman]

They were killing time on a slow news day whilst half the journalist "team" were working on the Trump story... 

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

I can tell half of you have never had squirrels! They're evil little b*****rs and extremely hard to get rid of when determined to get in, and they can be very, very determined. 

 

I had to move in the end to get rid!

 

Went through a year of the blighters getting into the loft, (a bungalow), had the exterminator in more or less monthly putting ever increasing amounts of poison down, which would occasionally take one out, but the little devils seemed to make more faster than you could kill them. I was constantly going round looking for fresh damage where they'd got in and sealing it back up again, but they'd just chew in somewhere else. I borrowed a neighbours air rifle and got one, but it didn't stop it.

 

At one point, one tried to get in while I was in the middle of filling up a hole with mortar! (I think a neighbour may have video of me leaping off the ladder swearing and chasing it round the garden with a spade. (I didn't catch it but a few shrubs got an early prune!)

[Captain Colonial]

I repeat - get a cat, preferably ginger as they’re the most vicious ones.

 

Or try…

 

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

5 minutes ago, Scott Young (Captain Colonial) - Club Secretary said:

I repeat - get a cat, preferably ginger as they’re the most vicious ones.

 

Yeah tried that, he's better at catching other types of mice!

[Blatman]

What you need is a maine coon. They kill everything...

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

Round here it's glis glis that get in. Anomalous status of being an alien species, have to be killed by an approved, licensed contractor using an approved trap. Must not be released into the wild but have to be killed humanely. 

I had them in my shed (an old stable) and there were also mice and rats about because my neighbour had chickens and horses. Occasionally a glis glis would find its way into my Victor Electronic rat trap put there to get rid of the other rodents. As it was already dead what was I supposed to do with it to expunge my sins? CPR?

They were also in my garage and they have a penchant for cable chewing. Bunging up holes with screwed up chicken wire seemed to put paid to that.

[jeff oakley]

Dave is correct they are hard to eradicate and most cats do not stand a chance of catching them.

 

When we had then I borrowed a 177 air rifle and set about killing them. I shot one and it hit him but it just stood there and looked as though to say that did not hurt and went on his way.

 

So I went to a gun shop in Cirencester which as soon as I walked in knew this was high end as we walked past the purdy guns.

 

After starting with the finest "suits you sales pitch on a £2000 .22 air rifle we eventually got down to a still weighty £400 for the most powerful one you could buy, which came fully equipped with a silencer and scoop.

 

I was a bit concerned as I shot from the bedroom window, as to how people might reacted seeing a silencer poking out of a window.

 

The little b******d did not get up next time. I think I got 8 before they stopped getting in. I still have them in the garden as we are on the edge of a lake, so inevitable but so far no return maybe they talk to each other.

 

As a note in the Northwest they serve these in some eateries as the meat is quite lean and healthy, but you need a few for a pie

[Euan Hoosearmy]

Cats can help....  this one thinks they're great sport! Does pigeons too so obviously has a preference for vermin.

 

Having grown up in a house with a massive walnut tree in the garden I hate the bl**** things. 

 

For anyone wanting to learn the proper attitude needed towards squirrels see the episode Amy and amiability from Blackadder series 3

[Captain Colonial]

I have a friend in Hastings with a large garden and three orange cats.  The squirrel death toll is epic, as is the body count for rats, pigeons and other critters daft enough to enter the garden.  Two of the cats caught and mortally wounded a rat, then put it on the garden table and played rat shuffleboard with it for an hour until it died.