uh rabies is the old skoo zombie virus!!!! might want to get a rabies shot! the virus can take years to show clinical signs! depending on where the bite was located. better safe than sorry! and some ppl say squerrels dont carry rabies....just call the local rabies center and ask them if they have herd of it... my school had the rep for harris county come down for an hr to give a class on rabies and its case studies....Ive killed 21 squirrels in the past three months. I hate 'em! Always ripping open my feed bags! Killing was my last resort so I put my feed in a canister.... Chewed a hole straight through a freaking METAL can! HOW!? I never understood
So Ive killed several. They're hard to kill with a gun, if I use a gun I use paintball, it stuns them. But normally I get a small live trap, set it by the feed and you'll catch them in a snap! Then tie a rope to it and throw it in your pond or a bucket full of water. Easy and humane!
I literally would set the trap, go inside make a snack, eat it and go back out and I've got one!
Long story short I got bit by a squirrel once!
So...
I went out to let the 'scovies out and there's a squirrel in there! I have no idea how it got on and there's no holes! I got broom and hit it with it and it wouldn't get out! I got in there with it ( lol ) and kicked it out the door and it ran back in! Kept kicking and hitting it, but it wouldn't get out! So I quickly grabbed its tail and through it out the door... Then it got bad... It jumped at me and attacked my hand and got back in the cage. I ran inside to clean it out because god knows what diseases that thing carries and I bled like crazy! It was all over the door handles! It looke like someone got killed! .... Went back out and it was STILL there just chilling. I threw a plastic bucket over it and through it in the pond. Never saw the little squirt again!
I have a scar on my finger from his huge teeth!
My 2 8 year old outside cats know the difference between the chickens & a bird or dove, they'll kill a dove in a minute but don't bother the chickens at all, even the chicks when I start letting them out (with their mother) at around 9 weeks old.....but I have 4 feral cats that we had fixed that I feed that I'm afraid would get a chick if they could. I see them hanging around the coops looking suspiciousHmmm. I don't have a cat but maybe I should get one or two for that. The squirrels are really fat!!! and the feeder is always empty if they have access to it. I have hundreds of oak trees and this year, I'm assuming from last year's drought, have produced zero acorns. Last year the acorns were everywhere, couldn't walk on them without listening to the crunch, crunch. For all I know this may be the oak trees' final gasp for life.Some are definitely dying.
If you do, get a chicken friendly cat. Cats are predetors for birds. My foster cats like to sit on the cage my chicks are in and harass them
Ive killed 21 squirrels in the past three months. I hate 'em! Always ripping open my feed bags! Killing was my last resort so I put my feed in a canister.... Chewed a hole straight through a freaking METAL can! HOW!? I never understood
So Ive killed several. They're hard to kill with a gun, if I use a gun I use paintball, it stuns them. But normally I get a small live trap, set it by the feed and you'll catch them in a snap! Then tie a rope to it and throw it in your pond or a bucket full of water. Easy and humane!
I literally would set the trap, go inside make a snack, eat it and go back out and I've got one!
Long story short I got bit by a squirrel once!
So...
I went out to let the 'scovies out and there's a squirrel in there! I have no idea how it got on and there's no holes! I got broom and hit it with it and it wouldn't get out! I got in there with it ( lol ) and kicked it out the door and it ran back in! Kept kicking and hitting it, but it wouldn't get out! So I quickly grabbed its tail and through it out the door... Then it got bad... It jumped at me and attacked my hand and got back in the cage. I ran inside to clean it out because god knows what diseases that thing carries and I bled like crazy! It was all over the door handles! It looke like someone got killed! .... Went back out and it was STILL there just chilling. I threw a plastic bucket over it and through it in the pond. Never saw the little squirt again!
I have a scar on my finger from his huge teeth!
My hubby got bit by a squirrel almost 20 years ago - bled like a stuck pig - but never got anything from it. And he didn't even get to clean it out since we were sightseeing and did not have a place to clean or bandage it up until late that night. I would worry more about a raccoon bite than a squirrel bit.I was flipping out! But in the next 30 sec. After I got bit I rinsed it with betadine, water, and alcohol. Taped a cotton ball on it and was obliviously paranoid for the next week!
Do you live in town? I can have pig's. But I have no restrictions and I love it out here.I say Venus,Burleson or Alvarado! Great land out here. We can pretty much have anything out here except swine, but we're getting a pig anyways.
we have a yearling male squirrel that loves my husband.. when he sees him out in the yard he will come running over and climb his pants leg hoping for treats and belly rubs.
