What would you do with an Evil Squirrel?

[kikithebird]

and im NOT an an animal abuser

 

[MeepBeep]

FYI you don't need a 'real' firearm to dispose of a tree rat... A BB or pellet gun will do the trick, mostly silent and generally legal to discharge even in a neighborhood, and little hassle to purchase in most areas if you are an adult...

Another option is a blowgun, you can pick one up at Walmart even but they are cheaper online... A few days practice and just about anyone will be able to hit a tree rat in their yard with a blow gun, and it's silent...

For me I prefer a real firearm or I just use a Victor Rat trap, for tree rats I screw or chain the rat trap down so if it doesn't end instantly I don't have to search for where it did end...

BTW relocation of tree rats is pretty much just a prolonged death sentence, possibly torturous... There was a study conducted that showed that 97% of relocated tree rats died/disappeared in the first 88 days after release... Not real good odds there, and you can bet their last few days were not humane...

 

[bobbi-j]

Basically, this dam (sorry) squirrel attacked and killed my dear silkie chick Sully.
We just bought a Havaheart squirrel trap. We put some peanut butter and chick food in it, and we left it outside over night. We think we're going to catch something tommorrow afternoon. Thats when the squirrel always comes by. It seems to be one squirrel who has caused all the trouble. It eats up our garden and eats every ripe tomato, and it killed my dear Sully.

My question is, what would you do, if you caught the squirrel that killed your favorite chick? There is NO way that i'm letting it go somewhere else. I don't think I am emotionally capable of stabbing it. I can put it in the garbage and just leave it there to die on it's own. Any ideas?

Let me make this clear though, I am not an animal abuser. This squirrel is very evil. He also attacked my neighbors cat (he's very friendly). He is a very aggressive squirrel, but I wouldn't do this to any animal.

Really??

Thanks for everyone's post! We finally caught the evil squirrel after 3 days. It was born in spring, and it's been living it's entire life eating OUR tomatoes from the vines. It was smart enough to understand that the trap was a trap, so it didn't go in the trap for the 3 days. We made a trail of tomatoes into the trap, and that worked amazingly, but the squirrel wasn't heavy enough to shut the trap, so we put a rock on the lever thing and that worked!

We put it in the garbage can. We filled the can with some water (only like 2 inches), so it can drink, or drown. I think it knows how he ended up in there, being a naughty squirrel.
Finally, the horrible squirrel is not going to be a menace anymore. If he had just acted like all the other squirrels around here, he wouldn't be locked in a trash can.

You just proved otherwise. Please fill the garbage can up with water so it will be dead within a minute or two instead of however long you plan on leaving the poor thing in there! Two inches of water is not enough to drown a squirrel. And, no - it does not know that it's being kept in a garbage can in water that it can't escape from because it's been a "naughty squirrel". At this point, all it knows it that it is in a small place inside of another place from which it can't escape. It's probably terrified and frantic. Even a predator or "evil" animal deserves to die a quick, humane death. IMHO, drowning isn't quite quick enough, but at least it's over with fairly soon.

 

[witchwriter]

Thanks for everyone's post! We finally caught the evil squirrel after 3 days. It was born in spring, and it's been living it's entire life eating OUR tomatoes from the vines. It was smart enough to understand that the trap was a trap, so it didn't go in the trap for the 3 days. We made a trail of tomatoes into the trap, and that worked amazingly, but the squirrel wasn't heavy enough to shut the trap, so we put a rock on the lever thing and that worked!

We put it in the garbage can. We filled the can with some water (only like 2 inches), so it can drink, or drown. I think it knows how he ended up in there, being a naughty squirrel.
Finally, the horrible squirrel is not going to be a menace anymore. If he had just acted like all the other squirrels around here, he wouldn't be locked in a trash can.

just kill it. it would die quicker with no water than letting it starve to death and both are cruel ways to let an animal die. just shoot the dang thing and get it over with. what you are doing to it now is torture.

deb
edited for language

 

[donrae]

FYI you don't need a 'real' firearm to dispose of a tree rat... A BB or pellet gun will do the trick, mostly silent and generally legal to discharge even in a neighborhood, and little hassle to purchase in most areas if you are an adult...

A pellet gun works great for us. Honey's used one to dispatch things from malformed kittens to full grown roosters. Hasn't tried it for a raccoon, though....those get the shotgun right off

 

[MeepBeep]

A pellet gun works great for us. Honey's used one to dispatch things from malformed kittens to full grown roosters. Hasn't tried it for a raccoon, though....those get the shotgun right off

There are .20, .22 and .25 caliber pellet guns out there that are every bit as powerful as a 22lr... And in most places no licence, permit or what not is need, although I live in the backwards unAmerican state of IL where many high powered BB guns and Pellet guns are considered firearms and regulated...

 

[chickenlover09]

It's illegal to shoot a normal gun here, but I think a blowgun or bb gun would be okay. The squirrel is already gone. The garbage man came and took him away.

I went to the feed store today, and figured out that it was a ground squirrel, and they gave me some pretty good tips to keep any future squirrels away. Thanks for the help everyone!

 

[kittydoc]

Do NOT attempt to handle the squirrel! While it's trapped, shoot it. They taste like chicken.

Did you say this turned out to be a ground squirrel/chipmunk? Never imagined one could kill a chicken. Regular squirrel, absolutely possible.

 

[Mallory8502]

We put it in the garbage can. We filled the can with some water (only like 2 inches), so it can drink, or drown. I think it knows how he ended up in there, being a naughty squirrel.
Finally, the horrible squirrel is not going to be a menace anymore. If he had just acted like all the other squirrels around here, he wouldn't be locked in a trash can.

You came on here looking for suggestions to deal with this squirrel. You got a lot of good suggestions but still decided to do something completely inhumane. There is a big difference between killing something humanely because you have to do it to protect your flock, and torturing an animal (plus implying the animal 'knows what it did'). I also don't know why you would think the squirrel would have enough reasoning to choose to drown itself to escape the horrible death trap you created (or why you would even create a scenario like that instead of just killing it). I would absolutely kill a predator if I had to but I would do it humanely and I wouldn't blame the animal for being an animal.

I'm also very confused how this squirrel died in 24 hours - because you said the garbage man already took it away- unless it died from heat exhaustion or lack of oxygen. If it didn't die and the garbage man took it away then I don't see how that worked out since all you did was put it in the trash can with 2 inches of water. When the garbage man dumped the trashcan wouldn't he have just freed it into your yard again?

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

You came on here looking for suggestions to deal with this squirrel. You got a lot of good suggestions but still decided to do something completely inhumane. There is a big difference between killing something humanely because you have to do it to protect your flock, and torturing an animal (plus implying the animal 'knows what it did'). I also don't know why you would think the squirrel would have enough reasoning to choose to drown itself to escape the horrible death trap you created (or why you would even create a scenario like that instead of just killing it). I would absolutely kill a predator if I had to but I would do it humanely and I wouldn't blame the animal for being an animal.

I'm also very confused how this squirrel died in 24 hours - because you said the garbage man already took it away- unless it died from heat exhaustion or lack of oxygen. If it didn't die and the garbage man took it away then I don't see how that worked out since all you did was put it in the trash can with 2 inches of water. When the garbage man dumped the trashcan wouldn't he have just freed it into your yard again?

X 2 - honestly, I am absolutely at a loss here.............