Posted on 11/21/2010 10:08:31 AM PST by nickcarraway
Freehold Attorney Fined $2,500 for Trapping, Drowning Squirrels
I trap mine and air freight ‘em to New Jersey
Instead of a fine they shoud pay him a bounty.
We got two dogs last Christmas and the squirrel problem has noticeably decreased. I still see a squirrel in the yard from time to time but don`t hear them rummaging around on the roof anymore. They do gnaw on my wooden fence still though.
I hate those little buggers. The home we are in now apparently had them in the walls and attic for many years. The previous owners never did anything to get rid of them. As I tear away the drywall and insulation, I can`t believe this house didn`t burn down years ago. The damage is incredible. And don`t get me started on the mice.....
It was easier to get rid of the mice than the squirrels, I will say that.
Squirrel meat may become a delicacy if Glenn Beck is right
Stock up now!
Crossbow.
The little furry critters will come back. They need to become former squirrels, they need to cease to be. Send them to the Choir Triumphant.
Not in my area. I called animal control and they told me to release them far away in a wooded area. So I did just that.
The poison thing is great if they don`t croak in your attic or under your floor. We had one die in the hall floor right next to our bedroom, the stench was bad for about two weeks. One day I will get to that one. But its one room at a time right on the remodel for now.
Old timers around here call them Limb Chickens.
Lucky he doesn’t live in Iowa.
“Council Bluffs is the home of the rare black squirrel. It is illegal here to taunt, maim, kill, annoy or otherwise disturb a black squirrel, and there are legal penalties for those who do so”
from here:
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/4098
I did that, back around 1965, for a mouse problem, using a round, straight sided, steel five gallon bucket.
First time, I didn't use water in it, believing 16-18” vertical walls was good enough. WRONG!
I heard one fall in, and went to take care of it, just in time to see the little bugger start running around the edge of the bucket. "Heh-heh; look at the little beggar running itself to death," I thought WRONG!.
Next thing I knew, it had enough speed that it developed the centrifugal force necessary to plaster itself against the side, like the guy riding in the spherical motorcycle cage at a carnival, and up the side it went, then hit the top.
Obeying Newton's Laws of Motion, it then shot several feet across the room, and hit the floor running.
The lesson learned was that the water isn't so much to drown them, as it is to keep them in the trap for disposal.
ROTF! : - D
So on my days off I set up an ambush in my kitchen window with my 10/22, no one would hear the shot and the wall that been there for a couple of hundred years would have been preserved, whole.My Masshole communist, ex, Nurse, wife, took an early 1/2 day and saw meand threw herself across the Woodchuck Hole when she saw me setup.
I told this story to my sons Father in Law, Scotch Irish Ridge runners from Alabama. His view, knowing she and I, "You should have shot her you would have been out by now.
Lively debate here:
http://www.newjerseyhunter.com/article91999.htm
Evidently New Jersey is the only state in which this is illegal. You are supposed to “relocate” the squirrels:
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/pdf/relocation_policy.pdf
I was born in Omaha, NE, and raised in a suburb of that city that had a tremendous number of beautiful black walnut trees. Of course we also had a very large number of squirrels. And they were all red.
But, as your post notes, Council Bluffs, IA, just across the river, has black squirrels.
It’s very strange. I know the Missouri River is a pretty big obstacle, but squirrels are pretty resourceful about getting anywhere they want to go. I think they could cross the river pretty easily if they wanted to, especially considering the number of bridges that exist.
But for whatever reason, they stay in Council Bluffs.
By the way, everywhere else that I’m aware of in Iowa the squirrels are red. Except Council Bluffs. Even throughout the rest of the Loess Hills (in which CB is located), from St. Joseph, MO, all the way to Sioux City, IA, they’re red. It’s weird.
"But officer, I was just relocating them...to squirrel Hades!"
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