continuing my grandpa's mantle. If one ever gets in again I think I'll just toss it some marijuana edible and scoop it into a trash can once if mellows the fuq out.
Wish I had cooled hazmat suit for the job heh.
Red Squirrels are the worse they will chew on anything. Try a cob of field corn, the squirrels in my back yard love it.
I wasn't kidding about the squirrel in my earlier post bleeding on, shitting on, and breaking a bunch of stuff including a bunch of china plates and glasses. It usually works pretty well to attach traps to their point of entry or build an exclusion device (search youtube). You can have multiple squirrels and even litters of baby squirrels in an attic. I saw a video on some tv show years ago where they trapped something like 8 squirrels all in the same attic.
BBQ Anyone?When I was a traffic signal & lighting tech 1973-2004, the squirrels would chew in a perfect circle around the top of the photoelectric cell for the street light, opened 'em up like someone had used an old fashioned can opener leaving the 'lid' sticking up. The rain would come in, mess up the circuity after a time and we'd get a call for the street light dayburning. At least the PEC would fail with the light on. They love polystyrene plastic and thermoplastic wire insulation! Their gopher cousins would burrow into any electrical pull box in the ground that did not have the bottom grouted and gnaw the traffic signal wiring. In 31 years I pulled dozens of their electrocuted carcasses out of pull boxes and repaired the damage, cussin' as I did so! I'm sure they are still carrying on their rodent duty even to this day, 13 years AFTER I retired!
