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fungusmuncher
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There is a squirrel
#19072870 - 11/01/13 11:34 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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or some other rodent in my ceiling. I can hear it chewing on something and scampering around. Definitely too big to be a mouse. I pounded on the ceiling with a broomstick for a bit but all that did was piss off the people who live upstairs. My cat is freaking out trying to climb the walls. I'm just afraid the little fucker is going to chew some wires and burn the house down. I need to figure out how it got in, maybe throw some rat poison in there and block up the hole but my upstairs neighbors are douches and won't let me look around up there. No landlord, house got foreclosed on last month. Great minds of the pub, any ideas?
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dontknow
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have you tried turning the ceiling off then back on
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fee
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Well prepare for your place to burn down. I'm not joking either. That fucker is going to chew through an electrical wire short it out and set all shit a blaze.
Seen it a hundred times. They dwell in houses when it gets cold outside in the north.
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Re: There is a squirrel [Re: fee]
#19072910 - 11/01/13 11:43 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Nah, we had one of those for a while... it died. And smelled, for a while. Now gone.
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Re: There is a squirrel [Re: Forrester]
#19072927 - 11/01/13 11:49 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ok man. Give it time and when it wants to make a nest.....
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blankk said to fee: btw you're a total fucking psychedelic pimp Turtletotem said: I want to become a sun worshipper, so next time an atheist smugly asks me where god is, I can point smugly at the sun and laugh my ass off. Then I drive away in my solar powered piece of shit car, cool stuff man. And then I go kill a bitch because the flaming orb in the sky told me to do so, and I don't know, oppress a few minorities here and there in the name of nuclear fusion? Religion is fun.
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Re: There is a squirrel [Re: fee]
#19072933 - 11/01/13 11:51 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
fee said: Ok man. Give it time and when it wants to make a nest.....
then dshsb
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have you tried shooting at where your hear it at?
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think positive man
Your neighbors upstairs have a floor problem.
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fungusmuncher
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Fuck... So much for sleeping tonight. I doubt the people upstairs even have smoke detectors let alone batteries in them if they do.
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congrats on foreclosed house and missing landlord, that shit was like the best thing that ever happened to me. a year of no rent then the bank paid me to leave.
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Re: There is a squirrel [Re: teamkiller]
#19072990 - 11/02/13 12:08 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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It won't happen today, well maybe. But it happens. I've seen squirrels live in an attic for a year or Tao and nothing then sometimes people don't even know they have them and it happens.
Tell your landlord and if a breaker pops for no good reason do mot I repeat do not turn it back on until you getan eelectrician to inspect it.
It will pop once or twice before burning down the house. Its when you keep giving it juice where the true problem lies.
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Re: There is a squirrel [Re: fee]
#19073169 - 11/02/13 12:55 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thanks fee, that makes me feel a little better. I'll be sure to tell the guys upstairs if a breaker pops to not fucking touch it. I guess I'll have to call an exterminator and pay out of pocket. God damn squirrel. Better than the house burning down though.
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fee
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You can do a lot yourself. They will leave at certain times of day and that's when you close all ports of entry.
The biggest ones are trees near your house. They climb up jump on a porch roof and find a way in.
Google it.
If you font own the place you do not pay for it. And it will be pricey because its multiple day thing
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blankk said to fee: btw you're a total fucking psychedelic pimp Turtletotem said: I want to become a sun worshipper, so next time an atheist smugly asks me where god is, I can point smugly at the sun and laugh my ass off. Then I drive away in my solar powered piece of shit car, cool stuff man. And then I go kill a bitch because the flaming orb in the sky told me to do so, and I don't know, oppress a few minorities here and there in the name of nuclear fusion? Religion is fun.
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Re: There is a squirrel [Re: fee]
#19073201 - 11/02/13 01:05 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yea there is a big ass maple tree that overhangs part of the roof, I'll have to get up there and check it out tomorrow. I don't own the place, but the landlord bailed on the property. Some bank owns it now.
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fee
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The easiest way is wrap the tree trunk with cheap sheet metal as long as the branches don't connect to other trees as you know how that works. Then its like you said getting up there poking around and shit. They are tricky so traps might be the only way to go.
But drive far far far away because they come back after live releasing them. Or kill them.
My uncle liked squirrels but he liked his house more and after trapping like ten squirrels he swore it was the same few so the next time he caught one he spray painted a big spot of orange on him and drove six miles away released it and three days later caught him again.
They are fucks. But they taste good in pie. Grey squirrels anyway
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blankk said to fee: btw you're a total fucking psychedelic pimp Turtletotem said: I want to become a sun worshipper, so next time an atheist smugly asks me where god is, I can point smugly at the sun and laugh my ass off. Then I drive away in my solar powered piece of shit car, cool stuff man. And then I go kill a bitch because the flaming orb in the sky told me to do so, and I don't know, oppress a few minorities here and there in the name of nuclear fusion? Religion is fun.
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Re: There is a squirrel [Re: fee] 1
#19073235 - 11/02/13 01:15 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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squirrel tastes amazing! never had squirrel pie though.
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Brunswick stew w/ squirrel is my favorite utilization of squirrel meat. Used to make it with the meat from red and gray squirrels when I was hunting to sell the pelts to a fishing shop for fly-tying.
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Re: There is a squirrel [Re: Set]
#19073317 - 11/02/13 01:40 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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find out where the little bastard is getting into and out of the house. You should be able to find an opening somewhere.
Go get some sticky traps and nail them down around the opening. they are wicked sticky and the squirrel will get stuck and die on them ..
you could also rip down some of the sheet-rock in the ceiling if that don't work and do the same thing.
the sticky traps work the best from my experience killing the little tree rats around where i live.. I live in a log cabin in the woods and they are a pain in the ass..
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fee
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In the attic space you'll find trails also that sticky tape works best on but traps will too. Just use new latex gloves when handling them as they might smell your scent on it and avoid it. While up there you'll see electrical wires stapled and if done by most hacks just laying on top of the ceiling joists. Inspect the whole thing. Grab the wire and slide your hand down it and you'll feel the bite marks if they are there
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blankk said to fee: btw you're a total fucking psychedelic pimp Turtletotem said: I want to become a sun worshipper, so next time an atheist smugly asks me where god is, I can point smugly at the sun and laugh my ass off. Then I drive away in my solar powered piece of shit car, cool stuff man. And then I go kill a bitch because the flaming orb in the sky told me to do so, and I don't know, oppress a few minorities here and there in the name of nuclear fusion? Religion is fun.
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