How to kill a squirral!!! advice please...............

[anniebear]

Ok, I know I can't kill it!!

I really at the end of my tether

I have put a bird table in my garden and this squirrel has broken a nut feeder, it has broke a net with seeds in and we can't even find the net, it must have legged off with it!

I planted 100's bulbs, firstly the slugs had field day, but I have now looked out and the squirrel is sitting eating a tulip and 2 more are scattered on the grass

any advice, apart from shooting it!!!!

whack it round the head with a lead pipe

Bastards, I hate squirrels, thank the lord we don't have them Downunder

do you have a lead pipe please?!!!! lol

I am not particulay an animal lover but wouldn't want to harm one....but this is the exception!

get a dog

Then I wouldn't have any birds in the garden!!!!!

my next door neighbour has bought a trap and lets them out in the woods a couple of miles away, altho I did see one nibbling me nuts this morning

My cat used to eat squirrels, but I think I'd rather have an alive squirrel and do without a cat like her!

Complete menaces aren't they. They have eaten big holes in the plastic in our bird feeders so they can get their whole heads in!! My FIL used to feed them when he visited. It wouldn't matter what I said he would sit on the back step feeding them nuts. I should of used the lead pipe on him now I think of it.

Never had a problem with them till last year when DH thought he was being kind throwing nuts out for them on the grass

I now have holes all over the grass

That summer I also found lots of slugs in my hangin baskets.....turned out he had put them there out of the way so they would be safe

silly man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We had one in our loft a few weeks ago. We could hear it scurrying around at night. It was horrible and left squirrel s*%t everywhere

Not much point in killing really as it will no doubt be replaced by another. Get a dog or cat to keep it out of the garden if you are that bothered. we have loads and have just learnt to love watching them.

squirrels are rats in a fur coat

Kill it

can you use those emitters in the garden?

Yes we love watching them but when we had scaffold arround the house last summer they were shinning up it and trying to get in the bedroom windows. Now, I'm a nature lover but I like my nature outside and not leaving poo presents everywhere. As for the foxes don't get me started. BTW I live in a town.

get a cat, the birds will still come, they half enjoy terrorizing bloody stupid cats but it might run the squirall off!

We have a family of squirels - they've destroyed the lawn, my sun lounger (used the stuffing for their nest), wrecked my planters to eat the bulbs and they sit on the window sill tormenting the dog. Try as he might, he can't catch them. Saw an American programme about a guy who recommended poisoned darts to kill them (the kind you blow thro a straw). Am seriously tempted. Rats with good PR. How about rat poison?

Get a big watergun, y'know, a children's one from Toys R Us or somewhere. The squirrels hate being fired at. I gave one to my mum and she has it resting on her kitchen window, loaded and ready to use! Seems to deter them.