Fucking squirrel in the attic. Oh, the irony!

[Blue-Jay]

I just ordered a Havahart trap, and now have to put up with two more days of the little shithead running around in the ceiling, and freaking my wife out. Hopefully, he'll be easy to catch, and then we can take a ride over to the park, so he can begin his new life of not getting on my nerves.

Fuckin' squirrel....

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Iced tea. All. Over. My. Desk.

:rofl:

[Blue-Jay]

3. The little shit was looking at me from his entry-hole.

Staring at me! DARING me to come get him!

"He tasks me. He tasks me, and I will have him."

[billyskank]

15. I wouldn't take attitude coaching from Khan now

Remember at the beginning of it all, when one of Khan's followers suggests, hey we've escaped; we got a ship, why not just blow off this whole Kirk shit and just bugger off somewhere to do our own thing (I paraphrase)?






























Shoulda fucking listened to him!

:D

[KitchenWitch]

2. Pigeons in my rafters are worse!

Really

[Blue-Jay]

5. Not many pigeons around here, thankfully.

A few gulls near the seafood place, but they're OK.

[jpgray]

4. Ha! Ironic sigchronicity ahoy

[Blue-Jay]

6. I'm gonna laugh at you when Gary Burger is running around in YOUR attic!

[jpgray]

7. He lives in my state.

:o

No Havahart for him, natch.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

26. Will His Noodly Appendage touch MY attic? -nt

[cwydro]

8. I could send you my cat

He is the only cat I know to try going for squirrels...thank god, usually I got them away from him unharmed.

[Blue-Jay]

28. How does one go about shipping a cat?

UPS?

[cwydro]

54. This is supercat

you tell me where you are and I will tell him and he'll be there. This is the same cat that brought me a snake.

Still alive.

[matcom]

9. we have a whole fucking FAMILY!

:grr:

we don't really know what to do about them either. if we evict this family, i'm afraid another will take their place

:argh:

[Blue-Jay]

29. If this trap works, I'll let you know.

It was only $25, and free shipping.

[matcom]

38. $25 x 4

and i think i heard the mother-in-law move in up there during the night! x(

[Blue-Jay]

41. You're going to need some good bait for a mother-in-law trap.

They're attracted to misery, but it isn't easy to spread misery on a slice of bread.

[matcom]

47. sure it is

i'll just put an Oasis CD on top of the bread. she will be MINE!!

:hide:

[Mrs.Matcom]

48. Hey Now!!!

we know how to trap my mother, all we need is a bottle of Gallo wine! :* No trap needed, she drinks the whole bottle and passes out. Then we pick her up and toss her out, oh and change the locks!

[matcom]

49. THAT is precisely why I love you honey!

:hug:

[Mrs.Matcom]

52. You Know...

I got your back baby!!! :hug: :* :loveya:

[matcom]

53. after she passes out, can we rifle through her purse?

and get her SS check and THEN throw her out?

:evilgrin:

[Patiod]

10. We almost lost our 300-year-old Meetinghouse to squirrels

One day, the lights in the bathroom in the annex wouldn't go on. No big deal - Quakers aren't usually in a big hurry about stuff. So we took our time calling in an electrician.

Who discovered that squirrels in our roof had eaten the covers off of the electrical wiring, and some of the wires were touching each other and sparking. We were VERY close to a major fire which would have burnt down a significant local historic landmark -- our town is named after the Meetinghouse.

There were some very un-Quakerly things said about those squirrels, I can attest to that!

[Blue-Jay]

30. Nothing too important up there, thankfully.

Just a bunch of insulation, and hidden bodies of hookers.

[Call Me Wesley]

11. You tried to evoke it long enough ...

No, wait, what did you say?

Squirrel?

[Blue-Jay]

31. The squirrel gods are angry.

[Deep13]

12. Well, better that than squirrels fucking in the attic.

:-)

[Blue-Jay]

32. I'll videotape it and start a squirrel-porn website!

[BarenakedLady]

13. I have deer mice in my walls.

Every damn winter...

One year I trapped and released 16 of them. Had to keep one over winter because the snow had fallen and she only had three legs, I felt bad. She stayed in a tank in my office. She liked the wheel. Yes, I know I'm a freak.

[billyskank]

16. That is both heartwarming and pant-wettingly funny

all at the same time. :rofl:

:yourock:

[BarenakedLady]

19. I know

I'm just a softie (total bleeding heart). The exterminator was here (for bugs) the other day and offered to put traps out in the garage and in the basement for the mice. I had to decline the offer. He looked at me like I was a freak when I said I couldn't kill the mice.

I wonder what happened to good old Tripod....:rofl: She scooted off in quite a hurry come Spring when I let her go. She probably thought I was crazy too.

I mean who can resist a face like this?

[BuelahWitch]

17. Aw that's sweet!

:hi:

[BarenakedLady]

20. Thank you

I'm glad not every finds me totally crazy. :crazy:

:hi:

[Kali]

46. Carefull - deermice. Hantavirus.

[BarenakedLady]

56. I know

I never touched the sweet thing. Always wore gloves when cleaning out the tank. I was well informed. But thanks! :hi:

[Kali]

58. a mask might be better than gloves, its when the urine gets stirred up

into the air and inhaled. Ordinary bleach will take care of it though. I use a spray bottle with dilute clorox and wet everything down before I clean anywhere they have been. We get them in the winter too. I lost my patience after enough stuff got damaged, but have kept them as pets in the past as well.

[BarenakedLady]

59. Yup, I knew that too

Except I thought it was the poop. :shrug: Anyhow, that was two years ago. Hopefully it won't happen again this year. I don't need another critter to care for just now. hehe.

[Mrs.Matcom]

50. you are sweet!

and kind! i would have done the same thing, but I am sure one of my cats would have found a way into the tank. :hug:

[BarenakedLady]

57. Oh my cats were totally facinated.

They would sit in front of it and watch her run on the wheel mesmerized for hours. Same when we later had hamsters. They loved to watch the hamsters.

[PVnRT]

14. I hate listening to squirrels fuck in the attic

n/t

[undeterred]

18. OK, now that is perfect.

The squirrel community sent him to harrass you because of the picture.

[Blue-Jay]

34. And here I thought I was a friend of squirrels.

Ungrateful little shits.

[BreweryYardRat]

21. Little bitches are a pain in the ass.

My mom had a family move in one year, back when I was still living with her. The baby squirrels kept getting caught in the Havahart traps, but the adult female never did, so we couldn't dump the babies anywhere.

We had to wait until they moved out in spring and put up insulation and chicken wire soaked in bobcat urine.

Peanut butter is, unsurprisingly, a good bait.

[Blue-Jay]

33. Furry little cute bastards.

:mad:

[terrya]

22. I knew you were flirting with danger with that avatar, my friend.

LOL. You can indeed cut the irony with a chainsaw here. :-)

[Blue-Jay]

35. If I catch him, I'm going to release it in your pants.

WIN/WIN!

[terrya]

55. Well, that IS a win=win!

:thumbsup:

[paulk]

23. I spent last Tuesday crawling around in my attic

chasing a squirrel out and then patching the hole. My back still hurts.

The asshole chewed through the wire from my doorbell, and ate the insulation off some other wires. I'm not even sure what the wires go to and it's almost impossible to tell - our house was built in the 20's it's got some kind of horrible blow in insulation up that that covers up everything. I'm waiting for a warm day off before going up to dig around in that crap.

Good luck getting rid of him - a squirrel in the attic can burn your house down.

[Blue-Jay]

36. Yeah. I'll need to patch the hole too.

And my back already hurts from moving stuff and turning 40.

[trof]

24. At first I thought this was descriptive of an ongoing activity.

I am relieved to read otherwise.
;-)

[Blue-Jay]

37. I'm buying a squirrel costume for my wife.

Nice little furry piece of tail that would be, I tell ya whut.

[TangoCharlie]

25. I tried the Havahart ...

... went up to the attic the next day, the trap doors are shut, bait is gone, no squirrel in sight, a note saying "thanks for the peanut butter - got milk?".

After a week of that, the inhumane side took action, no more squirrel.

They had made caves in the fiberglass insulation, and chewed a pretty good size "door" through a piece of wood trim.

[Blue-Jay]

39. I don't like the way that sounds.

Those are some smart rodents. If the trap doesn't work, I'm going to have to put a curse on him.

[Deja Q]

27. Thanks for the context!

Otherwise it'd be TMI, even for me... :rofl:

:yoiks:

[Redstone]

40. Fucking a squirrel in your attic? Isn't that a bit perverted? And I bet it hurts

the squirrel, too.

Redstone

[Blue-Jay]

43. Nah, he's OK with it.

I just need to figure out what kind of wine he prefers with his peanut butter.

[Redstone]

45. And you need to find a really small cigarette for afterward.

Redstone

[sarge43]

42. The DU Lounge and no one mentioned bats in their belfry

You people have to shape up. :silly:

[Kali]

44. I just found a packrat nest out on my porch.

I thought (REALLY!) the husband had cleaned out there. I see this piece of string laying over a pile of laundry, the end leading under this old upright freezer I use to store my beer-making stuff. I look a little closer and see about a dozen plastic hangers I use for hanging wet shirts sticking out from under this freezer, where the motor was. I pull on the tangle of hangers and old leather scraps. A freaking avalanche of dog food comes out. And all the odd screws, sockets, pieces of wire, hooks, washers and assorted BITS that one tends to pile up out on the porch. arrgg. Hey there are my hotmats that didn't show up when I washed kitchen stuff the other day.

I am not as kind as you. I know how these guys are. He/she is getting a lethal rat trap. Tonight.

[redqueen]

51. awww... tree rats.

ain't they cute? x(