I park my next to the barn where they hay is piled up and the cats roam, but I guess your approach might be considered politically correct.

 

Now there is a great idea....

 

LOL! You guys are wasting your time. Hot sauce?!?!? Come on.

You have to TRAP and put down EVERY one around your home. The ONLY way to keep a rogue squirrel from nesting in a nice warm truck or attic is to ELIMINATE the problem.
Once they get a taste of nesting over a warm engine or above a nice warm home, they will ALWAYS move back to the same or seek out another come winter. You'd better hope it is your neighbors and not yours. They can also climb up vinyl siding and jump from a tree to your roof.

After having them in our attic and causing havoc, I found this website...
http://www.unexco.com/
I now trap as many squirrels as I can every fall. I get 10-15 every year and don't see any around the house till the following summer. They are territorial and it takes them a long time to reastablish a territory.

Sure a gun might take out a few, but it takes alot of time and for every one you see there are many more you don't. Trapping is the only method to get them all. They can't resist peanut butter.

Use a HavaHart 1040 trap (1030 is a bit too small), bait with peanut butter, set it out in the morning and you should have a tree rat later in the day.
Repeat daily until you don't catch any for a week. By now you should have "exterminated the territory" for the time being.
End of problem and piece of mind.

Check your local laws but you may be able to "relocate" the squirrel. Keep in mind they have been known to return from up to 10 miles!
It is Illegal to relocate wildlife here, but legal to put a squirrel down humanly. I use a water filled garbage can and dunk the cage and all for at least 5 minutes.

Btw, DO NOT leave the trap out at night or you will get opposums and skunks. Not good.

This is the only way to solve a squirrel problem. FORGET the hot sauces, fox urine, mace, pig vomit, moth ***** etc. Chances are it will irritate you more then the squirrel.

Check out the horrors others are going thru @ The Squirrel message board....
http://www.unexco.com/squirrel/squirrel.mv

Hope this helps and Good Luck!

 

I tell ya man, I trap 'em, and they just keep coming. I use a molasses/pecan bait.

Little frigging chipmunks, too ... that always want to burrow along the foundation of my house. I caught a baby skunk one time in the chipmuck trap.

 

Are there any parks nearby? Maybe someone is relocating their squirrels to your neighborhood? lol.
Also if anyone close by has a bird feeder or feeds the tree rats, there will be more around then normal.
I've always had great luck with peanut butter but heard molasses works good also.
There are tricks and techniques to be successful.
This here page is the cats meow on trapping squirrels

http://www.unexco.com/trapsquirrels.html

I hear ya on the chipmunks.
They burrowed all under our new paver walkways this summer. Cave in's everywhere.
I wondered where all the stone dust was going.
They also did a number on my neighbors garden.
We both trapped them to ELIMINATE the problem.
We got around 10-12 and have'nt seen or heard one since.

 

Found out the hard way...no humane way to stop 'em. Went to Wally World today and spent $35.00 for a 5 clip pellet gun.... end of day score. Bud - 2, Squirrels - 0 !

 

Had squirrels chew through 12 wires on my 91 F150 last summer. Right on top of the left inner fender, right next to the plugs and even chewed a short piece out of one. Took 25 butt splices to fix it, later when I had the fuel pump replace they had chewed through some wires on the ignition module. Since then have declared war on them, shot them under the pest clause.

 

The large rat traps work real well for squirrels, be careful though they also work well on fingers. rugerman

 

DeCon works great. Had a family of mice in the cab of the truck for a while at the start of winter. They left droppings on the armrest eating a sausage stick that I left in there overnight. Sent the wife to pick up some DeCon, in one night they ate the whole package, Haven't had a problem since.

 

After bad problems with mice, rats, and squirrels, and trying traps, etc. with poor results, I gave up and started using Dcon. No more issues...they were nesting and starting to chew the wiring, insulation, etc. (plus all the **** and crap) on my 92 ranch truck and 83 bucket truck...don't use those but once every couple weeks or so, so I'll place a small box of Dcon under the hood on top of the intake mani. Works like a charm, no more infestations...but be cognizant of the collateral poisoning issues...

 

A few years ago I was living in Olympia, WA. and we had a problem with scumbags cruising the neighborhood at night, opening mailboxes and looking for anything they could find...mostly for identity theft. I started putting a loaded rat trap in the mailbox every evening. Before going to work in the morning I would shove a stick into the mailbox to retrieve the rat trap.

One morning I went out, my mailbox had been removed from the post and the rat trap was gone. No more mail theft....go figure.

 

The problem with DeCon and poisons are they die where they are living which could be in your truck or the walls/attic/basement of your house.
You will smell them for weeks while they are rotting in your walls or someplace you can not get to. Not cool.
I also don't like using poisons where there can be exposure to small children.
Snap traps are the ticket for mice and rats. I have never seen a rat snap trap kill an adult grey squirrel, squirrels are too big. At best you will maim the squirrel and it will suffer.
A Havahart 1040 trap (or larger) works for squirrels. Put down and dispose in a plastic bag and out with the trash.

 

on a side note i set 4 traps in my moms attick. i put a good size blob of peanut butter on the trap mechanism of all 4. a couple of days later i went to check and all 4 had the peanut butter licked off and had not been set off. stupid mice.

 

Make a bucket mouse trap. Search YouTube for "Bucket Mouse Trap". You'll be amazed how well it works and how simple it is. It catches many mice in one night. There are plans online too. Simple to make with stuff laying around the house and garage.

I have four of these out-and-about on my property around my vehicles and farm equimpment. They work like a charm. Controlling the population is crutial since mice breed fast since they are food for so many predators.

Just make plans where you'll be dumping the mice (typically 5-6 a night when you first put them out) and the yummy dead-mouse soup.

Enjoy,

 

I know some people have a problem with cats but we have three, they do the job without a doubt. They are not stupid in any way, in the winter they have a dinner table set up under my exhaust for my high efficient water heater exhaust. It point down towards the ground and the snow is gone down to the grass at all times under the exhaust. You always see their scraps in that little area, needless to say I have no rodent problems, bird crap problems, and my Mastiff takes care of the possums when they show up.