[Shop-talk] Squirels in the attic

[Larry Spector]

John,

I went through this a couple of years ago. I tried to scare them out
by going up into my attic and making lots of noise- then closing up
the entry with hardware cloth (heavy duty wire screening).
Unfortunately, there was still one left inside that had hidden while I
closed off the hole! For that one, I went and rented a hav-a-hart trap
and baited it with peanut butter. It took a couple of days, but
eventually I caught him. What was interesting about it is that the
ones that got shut out came back to lay on the roof and "cry" for the
missing one!

They're all out now, and haven't even tried to come back.

-Larry

On 7/29/07, john matthews <john__matthews at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Any tips on getting ground squirels out of our attic? The exterminator guy
> put sticky traps up there but my wife doesn't like the idea of killing
> squirels. When we thought they were rats she was OK with it but now....
>
> BTW, it's a tile roof in Arizona. The "attic" is really just a crawl space
> with blown in insulation so it's really hard to get around up there without
> destroying the ceiling. Also, it's really hot here this time of year so
> anything we could do without going up there would be good.
>
> TIA,
>
> John