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That Darn Squirrel
Seems a(?) red squirrel has nested above my garage in the crawl space, heard it munching in the eve today. Pulled the stairs down and entered, noticed a couple of mouse traps had tripped but no mouse, so I did the low crawl until it jumped up about a foot in the air in front of me. Bet I took a couple years off it, hopefully I'll remove the rest of them tonight!
Set two heavy duty rat traps loaded with peanut butter. If the mouse traps didn't train it to stay away, should be hosta la vista tonight. Going to pick up a live trap tomorrow in case it avoids the rat trap. Sounded as though it made it between the walls when I was outside grilling the steaks, fortunately not in the house yet.
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We already have the ferrel cats, they seem to have missed this one. I saw it outside a couple of times over the last few weeks but did not have the shotgun handy. As of nightfall, it was still moving around over the breezeway in the eve and back wall. Hope the trap works today.
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Sorry about the title issue Dennis.
What a day, was up at 0 dark 30 working and then had to get ready to head to a meeting. Checked my rat traps and no squirrel. Locked house and was walking with my planner and laptop to vehicle and the damn thing ran into the side yard. Raced back in, retrieved soon to be illegal weapon in NYS but it was out of sight when I returned.
On my way home picked up a live trap, squirrel sized. It's up in the attic now, loaded with bread and peanut butter, hope I catch it so I can conduct a scientific experiment as to how long a tree rat can hold its breath.
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Well, hopefully this good news will last.
This past week has been the second career from hades. So much going on I had no time to devote to the rat other than to make its life miserable, so that is what I did.
During my brief stops at home between daytime training sessions and evening meetings I beat on the wall in the breezeway where the thing nested. I did this every time I walked in or out of the house. Even came face to face with it when placing the trap up in the attic.
Late in the afternoon on Wednesday after beating the drywall like a drum, I heard it squeal and scramble out of there, so I grabbed my weapon and headed to the woods where it normally exits under the woodshed. Never saw it. Came home around ten that night and beat on the wall, no rat movement. Checked traps, no rat. Waited another day while continuing my wall soundings but no movement detected.
Made a trip into the attic late Thursday and found nothing. At that point, I plugged the hole in the soffit inside the woodshed where it made entry.
Just returned from our fire company fundraiser, no rat in sight. Guess I made its life a bit to miserable, imagine that 
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We will never know, the guberment will ensure those votes are there for them and not allow "work" to come between the rodents and a free meal.
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