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Deal sometime with the damage that a squirrel or raccoon can do in an attic. You will become an advocate for the total worldwide eradication of the species!

Ditto!!! They are in the walls of the condo where I live and are chewing electrical wires! That fact makes relaxing to go to sleep at night an act of Faith!

I wouldn’t go as fair as to be an advocate for “the total worldwide eradication of the species”; in nature squirrels do play their role, but my old house got infested by squirrels.

The chewed their way threw the eves and got into my attic. They destroyed the insulation and made nests in it, got into boxes of papers and books and pictures and clothes I had stored there, shredding the boxes and destroying and pissing and crapping on everything and then started chewing on the electrical wires. Not to mention the racket they made as they got into the walls and underneath the floor boards.

A neighbor recommended to me a professional animal trapper. He was a real good ole boy. Good guy but very “country” if you catch my drift. His name was Lester and I jokingly named him “Lester The Squirrel Molester”. Any way he set several “humane” traps baited with peanuts and peanut butter and came back every day to check on the traps.

This went on for almost two weeks until all the squirrels had been trapped. He went out of his way several times to explain to me that he took the still live squirrels out to the country and set them free. One day I told Lester, “I may live in the city but I’m not stupid. Quite frankly I don’t care what you do to the squirrels once you remove them from my house. You can stew them or use them for target practice. I don’t really care”.

He sort of laughed and said nothing more. Lester became my absolute hero when he removed a dead and rotting possum that got into the crawl space underneath my kitchen.

I’m not advocating animal cruelty. I wouldn’t go out of my way to inflict pain and suffering on any animal without cause but vermin is vermin. I have no remorse over killing ants, flies, cockroaches, bees, mice or squirrels that get into my house.