Squirrel Infestation

[plumtreeblossom]

The squirrels have found their way into the walls again. They are loud and active and can be heard under my bedroom floor doing goodness knows what; brawling, scratching, rutting, terrorizing each other. When this happened a few years ago, they were quieter and I felt sorry for the poor little squirrelies, just trying to take shelter from the snow and wind, and I humbly protested the household's urgency to evict them (protest failed). But this year's crop of squirrels seem to be of meaner, more violent stock. They're not cute. Out they go, no objections from me.

Our landlord is arranging for catch & release traps to be set, and the exterminators will find the entry points and seal them once the walls are squirrel-free. I don't quite know how they can tell that a space like that is indeed squirrel-free. I can't help but think of A Cask of Amotillado.

"For the love of God, Montresquirrel!"

Comments

[kalliejenn2.livejournal.com]

ew, gak!

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when we had squirrels in our walls, Lis would typically yell, "For the love of God, Montresor!" in a high, squeaky voive every time she heard one scratching.,

Squirrels have to be G0d's dumbest creation.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mattt/]

I watch them chase each other with their stupid, puffy tails around my new apartment complex.

We had a squirrel infestation in a house I lived in a few years back.

We called the landlord. Instead of setting the traps in the attic to catch the squirrels that, you know, were in the house, he felt it would be better to place the baited traps in a perimeter around the house to instead catch every outdoor squirrel in the city that could smell the peanut butter.

I wasn't aware the traps were outside for a few days, whereby I then found all the starved and dehydrated, stressed out squirrels the traps could hold.

I figured that I would release them at the furthest point from civilization in case they had some kind of homing instinct. I know, I'm giving them a lot more credit than they deserve. They were stupid enough to get trapped in our attic, they shouldn't be bright enough to find their way back.

Back then, I chose where joyeous used to live in West Roxbury. It pretty much was the end of civilization as far as I was concerned ;)

So I gathered them up in their traps and drove them to a park right up the street from where she lived. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that under extreme stress, squirrels will play dead. Upon dumping them out of their cages in a field, I proceeded to poke and prod them with sticks to see if I had killed them by moving them. I didn't know squirrels had this defense, so I just left them out in the open where they would be easy prey.

If they did live, it also raised the issue of whether joyeous would now face the same infestation of squirrels that I did... :/ I also think you're not supposed to just release wild vermin on peoples' property.

Re: Squirrels have to be G0d's dumbest creation.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Oh how horrible! I do hate seeing them in the traps. Part of the deal here is that the exterminator is required to come check the traps every 24 hours, and I make them stick to that.