Kill 'em?

[MasterBlaster]

What do you do when a customer asks you to 'knock out' all the squirrel nests during a trim?

4 live oaks, 2 water oaks.

 

[treeman82]

I started a thread on this a while ago. There were some descent ideas in there. Here's the link.



http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9405&highlight=squirrels

 

[Jumper]

With no offense to Rocky J, squirrels can be very persistant and resourceful pests. I would suggest to your clients that if they want to be rid of of the nasty little buggers, call an animal control specialist for his expertice. Knocking the nests out of trees is hardly going to move them on, and suggest to your client they may decide to move into their attic as an alternative abode. If $$$$ are an issue, suggest they buy a catch em alive trap and "relocate" them to a park. My father caught 57 last year.

 

[TREETX]

Evil tree rats

Need I remind you that skwerlz are inherently evil.

http://www.deadsquirrel.com/top10.html

feeling sorry for them is like having sympathy for a Nazi SS guard at Auschwitz or Dachau.

The evil creature should all be relocated to the Alternate Reality Tom was speaking of.

Those little things fit into a chipper no problemo!!






They are a pain in the ass but since my neighbor has cats, my tree rats are gone. I even had a bunch of antlers out for them to eat.

 

[TREETX]

Austin is such a dirt worshipping treehugging liberal love fest epicenter that nobody has ever asked me that question.

Every year I seen to find a nest with babies.

My old boss had an albino squirrel he rescued from a tree relocation project at the state capitol. There are a bunch of albino tree rats running around there.

lmao!!

http://web.wt.net/~psherr/squirrel_hazing.htm

 

[SilverBlue]

Man you guys need to be more resourceful !
Problem Solver

 

[TREETX]

Tree rats are evil

Not mystical

Hate to find this on judgement day

Click on this but be careful, it is so F'n funny

http://www.scarysquirrel.org/htadex.html

 

[MasterBlaster]

Knock out the nests and maybe half the squirrels might move to the next tree over. No biggie. The exception might be a nest with newborns in it. [/B][/QUOTE]

The nests with babies were my main concern. I'm kinda a pu$$y when it comes to killing babies like that, I had a pet squirrel for 12 years.
What I did was knock out the abandoned nests, and feel around for babies in the fresh ones. Only found 2 with babies - left 'em alone, the lady was happy.
Read your thread, 82. The lady didn't wanna exterminate them, she just didn't like the nests in the trees.

 

[TREETX]

Here is your squirrel hugger site http://www.scarysquirrel.org/pal/index.html

the www.scarysquirrel.org site is so funny.

 

[Mattman]

I’ve inadvertently knocked squirrel nests out of trees before , and Momma squirrel almost always comes back to retrieve the little ones as soon as we break for lunch. Those nests can just about withstand an atomic bomb, and they make hundreds of them all over. One time late in the day I knocked a nest out of the tree and left it there over night. There were no pups in the nest the next morning. Either Momma came and got them, or there is a well fed cat in the neighborhood.

Matt

 

[SilverBlue]

Do cats climb trees for dinner?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Youse guys!!!