Squirrel Invasion

[Saan]

My neighborhood seems alive with squirrels in the last few days. I am enjoying watching them racing across powers lines and jumping onto my roof. Is it their mating season?

There are ones with white tails and other brushy red tails. Are they different species?

A couple of years ago I woke to see one seated on the overhead fan above the bed. It didn't seem at all troubled as it was playing the switch cord. I have no idea how he managed to get in as all the fly screens were shut. I opened a door onto the balcony and it left at its leisure.

[daoyai]

the red and grey, are differend species, the grey ones turn almost white at certain times and have thicker fur. I like to watch them chase the cicadas during their season running full speed up a branch hoping to catch one.

[Tywais]

Just remember, they can bite. A Thai friend of mine was bitten and got a significant infection from it plus potential of rabies. But I do also enjoy watching them jumping about from my office window.

[naboo]

They got into the roof of our house and chewed through cabels creating a short.

Now we have a cat, problem solved.

[tolsti]

My staff called them tree rats because they cant pronounce squirrel

[rawhod]

I believe they are from the rodent family...

In the UK many years ago, a friend had squirrels in the roof space, they had young (the squirrels that is) and kept them awake all night with their noises. They set poison and removed the dead...but missed one and that stunk the house out.

[FolkGuitar]

Easy enough to keep the squirrels out of the roof spaces and from under the house. Just sprinkle a line of ordinary 'moth balls' around the perimeter. Rodents won't enter.

[eyecatcher]

We tend to get them in the roof in the colder season; October/November onwards but I haven't noticed ours for a few months.

In winter they used to wake me up, scurrying about, fighting each other; I actually think geckos get involved, and the neighbours cat but i worries me no end wondering what they are chewing.

I used the camphor balls, but its not easy to get them in a roof when you have no loft access. I was literally throwing them up the eaves to try and get them onto the ceiling.

If its the camphor balls doing the trick then great, but I think come winter they will find somewhere warm to settle down.

Not just quirrels but also lots of chipmunks, black and white striped ones, much smaller. The squirrels here are not like European squirrels their tails here are less bushy and they have more of a snouted nose(possomy?)

[Saan]

Easy enough to keep the squirrels out of the roof spaces and from under the house. Just sprinkle a line of ordinary 'moth balls' around the perimeter. Rodents won't enter.

One must be careful if using naphthalene. It is highly carcinogenic and combustible. It was a component of napalm.

[brommers]

So why is it necessary to kill animals whose natural territory we have encroached on? They have every right It join us.

[FolkGuitar]

So why is it necessary to kill animals whose natural territory we have encroached on? They have every right It join us.

Which post suggested killing them?

[Chicog]

So why is it necessary to kill animals whose natural territory we have encroached on? They have every right It join us.

Which post suggested killing them?

I'm guessing the ones with carcinogens.

[FolkGuitar]

So why is it necessary to kill animals whose natural territory we have encroached on? They have every right It join us.

Which post suggested killing them?

I'm guessing the ones with carcinogens.

Wouldn't all of us with sweaters be dead? We lived with moth balls every summer for most of our lives... Of course, so did our parents and grandparents, and they ARE dead. Perhaps we will die someday too. Who knows? Anyway, so far, so good!

Moth balls don't kill rodents. They just keep away because they don't like the smell.