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I just caught one in a humane trap as fed up with them ruining it for the birds , now my mate saying I have to kill it as illegal to release outside my house. I could put it over my neighbours but the animal will come back as I always put a nice spread on for my feathered friends. I cannot kill it as it would take my finger off trying to strangle it. Any thoughts please?
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You could release it at the next home game, we all had a good laugh that match when there was a squirrel on the turf alongside Brophy.
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oxo wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:03 am You could release it at the next home game, we all had a good laugh that match when there was a squirrel on the turf alongside Brophy.
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You can buy a chilli spray to spray on the bird food, birds don't mind it, squirrels hate it.
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Air rifle !
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Put it in a cardboard box with holes in it and release it in your local park .
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If you know any Mods you could cut its tail off and sell it to them to put on their scooter.
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Cook it and eat it
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Take it's nuts away.
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BIGRON wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:25 am Put it in a cardboard box with holes in it and release it in your local park .
Thanks but I’m told it is against law. It is in a metal cage trap with lots room in at moment
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Release it in the park at 3am in the morning, who's going to know?
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If its a red one let it go.

If its one of those mangey looking grey ones it's vermin and should be dispatched with a rake or shovel.
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Dextercoindexter wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:04 am
BIGRON wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:25 am Put it in a cardboard box with holes in it and release it in your local park .
Thanks but I’m told it is against law. It is in a metal cage trap with lots room in at moment
It's also an offence to keep a grey squirrel in captivity (Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932), not to mention cruel (Wild Mammals (Protection) Act
1996).

Do the right thing and take it somewhere where there is nobody around and you can release it.
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I had to let it go under my neighbours broken fence as it was distressed as magpies and crows were hanging around. They are vicious creatures and eat birds eggs and damage trees. Anyway he had a lucky day. Couldn’t trap him for hours and couldn’t dispatch. I have never seen a red squirrel ever by the way.
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Slice of lemon wherever a squirrel climbs , As with Chilli they dont do citric acid .
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Dextercoindexter wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 12:30 pm I had to let it go under my neighbours broken fence as it was distressed as magpies and crows were hanging around. They are vicious creatures and eat birds eggs and damage trees. Anyway he had a lucky day. Couldn’t trap him for hours and couldn’t dispatch. I have never seen a red squirrel ever by the way.
My mum used to have red squirrel as a pet when a child.lived in edge of Epping forest in loughton as many red ones before grey ones took over.big sanctuary of them in formby Merseyside.saw a black one once in letchworth
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Used to see lots of reds in valentines park when I was a kid. Sadly none anymore. Saw one the other day but am up in the highlands.
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Eat it
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I used to trap and eat them a while ago. You have to be up for the dispatch though. Get it into a hessian sack and take a hammer to it. Not for everyone.
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Dextercoindexter wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:04 am
BIGRON wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:25 am Put it in a cardboard box with holes in it and release it in your local park .
Thanks but I’m told it is against law. It is in a metal cage trap with lots room in at moment
Well don't release it in broad daylight, do it in the evening when it's getting dark . Who's going to give a stuff about you releasing a squirrel anyway, just let it go in the park. It will probably rocket out of the box so nobody will notice or care .
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Dextercoindexter wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 12:30 pm I had to let it go under my neighbours broken fence as it was distressed as magpies and crows were hanging around. They are vicious creatures and eat birds eggs and damage trees. Anyway he had a lucky day. Couldn’t trap him for hours and couldn’t dispatch. I have never seen a red squirrel ever by the way.
That's because the native red ones have been pushed out by the more aggressive immigrant greys.
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LittleMate wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:46 pm
Dextercoindexter wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 12:30 pm I had to let it go under my neighbours broken fence as it was distressed as magpies and crows were hanging around. They are vicious creatures and eat birds eggs and damage trees. Anyway he had a lucky day. Couldn’t trap him for hours and couldn’t dispatch. I have never seen a red squirrel ever by the way.
That's because the native red ones have been pushed out by the more aggressive immigrant greys.
Yes true, I used to go to Sun Trap at High Beech as a kid and they always said the reds were underdogs but I have never ever seen one.
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Dextercoindexter wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 12:03 am
LittleMate wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:46 pm
Dextercoindexter wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 12:30 pm I had to let it go under my neighbours broken fence as it was distressed as magpies and crows were hanging around. They are vicious creatures and eat birds eggs and damage trees. Anyway he had a lucky day. Couldn’t trap him for hours and couldn’t dispatch. I have never seen a red squirrel ever by the way.
That's because the native red ones have been pushed out by the more aggressive immigrant greys.
Yes true, I used to go to Sun Trap at High Beech as a kid and they always said the reds were underdogs but I have never ever seen one.
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tuffers#1 wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 12:12 am
Dextercoindexter wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 12:03 am
LittleMate wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:46 pm
That's because the native red ones have been pushed out by the more aggressive immigrant greys.
Yes true, I used to go to Sun Trap at High Beech as a kid and they always said the reds were underdogs but I have never ever seen one.
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Squirrels damage trees but rarely kill them. It does make the trees less valuable though, so it's forestry people who grow trees as a crop that make all the fuss.

The damage actually supports biodiversity, as fungi grow in the wounds, which providers food for other creatures. Squirrels also collect and bury nuts and seeds and so allow more trees to grow.

Leave the little feckers alone.
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