BS: Animals Wanting In

Subject: RE: BS: Animals Wanting In
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 06:31 AM

' Purdy ' the worlds finest shotguns.
eric

Subject: RE: BS: Animals Wanting In
From: Allan C.
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 05:57 AM

Years ago I had a groundhog to do the very same thing. He came to an early grave. Some folks have had luck spreading mothballs.

Subject: RE: BS: Animals Wanting In
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 04:50 AM

I suspect that if a sonic gizmo went off in my ear, I'd probably drop a load too!

There are some wildlife parks or zoos that sell lion poop to ward off unfriendly animals from floor spaces, gardens, that sort of thing. Which is fine if you like the smell of lion poop. Of course, in real country, you may just end up with a randy lion sniffing round!

Citrus smells are usually unwelcome to feline animals, they don't like them too much, so try some orange cleaner, or fruit peel around the holes.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Animals Wanting In
From: Mickey191
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 11:45 PM

Thanks Folks so much. I'm in beautiful Dutchess Co. in N.Y.--Real Country. I neglected to say I found a whole in the earth-behind some spreading taxis plants. I just laid a paving block over it. But in two days he dropped by again. Now I cannot see how he made it in. I'm alone & help is hard to get - the chicken wire would be impossible for me to do.

What is a Purdy? Strict laws about firing a gun within 500 ft. of a home. Besides I've never seen it. Wood rat? Egads!

Mudlark, I like the of the gizmo, but I bought one a few yrs. ago when I had a mouse. I plugged it in & he shit right under it!!! So much for sonic blasters.

Subject: RE: BS: Animals Wanting In
From: LadyJean
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 11:28 PM

You might try some used cat litter. I'll bet whatever it is isn't into kitty smell.

Subject: RE: BS: Animals Wanting In
From: Mudlark
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 11:24 PM

My dad swore by one of those electronic gismos that emit a supersonic sound for ridding his attic of squirrels. If you are in US it could also be ground squirrel or wood rat. Both love to get under houses, muck about and drive householder mad.

Subject: RE: BS: Animals Wanting In
From: Chief Chaos
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 10:42 PM

Chicken wire should do it. DO yourself a favor and make sure the critter is out from under before putting it in place. And if you live anywhere sub-urban you might want to use a small hole wire so that snakes don't adopt the vacated space. They go after the small rodents that find such spaces to be great homes.

Run Corridus!

Subject: RE: BS: Animals Wanting In
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 10:20 PM

What ever happened to that other noise under the floorboards that someone else was dealing with last fall or winter? Maybe that critter moved?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Animals Wanting In
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 10:19 PM

i reccomend a Purdy "over and under".

Subject: RE: BS: Animals Wanting In
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 10:16 PM

A shotgun.

Subject: RE: BS: Animals Wanting In
From: Deckman
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 10:08 PM

Where are you? Which planet, continent, country. That might give us a clue! Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Animals Wanting In
From: Amos
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 10:01 PM

Chicken wire?


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Subject: BS: Animals Wanting In
From: Mickey191
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 09:55 PM

Anyone know of a deterent that works to discourage an unseen (but heard) animal from actually entering my home. He comes at night & gnaws loudly into the daylight hours. I've no idea what it could be, my neighbor guesses a groundhog. Could that be? There is a groundhog who lives under a steel shed on my property. If he is the little pest, I'm really ticked-cause I give him 2 apples a week which cost 60 cents each. I have no basement-just a subfloor.So he is able to scoot around on the subfloor. My dog cries & growls as this thing scoots from vent to vent. ANY help would be appreciated. Does a ground hog do this type of thing--I've tried mothballs.

Thanks, Mickey191