Squirrel Extermination Tips

Squirrels love to chew everything they find, they can chew electrical wiring, which can lead to fire, and squirrel can use insulation to make a nest for them by damaging it. Droppings of squirrels can cause some health problems like salmonella infection. If you have allergies presence of squirrels can make it worse, hair, saliva, and urine of squirrels can cause a runny nose, itchy watery eyes, nasal congestion, scratchy throat, and asthmatic symptoms. To protect your health and to avoid damages, you should work on the ways to deter squirrels. Here are a few lethal ways to deal with squirrels.

Shooting
If you got a good aim, then you can shoot squirrels by using an air rifle or a shotgun. Shooting will work against the low population of squirrels. But you must have knowledge about state laws regarding shooting squirrels; otherwise, you will be in trouble. Trap and kill This is a humane way to get rid of squirrels. You can use a live cage trap, and then you can use a carbon dioxide chamber or an injection. You can shot in the head of the squirrel from a short-range, in this way, the squirrel will die soon without suffering too much, or you can release a trapped squirrel away from your area.

Lethal traps 
Many people use lethal traps for killing squirrels; this method sometimes works perfectly. You need to place the trap near the nest, and a body grip trap will quickly kill the squirrel. If this trap is not placed in the right position, it will not work and can badly injure squirrel.

Poison Basic traps
Anticoagulant baits are used to deal with squirrels, but this not too effective and is an illegal way. These types of traps do not give expected results. Therefore it is better to use any other way.

Poisoning
This method works and gives you positive results. But this inhumane way to kill squirrels, there are no poisons available in the market to kill the squirrels. Mostly rat poison is used for this purpose. But this is not a safe way as it can kill your pet and other animals and birds too. This can be very unsafe if you have small kids in your house.

Alternative ways
If you do not want to use lethal ways to kill the squirrels, then we also have some natural way you can use, these methods will not kill the squirrels, but they will scare them, and there is a great chance that they will never come back in your home or lawn.

• You can pepper spray around the area affected by squirrels
• You should not keep the food of your pets in open areas it will attract squirrels
• If you have a dog or cat, it will scare them
• You can use motion sensor sprinklers to scare them
• Block the entry points of squirrels, or you can use fence around your lawn
• Use live trap and shift them at some distance that they may never come back

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