Look Natasha, eet's anozzer flying squirrel!!

[Bruce Taylor]

What's up with these little guys?

For the third time in three months, I've got a flying squirrel in my house. I caught the other two quite easily and shipped them off to Siberia. But what's with the sudden plague of flying squirrels? In all my years in Quebec I've never even seen one. Now they're all over the place.

Do you suppose I've brought this on myself by trapping all the black and red squirrels in the neighbourhood?

Or is this a reaction to a recent "mast year" for pinecones?

The problem is...they're incredibly cute and quite tame. Maggie is begging me to leave this one alone! My resolve is weakening. I'm starting to like this one, and I'm a seasoned squirrel hater.

[Shang]

Our flying squirrels used to hold wild, noisy midnight parties in the attic.
When they got drunk enough they'd come out and dive-bomb onto our bed.
But they're so cute that it's sort of like The Attack of the Walt Disney Characters.

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[gunnar I am]

Bruce, it's all part of a reality series, and you're being voted off the island. :eek:

[ishmael]

I dunno Bruce, but if you've eliminated all their non-flying cousins it would make sense that you've opened up a niche and brought this plague on yourself. Or it could just be another sign of the end times. Look at it this way, they're cuter than locusts.

[Otter]

Well, if the Moose show up then I would assume its a Wassamatta U class reunion.

[Bruce Taylor]

So, do you think he'll eat my wires?

[Wayne Jeffers]

Bruce,

At least you have cute, controllable household pests.

Once again, our house is infested with tens of thousands of multicolored Asian lady beetles over-wintering. No defense against these pests. One benefit to the cold winter we've had is that, so far, there have been relatively fewer of them emerging because of few warm days.

I would trade you my bugs for your squirrels in a heartbeat. :D

Wayne

[L-M Ramirez]

When I first moved into my house in Atlanta I had flying squirrels in my attic for about 3 winters. The racket was incredible. I said squirrels but it may have been one, I never knew and I didn't know it was a flying squirrel until one got into my bedroom one night and woke me up. To this day I don't know where it entered the house, but it was on my curtain looking at me when I turned on the light to see what the noise was. It was cute beyond description and more scared of me than I was of it. I raised my window and scared it in between the screen and window and the next morning, in the light of day I unlatched the screen so it could escape. That was the end of flying squirrels. Now my attic is prey to the noisy regular squirrels, which I never had in my attic before. So it could be that the regular ones don't occupy the same space as the flying one. Maybe they've heard that there is a moose somewhere nearby, as well! ;)

[Hughman]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid21/pfeadb16d42b5a8812805d4cd89399f5c/fdb11df3.gif

Rocky? Is that you? I don't think you otto hide in Bruce's attic?

[Memphis Mike]

L-M, I hear you have "bats in your belfry"
too. :D

[Wild Wassa]

Favourable winds? ... the balance of nature has been disturbed. Doom and gloom.

I've not suffered from the rodents. Are these guys rodents? ... Boris and Natasha, rodenteunters.

We should allow for wild life, not the other way around. Easy for me to say though. We have so little left, apart from ferals. We have over 100,000 feral Camels in Australia.

May the sweat if a thousand Camels water your lawns.
Shiek Wild Wassa Al Maktoum Bin Razzi.

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[Otter]

I'm not sure I should post this because so many people would say "Eeeeewww".

But heres a trick that may get rid of squirrels in attics. Go to a dog groomer and get a bag of dog hair. (yes, dog hair). Put some in places in your attic.

I had a neighbor with an attic rodent problem which cleared up after the old dog hair trick was applied. Its either the scent of dog or they dont like cut hair in their little paws. Whatever.

As a disclaimer: Don't do this if you or your family is allergic to dog hair. :D

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

WOW what a cool idea and it may explain a lot of changes that happened around this house once we got Lucky thar dog-thanks for the phrase Gunnar :D Anyway every winter we would get at least one field mouse since lucky none. Haven't seen a single deer on the property when I use to see 1/2 a dozen daily, sorry Stan. No more ducks in the pond :( no more raccoons trying to eat the cat food. No more flocks of wild turkeys in the side yard. I haven't even seen Wood or Chuck my two groundhogs since lucky moved in.

[John Bell]

They are cute until one dies in your attic. Pee-uuu! The funny thing is all the time I've lived in the Atlanta area, I've nver seen one in the wild, now I'm hearing about everyone around here having them in their attics...

[Mrleft8]

Forget Moose! Get Squirrel!
And.... Yes..... Grey squirrels keep flying squirrels away... Nasty big brutes they are....

[Wild Wassa]

Joe have your animals moved away because this is what they do seasonally or could this be a sign of an imbalance ?

If in a normal season you would typically have frogs and they have shot through, as well, call the EPA. These little hoppers are the indicator that something could be wrong.

Warren.

[Bruce Taylor]

Well, they're back. :mad:

One of them woke me up, last night. I switched on the light, and there he was, perched in the rungs of an old rocking chair. Almost got a blanket over him, but he skipped to one side, then scampered up into the rafters (post and beam house...great habitat for Rocky and his buddies).

Long winter coming.

[Norske3]

....will they eat your wires?...depends on the flavor they be. smile.gif

[Alan D. Hyde]

Put a fierce and determined hunter of a cat into the house with that flying squirrel and you'll see something akin to what Joy and I saw in 1974, when our cat chased (and finally caught and proudly brought to us) a flying squirrel in our timber frame cape cod house (built 1800) in Maine.

We were restoring the house, and it was open in places all the way up to the top of the roof.

It was a madcap chase, with many swooping flights hither and yon by the desperate squirrel, who declined an offer to leave via the open front door.

As with bats, an old tennis racket will do the trick if need be.

After all, squirrels are just rats designed by a marketing man.

Alan

[Bruce Taylor]

Come to think of it, they do look a little like beanie-babies.