Does this equate to bats in the belfry?  I have those, too.

Screens at every opening but that still won't stop them.  They'll find a way in because of the heat.  It's inevitable.  You can keep out the big pests (racoons, etc) but not the teeny ones.  In the winter I hear them running above my ceiling all the time.  It becomes comforting after a while.  If I don't here them, I wonder where they are.

BB Gun!

Joe: you'll put your eye with that!!  

Hopefully the squirrels!

Well this may sound off the wall,

But you may or may not have heard of it.

Some experts and pest control people, have found out to drive out unwanted guest pest like in a chimney , atic, crawl space they use a boom box and blast the worlds worst music either in the attic, chimney etc acid rock seem to work best.

Vance

Gloria,

We had flying squirrels in our attic a few years back and hired a pest control person.  They came out, put traps in the attic and told us to keep them baited with peanut butter. For a while we kept hearing them in the attic (I think they were playing soccer at 3 am) then they stopped.  We kept checking the traps but never did trap any of them, they just moved on.

Ok, not squirrels, but my grandmother had possums that decided to bed in her house.  Now you have to picture your 80 something grandmother (over 275#) running from the kitchen because she found one under the sink.  She slammed and locked the bedroom door....locked because they could get in you know...jumped on the bed to call my dad.  My dad answered the phone with Gram  screamming and yelling "get out of here, get, go away, GET OUT OF HERE".  Well, my dad thought that someone had broke in.  This was all after 10pm.  So my dad called the police and raced to my grandmothers.  She had already locked you doors for the night.  When all got there they could here her screaming.  The police broke down the door, ran to her room and low and behold, FOUR possums hissing and growling like a HUGE cat.  She had cornered them in her room and they did not like it very much.  

Now get this, the possum is Illinois state animal.  The possum is protected and they can not kill them.  They have to live trap them.  Gram stayed at our house for 3 weeks while animal control played games with the possum in her house.

We still call her possum Gram.

Two hysterical visuals!  Squirrels playing soccer and poor Gram.

Oh Lordy!

We don't have trouble with squirrels, but with pigeons. They can get really cozy in attics especially in our golf course and lake/waterfront areas. They like being near the water.

To keep them away from rooftops, out of attics etc. there are spikes that can be used. They are metal or hard plastic spikes in sheets you can get at hardware stores like Ace, TrueValue et al.

You unroll the sheets, can trim or cut them to fit an area, and place them. Too uncomfortable to land there, shoos them off.

Could that possibly work for the squirrels too? If you can get the spikes into the small space?

I found out how to get rid of the guests!

Leave the  squirrels a "Post It Note" to vacate the attic they will understand that.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ue1nJMXaF6E

Mr Post It Note

Ready for this one.......previous squirrel victims swear by it.  Go find yourself the largest plastic OWL that money can buy from your local home fix-it store and place in the attic. The squirrels run for the EXIT.

Vance,

How is it that you can always be counted on to have the video that fits the subject?

LOL Vance, you are just the man!

Millie how are things doing in Douglasville?

Things are a little squirrely here! don't ya think ha ha.

Things are very squirrely here in Douglasville too.  It seems like I'm always dealing with a bunch of nuts. :)

Millie Rowan said:

Things are very squirrely here in Douglasville too.  It seems like I'm always dealing with a bunch of nuts. :)

That's a good one Millie...it's no day at the beach in Florida either.

Gloria Losie said:

Where in the world do you find the time to find the right video?  

Good question Gloria I just look in my youtube/my space  folder, and if can find some sort of title/ word match then  I surf.

Videos really have many meanings you can hear  feel, and see the words of the performers, as they speak or sing and intrepid or include something that would or has taken place in our life and maybe not have.

To me singing is the healing force of the world.

Take this song for example, there was message in it, from the 80s Laura has past away and will be missed.

Gloria!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SdVEM5WMDo0

Vancetube

Had no idea whn I became an agent that I might need to be an animal control agent too.

Sorry about your luck Gloria, it's always something isn't it?!

<<shakes head>>

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Well Gloria has had a run of bad luck with animals in homes, she had a snake and now a squirrel

But what Gloria won't share with you  is she saw big foot in a home and video taped it, I have a copy! wanna a see it??

sure you do:)

Meet Harry everyone watching TV at one of Glorias listings, ha ha ha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVcKkaaPlhw

Harry

Borrow the snake Gloria!

LOL!!!!

Wow Sharron and Steve !!! congrats,

I just NOTICE you guys are with Solid Source now, Gloria is also there!!

small world.

My GA office is in the same complex as Solid Source, see ya soon:)

Vance

We will have a "Solid" relationship!

Who knows I may look into Solid Source.

Vance

Vicki, I had no idea that possums are Illinois state animals?

One of my clients had a big problem with racoons in his attic last year. They moved into a very tiny attic space where the owner couldn't get to them. Going along with Vances noise idea, I do believe they got rid of them with loud noise and once they got out, they boarded up even the smallest openings (other than covered vents). I don't think they've had any problems since.

Call an exterminator!

To get squirrels out of your attic, check my new invention on ebay.  Search for squirrel attic repellent.  It's cheap and effective.

Okay, here is advice from a professional. Chris is a pest control technician by day. He says use a live animal trap baited with whole, unsalted peanuts. When you've caught the critter, seal any holes. Depending on the size of the hole, a wire mesh screen will work.

good luck!

Janet Gaut

RE/MAX Gold of Pollock Pines