"Grant Erwin" wrote in message
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Out here in the Pacific Northwest, Eastern gray squirrels are classified
as
a pest. They are not native but most people here don't know it as they are
very very common. The usual method used out here (pretty effective) to
trap
them is to first feed them for a few weeks, to get them used to finding
food
in a particular location, then to get a medium sized live trap and put the
food dish in the back of it. They get in but they don't get out. An easy
way
to kill the animal is to submerge the entire trap in water with the
squirrel
in it. I know of a person in Salem, Oregon who has dispatched over 100
squirrels
this way. He says it makes a dent but they always come back.

What we really need is more squirrel hawks. I'll add that to my list of
hawks
we need, which already includes pigeon hawks and crow hawks.

GWE

By contrast, we have discovered a rare Douglas squirrel on our property.
They, apparently, were once wide spread, but have virtually disappeared from
Lewis County in the last ten years or so, and no one seems to know why.
We don't see any other type squirrel here, but we have a huge number of
chipmunks, which we feed regularly, although not necessarily by design. We
feed the birds and the rodents help themselves. We're OK with that.

Harold