"Bonnie Jean" wrote in message
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"William W. Plummer" wrote in message
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A Havahart baited with peanut butter will yield a squirrel every day.
They will knock themselves bloody trying to escape. And if they are
left to sit in the sun until you get home, they will die from
dehydration. This is cruel.

It's illegal he in the PRM (Peoples' Republic of MA) to transport the
ones you catch. I worried about how far away I had to take them so
they wouldn't come back. So, I spray painted them: yellow was to the
woods a few houses away, pink was to the nearby forrest, and green was
several miles away. A neighbor invited me for dinner and asked, "What
makes squirrels turn yellow?" Before I could explain, she said a
know-it-all at work told her it was pine pollen stuck to pine pitch.
I told her to ask him what makes them turn pink and green.
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Any decent website will tell you to take them 5-10 miles away. That's what
I
did. And I only set it up when I can take them away quickly. If I'm at
work,
I don't leave the trap set up. And none of mine bloodied themselves.
Bonnie



They will get yellow in spring time from pollen. We used to get so much
pollen from 200 foot douglas firs that you would have to turn on your wipers
in the morning to see!......