I decided to trap a raccoon last night....

[Breukelen advocaat]

Sorry maybe I should have just quoted the "won't come back so fast" part. Didn't mean your whole quote was funny! LoL That was completely my fault! I'm a bit :stoned:

Oh, I get you now.

Earlier this summer I had squirrels try to chew through my air-conditioner's plastic side panels, so I fortified them with sheet metal and moved the A/C to another window. Yesterday, the squirrels were back on that same ledge, and I squirted them with LYSOL through the screen - they took off. I also had some Critter Ridder on the ledge, but it was old. MY next project is to put sheet metal on the ledge, at a 45 degree angle, greased with petroleum jelly - theoretically, when they jump from the tree branch onto the metal, they'll slide right off, four stories down. If that isn't enough for them, I also bought Bird-X Spikes - which are as sharp as needles. Goddamn little bastards think they're smarter than us. :jointsmile:

[Mustelid]

Oh, I get you now.

Earlier this summer I had squirrels try to chew through my air-conditioner's plastic side panels, so I fortified them with sheet metal and moved the A/C to another window. Yesterday, the squirrels were back on that same ledge, and I squirted them with LYSOL through the screen - they took off. I also had some Critter Ridder on the ledge, but it was old. MY next project is to put sheet metal on the ledge, at a 45 degree angle, greased with petroleum jelly - theoretically, when they jump from the tree branch onto the metal, they'll slide right off, four stories down. If that isn't enough for them, I also bought Bird-X Spikes - which are as sharp as needles. Goddamn little bastards think they're smarter than us. :jointsmile:

They are!

[Italiano715]

MY next project is to put sheet metal on the ledge, at a 45 degree angle, greased with petroleum jelly - theoretically, when they jump from the tree branch onto the metal, they'll slide right off, four stories down.

I take back my previous statement! THIS is the funniest thing I've read all day! LoL KUDOS to you! Two good laughs today!

+Rep :jointsmile:

[Breukelen advocaat]

There are a number of YouTube videos of Squirrel Launching and Squirrel Catapulting.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5-d3rZZ-_M&NR=1&feature=fvwp[/YOUTUBE]

[Italiano715]

There are a number of YouTube videos of Squirrel Launching and Squirrel Catapulting.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5-d3rZZ-_M&NR=1&feature=fvwp[/YOUTUBE]

alright it's official you've inspired me to make one of those contraptions!

I'd like to make one and send a couple through my neighbors windows! LoL

No, but seriously, i'm going to get some surgical tubbing tomorrow! LoL

[Mustelid]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS8Wy793vwA[/YOUTUBE]

[Breukelen advocaat]

In the video below, as long as that cat had his/her shots, I'd open the window. Cats are patient creatures. That squirrel was asking for it.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_onrMQCD64[/YOUTUBE]

[boaz]

. . . and what do you call a raccoon without rings?

a opossum? okay, I give up what do you call it?

[knowboddy]

I never liked coons. They're just pests where I live.

We always would just trap them, drive them out into the country, and release them. Or at least that's what people say they do but I bet a fair number of unmarked raccoon graves are in people's back yards...

[Breukelen advocaat]

I saw a HUGE dead raccoon on the side of a highly trafficked avenue the other day....it probably got hit by a car.