We tried to hire someone to fix this, but he was so busy helping a farmer with a beaver problem that he kept missing appointments with us. I wouldn't have minded the rescheduling, however, we never got a single phone call telling us he couldn't be there. I would call him toward the end of the day and ask him if he was coming that day and he said he couldn't make it. Imagine if my schedule was like a normal person and I'd had to take off work all those days that he didn't show up. Finally one day when I called him after the third reschedule, and he said he couldn't possibly be here at least for another another week. When I asked if he knew anyone else who I could hire, he said that there was only one other guy in the state licensed to trap or hunt out of season and that I would go to jail if I hired anyone else. It was implication in his voice and the lack of professionalism that pissed me off, so we decided to handle this ourselves.
I remember your travails of last year when you were helping kothoga with the opening in her (I think) wall near the roof line. Since this is such an old house, there are so many ways to get into the attic. Every site we've read have said how awful they are and they are impossible to keep out of the attic. They will chew through anything (except perhaps your metal) that you try to fix the holes with and they will keep coming back every year because they often nest and are born in these places. So we're going to have to trap them and take them at least 20+ miles away so that they lose their orientation (they're almost as good as cats in finding their way back to a place). The other option is to drown them, but I told Jimmy that was NOT an option.
Ugg, what an asshole. Yeah, don't go with him. Even if for no other reason than principle. You won't go to jail for hiring someone else, they'd get into trouble for actually doing the trapping without being licensed(is my thought). Gahhh, that pisses me off.
Yeah, basically the sheet metal didn't really give them a hold, and the entire hole was covered up, sooo.
I remember your travails of last year when you were helping kothoga with the opening in her (I think) wall near the roof line. Since this is such an old house, there are so many ways to get into the attic. Every site we've read have said how awful they are and they are impossible to keep out of the attic. They will chew through anything (except perhaps your metal) that you try to fix the holes with and they will keep coming back every year because they often nest and are born in these places. So we're going to have to trap them and take them at least 20+ miles away so that they lose their orientation (they're almost as good as cats in finding their way back to a place). The other option is to drown them, but I told Jimmy that was NOT an option.
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Yeah, basically the sheet metal didn't really give them a hold, and the entire hole was covered up, sooo.
Awww, come on, squirrel sirens would be fun! :)
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