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Old September 21st 18, 07:05 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
MaryL
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Default Red squirrel experts?

On 9/19/2018 9:17 AM, jmcquown wrote:
On 9/17/2018 2:18 PM, Bill Stock wrote:


Sorry, not much help here.Â* The only squirrels down this way (South
Carolina) are grey squirrels.Â* They don't seem to be very destructive in
terms of the roof.Â* A bigger problem here is marsh rats.Â* A neighbor had
marsh rats in his attic, which (down here) are basically just crawl
spaces.Â* He had to call someone to set traps and poison and remove a
dead rat from his "attic".

I suggested he find the ingress and install some metal mesh at the
end-caps so they can't get in.

Jill


Poison concerns me. Cats may catch some of those rats and mice and be
poisoned. Your suggestion for blocking their entrance is much better
(and also more humane).

MaryL