This makes you so mad

[Fusion_power]

Urban Atlanta has a population of up to 400 gray squirrels per square mile. You've only caught 7 of them so far. Get a few Kania traps.

http://www.kania.net/

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Fusion_power

Urban Atlanta has a population of up to 400 gray squirrels per square mile. You've only caught 7 of them so far. Get a few Kania traps.

http://www.kania.net/

Considering Manhattan Island has a population 71.672 people per square mile 400 squirrels isn't that bad.

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[dustdevil]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Even though it can happen it is very unlikely that a rodent will have rabies.
Dust you might want to read this.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...,d.aWw&cad=rja
It clears up a lot of things people think about rabies.
I was a long time friend with a Vet and he taught me more about rabies than I would have ever known.
There has been no reported cases of anyone getting rabies in the US from a rodent.
And rabies only sheds the virus from its host in the final stages if the infection from the brain to the salivary glands.
You cannot get it from feces urine or the blood.

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• Rabies travels from the brain to the salivary glands during the final stage of the disease—this is when an animal can spread the disease, most commonly through a bite.
• Rabies can’t go through unbroken skin. People can get rabies only via a bite from a rabid animal or possibly through scratches, abrasions, open wounds, or mucous membranes in contact with saliva or brain tissue from a rabid animal.
• The rabies virus is short-lived when exposed to open air—it can only survive in saliva and dies when the animal’s saliva dries up.

I feel a rabid squirrel would leave saliva on any tomato he ate...I rest my case!

[dustdevil]

Originally Posted by ScottinAtlanta

I have 100% loss here in Atlanta due to squirrels. They are even eating the small green cherries.

80 plants, countless hours, and not one tomato to eat in 2015. Sigh.

I am trapping them with peanut butter bait. So far, 7 squirrels and two large rats in the traps and one big brown thrasher (Georgia State bird) that had tried to snatch the bait. Still trapping.

I have trapped them, but in a short while, other squirrels move in to the territory of the departed.

I suggest electric fence with hot wires strung close and near the ground and one on the top. Extend fence below ground to prevent digging under by rodents. You will have to think out a design to keep children from getting zapped.

[Worth1]

As the prosecutor Dust devil rests his case. the jury will deliberate on the verdict in their chambers.
The accused rabid squirrel awaits the outcome.


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[dustdevil]

Originally Posted by Worth1

As the prosecutor Dust devil rests his case. the jury will deliberate on the verdict in their chambers.
The accused rabid squirrel awaits the outcome.


Worth

Foamy the squirrel has been found guilty and sentenced to death by pellet firing squad.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by dustdevil

Foamy the squirrel has been found guilty and sentenced to death by pellet firing squad.

Poor foamy

[Worth1]

I think Foamy is innocent and the real thugs are Rocky and his gang.
The jury was bribed or threatened by this bunch.

[Cole_Robbie]

It was a coonspiracy.