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Squirrel in Mi Chimney

Covered End
Covered End Posts: 52,040
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What am I gonna do?
I don't think it's a problem, but I've got a squirrel in my capped, but not completely sealed chimney.
As the chimney is blocked off I'm presuming in can only come in and out via the capped chimney pot.
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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,615
    Put your nuts away
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Let next doors leylandii grow over your roof a bit - it'll soon get out. 
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,506
    Trap it and eat it
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,506
    You need a Kanya trap mate. 
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,506
    Squirrels and pigeons were my speciality back in my Rentokil days. From Chiswick all the way out to Ealing and anywhere in between. None of the others liked doing em, but it was my speciality. Leave the bedbugs and stored product insects to the armatures, I was your man for pigeons and squirrels. Had a decent rat reputation n all back then.
  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,358
    Smoked squirrel is a delicacy in some parts, which parts I have no idea but it must be. 
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    I've heard squirrels are endangered species in Grove Park.
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,506
    jonseventyfive said:
    Smoked squirrel is a delicacy in some parts, which parts I have no idea but it must be. 
    I've eaten squirrel loads of times. My mate does Kentuky Fried Squirrel at some of the Game & Country Fares. You need 2 squirrels to make 1 really, as there ain't any meat on the front half. A very ethical way to get your protein.

    And no it don't taste nutty 😉
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,506
    Addickted said:
    I've heard squirrels are endangered species in Grove Park.
    So they should be 
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236
    Thought this was a euphemism. 

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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,376
    Gribbo said:
    Squirrels and pigeons were my speciality back in my Rentokil days. From Chiswick all the way out to Ealing and anywhere in between. None of the others liked doing em, but it was my speciality. Leave the bedbugs and stored product insects to the armatures, I was your man for pigeons and squirrels. Had a decent rat reputation n all back then.
    welcome back ibborg .. you 've been away far too long .. are you still in France ?

  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,358
    Gribbo said:
    jonseventyfive said:
    Smoked squirrel is a delicacy in some parts, which parts I have no idea but it must be. 
    I've eaten squirrel loads of times. My mate does Kentuky Fried Squirrel at some of the Game & Country Fares. You need 2 squirrels to make 1 really, as there ain't any meat on the front half. A very ethical way to get your protein.

    And no it don't taste nutty 😉
    I'll be sure to try some. 
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,506
    Lincsaddick said:
    Gribbo said:
    Squirrels and pigeons were my speciality back in my Rentokil days. From Chiswick all the way out to Ealing and anywhere in between. None of the others liked doing em, but it was my speciality. Leave the bedbugs and stored product insects to the armatures, I was your man for pigeons and squirrels. Had a decent rat reputation n all back then.
    welcome back ibborg .. you 've been away far too long .. are you still in France ?

    Cheers. Yeah, still here at the moment mate. Hoping to be back early 2022. Looking at Lincolnshire as it goes
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,376
    Gribbo said:
    Lincsaddick said:
    Gribbo said:
    Squirrels and pigeons were my speciality back in my Rentokil days. From Chiswick all the way out to Ealing and anywhere in between. None of the others liked doing em, but it was my speciality. Leave the bedbugs and stored product insects to the armatures, I was your man for pigeons and squirrels. Had a decent rat reputation n all back then.
    welcome back ibborg .. you 've been away far too long .. are you still in France ?

    Cheers. Yeah, still here at the moment mate. Hoping to be back early 2022. Looking at Lincolnshire as it goes
    god's own county  o:) and house building going on all over  .. hope you're well,. you seem in good form
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,506
    Lincsaddick said:
    Gribbo said:
    Lincsaddick said:
    Gribbo said:
    Squirrels and pigeons were my speciality back in my Rentokil days. From Chiswick all the way out to Ealing and anywhere in between. None of the others liked doing em, but it was my speciality. Leave the bedbugs and stored product insects to the armatures, I was your man for pigeons and squirrels. Had a decent rat reputation n all back then.
    welcome back ibborg .. you 've been away far too long .. are you still in France ?

    Cheers. Yeah, still here at the moment mate. Hoping to be back early 2022. Looking at Lincolnshire as it goes
    god's own county  o:) and house building going on all over  .. hope you're well,. you seem in good form
    I'm okay, it's all the others. Hope you're well too mate 👍
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,767
    The house we live in has a chimney, although the fireplace has gone and there is an air vent in the wall where it would have been.

    Last year a squirrel got into the chimney stack and we could hear it through the air vent. My husband took the air vent off and we could see the squirrel about a foot below.  He put a crate against the hole and put some peanuts in it. We left the crate wedged between the sofa and the wall and in the morning we found the squirrel in the crate. 

    Although you are supposed to 'dispatch' a grey squirrel if you catch it, we couldn't do that and let it go free.
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,506
    Be careful sharing that. It's illegal to let non natives go. Countryside & Wildlife Act 81
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,856
    Sillybilly said:
    Thought this was a euphemism. 
    Wait till your hear about the ferret in his back yard 
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,028
    Gribbo said:
    Squirrels and pigeons were my speciality back in my Rentokil days. From Chiswick all the way out to Ealing and anywhere in between. None of the others liked doing em, but it was my speciality. Leave the bedbugs and stored product insects to the armatures, I was your man for pigeons and squirrels. Had a decent rat reputation n all back then.
    Great you’re back on CL mate 
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,767
    Gribbo said:
    Be careful sharing that. It's illegal to let non natives go. Countryside & Wildlife Act 81
    I know but didn't have the heart to kill the poor thing.

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  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,506
    stonemuse said:
    Gribbo said:
    Squirrels and pigeons were my speciality back in my Rentokil days. From Chiswick all the way out to Ealing and anywhere in between. None of the others liked doing em, but it was my speciality. Leave the bedbugs and stored product insects to the armatures, I was your man for pigeons and squirrels. Had a decent rat reputation n all back then.
    Great you’re back on CL mate 
    Cheers mate
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    Covered End said:
    What am I gonna do?
    I don't think it's a problem, but I've got a squirrel in my capped, but not completely sealed chimney.
    As the chimney is blocked off I'm presuming in can only come in and out via the capped chimney pot.

  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    ME14addick said:
    Gribbo said:
    Be careful sharing that. It's illegal to let non natives go. Countryside & Wildlife Act 81
    I know but didn't have the heart to kill the poor thing.
    I've got a Border Collie who would have loved it for a pet.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,040
    I just saw it running away from the house with a baby squirrel in it's mouth. 
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Don't think so. He's in the back garden with me.
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,506
    Covered End said:
    I just saw it running away from the house with a baby squirrel in it's mouth. 
    Cor, mouths watting; the younguns taste the best
  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 22,704
    Covered End said:
    What am I gonna do?
    I don't think it's a problem, but I've got a squirrel in my capped, but not completely sealed chimney.
    As the chimney is blocked off I'm presuming in can only come in and out via the capped chimney pot.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxY1hZyNcpM

    I know it's not a squirel and it's not in the chimney but hey..still a tree rat though, and worth a listen B)
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,040
    I never thought of that  :D
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,921
    Gribbo said:
    Be careful sharing that. It's illegal to let non natives go. Countryside & Wildlife Act 81
    Which is a nonsense really for animals like grey squirrels. I remember once on Rolf's Animal Hospital, they tended to an injured squirrel, and once better they had to take it to an animal sanctuary instead of just releasing it back to park or wood's where it had come from.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,618
    we had a bat in mi bathroom

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