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Post by Big Mike on Oct 25, 2010 11:38:45 GMT -5
I know we have all run into critters in our garages and storage places for our cars, I now I have. But never run across this recent problem before. I was in the garage with the door shut, actually getting a tool from my tool box to work on something in the house so I came in from the basement. While getting the tool I hear the tell-tale sound of a critter caught in one of the glue traps in the garage. Figuring it was the usually mouse I went over to wear the sound was coming from to chuck it out. The trap wasn't where it was normally so I had to open the garage door to see where it managed to work itself to and got a big surprise. I opened the door and the stirring sound got louder and as I came around the other side of the 442 what do I see, but a big, and I mean big ass snake sticking out of the glue trap and was quite alive and rather pissed off! I have NEVER run into that one before.  I took his butt across the street to the park and let him deal with the glue trap. Either that or let one of the neighborhood hawks deal with him. That was new one on me, how about you? |
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Post by bubbasz1 on Oct 25, 2010 13:14:13 GMT -5
Just a damn Raccoon in the top of my sisterinlaws garage. Made a house upstairs above my post, came over to find pee marks all over my cover. He had to be persuaded to leave.
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Post by boba65442 on Oct 25, 2010 19:41:30 GMT -5
Something dug its way into my garage this past week. Not sure if its a raccoon or a possum. this is the first critter since I started to rent the space. I am going to get a trap and catch the little bugger before he eats something.
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Post by nickthefish on Oct 25, 2010 20:38:16 GMT -5
Before I closed up my soffits in my garage at my old house I had what I thought was one squirrel living above my Olds (like Fonzi in Happy Days). It was easier to let it live there than to close off all the openings between the rafters. The day I closed them up I evicted the squirrel (in a nice way). A few weeks later I was pulling stuff down for a swap meet and the closer I got to where this thing was living the worse the smell got. I pulled down the floor pans (no not the ones I had for sale here) and low and behold she had some babies. They all died and the smell was rotting baby squirrel carcass. Threw them in the neighbors yard and never had anymore issues with the little varmants.
Never had and don't want anything to do with snakes!!
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Post by mongoose on Oct 26, 2010 4:45:34 GMT -5
He had to be persuaded to leave. Would that be with a .22? |
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Post by bubbasz1 on Oct 26, 2010 8:09:46 GMT -5
Actually that is illegal, in fact it is illegal to trap one, you must get a state certified animal control person to solve your problem.
Go figure, you have to pay to get an animal removed or it's against the law, who would have thought of such a thing.
Ours died of heat exhaustion, not exactly what I had planned for it, but it made a bad decision.
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Post by oldsproject on Oct 26, 2010 8:22:15 GMT -5
Haven't had any recent exciting issues but have seen it all in the past. From snakes in the house to just about every small critter you can imagine in the gargae or attic....
We had a house we grew up in that was pretty run down. You never knew what was going to be in the room or there to great you in the morning. Anyway, glad those days are behind me.
BTW, what type of snake?
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Post by mongoose on Oct 26, 2010 9:13:48 GMT -5
Actually that is illegal, in fact it is illegal to trap one, you must get a state certified animal control person to solve your problem. Wow... had no idea. |
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Post by bubbasz1 on Oct 26, 2010 10:18:31 GMT -5
Actually that is illegal, in fact it is illegal to trap one, you must get a state certified animal control person to solve your problem. Wow... had no idea. I called the dog catcher and he told me that if someone called on me trapping the critter he would have to give me a ticket, and it was a $500.00 fine. If they catch you releasing them in the woods or lets say away from your property he said some communities were confiscating cars. The basic problem as he described it was they are used to us now so there coming around more, easy food, and all you do is make it someone elses problem when you relocate them. |
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Post by rickman on Oct 27, 2010 6:36:16 GMT -5
Had a family of squirrels get into the attic one year, as a neighbor was feeding them, and we were overpopulated in the neighborhood!
Borrowed a friends 'live trap' and re-located 16 of the little rascals to the forest preserves, 5 mi. away.
Never came back, but you'd be surprised what peanuts/peanut butter will catch!
Snakes keep the rodent population down!
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Post by Big Mike on Oct 27, 2010 8:58:12 GMT -5
I called the dog catcher and he told me that if someone called on me trapping the critter he would have to give me a ticket, and it was a $500.00 fine.
If they catch you releasing them in the woods or lets say away from your property he said some communities were confiscating cars.
The basic problem as he described it was they are used to us now so there coming around more, easy food, and all you do is make it someone elses problem when you relocate them. Wow, that make sense, but man, the damage a critter like that can do in the time it would take for the authorities to get out there and trap it could be a bunch. Man, I thought we had some crazy rules and laws around here! |
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Post by Big Mike on Oct 27, 2010 9:00:23 GMT -5
Big and black! I really don't know, could just be a black snake which there are some around here. It was about 2 - 2½ ft long, about as big around as two thumbs stuck together at it's widest point. Not a little dude at all. |
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Post by BR[] on Oct 27, 2010 18:45:33 GMT -5
Big and black! I really don't know, could just be a black snake which there are some around here. It was about 2 - 2½ ft long, about as big around as two thumbs stuck together at it's widest point. Not a little dude at all. You're calling 2 1/2 feet big?  WTF? You wanna see a big snake......send me your address. That pretty much tell us that you think 3 inches is 10. She may buy it, but it ain't gonna fly here. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2010 15:02:16 GMT -5
not in the garage... my one friend came outside to get in his car for work in the morning. once he started driving he heard a rustling noise like walking through leaves. there was some crap laying on the passenger side floor and there was a fast food bag. he noticed the bag was moving so he slowed and stopped. he reached for the bag and that is when the opposum stuck its head out of the bag and started hissing at him like a scalded cat. so he jumped out of the car and opposum came out after him and scurried away. what a way to wake up! haha
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Post by stan65cutlass on Oct 28, 2010 20:36:47 GMT -5
seen last year, a couple hours up island!  |
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Post by red442 on Oct 29, 2010 21:54:43 GMT -5
Here in Iowa, we have had about every kind of critter you can imagine invade our spaces.
Recently, I had gone out to my shop and saw something had really dug out the crud from my floor tie downs (rectangualar tubes that go down into the concrete about 5").
Then when I crossed into the cold storage half of my shop (dirt floor) I was greeted with a HUGE mound of dirt in one corner. I knew right away that I had a ground hog take up residence.
They are pretty elusive creatures and it was several weeks before I caught a glimpse of a fairly large groundhog making his entrance under my shop door ( a space of about 2"). Wow, it is amazing how they can flatten out!
Well, to make a long story short, my furry little invader met his fate with some hot lead propelled down a long tube!
Funnier yet, I told one of my older coffee shop cronies about it and he asked mywhat became of the carcass. When I advised that I had incinerated on my burn pile he seemed rather miffed adding that they are "damned good eating"! Ugh.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2010 2:09:05 GMT -5
Hi everyone, brand new here. Anyway, yrs ago, went into the garage to get something. Noticed paw prints on the hood and roof of the car. Then I heard something hissing. Got my dad, he said it was a possum and it was up in the coveys of the garage, and he wasn't going to mess with it. He was a southern boy, that had dealt with them all his young life. Had to leave the gar.door open for a couple of days, then from the kitchenn window, saw this ugly critter come waddling out. Guess he finally got hungry enough to leave.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2010 15:15:40 GMT -5
My my....those are some big kitty cats.
The only pest I have had to deal with lately is mice. Mice that got into my headliner. Lucky for me I am still in the beginning stages of my restoration. It only cost me three traps and some slivers of cheddar cheese. The headliner already had a couple holes in it when I got the car, so it didn't cost me there.
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Post by rickman on Nov 3, 2010 18:54:44 GMT -5
"Hey Boss, I'll be a little late - my cars surrounded by Cougars! Honest!! I'll even bring pictures!!
Called the cops, and they said to call Animal Control!! They're waiting for the gun shop to open, as they're outnumbered!! Maybe you'll see it on the News, as I called the T.V. station, too!"
That'd be a good one!!!
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Post by bubbasz1 on Nov 3, 2010 18:58:40 GMT -5
seen last year, a couple hours up island! I think Stan has been feeding the squirrels too much and you know them kitty's want a little welfare tooo. |
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I took his butt across the street to the park and let him deal with the glue trap. Either that or let one of the neighborhood hawks deal with him.
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