"Gareth" wrote in message
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I bought a squirrel cage trap from Amazon and caught a squirrel within 10
minutes of leaving the trap open in the garden.

Once caught I quickly realised that I didn't have it in me to kill the
squirrel - as destructive as they are in chewing timber frame houses and
damaging plants and trees.

A pest control company will charge to destroy them but this incredibly
involves clubbing the poor buggers to death having placed them in a sack.
Doesn't sound right to me.

My foxman will also do squirrel. He does not use that technique.
He released a suckling vixen from my trap because he did not know where the
cubs were and he didn't want them to starve.

Make no mistake, had he known where they were, he would have killed the
vixen in my trap and destroyed the cubs.
But even though he is a vermin controller he does have a heart.