On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 01:31:16 +0100, "William Tasso"
wrote:

throw them over the fence then - let your neighbours deal with them.

they are vermin - they should be shot. I see there is already a recipie in
this thread.

if your assertion is true (and I think it is) then your suggestion is
illegal. Releasing vermin onto someone elses land is a criminal
offence: I'm still waiting for someone to prosecute the RSPCA for it
though.
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On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 01:29:36 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades
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On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 19:29:04 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades
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Yes, you need to be careful. Walking into things can definitely
cause a pain in the nuts.

But IIRC, al is of the female persuasion.....


Errrrr ... I am .....!!?! *quick check of nuts* ..... phew ...
still there
....!

Lens of telescope a bit dirty. Sorry.

which is not surprising considering where you have been putting it

I just like watching the funny way you walk.....

is that a telescope or are you just pleased to see me?.............

If it reaches below the knee it's a telescope.

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On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 11:02:41 +0100, Jane Ransom
wrote:


have to bait it, cover it so it looks like a tunnel, the silly beggars have
this desire
to go into tunnels.

Alan, do they do mail order and how much is a trap??

Jane, you need a number 4 Fenn trap, available from any gunsmith or
most agricultutral supplies for about £6.25 each or £74 a dozen.
Using bricks make a chamber big enough for the trap to operate in,
with a pipe at either end to make it 'inviting', set trap and cover
chamber with a roofing tile. IME no need to drown a rat or squirrel
caught in a fenn trap, they've always been dead already.
NB1 traps MUST be checked every 24 hrs at least (by law) if you're
going away, leave them unset
NB2 make sure its a good heavy tile, we wouldn't want curious cats
getting their paws caught, would we?

For some reason sqirrels just can't resist running through the tunnel
vbg

hth
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On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 08:21:45 +0100, Derek Turner
wrote:

On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 11:02:41 +0100, Jane Ransom
wrote:


have to bait it, cover it so it looks like a tunnel, the silly beggars have
this desire
to go into tunnels.

Alan, do they do mail order and how much is a trap??

Jane, you need a number 4 Fenn trap, available from any gunsmith or
most agricultutral supplies for about £6.25 each or £74 a dozen.
Using bricks make a chamber big enough for the trap to operate in,
with a pipe at either end to make it 'inviting', set trap and cover
chamber with a roofing tile. IME no need to drown a rat or squirrel
caught in a fenn trap, they've always been dead already.
NB1 traps MUST be checked every 24 hrs at least (by law) if you're
going away, leave them unset
NB2 make sure its a good heavy tile, we wouldn't want curious cats
getting their paws caught, would we?

For some reason sqirrels just can't resist running through the tunnel
vbg

Hilarious you troll prick.










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In article , Derek Turner
writes
Jane, you need a number 4 Fenn trap, available from any gunsmith or
most agricultutral supplies for about £6.25 each or £74 a dozen.
Using bricks make a chamber big enough for the trap to operate in,
with a pipe at either end to make it 'inviting', set trap and cover
chamber with a roofing tile. IME no need to drown a rat or squirrel
caught in a fenn trap, they've always been dead already.
NB1 traps MUST be checked every 24 hrs at least (by law) if you're
going away, leave them unset
NB2 make sure its a good heavy tile, we wouldn't want curious cats
getting their paws caught, would we?

For some reason sqirrels just can't resist running through the tunnel

Ta

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On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 09:27:27 +0100, Jane Ransom
wrote:

In article , Derek Turner
writes
Jane, you need a number 4 Fenn trap, available from any gunsmith or
most agricultutral supplies for about £6.25 each or £74 a dozen.
Using bricks make a chamber big enough for the trap to operate in,
with a pipe at either end to make it 'inviting', set trap and cover
chamber with a roofing tile. IME no need to drown a rat or squirrel
caught in a fenn trap, they've always been dead already.
NB1 traps MUST be checked every 24 hrs at least (by law) if you're
going away, leave them unset
NB2 make sure its a good heavy tile, we wouldn't want curious cats
getting their paws caught, would we?

For some reason sqirrels just can't resist running through the tunnel

Ta

wouldn't a large plastic pipe with a non-return flap leading to the
neighbour's garden or into a sewer solve the problem?
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In article ,
(martin) wrote:

wouldn't a large plastic pipe with a non-return flap leading to the
neighbour's garden

They climb quite well. I think you'd have to electrify the fence as
well. There have been reports of them climbing trees :-)

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com

In article ,
(Alan Holmes) wrote:

They do hibernate

Around here, they can be seen most weeks during Winter. My reading
suggests that they may well stay in during really cold weather. Sleeping
for months on end is definitely not their thing.

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com

The message
from Derek Turner contains these words:

(Fenn traps)

For some reason sqirrels just can't resist running through the tunnel

Nor can rats and - hedgehogs.

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On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 11:29:46 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades
wrote:

The message
from Derek Turner contains these words:

(Fenn traps)

For some reason sqirrels just can't resist running through the tunnel

Nor can rats and - hedgehogs.

Nor can Eurostar...
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On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 11:29:46 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades
wrote:
The message
from Derek Turner contains these words:

(Fenn traps)

For some reason sqirrels just can't resist running through the tunnel

Nor can rats and - hedgehogs.

Nor can Eurostar...

True, but you'd need a bigger trap than a No.4.

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On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:51:02 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades
wrote:

The message
from martin contains these words:
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 11:29:46 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades
wrote:
The message
from Derek Turner contains these words:

(Fenn traps)

For some reason sqirrels just can't resist running through the tunnel

Nor can rats and - hedgehogs.

Nor can Eurostar...

True, but you'd need a bigger trap than a No.4.

:-)
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"al" wrote in message
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"Janice" wrote in message
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I wonder if setting a rat trap, baited with peanuts or similar, would
catch
them? Anyone know if that'd work?


Ewwwww ... but then I'd have to dispose of them! I just want to make my
garden a place they don't want to come to ...

There is NO way of detering them, you HAVE to reduce the numbers by
'disposing' of them.

Although, if you were to enclose your entire garden in a cage about 25 feet
high and up to all the boundaries, that might stop them, but you would have
to check the thing daily to see they don't break in.

Alan
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"Jane Ransom" wrote in message
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In article , Alan Holmes
writes
If you mean a break-back trap, then I would very much doubt that it would
work,
you will have to get a rat/mink trap from mole valley farmers. you don't
even
have to bait it, cover it so it looks like a tunnel, the silly beggars
have
this desire
to go into tunnels.

Alan, do they do mail order and how much is a trap??

Yes, they do mail order, the last two I bought came that way, but you know
what my memory is like, I can't remember how much they were.

I'm sure it was less than twenty pounds, somewhere within the huge pile of
essential pieces of paper in front of me will be the last bill I had!

I can't even remember the phone number, I can describe to you where a
branch is, although you wouldn't really want to travel a 400 mile trip just
for a
trap, would you?(:-)

Alan
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"Steve Harris" wrote in message
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In article ,
(Alan Holmes) wrote:

They do hibernate

Around here, they can be seen most weeks during Winter. My reading
suggests that they may well stay in during really cold weather. Sleeping
for months on end is definitely not their thing.

All I can say is, that up until about last year we were plaqued with the
damned things, I was catching at least one a day, then the winter set
in and it was quite mild, the next year, between three of us we only
caught three!

The conclusion I came to was that the mild winter had caused most
of them to die.

This year we have only caught two 'local' ones, fresh ones are appearing
from a different direction, looking for fresh fields, so we have to assume
that all the 'local' ones have died, mainly because of the mild winter.

Alan
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