Squirrels
 

"Derek Turner" wrote in message
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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.

Fen obviously make different forms of trap, is the one you are talking
about a break-back trap?

If so, I would be reluctant to use it, in case it were either a cat or
hedgehog
which had wandered into it, cats don't often get caught, but it is common to
find hedgehogs in them.

The trap I was advised to use is a cage, the squirrel remails alive, unless
there are lots of foxes about, we have had two killed, in the traps, by
foxes,
the result is not a pleasant sight.

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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In article , Alan Holmes alan@holmes-
g4crw.freeserve.co.uk writes

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?(:-)

Well, if you supplied me a phone number or address from that last
invoice you had that is somewhere on your desk. . . . . . ????????? :)
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Well, if you supplied me a phone number or address from that last
invoice you had that is somewhere on your desk. . . . . . ????????? :)

e-mail Gamekeeping Supplies - mark · howard snailything zetnet · co · uk

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In article , Jaques d'Altrades
writes
The message
from Jane Ransom contains these words:

Well, if you supplied me a phone number or address from that last
invoice you had that is somewhere on your desk. . . . . . ????????? :)

e-mail Gamekeeping Supplies - mark · howard snailything zetnet · co · uk

Ta :)
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In article ,
(Alan Holmes) wrote:

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

I, too, have noticed great population variations over the months and
years. However, my observations have not been systematic and the results
may have more to do with my activities than there's. Further, I've done
significant things to their habitat.

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

Squirrels
 

In article ,
(Alan Holmes) wrote:

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

I, too, have noticed great population variations over the months and
years. However, my observations have not been systematic and the results
may have more to do with my activities than there's. Further, I've done
significant things to their habitat.

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

Squirrels
 

In article , Jaques d'Altrades
writes
The message
from Jane Ransom contains these words:

Well, if you supplied me a phone number or address from that last
invoice you had that is somewhere on your desk. . . . . . ????????? :)

e-mail Gamekeeping Supplies - mark · howard snailything zetnet · co · uk

Are you sure this address is correct?
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Jane Ransom in Lancaster.
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but if you need to email me for any other reason, put ransoms
at jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see

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The message
from Jane Ransom contains these words:

e-mail Gamekeeping Supplies - mark · howard snailything zetnet ·
co · uk

Are you sure this address is correct?

Yes. Why?

You didn't cut and paste, did you? I substituted decimal points for full
stops to confuse combine harvesters.

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In article , Jaques d'Altrades
writes
The message
from Jane Ransom contains these words:

e-mail Gamekeeping Supplies - mark · howard snailything zetnet ·
co · uk

Are you sure this address is correct?

Yes. Why?

You didn't cut and paste, did you? I substituted decimal points for full
stops to confuse combine harvesters.

No - it's just that I'm always a bit reluctant to email a firm I don't
know, especially when the email address looks like a 'private' one
--
Jane Ransom in Lancaster.
I won't respond to private emails that are on topic for urg
but if you need to email me for any other reason, put ransoms
at jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see

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The message
from Jane Ransom contains these words:

No - it's just that I'm always a bit reluctant to email a firm I don't
know, especially when the email address looks like a 'private' one

No. He's a gamekeeper who does a bit of supplying bits and pieces. You
never know, we might make one for you!

--
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On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:30:37 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades
wrote:

The message
from Jane Ransom contains these words:

No - it's just that I'm always a bit reluctant to email a firm I don't
know, especially when the email address looks like a 'private' one

No. He's a gamekeeper who does a bit of supplying bits and pieces. You
never know, we might make one for you!

why won't he?
--
Martin

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The message
from martin contains these words:
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:30:37 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades
wrote:
The message
from Jane Ransom contains these words:

No - it's just that I'm always a bit reluctant to email a firm I don't
know, especially when the email address looks like a 'private' one

No. He's a gamekeeper who does a bit of supplying bits and pieces. You
never know, we might make one for you!

why won't he?

Why won't he what?

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On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 23:04:00 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades
wrote:

The message
from martin contains these words:
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:30:37 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades
wrote:
The message
from Jane Ransom contains these words:

No - it's just that I'm always a bit reluctant to email a firm I don't
know, especially when the email address looks like a 'private' one

No. He's a gamekeeper who does a bit of supplying bits and pieces. You
never know, we might make one for you!

why won't he?

Why won't he what?

make one for you.
--
Martin

Squirrels
 

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:16 +0100 (BST), Steve Harris wrote:
They climb quite well. I think you'd have to electrify the fence as
well. There have been reports of them climbing trees :-)

Heh, you've not seen anything until you've watched a pair of squirrels
play tag (at speed) on the walls of a pebbledashed house (think the
climbing walls some leisure centres have :)

Not actually seen any of the grey buggers round here yet, I'm almost
hoping they're not as abundant or have all moved into the cities where
there's all that free food.

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The message
from martin contains these words:
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 23:04:00 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades
wrote:
The message
from martin contains these words:
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:30:37 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades
wrote:
The message
from Jane Ransom contains these words:

No - it's just that I'm always a bit reluctant to email a firm I don't
know, especially when the email address looks like a 'private' one

No. He's a gamekeeper who does a bit of supplying bits and pieces. You
never know, we might make one for you!

why won't he?

Why won't he what?

make one for you.

Who said he wouldn't?

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Rusty Hinge
horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm