My sister has ground squirrels tunneling under her concrete driveway causing cracks and cave-ins.
What trapping method would work best?
Thanks,
Fenton
Can she use poison baits?
For ground squirrels, I take 3” light wall pvc drain pipe and a Tee fitting glue a 2’ piece on both horizontals and a 1’ piece on the top and wire it to a fence post with the 1’ section pointing up and drop rat bait or gopher bait down it. Then the dogs can’t get it but the squirrels can. They go in their hole to die and we haven’t had a dog get a poisoned one yet.
I have caught a few with a havaheart medium trap but it they wouldn’t go in until there wasn’t any green grass around and that trap was about the only food for a few hundred feet of the hole. So if there is landscaping around and they have a lot to eat then a trap might not be the most effective option.
