At war with the squirrels

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ebonykawai said:
It’s not a sin in the Catholic Church, but it’s heavy karma in most eastern religions, which you probably won’t give a fig about.
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Not true, my physical therapist has me doing yoga exercises for my aging shoulder…probably fired too many rounds of 12ga. goose loads with it.
wantonly killing God’s creatures
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These creatures are “'wantonly” causing damage and therefor “want” to R.I.P.
St. Francis probably wouldn’t think it’s very nice. There are have-a-heart traps, you know. Well, that’s if you have a heart, lol
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I think ya got me on this one. But hey, at least I don’t use a Dodge Ram D2500…🤷
 
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SecretaryMonday said:
Yes, but with firearms, you can ensure that the little half-barfed corpses don’t end up in places where you typically walk without looking. 😉
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:bigyikes::bounce::rotfl: I think I’ve heard that line before. It was aimed at me by my mother when Amber(the cat) dropped whatever she cought at my mom’s feet.
 
tabycat said:
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:bigyikes::bounce::rotfl: I think I’ve heard that line before. It was aimed at me by my mother when Amber(the cat) dropped whatever she cought at my mom’s feet.
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We had a cat that ran into the house with a chipmunk and tried to lay it on my pillow before we could catch her. The chipmunk was still alive and it got loose in the house. 😃
 
TheRealJuliane said:
When we first got her, she was very excited to see a cat. I think she was raised with cats because she wanted to play. Of course the cats thought she was attacking and either ran away or swatted at her. Poor dog got the most confused look on her face!

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🤷:bounce::eek::slapfight:It sounds like you came close to having a catslapfight’
 
ebonykawai said:
It’s not a sin in the Catholic Church, but it’s heavy karma in most eastern religions, which you probably won’t give a fig about. Lots of people care about wantonly killing God’s creatures.

St. Francis probably wouldn’t think it’s very nice. There are have-a-heart traps, you know. Well, that’s if you have a heart, lol.
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Trapping does not work with squirrels. They return to the place they were trapped.
 
SecretaryMonday said:
We had a cat that ran into the house with a chipmunk and tried to lay it on my pillow before we could catch her. The chipmunk was still alive and it got loose in the house. 😃
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Judging by the cats I’ve owned in the past. They have something of a sense of humor.

ATB
 
tabycat said:
🤷:bounce::eek::slapfight:It sounds like you came close to having a catslapfight’
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One cat made contact with the dog at the vet’s office…It was one of the resident cats, and Jackie bounded up to it, tail a-wagging and little eyes all sparkling, “Let’s play!”

Cat: “Stick it, dog.” SWATS her on the nose!

Dog: Turns around, looks dejectedly at me, “What happened, what did I do??”

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I went through a fer of the comments on Father Z’s blog and found this:
I used to shoot squirrels and rabbits in my suburban garden from my house. The hill sloped so sharply behind the kitchen window it formed a perfect backstop for the .22 LR I used. I would raise the window and walk back across the house to a bedroom. The sound of the shot was almost completely absorbed inside the walls while the bullet traveled down the hall, into the kitchen, out the window, across the lawn and through the rabbit/squirrel into the grass bank
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I feel innocent of any wrongdoing and totally vindicated based on what this guy did.See post # 56 by** Another Mary** …obviously not as holy as the original 😉
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Secretary Monday
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with the Dodge Ram who misses the hood ornament on her hood which doubled as a “peep sight”😊

Thanks guy’s…ya made me feel much better. Think I’ll buy another can of pellets tomorrow.

This was way more fun then “The Ban Game” thread :clapping:
 
This has certainly been an active and fruitful discussion for a Sunday!

I am in awe that this appears under Catholic Answers Forums > Forums > Apologetics > Moral Theology.

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shipwrkd said:
And with the Dodge Ram who misses the hood ornament on her hood which doubled as a “peep sight”😊
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How did you know it was missing?? :eek:
You know too much. :tsktsk:

(I still have it, it just got knocked off.)
 
ebonykawai said:
It’s not a sin in the Catholic Church, but it’s heavy karma in most eastern religions, which you probably won’t give a fig about. Lots of people care about wantonly killing God’s creatures.

St. Francis probably wouldn’t think it’s very nice. There are have-a-heart traps, you know. Well, that’s if you have a heart, lol.
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Have the heart, have the legs, have the ribs…

I’ve been thinking of starting a humane pest control service. Humane traps only!

I’ve also been thinking of ways to humanely put the critters down without ruining the hides/meat.
 
shipwrkd said:
We live in a suburban neighborhood with many beautiful oak trees and in those trees, many annoying and destructive squirrels. Used to think they were cute and enjoyed playing games with them and my bird feeders.Then they started to cause damage. Chewed their way into the attic and nested, damaged screens by crawling on them, gnawed the siding etc. My devout Catholic wife counted 16 of them in our 75 X 100 foot front yard a few years ago and for my birthday a couple weeks later, I received a pellet gun and war was declared. It’s not a just war because I have no chance of winning it. My neighbor and I have turned this into a competition in which the rules of engagement state we can’t shoot anything not in our own yard, so if one makes it to the fence, it belongs to him. He’s not Catholic, but I’m a better shot and together, we’re over two hundred confirmed kills. Do I need to confess this???
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Check your local ordinances. I lived in a house that had possum and squirrel issues. However the local laws prohibited killing either of these animal species. The legal way to solve the problem was to hire a professional exterminator, who could get a license to kill or to relocate the animals. A permit was required to trap and relocate an animal.
 
When my daughter was county trapper, she would use one of the “humane” type traps–usually on skunks and raccoons. Then she would transport the critters back to a “secure location” and give them some sort of “back to the happy hunting grounds” injection.

The trapper position was eliminated so I guess residents now have to hire “professionals” or do as shipwrkd and other independant souls have done.

I’ll have to ask my daughter about the squirrels. She never mentioned them.

I live in a rural area where some kind of plague decimates the squirrel population every few years. But I know they are a big problem in the town where I grew up–back in the dark ages when squirrels were a rare wonder we might read about in our Dick and Jane Reader and only hope to see someday.
 
SecretaryMonday said:
How did you know it was missing?? :eek:
You know too much. :tsktsk:

(I still have it, it just got knocked off.)
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It’s a truck and it’s from the 80’s, bet that’s not all that’s missing. And I’m sure it has some “Michigan Pin-striping” from the backwoods driving 👍
 
epan said:
Check your local ordinances. I lived in a house that had possum and squirrel issues. However the local laws prohibited killing either of these animal species. The legal way to solve the problem was to hire a professional exterminator, who could get a license to kill or to relocate the animals. A permit was required to trap and relocate an animal.
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A profe$$ional, a permit$…I can barely afford pellet$. And he can only “relocate” the ones on my lot. What about all those on my neighbors who are eagerly looking for a vacancy?

Woaw. Got an idea. Get licensed and take the pellet gun on the road. I’d need business cards…“Have Gun, Will Travel”.
 
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