For about a month now, my dad has been setting up his squirrel trap in the backyard. Don't get excited - this is a very humane trap. It doesn't harm the squirrel (or whatever decides to make its way into the cage).
You see, at my parents' house, there is an over-abundance of squirrels. They are everywhere, and they are into everything! So dad tries to catch them to relocate them (a friend takes them to Edmonson County - I won't say what he does with them there).
It was working really well, until ground squirrels started getting in on the bait (sunflower seeds). Dad would get excited about catching another squirrel when he saw the door of the trap down, but would soon discover that a ground squirrel was inside instead. This wasn't a horrible thing since we have a huge population of ground squirrels that have been making holes in the yard.
Cash started getting interested in this new hobby of Grandad's, and he got very excited every time Grandad caught a "chipmunk," as he calls them. "We caught Chip!"
We've caught and released a total of nine ground squirrels - two Chips and three Dales. The other four did not get named, but I could take a guess as to what their names would have been.
Where do we release them? Well, it depends really. Most of them are "getting smarter," and others are around town depending on where errands were being run.
I'm sure we'll continue catching and release these little guys as long as they're interested in the sunflower seeds.
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