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This month's featured wildlife removal education article: What should I do with a squirrel after I catch it?

Catching the squirrel is a tough job because these animals sometimes show a high level of common sense and you need to set the most advanced traps with proper planning and a lot of hard work for making them fall in the trap. After all the hard work when animal falls in the trap it actually brings a great feeling of accomplishment, but after sometime you have to face another question that What should I do with a squirrel after I catch it? Obviously you will never like the idea of keeping them as pets so there should be something done with the animal. Frankly speaking there are two ways you can either kill the animal or relocate it to somewhere else away from your property.

Killing the squirrel
This is never considered as a very humane way of getting rid of squirrel and the trouble, which they cause. Killing the animal is not easy and you have to subject it to great harm worst of all it is not legal in majority of areas so you actually violate laws. However, those who still want to kill the squirrel after capturing it have a number of options that can be used. They can shoot the animal by taking a clear aim of its head with a rifle. But you will have to take all the safety related measures for this because missed aim can bring other drawbacks. Next you can use lethal traps for killing it again this is not a humane way because animal is subjected to a lot of pain and toil. Another option is to poison the squirrel this is the method, which has least support. First of all it is ineffective; secondly there is no decent poison which can actually kill the squirrels.

Relocating the squirrel
This is by far the best and most handsome way of getting rid of squirrels because you don’t bring any physical harm to the animal. Right strategy is to take the captured animal away from your property (at a distance of at least 5 miles) in woods or other suitable place with decent supply of water and release it there. However, you should not release the squirrel at public places because in this manner they can create trouble for others. One important point to keep in mind here is that female squirrel should always be shifted along with her kids especially when they are too young to take care of themselves. In case you are having trouble in shifting the animal, then give a call to local animal control they will solve your problem. From the above discussion it is clear relocating the squirrels after capturing them is the best thing you can do.

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