Ground squirrels

[Torvy]

What does dry ice do?

Dry Ice is frozen CO2. It replaces the oxygen and suffocates them...at least in theory.

 

[Nikkorott]

Dry Ice is frozen CO2. It replaces the oxygen and suffocates them...at least in theory.

Yep, CO2 is heavier than air so it stays in the holes.

 

[JethroB]

I knew of a commercial hatchery once that euthanized chick culls by tossing them in an old Igloo cooler along with some CO2 (dry ice) pellets. Suffocating them. PETA would not have approved.

 

[metalbender]

My cats do a number on the 13 stripers out here. Only had one Richardson's ground squirrel, commonly known here as a gopher. Sask boy's pastime, gopher shooting.

 

[oosik]

I have pocket gophers and chipmunks. Chipmunk is twice the size of a mouse and striped. Both like the engine and passenger compartments of your vehicles. I've tried most everything to repel. What seems to work best - open the hood of your vehicle. They don't seem to like the open spaces. Don't like the engine compartment - probably won't go in the passenger compartment.

Also - pill bottle full of cotton balls. Soak with oil of Peppermint. Put in the glove compartment. If nothing else - makes the passenger compartment smell nice.

Forty plus years out here. One and ONLY one squirrel. A pine squirrel. I put out unsalted peanuts. He liked them but he moved on to other places.