SomeGuy
09-26-2011, 02:25 PM
Hi, I found your site after going through some links, and I have some squirrel questions. I was hoping to find a general section but this is the only place I can post it.
Question: How do you get a squirrel to stop stalking you >.<
Story: Sunday afternoon I decided I want to work on my car, so I went out open the hood and I just finish taking apart the air intake and the pipes to clean out when I heard something, looked at my driveway and notice a small squirrel standing in the middle of the driveway.
I thought thats pretty cute. It did stare at me, then I went back to work cleaning and checking the air filter, and then as I look over again.. I see the little squirrel walking towards me? O.o;; NOT so cute anymore..
It was getting pretty close, close enough that I took one of the cans of cleaner and nudged it on the side to stop it from walking towards me. I thought it was very odd to have animals interact with people, they always would just run away or hide. There are always squirrel in the neighborhood and they would run to see them run or hide from people.. This one was opposite?!!
Anyways, I try to shoo it away. I took the can and again nudge it gently trying to get it to go... but no... I gave up and let it sit and lay down on one side of the car as I continue to work and clean things up, every time I try walking to the other side the squirrel would get up and walk closer?! >.<
Anyways, I decided the best thing to do was maybe just to leave it alone and hopefully it will leave or a parent will come. I assemble everything quickly and incorrectly on some stuff, shut the hood then walk back to the house...
The squirrel still followed me?!! >.<;; If I remember, I read somewhere, never touch the animal and never feed it or it might keep coming back. So I just nudged it with a can, until it stayed and then went back inside.. This was about 4:30PM EST
This morning 9:45AM EST... I found it again.. it was sort of hiding it was climbed on the side of the bottom house where the basement, trying to get into the vinyl siding -_-;; The basement is brick As I walked by to get to the car to head off to campus it tried to follow me, but I got in the car real fast and it went back to the side of the house. It never left the driveway.
I could have sworn I saw its parents on top of the tool shed >.< There was a large older squirrel on the tool shed as I was backing up.. It was looking in the direction of where the smaller squirrel was, so I assume parent? I extremely carefully and very slowly backed out of the driveway and turning the car closer to the fence to make sure I don't hit it.
My concern is... what happens if the squirrel is still there when I get back at night -_-. Also what to do if it won't leave on its own? I mean it was cute as it was just sitting and laying there as I was working... but It keeps walking and running to me. I had a bad experience with a bat 2 months ago where it landed on my foot it got in some how when I was taking the a/c back into the house .. after I try to let it go after trapping it in a box.. so I am not a fan of any animals walking up to me at the moment -_-
So anyone know a nice way to get the squirrel to leave on its own. I hate to put in a box and move it to the local park. I wonder if it does have parents.
It does look healthy, it looked like it was fine on its own. but for some reason when it saw me it decided to walk up to me and now won't leave me alone.. Hopefully not someones pet..
Also hopefully it is gone when I get back at night.. I would freak out if something crawled on my legs at night when returning home at night while walking to the house.
Any suggestions on what to do if it won't leave?.. I don't wanna care for it, but I don't want to move it somewhere, where it doesn't belong. I mean its cute to look at, but not so cute when its stalking you. Hopefully I wont have to call someone to remove him..
If it does leave on its own I would be relieved. Have to wait until I get home to see if its actually gone, but thought I ask now in case it didn't
Question: How do you get a squirrel to stop stalking you >.<
Story: Sunday afternoon I decided I want to work on my car, so I went out open the hood and I just finish taking apart the air intake and the pipes to clean out when I heard something, looked at my driveway and notice a small squirrel standing in the middle of the driveway.
I thought thats pretty cute. It did stare at me, then I went back to work cleaning and checking the air filter, and then as I look over again.. I see the little squirrel walking towards me? O.o;; NOT so cute anymore..
It was getting pretty close, close enough that I took one of the cans of cleaner and nudged it on the side to stop it from walking towards me. I thought it was very odd to have animals interact with people, they always would just run away or hide. There are always squirrel in the neighborhood and they would run to see them run or hide from people.. This one was opposite?!!
Anyways, I try to shoo it away. I took the can and again nudge it gently trying to get it to go... but no... I gave up and let it sit and lay down on one side of the car as I continue to work and clean things up, every time I try walking to the other side the squirrel would get up and walk closer?! >.<
Anyways, I decided the best thing to do was maybe just to leave it alone and hopefully it will leave or a parent will come. I assemble everything quickly and incorrectly on some stuff, shut the hood then walk back to the house...
The squirrel still followed me?!! >.<;; If I remember, I read somewhere, never touch the animal and never feed it or it might keep coming back. So I just nudged it with a can, until it stayed and then went back inside.. This was about 4:30PM EST
This morning 9:45AM EST... I found it again.. it was sort of hiding it was climbed on the side of the bottom house where the basement, trying to get into the vinyl siding -_-;; The basement is brick As I walked by to get to the car to head off to campus it tried to follow me, but I got in the car real fast and it went back to the side of the house. It never left the driveway.
I could have sworn I saw its parents on top of the tool shed >.< There was a large older squirrel on the tool shed as I was backing up.. It was looking in the direction of where the smaller squirrel was, so I assume parent? I extremely carefully and very slowly backed out of the driveway and turning the car closer to the fence to make sure I don't hit it.
My concern is... what happens if the squirrel is still there when I get back at night -_-. Also what to do if it won't leave on its own? I mean it was cute as it was just sitting and laying there as I was working... but It keeps walking and running to me. I had a bad experience with a bat 2 months ago where it landed on my foot it got in some how when I was taking the a/c back into the house .. after I try to let it go after trapping it in a box.. so I am not a fan of any animals walking up to me at the moment -_-
So anyone know a nice way to get the squirrel to leave on its own. I hate to put in a box and move it to the local park. I wonder if it does have parents.
It does look healthy, it looked like it was fine on its own. but for some reason when it saw me it decided to walk up to me and now won't leave me alone.. Hopefully not someones pet..
Also hopefully it is gone when I get back at night.. I would freak out if something crawled on my legs at night when returning home at night while walking to the house.
Any suggestions on what to do if it won't leave?.. I don't wanna care for it, but I don't want to move it somewhere, where it doesn't belong. I mean its cute to look at, but not so cute when its stalking you. Hopefully I wont have to call someone to remove him..
If it does leave on its own I would be relieved. Have to wait until I get home to see if its actually gone, but thought I ask now in case it didn't