Awww! In your situation, can they do any real damage? I love squirrels. I’d take them off your hands if I could.
I’m not going to move them. It’ll be a safe spot from cats until they learn to go up to the trees…They are less than a year old for sure…
Hurray for solved mysteries! Hurray for cute baby squirrels!
I’m probably going to get in trouble here, but if there’s a way into the house from under the porch, you may want to make them go away now. I don’t know for sure if these are the exact same squirrels, but a neighbor had them infest her attic and it cost her many thousands of dollars to fix the damage when they finally managed to eat through her CEILINGS.
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You might want to talk to an exterminator. Seriously.
Read above.
OK, I will go back to MY nest now 
Squirrels? That’s just what a Chupacabra would want you to think.
I’m surprised she didn’t hear them. I have a flying squirrel that is a repeat visitor who makes a terrible scratching/scurrying sound. I thought it was a regular squirrel and patched a small hole he was using to get into the attic. Now, a year later, he’s back (assuming it’s the same one), but hasn’t gotten into the attic yet. I just hear the same scratching sound but it’s coming from outside rather than above.
I just found out it was a flying squirrel recently when I went outside with a flashlight to try and figure out what exactly it was trying to accomplish. Now I’ve been trying to get a photo of it flying through the air before I run it off, but after being caught in the beam of a flashlight 2-3 times, it seems to have decided to go away on it’s own.
But that sound is enough to freak you out. It sounds like a group of rats scurrying inside my walls, although it’s just a little flying squirrel doing whatever it is that he does in the attic or on the outside of my house.
Squirrels will gnaw on your house severely damaging it. Leaving the nest there could cost you a lot of money.
Just go get some rat traps and those little bastards will be history in no time. Goddamn no good tree rats.
Aside from the two siamese attack cats living in our home, the porch only connects to the front of the house where we have some exposed foundation that is visible. The foundation is stone and mortar and where it meets the house there is flashing then shingles. I’m not too worried about them getting into the house what I may have to do is move the bird feeders…I have no idea how long they have been under the porch, can’t be too long.
Yeah, I like most animals, but squirrels, not. Some guy across the street from me actually feeds the effers. I am sorely tempted to put some D-Con into the places he puts peanuts for them.
Oh, she heard them alright. She was a widow in her 70’s and just figured it was a mouse or something and didn’t worry a whole lot about it. Her hubby used to take care of all that stuff. And of course, she never mentioned it to anyone until, well, you sure couldn’t miss it 
I’ll say one thing for them – they ARE tenacious.
When a Stranger Calls. The original scared the crap outta me.
Just want to add my sister had squirrel take a liking to their house trim and attic. Discouraging them became a long and expensive saga.
Poisons are not species specific so if you did that you’d likely be poisoning birds, cats and dogs as well. Plus if he is feeding them on his own property and you go over and put down poison, I’m thinking that might be illegal as well.
I’ve had to battle squirels over the years and they can be VERY persistant and damaging. If they’re old enough to walk it’s time for them to go. Don’t think they’re all cute and fluffy. They’re tiny chain saws that can cut through wood, plastic and wire mesh.
They’re killers I tells yah.
Oh, yeah, we also had the problem of the squirrels deciding that the wood of our house was also tasty. Dad tried live-trapping them (and still does, for that matter). They kept chewing on the house; they’d jump onto the roof and somehow skitter down over the gutter and chew on the actual wood of the house. We had some major leaks because of it.
Eventually, my parents gave up and had vinyl siding put on the house. They haven’t shown too much interest in it yet.
Squirrels are nasty, nasty buggers. Get rid of them while you still can.
Yes, nasty evil buggers.
Get them removed ASAP. If a squirrel decides that the crawlspace is a good place to raise babies, you’ll likely end up with a squirrel breeding factory under your porch. You think rabbits are bad? You haven’t seen squirrels, my friend.
We have a full-blown squirrel colony living in the silver maple in our front lawn. They’re destructive little mofos - the chomp off new growth to build their nests, dig up all my spring bulbs no matter how much cayenne/blood meal/moth balls I use, chew on my precious peach trees, knock over my planters, and generally make nuisances of themselves.
And they’re spiteful too! They even plucked the one lone peach my trees produced this year, ate one bite, and then left the rest right by our back door to mock us.
And if that wasn’t enough, they decided to have a full-blown orgy on our garage roof when we had guests over for a BBQ a couple of months ago. You DO NOT want to hear what that sounds like. Trust me.
They are loud. These two bark at each other all day…I’m actually surprised they chose under the porch. There is a huge wood behind the house. I think we’re going to let them hang out under the porch for the winter. If they make it. Plus, it’s 12hours of redneck tv for our cats…they are glued to the windows watching the squirrels right in front of them. Occasionally one will jump on the screen [I think to screw with the cats] and a cat will get a good swat in.
We thought we had squirrels (plural) in our attic last fall. Set out a live trap, and caught one right off. He was an albino. Hadn’t seen one before, so it was pretty cool. We drove him to a park straight away, left him a pile of peanuts and wished him well as he scurried off. Ten days later, we hear some rustling, and sure enough - we have another squirrel. Set out the trap again, and I’ll be damned if it wasn’t another albino. Having never seen an albino squirrel, catching two over the course of two weeks was pretty remarkable, so something in the back of my mind argued that this wasn’t possible. Before we let him go, I shot his tail with some black spray paint. We drove him several miles away, this time ACROSS the river. In the Spring, we heard scurrying in the attic once again, and put out the trap. Guess who? Turns out we didn’t have squirrels (plural), we had squirrel (single).
We sprayed him with paint again and drove him in the opposite direction, about 5 miles that time. It may have been my imagination, but I think I saw him look back at us sadly as we drove away. In the meantime, we hired someone to seal our attic. End of squirrel problem. Or so we thought.
Last week, I saw an albino squirrel sitting on my deck. I put out the trap again, just to get a good look at him. I’m pretty sure there’s some residual paint still on his tail. I give up. There must be a really fine lady squirrel in our neighborhood, because this fella will not give up. Since the attic is sealed now, we’re letting him stay and seeing if we can hand-tame him. As long as he stays out of the attic, that is. Meet Norman, everyone.
