There's a squirrel in my bedroom :S

[Mig-El]

Hey can you believe this???

A squirrel broke into my bedroom, well she just came in since I had the door a little bit open and the dog was chasing it. My room is separate to my house, it used to be like a small warehouse. Do you know what's their behavior??? cause I wanna get it out, I'm 99% sure it's still there although there was no sign of it since yesterday until a couple minutes ago that I heard something. It didn't even eat the cookies and bread I left but I know it's there, any suggestion???

 

I don't actually fear the animal, they're not ugly or anything but I don't want it to go walking over me while I'm sleeping and I don't know if it's rabious or whatever I don't know how to say rabia or rabioso in english.

[Pris]

Awww.. i like squirrels :nice:

 

Uhm.. have you tried moving your things around while keeping your bedroom's door open???

It might get outta there, it's probably as or more scared than you :P

[mc_squared]

That's totally nuts!!:stunned:

[mc_squared]

It's actually a bit like having a rat in your room.:rolleyes:

[The Escapist]

we dont get squirrels in australia. we get possums

[mc_squared]

we dont get squirrels in australia. we get possums

 

And redbacks and funnel webs!!:stunned:

[Mig-El]

Pris: I already did, but you see, my bedroom is full of "mugres" jajaja, my parents keep a lot of stuff there, it's half my dad's gym, we got a bicycle there, and some other stuff and a huge closet which covers almost the whole wall. That's where it must be.

 

mc_squared: you see its not totally nuts taking into account I live in a small city, barely city, more like a town and my neighbor practicly lives in a forest, the house nextdoor has several trees and they got ducks, chickens and I think pigs and spiders, cats and the worst POSSUMS like the escapist says (I just found out that was their name in english). Squirrels had been seen around but never came so close before

[mc_squared]

Pris: I already did, but you see, my bedroom is full of "mugres" jajaja, my parents keep a lot of stuff there, it's half my dad's gym, we got a bicycle there, and some other stuff and a huge closet which covers almost the whole wall. That's where it must be.

 

mc_squared: you see its not totally nuts taking into account I live in a small city, barely city, more like a town and my neighbor practicly lives in a forest, the house nextdoor has several trees and they got ducks, chickens and I think pigs and spiders, cats and the worst POSSUMS like the escapist says (I just found out that was their name in english). Squirrels had been seen around but never came so close before

 

Well be careful, as they can be extremely aggressive. I saw one fighting a dog in the street once!!:stunned:

[Mig-El]

And redbacks and funnel webs!!:stunned:

:stunned: never seen those before luckily, but we've had tarantulas, very big ones. the old man who works here at the house once burned one with alcohol and it was still alive, it just walked on fire while sort of crying, it was hummm amazing, kinda creepy

[mc_squared]

:stunned: never seen those before luckily, but we've had tarantulas, very big ones. the old man who works here at the house once burned one with alcohol and it was still alive, it just walked on fire while sort of crying, it was hummm amazing, kinda creepy

 

Why would he want to do that?? Tarantulas are usually pretty harmless and non-aggressive.:dozey:

[coldplay.obsessed]

I have squirrels, chipmuncks, all sorts of birds, neighbours' cats, raccoons (usually only at night) in my backyard all the time and other sorts of animals which I can't even name and the ones that leave weird foot prints on the snow in winter but which I've never actually seen I mean once there were hoof prints which were pretty big on our drive way, it might sound weird but I guess you get used to all the animals after a while, but having a squirrel in my bedroom... :stunned: oh and btw we live in a city too

[mc_squared]

and other sorts of animals which I can't even name and the ones that leave weird foot prints on the snow in winter but which I've never actually seen

 

Big foot??:stunned:

[KellieP]

We feed the possums where I live in Australia. They're kind of cute. As for the squirrell problem buy a mosquito net to go around your bed so it can't get to you while you are sleeping. Leaving your door ooen is a good idea but keep the food a few metres away from your door because you don't want to attract more in and in english we say rabies like babies but with an r

[coldplay.obsessed]

^ Yeah if you buy a fishnet, make sure like there are no holes or anything, and okay might sound completely crazy and I don't mean to scare you or anything but I've seen a squirrel climb a freaking wall :stunned:... but I guess it made it easier because it was a brick wall and they were sticking out sort of, but still :stunned:

[mc_squared]

^ Yeah if you buy a fishnet, make sure like there are no holes or anything, and okay might sound completely crazy and I don't mean to scare you or anything but I've seen a squirrel climb a freaking wall :stunned:... but I guess it made it easier because it was a brick wall and they were sticking out sort of, but still :stunned:

 

And don't forget there are also flying squirrels!!:stunned:

[coldplay.obsessed]

And don't forget there are also flying squirrels!!:stunned:

 

Oh yeah and ninja squirrels :stunned:

 

:dozey:

[strawberryfields]

Speaking of tarantulas :P

 

 

Awww :blush:

[mc_squared]

Flying squirrels are the oldest living line of modern squirrels (modern, as opposed to their precursors, the early-Eocene squirrel-like rodents called "paramyids"). Evidence of their relative's existence goes back to the late Eocene period, between 38 and 55 million years ago! Tree squirrels made their first appearance on this earth during the late Oligocene period, about 30 million years ago. Ground squirrels came in waves, with some appearing 28 million years ago (very late Oligocene period), late Miocene period (8 million years ago) and very late Pliocene period (2.5 million years ago).

 

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North American flying squirrels are not very well represented in the fossil record, for several reasons.

 

Their fine bone structures do not fossilize well, and due to their arboreal lifestyle, dead specimens rarely were situated so that fossilization could occur. Flying squirrel teeth are often the only fossil record that survive the ravages of time. Attempts have been made, in the past, to identify extinct flying squirrel species' via dentition characteristics, but it was found that using this method alone was inaccurate more often than not. A high degree of expertise is required to make distinctions between extinct tree and flying squirrel teeth, so skeletal (including the skull) AND dental characteristics combined present the most accurate method of identification.

 

So, there being a paucity of information to be gleaned from fossil records (these records are virtually all Pleistocene Era records, by the way), we have little data to enlighten us about the flying squirrel's time here on this continent.

What we do know, however, is:

What we now call the southern flying squirrel likely emigrated to what is now know as North America via the Bering Land Bridge via what is now know n as Asia roughly 25 million years ago during the early Miocene era. This squirrel was adapted for life in temperate mixed deciduous-coniferous forests, and migrated north and south with the glacier activity through the eons.

 

More adapted to warmer climes than the northern, southern flying squirrels found themselves migrating as far south as Central America during the Pleistocene era, roughly 100,000 years ago. Relict populations exist to this day in higher-elevation areas of Central America and Mexico, their connectivity forever lost due to climate changes and more recently, large-scale deforestation.

 

What we now call the northern flying squirrel is a relative newcomer to North America, having emigrated to North America during another incarnation of the Bering Land Bridge roughly 12 million years ago, during the early Pliocene era. This route of emigration via the Bering Land Bridge is not unusual, as many of North America's mammals, both extinct and extant, followed a similar route. In fact, it is generally accepted that our First Nations people emigrated to this continent via the Bering Land Bridge roughly 12,000 years ago, although there is some evidence that there may have been "ancient mariners" who rafted across the Pacific Ocean

 

http://www.flyingsquirrels.com/index.html

[coldplay.obsessed]

[Susan13]

It sounds like that scene in the movie Christmas Vacation:laugh3:. If you see it, I would be careful, they can be carriers of Rabies and you definitly don't want to get bit. If you do find it, I would just open up the front door and chase it out with a broom if you have to. I think if it is still in your house, your dog would let you know. They are good at sniffin those things out.

[Ambergris]

What on earth is a Possum?

 

I found this image at google. :stunned:

 

[Mig-El]

EWW

 

What the hell???????????

just google possum and you'll see, they're not so cute for me.

 

Thanks for the warning, I tried it all wirth the broom and the dog wants to go under the closet cause I think it's back there but there's no way to get there or to move it.

[RICK8]

Grab some nuts,and lure it out......

[Guest LiquidSky]

Speaking of tarantulas :P

 

 

Awww :blush:

 

That's so creepy!

 

What on earth is a Possum?

 

I found this image at google. :stunned:

 

 

 

Edit: Never mind. That's creepier!:o

 

Possums? They play dead.. hhahaha just kidding. I was just thinking of that anime movie.. Can't think of the name now:thinking:

[Lore]

now I'll have nightmares :bigcry: