Posted: 9/26/2011 1:27:35 PM EDT
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How do you finish the squirrel if you can't discharge any firearms/don't have a pellet gun? My boxer pup got one and was running around with him, all I could do is set chase every time he relaxed to take a couple bites (I don't care that he runs around with the thing in his mouth, just don't want him eating the guts and stuff of the squirrel). He finally dropped him, and fortunately he was dead, but what if the squirrel is still alive? What is the easiest way to put the thing out of misery?
I fail, I know. 
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Assuming it's very close to death, lay it on its belly, put a stick over the back of its neck, step on the stick, and jerk its tail sharply up and over the stick to break its neck. Never tried this on a squirrel, but it works on mice. If the squirrel only looks gravely wounded the process will be more like this: 1. Grab squirrel. 2. Scream like little girl as squirrel runs circles around your torso and head while angrily chattering, clawing, and biting. |
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take the squirrel by the tail and swing it into a tree trunk. basically pretend the squirrel is a hatchet and it's head is the blade and try to chop the tree. Only takes one swing in my experience. All the hunters i've spent time with - myself included - don;t want to make an animal suffer, we just want to eat it. So we take them/dispatch them as quickly and humanely as possible Squirrels are tougher that they appear in some instances. Hence smacking them against a tree
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A stomp to the head is quick and easy, but can be a little messy. A chunk of 2X4 will have similar results, less mess, but still some splatter. I live in the woods, I would likely use a 410 or 22.
As for dogs catching squirrels and rabbits, sure, I have had a few dogs that could catch them. I had a buddy with an old Lab mix mutt that would catch rabbits, swallow them whole, and then puke them back up before eating them properly. |
The GSD/whippet mix owned (or she owns them?  ) by a local Team Member couple
will make a quick snack of any squirrels dumb enough to stay on the ground for any length of time. She is insanely fast, and has snatched quite a few who thought that they were faster. |
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Our whippets usually quickly break the squirrels necks or rip the squirrel in half. Birds are usually swallowed whole so I'm not sure how long they end up suffering. The first time they killed a rabbit I let them inside only to discover fleas bouncing all over the dogs snouts. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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I should have gotten it on video, damn.
I don't have a shovel, I have landscapers. I considered swinging it against the tree, but it didn't feel like it had enough mass to make a large enough impact. Besides, I really was pretty sure he was dead. 
And I was barefoot at the time, so stomping on him wasn't going to happen! 
And the murderer.... 
I have two boxers, and have played with a bunch. I have never seen a boxer as hyper as him, or anywhere near as fast/nimble. I actually had my other boxer tackle shooter (the white one) to try and move in to grab the squirrel the one time, but shooter escaped. My other boxer clutch never caught anything, and he's 8 now.
Well, I'm off to buy a shovel. I could probably use it for a few things anyway. |
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Get it by the tail and wack it up against a tree, post, or such. The squirrel that is. They have a thin skull.
LOL....Talk about dammed if you did or did not.....Dad would have had kittens if I wasted a bullet on a about dead squirrel. Granddad had kittens when I did wack them as he liked the head/brains. If blood-shot the brains were no good. |
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........................... just don't want him eating the guts and stuff of the squirrel). Epic fail! Do you have any conception of what dogs can and will eat with no detriment to themselves? Just because you think EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW (like a little girl?) doesn't mean your dog isn't just being a dog. Let him enjoy his squirrel, he caught it. (You're lucky he didn't fight you for it.) |
| My dogs get a couple of squirrels a year, and in the past they would just kill and play with the body. This year they have taken it to another level, they eat the entire body minus the pelvis and tail. When it is all said and done there isn't even blood on the ground. |
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You don't own a shovel? 
Ok, use a rock. But... You don't own a shovel?
Landscapers? Shit man, I'm married but I keep the equipment around to jerk off just in case! I have a chainsaw. Shovels are on all the work trucks, but I didn't have one at my house. I didnt have a valid use for a shovel...until now. I suppose rocks would have worked too, but I was hoping there was a nice sure neck snapping death kind of way.
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Quoted: Wow... I'm amazed that a dog actually caught a squirrel. My akita sure perks up when she sees one (or a rabbit), but I haven't seen the kind of quickness from her that would allow her to catch one. Odd my little Shiba Inu (shown below full grown) gets them and rabbits all the time. I would have thought a Akita would have no problems  |
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Let the dog kill and eat it. Won't hurt a thing. I also don't need him shitting.......... on my new floors. It sounds as if you have more problems than his eating squirrels. I'd imagine that eating unfamiliar foods could lead to that or puking, no? I never really had dogs that ate other animals (my other boxer and Akita). |
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Do you own anything heavy or hard? Anything sharp? Anything that will cover and protect your feet? Any gloves?
No? Do you own a car, truck, SUV, bike? Put its head under a wheel. It really isn't all that hard to cleanly kill a little, immobile, half-dead-already animal. |
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Quoted: take the squirrel by the tail and swing it into a tree trunk. basically pretend the squirrel is a hatchet and it's head is the blade and try to chop the tree. Only takes one swing in my experience. All the hunters i've spent time with - myself included - don;t want to make an animal suffer, we just want to eat it. So we take them/dispatch them as quickly and humanely as possible Squirrels are tougher that they appear in some instances. Hence smacking them against a tree Get a friend to do it. My dad tried this once years ago and ended up with a squirrel latched on to his finger. The damn beast wouldn't let go, so he eventually had to choke it out. He told me the story and I laughed my ass off. We went squirrel hunting a couple years ago and one of us winged one. It was laying there on the ground and we both looked at each other. He lost in paper, rock, scissors so he tried again. Yep, you guessed it. It bit him. It didn't hang on, but got him just the same. |