First let me thank you for your interest and submittals. And yes it became a major offensive.
The story: Being a person of means this customer had a contractor come in to survey and close up any entry point in the house. Quite a few points were found and closed. There was one in the room where his birds are displayed. It was at the ceiling corner junction where a wood molding was chewed open.(a very small slit type opening hardly noticable). And this costly approach worked for about a week. Then his prize drake ringneck had its eyes chewed out. In addition "it" tried to chew off the beak. And that slit in the ceiling was reopened.
The next day he called asking about getting some museum type cases to protect the birds.
The battle: Traps were set. Mouse traps, rat traps, glue traps caught nothing as before. At last an old standard the box trap was set with a pile of glass eyes as bait. It worked. I never knew how small a flying squirrel was. And cute. End of story. No way.
The contractor was brought back to patch more openings. In the mean time the night after the first squirrel was caught, a vintage drake old squaw was attacked. "Still shopping for glass cases".
The contractor suggested that a guy with an "infra red scanner" be brought in to find the squirrel nest by heat detection. It worked but his experienced opinion was that something the size of a racoon was nested behind the second story eave.
A major assault: The contractor,an understanding hunter himself, arrived the next day with a rental "man lift". Disassembly of the frame house's eaves and gutter began. I wasn't there but they say there were flying squirrels everywhere. I can't say too much more as flying squirrels are protected in this state.
This brings us up to now. Total cost so far. "In the thousands".
As the old saying goes " there's never a dull day in a live taxidermy shop".
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I'm so glad he got his problem resolved, but oh my God!, Thousands?
Such a shame that a cute little critter like that, can cause such costly damage as an end result.
Thanks for updating us, I was really wondering about it after I read the original post.