How to dye a squirrel

"jonny75904"Twice today ive heard of marking squirrels to track their movements - once from a neighbor, and again in another post here.

So it begs the question... never did i ever forsee asking this in my life... what is the best way to dye a squirrel?

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I know how to "die" a squirrel but not "dye" a squirrel but I suppose you could catch them in a hav-a-heart and squirt them with a super soaker full of dye?

Check your local laws before catching, (marking/dyeing) and relocating. In some jurisdictions, it's illegal to relocate wildlife, even pests and they must be destroyed.

I seem to recall my daughter fooling around with spray on hair color? It washed out fairly quickly. Pink and blue tails would be kinda cool....

Just a guess paintball gun?? but those things have a wallop
Not to mention you miss and hit your neighbor's house or car and he is liable to wallop you LOL

I did this when I was a kid. Caught one in a have-a-heart trap and spray painted him head to toe with orange paint. Let him go and never told anyone what I did. It was an amazing sight late in the day watching him run through the trees. The entire neighborhood was talking about it. Some thought it was a genetic mutation. Some thought it was a joke until the got their own glimpse of him. The couple up the street got into a fight about it. He claimed he spotted an orange rat and she kept telling him he was crazy. My mother figured it out in about 3 seconds and I got grounded. 10 years later people would still talk about it. Just wish I had some pictures to share. Thank god PETA didn't exhist back then.

Neon yellow tempura paint works well too, until they get wet which doesn't happen too often. 

What is amazing, is the area they cover. A few years ago, we caught a few and used neon yellow and none orange tempera to tell the difference between male and female. One male was spotted nearly 2 miles away! And as mentioned above, there are laws in some states which limits such activity, so beware. 

I would like to see a bunch of zebra stripped one's running around my neighborhood, that would be epic.

No wait glow in the dark paint
Ghost squirrels

Glow in the dark. Now that sounds interesting. I thought I was the only person on the planet that thought this way. It is comforting to know I am in good company.

"Strietwise"Glow in the dark. Now that sounds interesting. I thought I was the only person on the planet that thought this way. It is comforting to know I am in good company.

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That would be epic! Probably cause some hysteria in the neighborhood lol.

Would make for some interesting evenings. All jokes aside...........The way to "Mark" an squirrel is fairly simple, make a box with a fairly small hole surround the hole with a sponge and use food grade dye on the sponge you can take a rodent water bottle with the little ball at the end of the spout and fill it with the dye and put it against the sponge to keep it wet. put some food in the box when the squirrel goes for the food the dye will transfer to the fur and mark the squirrel.

Or you could catch one in a trap and dip the sucker in a bucket full dye (keeping it head above water) glow-in-dark (that's hilarious) paint....voila!