Fighting Marten without poison and animalfriendly (modern marten catch)
Everybody is able to fight a marten (martes foina).
Fighting and chasing away marten I do professionally for around 30 years. Often they damage cables and tubes from cars by biting. Or they distroy isolations of roofs or damaging house and roof material.
My customers who are calling for me because of marten attack, they are often very angry because of marten doing expensive damages and producing a lot of noise on the roof and attic. Often they could't even sleelp because of a marten doing so much noise.
Often in the beginnig my customers try to get rid of the marten by building up too tiny catches or lay out hair from other animal and so on. But the marten are not only very loud, they are also very smart!
One thing is definite: the damaging on cars like bitten tubes and cables happen because the car was parked in the martens territory.
The damage at roofs and attics happen because the marten loves to build his nest between the walls of the ceiling.Often the whole attic is finally seen as the home of the marten. Often it stinks because of dung, urine and kadavers. The marder prefers empty rooms or spaces that are not used for a long time. Often martens are olaso found on attics of schools and kindergarden.
Marten are able to climb excellently, they can move over and on roofs very easily and are brave enough to jump long distances from for example a tree to the roof. They are able to lift a roof tile or they get inside the house through an open window. In one pert of the attic, often between the ceiling walls, the is the "toilet" of the marten, in another area there is the "kitche" where sometimes kadavers of small animals can be found. Near this area there is the sleepingroom and the room for it"s kids.
The marten can become as tall as an adult cat. It is very flexible, his body is long and he can pass every way that is as big as his head.
You shouldn"t kill this nice and shy animals although they are not protected by the law. But in some areas they have times when it is forbidden to hunt them. If you catch them alive and bring them far enough from you home you will never see this marten again.
If you call a pest-control company you have to know that they will have to show up several times, supposably they won't catch the marten at their first visit.It is not rarely that a successful catch might take weeks, sometimes even months. You have to have patience. If you think you only have to install a martencatch and it will be trapped easily you are mistaken. Marten are tricky predators. Joung marten are sometimes not yet that careful and it could happen that they are caught more easy. It happend to me that I caught a marten within two days. This is pure luck and most of the times it takes much longer.Somebody who wants to catch a grow up marten needs a lot of patience and the right strategy.
Marten always use the same ways, these ways have to be found at first. With the right catching instruction and patience everybody could do the catching.Also very useful are martenbelts which make it more difficult for the marten to climb into the attic. These Martenbelt could be useful at rain drains, trees or other possibilities where marten coult climb up. As a first step against the marten is to clean up the attic, so that there is no more space for it to build its nest (if possible). Wholes have to be shut. If you do the cleaning before or after the marten attack is up to you, but the smell of the marten has to be removed with a strong cleaner. While warmer seasons you can often find a large amount of flys in the attic. This is a result of the cadavers which lay around and were left by marten. Often you will also find the longish dung of the marten. If it is already dry you will know that he is here already for a longer time. If it is still wet and smooth he came not a long time ago. The dung of an adult marten is as thick as a finger (like from a cat). Cleaning and desinfection is very important because of infection and bacteria. Right now there is not a lot of talking about the bird flu, but still it is existing. Marten do it birds and their eggs, so thats one risk more in addition to other deseases. After cleaning you can start fighting tha marten. Old advices like leavin doghair or let a radio make noise all the time often don't help to get rid of the marten.Better coult be a machine making ultrasonic sounds, but sometimes this doesn't help also.
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