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Hello, I have a huge groundhog living underneath my small shed in my back yard. I have seen it in the yard searching for food ,I guess. How in the world do I get rid of this thing? I have never had this problem before . I live on a one acre lot with deers, turkeys always in my yard. Thanks for any helpful information you can!
I've got one under an old house near my garden. Solution? Harborfreight medium size trap - on sale currently for about $20. And about that website - they are called whistlepigs because they make a warning sound like a whistle. Either that or the one on my property is a band major. Last year I let one stay. This year we have a big garden. Sorry Charlie, I didn't get to the top of the food chain by giving out my food as free lunch.
I had a pair of them move in under my woodpile last year. All we did was annoy them, throw stones and pieces of cord wood, make noise when we were near there. They left for the back woods in a couple weeks. I guess I'm not a good neighbor.
Yes, use a Have -A-Heart trap...apples always work for me...After you trap it, it's up to you what to do with it...in NY State the rules on Woodchucks are "Dispatch humanely"
Well, the next time it shows its face, you could call a press conference and claim it's predicting something! LOL
Is it doing any damage to your property? If not, maybe you could just let it be.
That would be my bias, as well. I live in an "urban wildlife refuge." We have 3 acres inside of Dallas with 50 + year growth trees, and we harbor raccoons, possums, rabbits, foxes, lizards, some stray cats we feed (and trap and get rabies shots and "fixed"). We like the cats because they eat the rats that would also like to make this place home.
Back when I used to farm a site with a grass runway down the middle, we would sometimes shoot groundhogs, because during Spring plowing and planting we would wind up wrecking their homes in the fields, and they would dig big burrows in the middle of the runway that would flip an airplane.
But everyone felt bad about doing that, and considered the entire problem our own fault that the groundhog died for -- just no one chose a better path.
Now I wind up shooting wild pit bulls that get abandoned and breed around here in Dallas. Always something.
We have a small yard in the suburbs and I became so upset when I saw this giant groundhog living in a hole beside my shed. I love animals and I was concerned about how to relocate him...everyone around central PA finds pleasure in shooting them! I made a quick call to my son up at Bucknell University and he told me to just leave him alone...give co-existence a try! Great advice! She has been living here for 5 years and I have an unfenced vegetable garden and beautiful flowers and shrubs and she has never taken a bite out of anything except the weeds in my lawn! I look forward to seeing her every morning. This year she had 5 babies and they were a lot of fun to watch, I was worried about them but they have moved away. I just hope that they found a neighbor with a kind heart.
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