Not fish related, but needs some help
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I have one that comes on my deck and visits the house cat. It stood up like it was sizing the cat up
I have one that comes on my deck and visits the house cat. It stood up like it was sizing the cat up
Harmless is a matter of perspective.
I trap any that come onto my property.
We have a garden and they can destroy a garden in an evening.
Cantaloupe is the best bait for live trapping these.
I set the trap during daylight hours in a quiet shade area.
I’ve found that if I leave it over night I catch opossum and skunk to often, so I take it down in the evening.
I trap any that come onto my property.
We have a garden and they can destroy a garden in an evening.
Cantaloupe is the best bait for live trapping these.
I set the trap during daylight hours in a quiet shade area.
I’ve found that if I leave it over night I catch opossum and skunk to often, so I take it down in the evening.
They're kinda cute, and out in a pasture or field a groundhog on its mound is a pretty sight, IMHO...but that's assuming that you don't have horses or cattle running through and breaking their legs when they step into one of the giant burrows, or heavy farm equipment suffering expensive damage when it hits one of those 2-foot-tall mounds of hardened excavated clay and dirt.
In the yard...when they aren't eating everything in your garden...they are digging monstrous holes next to and under your building foundations.
Nature is wonderful, but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be controlled in and around human habitation. The big ol' groundhog that has lived under an old dilapidated shed out in the corner of one my fallow fields is welcome to stay and gets a free pass. The young one who started to dig a subway tunnel under the newly-poured concrete pad for the steel building I put up recently...suffered an unfortunate case of lead poisoning early in the project.
Local laws preventing a homeowner from trapping and eliminating such critters to preserve his house and property when needed...are a joke and should be treated as such.
In the yard...when they aren't eating everything in your garden...they are digging monstrous holes next to and under your building foundations.
Nature is wonderful, but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be controlled in and around human habitation. The big ol' groundhog that has lived under an old dilapidated shed out in the corner of one my fallow fields is welcome to stay and gets a free pass. The young one who started to dig a subway tunnel under the newly-poured concrete pad for the steel building I put up recently...suffered an unfortunate case of lead poisoning early in the project.
Local laws preventing a homeowner from trapping and eliminating such critters to preserve his house and property when needed...are a joke and should be treated as such.
Yup, woodchucks. We got 'em here in DC too, along with assorted other animals. They're pretty harmless as far as aggression and kind of funny. What isn't funny is the way they dig tunnels around foundations and patios. What you run into here is that trapping/relocating is illegal. Maryland and Virginia you are allowed to do those things.
I had to spend $900 on a below grade cage around my patio because groundhogs were digging massive holes around the concrete (2 feet across). The cage has to go down into the soil 18 inches. Once they discover the cage they stop digging.
It's amazing what they can squeeze through by flattening their bodies. There's a big fat one I call Phil (for Piscataway Phil) that waddles through carrying Paw Paw fruit from a neighbor's tree. He used to try stuffing himself into a drainpipe but got stuck.
DC is pro-deer, too. "They were here before us" is the official line. So people take matters into their own hands, if you know what I mean. Or let their dogs do the dirty work. But the city has roundups at night in the parks and the venison meat is given to the homeless.
In DC you have deer, raccoons, woodchucks, possum, owls (regular and white), hawks, eagles, salamanders, frogs, snakes, foxes, and all kinds of assorted birds (like Pickers). Ain't nothing but wild kingdom here!
