You bet!! They're voracious and far more destructive than bunnies.

You bet! One year something was eating my broccoli. One day, I day was sitting on my couch in the living room with the window open, and heard a kind of tearing noise. I looked out the window, and it was just like a cartoon........I saw the back of a grounghog that was standing up in front of a large broccoli plant. I could literally see the broccoli leaves disappearing as he ripped them down. It's funny "now."

That groundhog has got to go if you want a garden. Otherwise all you'll get out of your garden is exercise.

maybe I do not understand the question. What is the alternative?

Do bears like honey?

Do ground hogs eat veggies? Did the sun come up?They eat everything green,red,purple, and any thing else you can grow,I have been battling a family of 4 all summer, they bent the back of the live capture trap,tore a hole in the rabbit fence, so I doubled it, guess what they can climb!My german sheppard, and 2 cats chase them, but a 1/2 acre smorgas board is too good to pass up so they return. good luck. they aggrivate me, but, I can not kill something for trying to earn aliving.
>^..^Carla

I saw your post and burst into sad, sad laughter "Poor soul, she/he knows not what s/he is facing". I remember my first groundhog. After four days of utter garden destruction, I was so proud of capturing and relocating my groundhog. My best friend related the story of my groundhog woes and trapping triumph to her coworker who lives a few blocks from me. He burst into hysterical laughter "she thinks there's only one!"

I trapped 13 that year.

I feel your pain (looking out at what used to be my carrots and kohlrabi - 15 minutes of groundhog) and wish you the best of luck with your groundhog problem.

Remember...there is never "only one"

Stay strong,
Bellatrix.

Relocating a groundhog is only relocating your problem, giving it to someone else. You also may be relocating it into the territory of another groundhog, which will cause fights that lead to sever injury or death. You may also be taking a mother away from her babies, thus leaving them to starve to death. Also, in this "new" territory, your reloacted animal will not have a home (den, nest, etc) so will be left to wander around, with no protection from predators. They also don't know where the food and water is, and in the case of squirrels, their buried food cache. You also are simply opening up a void in your yard for new animals to move in, so you aren't really solving your problem. The real problem is actually that your yard is the perfect habitat for whatever your pest animal is. The biggest thing of all with trapping & relocating, is that it's actually illegal in many areas, so not only are you making your relocated animal suffer, you are breaking the law.

Now, I'm not defending any pest animals, because I've had plenty myself. I'm just putting it out there, that when people think they are being humane by trapping & relocating animals, they are actually making it worse for the animals. You're better off dispatching the animal, which is quick and humane. Imagine someone trapped you, and relocated you into a far away city. No phone, no money, no food, and no home. Let's imagine for a moment that you can't just go to the police, or go to the gas station and call someone. Where are you going to go? Into someone elses home? Think they'll let you? What are you going to eat? Someone elses food? Nope. This is what happens to animals when you relocate them. Then, next years, this year's babies will be adults, seeking out their own territory, and they'll find a nice, empty yard to move into, and the cycle starts over.

With all of that said, you're best off to just kill the animal if it's that bad, and then work to make your yard less hospitable to them. With proper fencing, you can actually prevent groundhogs from getting in your garden, although I must say, they are tricky animals to deal with. Good luck, and don't bother relocating it.

Joe

the only way to get rid of a groundhog is to kill it and let
it's body rot in the burrow to prevent it from being occupied
by another groundhog. trap it or smoke bomb it the method of death is not important.

not true. the best method to deal with a groundhog is to educate him with a 2700 V electric fence, and to make sure there is grass, or clover, or dandelions nearby. This way your educated groundhog will keep out the other, uneducated ones.

My solution is using a 22 caliber rifle