Vaherbmom THANK YOU!! meldy_nva Pine-Sol! The smell is overpowering but makes so much sense!! I was going to run a hose about 10’ into their hole and funnel a quart of ammonia followed by a quart of bleach. Bend the hose into the hole and cover it with dirt but the exhaust is so much cleaner:) The University uses dry ice at the same time on multiple holes covered with A LOT of wet dirt and then they hold. They standby because the students would remove the dry ice (the non home owners felt it to be cruel) My issue is living between immigrants that believe animals have a place in the world. They do! But not when they damage your property! So she continued to feed them by dumping her table scraps and compost in the alley behind our houses. She felt differently when her yard was excavated for a sewerline break. The workers explained that the absence of support structures caused it to snap. I have used conibear traps in the attic for squirrels, just be careful to do so when there is no chance youll be leaving behind unfed helpless babies. For folks that have groundhogs in open fields contact your local Jack Russell Terrier club. They might have to dig a hole or two to get the dogs out but GO TO GROUND is what JRTs were bred to do. My 16lb baby caught the 30lb animal she was feeding and I left it for her to bury so she could see what she created. Point being if your neighbors arent on board, theyll just comeback later. 16lb JRT foot, 30lb groundhog under the first step closest to the ground. JRT 1: Chuck 0

No rolled up sod this morning, thinking it was originally groundhogs I laid out bright balloons, pinwheels and spread a ton of Costco Chili Powder around the grass. Coincidence or not who knows but it also seems that the squirrels are scared of the pinwheels, something I should have put 2 months ago before they ravished my tomatoes (unlike any other summer, I'm assuming it was due to the dry summer we had and they were super thirsty).

We've got 6 inches of snow over a thin layer of ice. Dropping down to the single digits over night and no real warm up until Monday...............Brad: My thoughts are with you on the ice. It can do serious damage to everything if it gets thick enough. I say this from experience..........They are predicting another arctic system to come through around next week-end. I'm really not fond of February..............Maryl

A few years ago I was in a feed store looking at traps for G hogs. One custumer told me that they have a way of dealing with groundhogs (GH) that begin destroying plants or digging. She did not want to elaborate, but clearly she shot and killed them. A lot of people feel forced to do this. Here is why people choose to shoot them. They can destroy a lot of plantings — flowers or vegetables (that represent a sizable investment in money, time and labor and a lot of people count on gardens to supplement groceries. They can be very tough to trap. They are wary. Even if and when you trap them, your choices are limited. Wildlife regulations usually prohibit releasing them on property that is not your own. You can destro the critter once it’s trapped, but there are few easy, humane ways to do this. Submerging the trap into a deep barrel of water is not kind to the critter as it will suffer as it deowns over several minutes. So, in many places, people use their 22. There’s plenty of space for them in the woods, but GHs don’t do woods. They like open spaces with hedgerows, or developed land where homeowners have made food gathering easy — gardens, vegetables, annuals, perennials. I have videos of GH dining on tall garden phlox and milkweed. If it would just eat weeds, and not plantings, and did not dig up the drip line areas of our home’s foundation, I might feel less annoyed. One year every single butternut sqaush was ”sampled.” If someone is charging a dear price to remove critters, they should check and tend their own traps or arrange a discount with a homeowner if they expect the residents to help him out. I was told by wildlife people that relocating critters is not necessarily a kindly solution. It stresses the animal to suddenly be dumped into another animal’s territory. It has none of its own burrows of food supply and may have left young behind. I don’t see any easy solutions. There are no shortages of GH (woodchucks).