Good point, but the groundhogs are up early, particularly in the summer. Your chances of catching one are much greater, in my experience, just after dawn and around dusk.
That's probably more true in the suburbs, where Iggy lives, and where they're going to avoid daytime activity.
Raccoon received a speedy trial. The sentence was a conditional release on parole and exile 5 miles from home.
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If you do, take a high speed movie.
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Those things will skin them and cook the meat for you, if you can find it.
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I guess the only high power shots I have done around here is 1 possum and 1 raccoon with my 22-250, that gun's awful loud though. My son has a single shot .22 with a red dot sight that is great for general purpose pest control and much quieter than the alternatives.
RogerN
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On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:27:10 -0500, Ignoramus9757 wrote the following:
Call Animal Control for instructions.
-- Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst. -- Lin Yutang
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:56:22 -0400, Spehro Pefhany wrote the following:
OMG, someone musta beed -on- shrooms to create that one. That's enough for a bad trip, maaaaaaaaaaaaan.
Hey, does anyone else remember the badger in the movie _The Gods Must Be Crazy II_? ROTFLSHIPMP! It was pissed off and followed them for miles and miles, tracking them by scent. That's my idea of comedy.
-- Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst. -- Lin Yutang
I didn't see the first movie but that sounds like these:
I, too, live in the suburbs. I see groundhogs all times of day. The first time I encountered one in my yard, it was happily munching on the grass, which was OK by me. It was out there for hours. I thought, at the time, you could shove a broomstick up this critter's butt and use it as a lawnmower, like on the Flintstones.
Later it started munching on the garden, and I was less amused. I read a lot, and took the advice of some. These guys supposedly don't like mothballs, and don't like dried blood (fertilizer from the garden store). So, I put a border of mothballs around the garden and sprinkled dried blood on the foliage. I swear, that while the bastard was sitting on the mothballs munching on the leaves, I heard him say, "Could you please pass the blood?"
Groundhogs are one of the reasons farmers' trucks have gun racks.
Same thing they do with deballed politicians. Turn them loose on the world.
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About the only thing that discourages them from garden raiding is an electric fence and that only while they burrow under it. Does keep the coons out of the sweet corn, though. Groundhogs will chew every thing down to the dirt, just like a prairie dog.
Stan
When I have seen ground hogs at one of the garden beds on our property, I chased it. It ran under the porch thru a smallish hole in the skirting. I blocked that hole with some bricks and a day later had a good look and found another access to the area under the porch by some stairs. So blocked that too. Now there is no place close by to hide and I have not seen one on our property since then. I think they are discouraged if there is no safe haven close by.
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You can bend a wire cloth fence into an 'L" shape, with the horizontal leg about a foot long, buried 6" under ground, facing the outside of the perimeter. The woodchuck will walk up to the fence and try to dig. They don't realize that backing up a foot would lead them to paradise.
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A smart dog makes short work of them. I had one, a former stray, that would watch quietly with one eye barely open until they snuck past, then leap and land teeth-first on their neck. They can't turn to fight while running away at full speed. He was death on cats, too, and I had to toss them out onto the side of the road to cover for him.
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