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How do you get rid of groundhogs???!!!
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Posted on 06/19/2009 5:33:57 PM PDT by randita
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To: randita
Where do you live? Where I live, we can call the city’s vector control office and they will come take care of critters. They trap them and take them out to the country someplace.
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posted on
06/19/2009 5:42:34 PM PDT
by
La Lydia
(.)
To: randita
I keep wolverines around just to keep the groundhogs away. They do a fine job.
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posted on
06/19/2009 5:43:08 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(It takes a Kenyan village to raise a US president.)
To: randita
Tell them there’s auditions in Punxsutawney, PA for next year’s Punxsutawney Idol...
They could wind up as the new Punxsutawney Phil..
No ???
To: randita
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posted on
06/19/2009 5:48:22 PM PDT
by
Manic_Episode
(Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
To: randita
post #11 has your answer...works on coyotes too...
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posted on
06/19/2009 5:49:12 PM PDT
by
stefanbatory
(Do you want a President or a King?)
To: randita
.22 CCI Stingers do wonders on groundhogs.
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posted on
06/19/2009 5:49:32 PM PDT
by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: randita
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posted on
06/19/2009 5:50:59 PM PDT
by
Sir Beowolf
("We The People")
To: randita
A big, nasty dog oughta do the trick.
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posted on
06/19/2009 5:52:15 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(God is great . . . beer is good . . . and people are crazy.)
To: Alberta's Child
Trap with the corn is best idea, but instead of releasing it use a .22 to dispatch, skin, gut, cut into pieces, put some veggies with it and roast in slow oven for about 2 1/2 hours. Absolutely delicious! They are vegetarians, meat is consistency of pork roast, would like to try with BBQ sauce sometime.
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posted on
06/19/2009 5:58:29 PM PDT
by
AUH2O Repub
( Palin/Sanford '12)
To: Jet Jaguar
Very accurate.
Even more so.....
Beeman Super Magnum Kodiak in .22 cal. pellet
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posted on
06/19/2009 6:01:41 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(This country isn't going to hell in a handbasket, it's riding shotgun in an Indy car....)
To: TMSuchman
Groundhogs are a real pain in the rear. Years ago, when I lived by a river, they would dig holes in the dike. Our babies were still in diapers then, so I would tamp their holes full of disposable diapers. They would dig holes elsewhere. I found the one live trap bait they couldn't resist was apples. We'd catch them and they'd often die in the summer heat before we could get to the traps. Otherwise, we'd drown them and feed the carcass to the cats.
Our cats were good hunters, but the groundhogs were smart enough to steer clear when cats were in the vicinity. It was a neverending battle just defending our garden and dikes from groundhog destruction. I probably killed 10-12 of them every year, but new ones would just keep moving in.
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posted on
06/19/2009 6:02:34 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
To: randita
Well, actually that's what "cherry bombs" were invented for (the old, powerful ones).
When I was a kid, we used to buy them by the gross at the pharmacy for $15.00.
The box had a nice little illustration of some old farmer lighting one, rolling it down a hole (hence their round shape), a "bang" picture, then little dead rodents with x-ed out eyes in a tunnel, killed by the concussion in an enclosed space. I think they were for gophers, but firing off a couple/three at once would probably do the trick for a groundhog. You could probably make your own with the right stuff, but who knows whom that would attract.
We thought it was hilarious (as we launched them with our wrist rockets at pretty much everything).
You might enquire at a feed store or farm and ranch supply - a real one, not a corporate chain like Tractor Supply.
To: BipolarBob
I keep wolverines around just to keep the groundhogs away
Where I live Wolverines aren't much good for anything these days..........
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posted on
06/19/2009 6:03:31 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(This country isn't going to hell in a handbasket, it's riding shotgun in an Indy car....)
To: randita
Heavily laid large stone landscaping rocks might help - just a first thought, since I don't know much about your critters.
Also, I wouldn't rule out the poisoning plan....the little bastards wouldn't reek for all that long. I used to do that with inside-the-wall mice and the funk factor was done within a week.
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posted on
06/19/2009 6:09:06 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Impeach now!)
To: Vigilanteman
tamp their holes full of disposable diapers
Another use for those things that dawned on me (I'd buy 'em regularly due to two sadly diapered parents) is to tape them to the garage floor in the parking area if you have a small pesky oil leak.....beats the hell out of putting kitty litter in a cookie sheet - which wifey would always run over.
Works like a charm. I've had one down for six months and it's good to go thru the 2010 election cycle.
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posted on
06/19/2009 6:13:28 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Impeach now!)
To: AUH2O Repub
Have had them baked before...not bad.
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posted on
06/19/2009 6:19:29 PM PDT
by
hoosiermama
(Hey hey! Ho ho! Where's your Birth Certificate/ We've a right to know!)
To: Manic_Episode; OKSooner
Superior intelligence. Superior firepower.
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posted on
06/19/2009 6:21:43 PM PDT
by
Honeybunch
("Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." ~Rudyard Kipling)
To: stefanbatory
Coyotes have pretty well solved the groundhog problem around here...also eliminated any domestic fowl and out door cats. There is a bounty on coyotes and hunters often show up with their dogs, pickup and walkies talkies to hunt them.
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posted on
06/19/2009 6:24:16 PM PDT
by
hoosiermama
(Hey hey! Ho ho! Where's your Birth Certificate/ We've a right to know!)
To: randita
I used to use crankcase oil down the hole. Now I use .22 long rifle hollow points. Fill the hole with cement. Filling the hole in with dirt and rocks does not work with the NY rodents.
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posted on
06/19/2009 6:25:54 PM PDT
by
richiep
(Richie)
To: randita
This is what my sister uses in rural MI...and she doesn't use it to dig them a bigger hole!
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posted on
06/19/2009 6:26:28 PM PDT
by
hope
(don't listen to what they say, watch what they do.)
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