People around my parts find dogs work well.
Many years ago when I lived back in my ancestral haunts in the country (an area now taken over by the far suburbs) I had an Ibizan Hound named, appropriately, Tut. He amazed some of the local folk because he would wait patiently by a groundhog hole, and when the “whistlepig” emerged, he was quick enough to kill it, and he would.