On Apr 28, 8:50 am, General Schvantzkopf <schvantzk...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:54:04 -0500, phorbin wrote:
> > In article <mPidnfdsSMH0rIjVnZ2dnUVZ_u6dn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > schvantzk...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> >> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:35:36 -0500, phorbin wrote:
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> >> Did you try any sort of predator scent? I'm thinking about emptying
my
> >> kitty litter boxes down his hole.
>
> > Yep... Didn't work. YMMV --Try tiger, lion or panther.
>
> > Ammonia, mothballs, moth crystals, etc. haven't worked for us on any
> > critter. I've also tried diluted groundhog blood down the holes to no
> > effect.
>
> > Coincidentally, another one of the sodding things has wandered in and
> > I'll be dealing with it in the next day or so, once I've learned its
> > habits.
>
> > We're still pre-planting and nothing has grown much so I've a little
> > time.
>
> I guess I'll have to bring out the Havahart trap. What do you use for
> bait? BTW what's the density of groundhogs?. If I trap the one in my
> garden will another one just show up to take his place?. Back in the 80s
> I was trapping raccoons and that was hopeless. I moved 50 of them before
> I gave up. The thing that finally got the raccoons under control was a
> rabies epidemic.
Same here. Trap and remove. Use peanut butter as bait but be
prepared to catch any varmint.
Last year, I got a skunk.
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