In article <20080430-110041.750.0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
kiewicz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> phorbin said:
> >
> >
> >In article <20080429-105054.703.0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Kiewicz.newsgroups.comcast.net>,
> >kiewicz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> >
> >> The adults aren't usually frequent or long-range dispersers.
(Probably
> >> because they build elaborate permanent burrows.) It's the young ones
> >> that will do the wandering and (based on my experience) only once a
> >> year. So if you can manage to take out the local residents, you
might
> >> expect in the future some occasional new ones, in early summer.
> >> One nice thing about that: Young ones are easier to trap, plus their
new
> >> burrows are usually simple and easy to smoke bomb (or whatever).
> >
> >The adults dig way-station bolt-holes to extend their range. The holes
> >I've dealt with are usually 5 to 6 feet deep and just a hole.
>
> Yeah, but they're still not like racoons, where there seems to be a
never-
> ending supply...groundhogs just don't ****ft around with quite the same
> ease and confidence.
I wasn't disagreeing, even if it looks like it. They stick around if you
let them. We had one in the neighbourhood that had a range of two blocks
and bolt holes in every untended spot.
It may still be around, but it doesn't come here any more, since the day
I nearly brained it.
> Then too, simple bolt-holes offer easy op****tunities that the main dens
> don't...
I've chased a number of them to ground.
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