by "J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
May 14, 2008 at 11:32 AM
SteveB wrote:
> "General Schvantzkopf" <schvantzkopf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> I caught one last night in my live trap, he's been relocated to a
>> nice piece of conservation land in another town. I've reset the
>> trap
>> just in case there are more of them. Does anyone know how large
>> their colonies are?
>
> I have heard in the thousands. Even heard of cases where pickups
> and
> barns have disappeared when they made enough tunnels underneath.
I believe you are confusing groundhogs with prairie dogs. You're
unlikely to find more than a half dozen or so groundhogs in one
burrow. Note that around this time of the year the females will be
giving birth, so if you trap and relocate the mother, you may be
killing the young in the burrow.
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