"J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> SteveB wrote:
>> "General Schvantzkopf" <schvantzkopf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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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> --John
I distinctly remember seeing it in a movie, so it must be true. As for
killing all the rodents in that burrow, isn't that the point?
Steve
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