SteveB wrote:
> "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?
Some people don't like killing things, even rodents, others don't
mind, others enjoy it. I have no idea where the OP falls on that
spectrum. Given that he's relocated one already my guess is that he'd
rather not kill them if he could avoid it.
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