by Omelet <ompomelet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
May 15, 2008 at 10:11 AM
In article <g0f2a402psk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
"J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> SteveB wrote:
> > "General Schvantzkopf" <schvantzkopf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> > news:a5adndv3vunJILTVnZ2dnUVZ_qbinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> 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.
>
> --
Prairie dogs are good for long range marksman****p practice. ;-)
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