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Re: woodchucks & other critters

At 08:54 PM 6/21/97 -0500, you wrote:
>-- [ From: nonayobusiness * EMC.Ver #2.3 ] --
>
>HEY EVERYBODY!  HAPPY  SUMMER!!!!  JUST THINK, THE DAYS ARE GETTING SHORTER
>NOW!!!
>
>	So far I've relocated 5 woodchucks.  There's at least one more, ENORMOUS
>one, that refuses to get caught, but is still hanging around, defoliating
>my yard.  I have the biggest size trap and I think he is big enough to hold
>the door open  with his rear end, so he can push out when the door comes
>down on him. I bait the trap with sliced cabbage, and I leave it in there
>overnight.  The only other things caught in there were a squirrel, and a
>SKUNK!  I draped myself in plastic to go and let him out, but he was much
>calmer about the whole thing  than I and was kind enough not to spray.
>Somebody said that they make the trap low enough to keep them from being
>able to lift their tails and commit the dastardly deed. I don't know why I
>suddenly thought of this, but 2 years ago, when we had that big drought,
>all my plants were outside and these squirrels came and ate back all my
>xmas cacti and my orchids.  I guess they were juicy from  my regular
>watering habits.  Has anybody else ever experienced this kind of annoying
>thing?  Lauren  B. in muggy Z.6
>
Last summer while watering my orchids outdoors I found one that was
decidedly wobbly in its pot.  There was a huge toad which had excavated all
the bark and taken up residence.

The other critters I don't know how to deal with are the two-legged ones
which persist in walking through my perennial border which runs from the
house out to the sidewalk.  It seem to be too much trouble to walk 25 feet
out to the street and around it when making deliveries to the neighbors. Aargh.
Ruth Zavitz                                     
rzavitz@execulink.com                            
Freelance Writer & Gardening Consultant, zone 6 Southern Ontario
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