Re: Ground Hogs Was Re Traps
- Subject: Re: Ground Hogs Was Re Traps
- From: "Merri Morgan" m*@wcgnet.net
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:56:46 -0400
My two dogs are hell on groundhogs, and I hardly know how I could survive in
the country without them. But it took them awhile before they got the
groundhog killing technique down.
Merri Morgan
Zone 5b, WV
----- Original Message -----
From: <Meum71@aol.com>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: Ground Hogs Was Re Traps
> In a message dated 7/31/2003 7:08:26 AM Central Daylight Time,
> Blee811@aol.com writes:
>
> > >The ground hogs are driving both Monica and I crazy.
> > >how can we get rid of them?
> >
>
> They tend to use the same 'paths' each day to get to their food sources-so
a
> "Live-trap" works if placed on one of their 'trails'. Bait the trap with
> stinging nettle or bean plants.
>
> After capture, kill the animal and bury. Never release (any) a live
trapped
> animal in a new location.
>
> In late spring and early summer, woodchucks are on the move to locate new
> dens and fresh food (they have eaten every thing they can in the old area)
.
> They move as family units with one adult and a few larger 'pups'. In the
new
> location they have another set of 'pups'.
>
> I can tolerate deer, but am violently intolerant of wood chucks. They are
> just eating machines, and there is never a cougar or a wolf around when
you need
> one to take care of the "excess" woodchucks. Ones to many around my
plants
> but a few eating on the side of the highway is...I guess...- OK.
>
> Paul
>
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