RE: Will Warrior Kil Groundhog?

Mark,
Here's what you do.  Get a box (preferably wooden, but heavy cardboard will
do), and a stick about one foot long.  Tie a long sturdy string around the
stick.  Prop up one end of the box with the stick.  Put your bait under the
box, well towards the back end of the box opposite the stick.  Carefully
lay out the string from the stick to a place where you can hide.  Make the
string just tight enough so that a quick tug will pull out the stick and
the box will fall over your groundhog victim.  Now with all the paraphanlia
in place, go hide in the pre-determined spot and wait for the groundhog to
come for the bait, and pull on the string at the appropriate time.  This
will save you the cost of buying a live trap and the trouble of borrowing one.

Kurt Frederick
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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At 10:01 AM 7/25/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Call the city animal control they may bring out a trap and dispose of the
>animal also. Or you could take up archery.
>Steve
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
>Mark K
>Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:27 PM
>To: pumpkins@hort.net
>Subject: RE: Will Warrior Kil Groundhog?
>
>Are they known to pass by/thru AG's to get to melon leaves? Or sunflower
>leaves? Sunflowers are still young, no heads. It would be different if I had
>melons they were after but I don't & probably NOW WON'T. What's the matter
>with the sugar snap peas, too sweet? Got lots of them I can spare. 
>
>Bill, I assume you're talking about dusting the pumpkin vine tips, not the
>decapitated melon vines & sunflower leaves? As future protection? It's
>passing up AG tips inches away to travel 15ft to melon leaves, or 20ft the
>other direction past a parked car to get to my biggest sunflower leaves by
>the other fence. I wondered why the sunflowers were dying off along that
>fence, they looked like they were decimated by a swarm of bugs when about 6"
>tall. Even now, some are barely left & still 6" tall & nearly leafless &
>others are almost 2ft. I actually have some gray/white sunflower seeds I
>harvested from plants last year from Rocky's seed sitting on a barrel 3ft
>away from the melon plants but maybe they are up too high.
>
>Don't want to sound cruel but too broke for a trap, can't I just whack it
>with a shovel or a garden fork or "exhaust" it? Are there any less expensive
>"termination" devices or methods than a live trap? What about stuff for rats
>or mice, D-CON, etc, and are any garden chemicals toxic or fatal to them?
>Also are they sensitive to yardlights at night or maybe music? And what veg
>plants/flowers/other are in its diet? And what would make him go in a trap
>if he has a smorgasbord in front of him?
>
>Thanks Bill & Steve; Ray, I'm local, in the Lovejoy area, 2 minutes from the
>Clinton Market.
>
>Mark
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
>WILLYRAIN@aol.com
>Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 9:55 PM
>To: pumpkins@hort.net
>Subject: Re: Will Warrior Kil Groundhog?
>
>
>In a message dated 7/23/2003 8:57:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>korney19@adelphia.net writes:
>
>> I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF A BIG CITY, NO WILDLIFE NEARBY (just squirrels.) 
>> Gun was a thought but am about 8 houses from a police station. Any 
>> ideas? Thanks for any help.
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>
>Hey Mark
>Ray at P and P seed was right. It is best to trap them. (You can release
>them 
>way far away). The thing that I use for that problem is lightly dust the
>ends 
>of the vines with Bone meal. I use it on the pumpkins too sometimes when
>they 
>find a new souce of dinner, but only lightly (It can be a little hot on the 
>skin of a pumpkin if you put it on too heavy). 
>Good Luck 
>Bill Garvey
>
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