Re: Ground hog devastation
When I caught the other animals, it was overnight and I found them in
the morning. At that time, there was no new damage to the pumpkin plant.
I set the trap with a new apple and left for work. When I returned
in the afternoon, more vines are destroyed and the trap is still
intact. This happened twice. It's not a matter of the trap being
occupied, he is simply not going for it. I have read these are day
creatures, but I leave the trap set overnight just in case.
I think I may have come close today; it has been in the 90's so I put a
small styrofoam bowl of water inside the trap this morning. this
evening, the trap was on it's side, sprung, but no critter in it.
It's set with brocolli now.
Bryan
LIpumpkin@aol.com wrote on 6/29/2001 11:56:46 AM:
>
><HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated
>6/29/2001 10:33:31 AM Pacific Daylight Time, <BR>mrbruiser@cox.rr.com
>writes: <BR>
><BR>
><BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid;
>MARGIN- LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">How ripe? Do
>you mean "almost rotten" kind of ripe?? I have been using
><BR>what I would consider ripe apples and have so far caught a skunk
>and a <BR>raccoon. <BR> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
><BR>
><BR>Well, if the skunk got there first, or the raccoon got there
>first, then the <BR>groundhog wouldn't be caught....maybe once all the
>raccoons and skunks are <BR>caught you'll get the groundhog? Perhaps
>your timing is off....raccoons and <BR>skunks are primarily nocturnal
>(I think)...groundhogs are around all <BR>day......when do you bait?
>I'd bait in the early early morning (apples) and <BR>pull it at night
>or add tuna at night if my nieghbor's cat was pissing me <BR>off.......
>. ........G</FONT></HTML>
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