woodchuck under garage

[Anonymous Poster]

Victor Conibear Trap
Just set it up outside the chuckhole, and stake it down good.
If you leave that cute little rodent alone, you'll have structural damage soon enough. Even worse, he'll invite friends over to dig next to his place and turn it into a woodchuck subdivision.
Or, you can shoot him.
Either way, when you fill the hole back in, post mortem, stuff some wadded up barb wire into the hole, that will discourage future occupants, and they will come.

 

[Drago]

I'm not a "hunter." But when it comes to woodchucks I've found shooting them was the only way. I tried everything to get my first nemisis to move away from our house - cat litter, dog droppings, gas, filling in the holes with anything I could find, etc. You know what, each time I thought I solved the problem...but he/she always came back.

Hopefully you'll have better luck getting him to move.

 

[beenthere]

Those gas fumes would be ignited by the fuse on the firecracker so fast there would be no time to replace that rock. I would suggest not trying this trick in the form it was presented. One lighting the firecracker might end up being the cork, rather than the woodchuck. And the smell of singed hair and eyebrows is not pleasant.
I also wouldn't permit a woodchuck to burrow and undermine my concrete pad. Such pads are not designed to bridge a gap and who knows how big a "room" the woodchuck would want to make under the concrete.

 

[Trev]

<font color=blue>...i made my 15 year old german shepherd come with me...</font color=blue>

Crawdad,

Forget the German-speaking canine.. what you need is a cat! See attached. They'll chase anything that moves. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Bob

p.s. Hope the attachment works.. never tried this before.. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[rancar]

Hey Bob....

I've got a white cat just like this and he doesn't do anything with the dear problem I have. He just sits there and looks at them while the dear eat my landscaping plants. What's the trick to get these cats into hunting mode? /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Bob

 

[Von]

Simple,..... Don't feed it!/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[Trev]

<font color=blue>I've got a white cat just like this and he doesn't do anything with the dear problem I have. He just sits there and looks at them while the dear eat my landscaping plants.</font color=blue>

I think I see your problem. You want the cat to chase the deer. The basic rule of getting a cat to do anything is that you have to desperately want the cat to NOT do it. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[TerryinMD]

crawdad,

You must take of that critter as soon as possible. You will end up with many more burrows as they will have multiple homes for foraging.

Go to you local ag center and get some groundhog fuses. They create a noxious gas that kills them quickly. You need to make sure that you find all of the openings. Plug all of them except for one. Light off the fuse, dump it in, cover the hole to keep in the gas. Voila - no more critter. Oh, I forgot. Make sure he's in his hole before you start. Kinda important. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Another way is to use a Havaheart trap. This was mentioned by Cowboydoc. I only use this method when the critter is under my garden shed. It has a wooden floor and using a fuse is impracticle. I tried and it didn't work. /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif Have you ever heard a groundhog cough. Kinda funny.

Terry

 

[crawdad]

thanks for all the replys,

trev, the cat pic made me LOL

after the dog and i were hanging out by his hole i filled it in while i knew he was in there,the next morning he had dug himself out, i filled in the hole again and i have not seen him since. i dont see any other holes around so hopefully he moved on. knowing my luck hell be like that crazy gopher in "caddyshack".

ill keep all ya posted.
thanks
scott