On Jun 23, 11:43*am, wrote:
On Jun 23, 7:42*am, rangerssuck wrote:





On Jun 22, 8:21*pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:

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On Jun 22, 7:07 pm, " wrote:

I had almost the same experience, but worse. I came home from a job at
2:00AM and found the trap that I had set for a woodchuck occupied by a
skunk.

Skunk instead of groundhog happened to us twice already. In fact, we
keep an old plastic shower curtain handy for whenever that happens.
They tend to get "goofy" in the presence of a walking shower curtain
that eventually comes to rest over the trap. The last one took five
minutes before leaving the trap after it was opened. When it finally
came out we had to chase it away. It didn't want to leave and this was
in broad daylight.

On Jun 22, 4:21 pm, rangerssuck wrote:

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The thing to remember (and the thing I forgot) is that groundhogs/
woodchucks only come out to play during the day, and skunks (almost)
only at night. Actually, if you see a skunk in the daytime, there's a
good chance it's rabid.

Therefore, don't leave your traps set at night.

Good point, but the groundhogs are up early, particularly in the summer.
Your chances of catching one are much greater, in my experience, just after
dawn and around dusk.

That's probably more true in the suburbs, where Iggy lives, and where
they're going to avoid daytime activity.

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I, too, live in the suburbs. I see groundhogs all times of day. The
first time I encountered one in my yard, it was happily munching on
the grass, which was OK by me. It was out there for hours. I thought,
at the time, you could shove a broomstick up this critter's butt and
use it as a lawnmower, like on the Flintstones.

Later it started munching on the garden, and I was less amused. I read
a lot, and took the advice of some. These guys supposedly don't like
mothballs, and don't like dried blood (fertilizer from the garden
store). So, I put a border of mothballs around the garden and
sprinkled dried blood on the foliage. I swear, that while the *******
was sitting on the mothballs munching on the leaves, I heard him say,
"Could you please pass the blood?"

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About the only thing that discourages them from garden raiding is an
electric fence and that only while they burrow under it. *Does keep
the coons out of the sweet corn, though. *Groundhogs will chew every
thing down to the dirt, just like a prairie dog.

Stan

A smart dog makes short work of them. I had one, a former stray, that
would watch quietly with one eye barely open until they snuck past,
then leap and land teeth-first on their neck. They can't turn to fight
while running away at full speed. He was death on cats, too, and I had
to toss them out onto the side of the road to cover for him.

jsw