On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:57:02 -0400, "donald girod"
wrote:

| As long as you don't intend to raise vegetables you'll be fine. But they
| will raise total hell with a garden. Tomatoes, green peppers, and potatoes
| seem to be ignored, but green beans, peas, and the like will simply
| disappear without a trace. If you have a dog, he will probably keep them at
| bay.
|
| They don't seem to destroy flowers as badly as vegetables.

Well, our experience is that they pick and choose. Some of our flowers
they just mow down. Some they ignore. They seem to like the tender
annuals better than perennials.

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| The other danger is that they will make burrows where people walk. It is
| perfectly possible to break a leg stepping into a chuckhole.
|
| But if they aren't bothering you, don't bother them either. They can be
| trapped in a live trap with some success but then you have the dilemma of
| what to do with the trapped animal.
|
| "frank at zk3.dec.com" "frank at zk3.dec.com" wrote in message
| ...
| Well in my case it's a family of groundhogs (big ones too) living under
| the garden shed, ohmaybe 25 yards from the house. As far as I can tell,
| they aren't bothering anything-- I don't see signs of lawn damage or
| anything. Presumably they forage in the woods out back. However, I
| just bought the house and haven't moved in yet, so haven't really been
| around to observe them.
|
| Is there any reason I should be concerned? Otherwise I'll just let 'em
| be.
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