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[Rick-o]

...Groundhogs!! They're everywhere this year and are taking over my 112 year old barn! :argh:

While we've had them around my commercial property for years, they are becoming a nuisance. Today, I was in the old block barn loading up a 2 gallon sprayer with insecticide to spray the pole barn, (more pests, spiders out of control) I heard a noise as I was sitting quietly waiting for the insecticide packets to dissolve. After a minute or so out walks three baby 'hogs nosing around just by my feet. They're cute little chits, but very destructive. They have GOT to go.

I'm open to suggestions. Get a live trap and release a few miles away in the wilderness? Go postal and whack every 'hog that comes within range, poison the varmints, or what? (your suggestion here). Maybe there is some kind of repellent that would discourage them from hanging out inside the barn?

Thinking about the live trap deal, (not really into whacking the pests) but I think the DNR says no to releasing them on state land.

I have no problem with the 'hogs out back by the swamp who seem to live in the woodpile, but I want them out of the barn posthaste.

BTW, are groundhogs good in a stew? :devil:

[freeradical]

Get a .223 varmint rifle.

[rgG]

I have moles. Any ideas how to get rid of them?

[Rick-o]

freeradical wrote:
Get a .223 varmint rifle.

You sound like my Pop.

No way I want to shoot up the barn. Too many cars, cycles, and other toys stored in there.

[TheTominator]

rgG wrote:
I have moles. Any ideas how to get rid of them?

Dermatologist?

[ztirffritz]

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[Sam3]

I'm a live trap kind of person, I'm not into killing creatures unless I absolutely have to. Call your states extension service and ask them for advice, they would know whether live trapping will work and how far away they critters need to be let go for them not to find you again.

If I have to kill, I'll do the quickest execution method that there is, for mice it's whacking them. I really don't like poisoning, I don't want to think how they are suffering while their insides melt and they bleed out. Drowning seems pretty cruel as well, and getting their drowned carcasses out of the water is no fun. I guess for groundhogs I'd opt to shoot them if needed, it's a fairly quick, non-suffering death.

[Forrest]

I bet a dog would do a fine job chasing away those ground hogs.

[rgG]

TheTominator wrote:
[quote=rgG]
I have moles. Any ideas how to get rid of them?

Dermatologist?
Ha ha. Yeah, I thought about that, after I posted.

The ground burrowing kind, not the bump on your face kind.

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Call Bill Murray.....