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I don't think this is the big fat woodchuck that has been eating my perennials the past several years, but at least it's one of them!!!

I was outside potting up one of Jimmy's cannas before the storm hit this afternoon,
when I heard a loud clang! What the @#$% was that?!? Ohhhhhhhhhh - justice has been served!!!





It's a Havaheart trap, so no harm is/will be done. Don will transport him just up the mountain on the other side where there is a really nice river that runs through and lots of WILD vegetation for it to eat. It's also where he moved a mom and 3 babies to a few years ago, so he'll have company.

oh, that's sweet, then they can get together and make thousands of MORE babies, and one day they will, due to overcrowding, band together in a little woodchuck wagon train and set off over the mountain to find the land of their father, who has always spoken so fondly of all the delicious plants he had...."back in the day" bwa ha ha hahaha

Thanks a whole lot for that, Patunia!

Cindy - he'll be on the next flight out, K???

And I'll trade you him for all the perennial plants that have been eaten to get him to this size, double K???

But how much wood can he chuck?

He could chuck as much wood as he wants - just leave my perennials alone!!!

Don is dropping him off in the mountains right now as I type!

Shoulda kept him......he coulda saved you a LOT of effort cutting firewood this winter.

yea but you would not want the chain saw to get messed up for lack of use---

GOT ONE AGAIN!!!

Yep - I was doing the dishes when I looked out the window and saw a woodchuck IN the trap eating the broccoli but the trap had not sprung!!! WHAT?!? Well when he tried to back out it did!

GOTCHA!


It's another JR. sized one, that Don took to join his sibling up in the mountains.

GOTTA GET THE FATHER! GOTTA GET THE FATHER! GOTTA GET THE FATHER!!!

2 down ~ How many more to go????

good job!! so far you have got 2 for 2---
I am so happy for you---

.....but what about the "father"????

Pssssssssst - did you two see my last line in the post???

GOTTA GET THE FATHER! GOTTA GET THE FATHER! GOTTA GET THE FATHER!!!

don't forget the mother!

Haven't seen the mother this time around, unless she is one of the smaller ones we've gotten. You can definitely tell the father - he is sooooooooooo big and FAT!!! From eating all my perennials!!!

yes as a matter of fact I did--that is why I ask that question.--i am guessing you do not 'get' my livingston humor.


FYI: my SIL's are both from my home town of Livingston--and I see similarites between the 3 of us in things like this.

Oh my---this is ever so "NOT GOOD"

OOOOOOOOOOOPS - missed that Carol - sorry!

YEA!!! Got another one this evening! I am on a mission - they have eaten my brand new echinacea sundown!!! Stripped it of all its leaves and only left 3 buds standing - barely!!! Not to mention all the other plants they have either stripped or broken the stems off of!

There is at least another junior and still the big fat father!!!

GET THE FATHER! GET THE FATHER! GET THE FATHER!!!

good luck lynne

Go, Don, Go!!!!!!!

I forgot that I took a picture with my extra zoom lense when I saw the 2 juniors coming out of the hole under the ramp to the shed, and right by the trap! They wouldn't go in when I was out there, but apparently one did shortly after!



Don't they both look like they want to go right in there?!?

yes they do--wouldn't it have been great if they both had of?//

perhaps the second one will follow suit soon.

HEH HEH HEH!!!
BROCCOLI IS MY NEW BEST FRIEND!!!

Meet UNLUCKY #4!!! Found him in the trap this morning thankfully!
He will go meet up with the rest of his family in the mountains tonight.




[color:#000000] GET THE FATHER! GET THE FATHER! GET THE FATHER!!! [/color]

Holy cow Lynne, you have a whole community of them living in your yard!

I'm glad you keep catching them! They are pretty out in nature, but not when they are your backyard eating everything.

What was he baited with? I have never heard of anyone have luck trapping these guys before.

Whoops, just realized there was more then one page to the thread, and answered my own question. Good Going!

Hiya Mike!

That is why I said that broccoli is my new best friend 4 posts up from here!
It really has worked so much better than any of the other foods we've tried over the years. Too bad it's so expensive, but on the other hand... so were all the plants they ate and destroye!!!

Mashed potatoes can be your friend......if you dare to be stupid.

Just how many of those things do you HAVE in your yard!? WOW! No wonder you have no perennials left! You're feeding like 20 of them!

Good luck!!!

Thanks Val!

There is at least 1 more junior sized one, and the BIG FAT FATHER who will just NOT get into the trap!!!
Maybe he's too fat to fit?

The other day, someone ate the entire large piece of broccoli and GOT AWAY!!!
Don has to set the trap again, but has been busy with one thing after another breaking in our house!!!

By the way... that BIG FAT FATHER has at least 2 broods each summer!

Bar-be-cued Groundhog at Lynne's House.

'Fraid not, Thorny - most of them are having the time of their lives up in the mountains now, except for the last 2 who have been avoiding the trap.

...you are very humane. This is a lot of trouble for groundhogs.

We once had a (seemingly rabid) opossum turn up on our fence in the middle of the St. Louis suburb we lived in a few years ago. We had let Thor out very, very early only to hear him barking (which he only does when something is wrong) furiously and LOUDLY... Although in disbelief it could be a opossum in town like that... we had to do something about it. John had plenty of ideas how to take care of a critter OUT of town... but we were in a suburb - a subdevision no less! But the thing was about to bite our siberian... and the neighbor, on the other side of the fence, had a small long haired dachshund we were also afraid for. It took several minutes to catch our dog, but after that the sickly icky thing....um... met it's demise. Oh did I mention our neighbors, the ones with the dachshund, decided to come out and watch the "show" from thier deck with thier coffees! What a morning!

I can't imagine how your furry friends would be avoiding the trap, yet getting the bait! They're extra sneaky!!! Do you have a dog? LOL

Hey! You could borrow Thor and I can nearly promise you wouldn't have any problems with groundhogs again! ...though you may not have any flowerbeds either... he seems to enjoy sleeping in them.

Again I say - Good Luck!!!

Val - we have had 'possums on our deck eating the catfood that we put out for the feral cat that we feed, a few times over the past few winters. They do come at night, and don't seem to be sick, but they are the ugliest things around!!!

Here is a poor baby racoon that had the misfortune of getting caught in the trap last week. He was crying out for a few hours, before I could get Don on the phone at work to tell me how to open the trap and release him. He scampered off over the rock wall, hopefully to the mountains and not someone else's yard.


And here is UNLUCKY #5 today!!!
He really is unlucky, because he might have been in the trap since yesterday, but since we didn't get home until 11:30 at night and we were exhausted, we didn't check the trap. I noticed him first thing this morning, but he has to wait for Don to get home from work to take him up to the mountains.

Good heavens your a good trapper........

Some of the buggers are so ugly.........