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[historicalarms]

Not allowed to have chain fed turret guns with wifi I can run from anywhere

 

[Susquatch]

Never had a problem with a farmer letting me hunt either on their land!

You will around here. A big farm here is 100 acres. That's just a garden in the prairies.

 

[slow-poke]

We have a ground hog under our shed again. They seem somewhat benign in our garden, somewhat not completely. She usually has 3 little ones. Then Mrs. Fox comes along and shortly after Mrs. Ground hog and the little ones are no more and the fox takes up residence, usually with 3 or so little ones of her own. Incredible cute. Mommy fox just one eyed sleeps on the lawn while the little ones play for hours, getting up once and a while to check on them and sometimes leaving to catch a squirrel which doesn't take her long.

 

[Susquatch]

and sometimes leaving to catch a squirrel which doesn't take her long.

I think that's wonderful!

I wish that would happen here. It's a perfect destiny for the problem critters in my opinion, and a great way to control the thousands of squirrels we have too.

But we have a huge forest with lots of better places for foxes and coyotes to live. They are there and we see them from time to time, but not like yours, nor nearly as effective on the squirrels and ground hogs.

Great story! So glad you shared!

 

[Dan Dubeau]

Those following from the beginning will find this amusing...




It really IS groundhog day around here.....same club, same bend....all fixed up and ready to go again.

 

[Dan Dubeau]

That is the face of someone that doesn't look too happy they were burried alive.....

I've got some time today before golf this afternoon to hopefully setup a meeting between us....

This entire plot sounds familiar.......

 

[Dan Dubeau]

Life lesson #2307. If at any point you suspect you have a skunk problem, and set a live trap to deal with said skunk problem and a Groundhog appears, and convinces you that it was a groundhog problem, you should still expect to see a skunk in said live trap..... On a plus note. Looks like both problems solved as my groundhog appears to have moved on too. Those loose ends wrapped up, I finally got to head into the barn and deal with the racoon mess from last fall......

But first, another hurdle to get over. Nature does not want me in here apparently.....

Not what I had in my to do list for tonight, but it was a big job that needed done, and now I can chip away at getting my wood tools setup again into a working shop over the summer.

 

[Susquatch]

But first, another hurdle to get over. Nature does not want me in here apparently.....

I usually move them. Skewer them with a sturdy enough branch, carve them off with a sheet of aluminium on a long pole, and then relocate.

This can he done in one go, but it's infinitely easier if done over several days. Day 1 - skewer. Day 2 - release one side. Day 3 - release another side. Day 4 - relocate.

When winter comes, I often relocate them inside. Together with wasp sounds on a small speaker, they make for great entertainment.

@Dabbler didn't blink an eye.

 

[Dabbler]

@Dabbler didn't blink an eye.

I'm inured to it. I have a few nests in my garage, so I know the drill.

 

[Tom O]

The last wasp infestation I had was in the roof of a dog house I wrapped it in plastic then stuck in the tube on the wasp poison and emptied the can.

 

[JustaDB]

I usually move them.

I'm not nearly as benevolent...

 

[Susquatch]

I'm not nearly as benevolent...

Neither is my bride. I've been known to sleep with one eye open.

 

[Dan Dubeau]

I usually spray after dark, but by the time I got in there and seen this one I'd grown very tired of the multi day pest quests I've been on lately..... so I just jabbed a rake in the side of it and hauled it outside to dispose of. I had zero patience for jacking around and dragging this out for any longer at this point. Only one solitary very lethargic wasp came out. I would have thought it too late to still be hibernating? I wasn't really expecting any, as I figured this one was too big to have been from this year already.

There are a couple smaller ones in the back, but it'll take another weekend or so before I can excavate enough junk to get to them......maybe I might even get back to some machining and fabricating stuff........who knows.....