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re: How to get rid of a groundhog
Posted on 9/15/23 at 4:57 pm to deltaland
Posted on 9/15/23 at 4:57 pm to deltaland
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The idea of a grown man running scared from a little groundhog has me cracking up. A swift kick with steel toe boots would make mr groundhog get the point
Well, a groundhog weighs up to 15 pounds, they run up to 8 mph almost instantly reaching top speed and have powerful legs and claws. That man we saw getting chased by one the moment he opened the trap was lucky he didn't get bit or even nicked by it's claws. Either would mean he would need to start rabies shots. He was smart enough and quick enough to bolt away from the attacking groundhog who chased the man around his truck before running off.
Aside from rabies, a bite or a scratch from a scared groundhog also carries the risk of infection or diseases. This includes a rare disease called tularemia, which can cause severe, flu-like symptoms.
So is a grown man going to kick a scared groundhog's butt in a face to face fight. Yes, very easily. Is a groundhog still dangerous? Feel free to try to kick a scared groundhog coming at you from several feet away from the end of a cage. If you miss and the groundhog bites or claws you, have fun getting rabies shots or waiting up to 8 weeks to see if you start developing rabies.
I think your odds of kicking an attacking groundhog without getting bit or scratched are pretty good. However, here's an old news story of a man fleeing from a groundhog. The trained animal control officer who attempts to catch it also gets chased and nicked by the groundhog and then he has to get rabies shots.
So would it really be worth it to you to try and kick an attacking scared groundhog or would it really be better to just jump out of the way and keep away from it?
Groundhog Attacks Man and Animal Control Officer
This post was edited on 9/15/23 at 6:15 pm
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Posted on 9/15/23 at 9:01 pm to 98eagle
Gonna hijack your thread for a second. sorry.
One of my neighbors who farms walked into his shop building one day and his neighbor was sitting in a chair in the middle of the shop with a crowbar in his hand and a dead groundhog by his feet. He said you ain’t going to believe what happened I walked in and this damn groundhog came running right at me. Luckily you had a crowbar lying on the table and I was able to grab it and beat his brains out. He said the damn thing must have rabies or something charging me like that. The shop owner broke it to him that that was his pet groundhog.
He had raised that thing from a baby and it would run up to you and roll over wanting you to rub its belly.
One of my neighbors who farms walked into his shop building one day and his neighbor was sitting in a chair in the middle of the shop with a crowbar in his hand and a dead groundhog by his feet. He said you ain’t going to believe what happened I walked in and this damn groundhog came running right at me. Luckily you had a crowbar lying on the table and I was able to grab it and beat his brains out. He said the damn thing must have rabies or something charging me like that. The shop owner broke it to him that that was his pet groundhog.
He had raised that thing from a baby and it would run up to you and roll over wanting you to rub its belly.
Posted on 9/16/23 at 2:17 am to 98eagle
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Aside from rabies, a bite or a scratch from a scared groundhog also carries the risk of infection or diseases. This includes a rare disease called tularemia, which can cause severe, flu-like symptoms.
You might want to let your wife handle this vicious creature for you.
Just trap it and release with the trap on the ground and you on the tailgate of the truck.
Posted on 9/16/23 at 5:29 am to 98eagle
My grandfather had traps set up where they were tunneling. Not release traps either.
Posted on 9/16/23 at 6:10 am to 98eagle
I would tame him and name him Tanden.
Posted on 9/16/23 at 6:27 am to 98eagle
Just shoot the damn thing.
Posted on 9/16/23 at 7:01 am to 98eagle
45-70 hollow point
Won’t be nothing left to haul off.
Works Great on armadillos for sure.
Won’t be nothing left to haul off.
Works Great on armadillos for sure.
Posted on 9/16/23 at 9:55 am to 98eagle
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Here's a picture of him hovered over the red peppers.
Mexican groundhog. Kind of rare...
Posted on 9/16/23 at 10:51 am to BFIV
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Mexican groundhog. Kind of rare...
I'm live trapping him and deporting him. He's already using my cinder blocks as lawn furniture and discarding the shells in his cinderblock trash can. He is still eating nuts and red pepper.
This post was edited on 9/16/23 at 11:23 am
Posted on 9/16/23 at 5:25 pm to 98eagle
I kinda wish we had them.
Posted on 9/16/23 at 8:40 pm to AlxTgr
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I think a live trap MIGHT be the best
Once you get it the trap, likely it will be very mad. You will need to know how to get the trap open using some heavy wire or something. Practice how to get the trap open without touching it with your hands. Do not put your hands on the trap to get it open with a mad animal inside.
Bring your .22, you may have to use it to get it out of the trap.
Posted on 9/16/23 at 9:58 pm to gerald65
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gerald65
I definitely appreciate your advice and someone else who advised for me to be on a truck tailgate and have the cage open to the ground so when the groundhog comes out it will be on the ground and I will be on the truck.
I'll definitely practice picking up the trap, loading it in the truck bed and releasing the groundhog so it is on the ground when it comes out. I'll probably devise a way to move the trap onto and off of the truck without touching it with my hands, and then with the trap on the ground and me in the truck with the truck bed closed, I'll probably have some pole with a hook or some other way to reach over and unlatch and open the trap from above. No way the groundhog can get in the truck from the ground.
My groundhog is a bigger one and I already saw a big one chase a man around his truck and it was very angry and fairly fast.
I'll be very careful and plan it out. Some folks respect them a lot less than I do, but I would rather be safe than sorry. I also don't want to kill it if I can avoid that.
This post was edited on 9/16/23 at 10:15 pm
Posted on 9/16/23 at 10:14 pm to 98eagle
That thing doesn’t have a care in the world.
Posted on 9/16/23 at 10:22 pm to dirtsandwich
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That thing doesn’t have a care in the world.
He is actually pretty cool and acts like a little man. I just can't let it stay as I will probably have groundhogs from now on under my shed. We have racoons, armadillos, skunks and possums on our property occasionally. The groundhog seems to have run these other ones off. I try to run them off too except the possums. I'm concerned the groundhog might eventually get in a fight with a rabid coon and then it will really be dangerous to let be around, plus it's already dug an extra hole under my sidewalk that I have to fill.
Posted on 9/16/23 at 10:54 pm to 98eagle
ngl, kinda wish I had a groundhog buddy. I'd buy him all the hot peppers he could handle.
Holes in the dirt aren't that hard to fill. Good friend positions are very hard to fill.
Holes in the dirt aren't that hard to fill. Good friend positions are very hard to fill.
Posted on 9/17/23 at 8:17 am to 98eagle
Put him in your truck and drive him off the cliff into a quarry.
You can let him drive, but make sure he doesn’t drive angry.
You can let him drive, but make sure he doesn’t drive angry.
Posted on 9/17/23 at 10:14 am to 98eagle
Put on welding gloves to handle the trap with an animal in it. If u don't have any gloves, I would just give him 20 grain lead to the head
Posted on 9/17/23 at 12:40 pm to 98eagle
quote:Forget “humanely” and pop his arse with a .22
Does anyone know another way to humanely get them to move?
Posted on 9/17/23 at 7:56 pm to Quatrepot
Add some onions to hot pepper mix and preseason, fatten up, cold snap, sauce piquant and profit?
Posted on 9/17/23 at 9:12 pm to highcotton2
quote:Aw man that’s fricked up.
The shop owner broke it to him that that was his pet groundhog. He had raised that thing from a baby and it would run up to you and roll over wanting you to rub its belly.
This post was edited on 9/17/23 at 9:17 pm
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