"Kate Gilbert" wrote in message
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We have something digging holes. ( big ones , like a big dog might ) It
digs all over the yard and garden. Just here and there. Even has started
in the flower beds now. LAst night it dug so deep around a telephone pole,
He could dig up out of the ground , at this rate. We live in south Texas.
A neighbor said, he had a similar problem last year . It was an armadillo.
His dog got it, and he shot another. We have never seen one around.
Really, seen nothing that could dig , like this. I first thought a coyote
maybe. But have decided that wouldn't be likely. This darn thing has
started to visit almost every night. My husband thinks he'll try to sit
outside and shoot it. I don't want an armadillo shot. There aren't many
anymore as it is. Does anyone have any idea what we are dealing with? Can
any of you suggest a way we might trap it? Are maybe ( hopefully )
discourage it ? I have tried sprinkling red pepper and mothballs. I really
think it ate the mothballs. They disappeared in a day are two. No rain ,
in the meanwhile.



You might check out the possibility that wild pigs might be doing it. Here
in East Texas, they are so bad that they will almost destroy a yard or even
pastures. The first time we saw their digging, a couple of hundred of yards
from our house, we thought a group of people had been digging with shovels.
It's fairly easy to tell, you can see their tracks in moist soil. We have
lots of armadillos and they tend to make rather small holes, about the size
of your fist.