phorbin said:


In article 20080429-105054.703.0@Pat-
Kiewicz.newsgroups.comcast.net,
says...

The adults aren't usually frequent or long-range dispersers. (Probably
because they build elaborate permanent burrows.) It's the young ones
that will do the wandering and (based on my experience) only once a
year. So if you can manage to take out the local residents, you might
expect in the future some occasional new ones, in early summer.
One nice thing about that: Young ones are easier to trap, plus their new
burrows are usually simple and easy to smoke bomb (or whatever).

The adults dig way-station bolt-holes to extend their range. The holes
I've dealt with are usually 5 to 6 feet deep and just a hole.

Yeah, but they're still not like racoons, where there seems to be a never-
ending supply...groundhogs just don't shift around with quite the same
ease and confidence.

Then too, simple bolt-holes offer easy opportunities that the main dens
don't...

--
Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast)

After enlightenment, the laundry.

In article ,
says...
phorbin said:


In article 20080429-105054.703.0@Pat-
Kiewicz.newsgroups.comcast.net,
says...

The adults aren't usually frequent or long-range dispersers. (Probably
because they build elaborate permanent burrows.) It's the young ones
that will do the wandering and (based on my experience) only once a
year. So if you can manage to take out the local residents, you might
expect in the future some occasional new ones, in early summer.
One nice thing about that: Young ones are easier to trap, plus their new
burrows are usually simple and easy to smoke bomb (or whatever).

The adults dig way-station bolt-holes to extend their range. The holes
I've dealt with are usually 5 to 6 feet deep and just a hole.

Yeah, but they're still not like racoons, where there seems to be a never-
ending supply...groundhogs just don't shift around with quite the same
ease and confidence.

I wasn't disagreeing, even if it looks like it. They stick around if you
let them. We had one in the neighbourhood that had a range of two blocks
and bolt holes in every untended spot.

It may still be around, but it doesn't come here any more, since the day
I nearly brained it.

Then too, simple bolt-holes offer easy opportunities that the main dens
don't...

I've chased a number of them to ground.

Recent success with handful of lettuce and some (old) sliced apple.
Breakfast in bed, like. Set trap out in the PM, and by evening next
day, had an enemy combatant bottled up. Fed handful of "baby" carrots
(storebought, hope I didn't poison the poor beast) then relocated to
an uninhabited area 7-8 miles away.

BTW, this thing had dug itself quite a nest under the picture window
(stray kitten used it for a house first year) and it was digging under
the porch. The day it took out three beautiful Mammoth Red Rock
seedlings was the day the relocation warrant got signed.