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Originally Posted by DDoug
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Meaning in the ponds?
Do they come out and sun themselves close to the house?
I was thinking more like poisonous snakes and rats.
You know, living in Vermont, we are not wimps....however....we have had our own rodent infestation which lasted for years......with hubby doing the have a heart trap routine daily........groundhogs/woodchucks are A LOT BIGGER than any Florida rat species. These were ornery critters who had an entire apartment complex burrowed under our patio shrubs on a hillside. They would come out and sun themselves right in view of my kitchen atrium doors. I worried when our first set of grandbabies would visit and want to crawl around on the grass.....
We finally had backhoes, bulldozer, cat's, etc. excavate and removed all the huge old shrubs and tree stumps, etc......destroying their habitat.....replaced the patio with a trex deck across back of house. Haven't seen any in several years now.
Between you and I, I think that by "feeding them inside the trap" we actually lured all the ones in the neighborhood down to our yard.....not just the ones who lived underground by our house..........they loved apples, tomatoes, peanut butter and when nothing else was available they also ate chocolate chip cookies........they were not fussy. My husband was aware that they could have rabies.......so he would use a long stick and had a string on the cage just in case he caught a skunk.......every night after work he had to make the trip to the "edge of town" to leave them off in a forested area...........in other words, "relocation"......oh, he also covered the trunk of the car with protective material and put a towel over the cage..........as they would GROWL at him.
Finally, after a few years of this, the siege was over.
I just don't want to go through it again........
We even had cousins in New Jersey who told us that a "farmer had told him" that these groundhogs always find their way back.......he thought all of ours were the same one. But I had taken pictures of all them, daily, and they were all different colors, ages, sizes.....and orneriness. It was a huge family and all the neighbor groundhogs/woodchucks as well.