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Originally Posted by richb9v (Post 1948587)

We now have an armadillo residing in the back yard. Any help in telling what i need to do to get rid of him would be greatly appreciated.

They can have multiple burrows and go weeks between visiting them. Trap and relocate if possible. I tried putting the cats litter in the hole. Didn’t work. I tried chlorine, didn't work. As I had a pool at the time I put muriatic acid in the burrow and that did the trick.

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Originally Posted by HeleneGB (Post 1949157)

Put moth balls under the soil. They will not come back.

Don’t do this. It’s illegal in the state of Florida.

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Originally Posted by richb9v (Post 1948587)

We now have an armadillo residing in the back yard. Any help in telling what i need to do to get rid of him would be greatly appreciated.

We used moth balls in Texas. Just spread them around your yard and in flower beds. It worked for us. Works for skunks too.

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Originally Posted by jimkerr (Post 1949256)

Don’t do this. It’s illegal in the state of Florida.

Regular patrols of Mothball Detector vans around TV!:icon_wink:

Our neighbor used mothballs around its burrow.

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Originally Posted by golfing eagles (Post 1948854)

The northern Georgia border is patrolled by a fleet of pick-up trucks with gun racks, Jack Daniels stickers and confederate flags that hunt armadillos on the road---hence the term "road kill":1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:
But to be serious, according to Wikipedia (yeah, I know), they extend as far north as southern Indiana and Nebraska

I have lived in either Kentucky or Indiana my entire life until moving here last month. I have never seen or heard of an armadillo in those areas.

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Originally Posted by Shadywood (Post 1948901)

Being from Texas, I might be able to help.

First of all, you REALLY want to get rid of him. If he decides to take up residence, he will dig huge tunnels under your foundation. Fortunately, they're the world's easiest critter to trap. You can pick up a trap at Tractor Supply. It's just a cage with a spring-loaded door.

If you look closely at the little pits he digs in your lawn, you can figure out his route. Just lay the cage in the path of his route and throw a little dirt over the entrance. He'll walk right in. They're really dumb.

Then you have to figure out what to do with him. Don't just dump him in the country to become someone else's problem. Take him to a nature preserve or something.

Leprosy? It's mostly an old wives tale. Back in the 30's when starving dust bowl folks were catching them to eat (they called them "Hoover Dogs") there was coincidentally a university study to find another animal on the planet that was susceptible to leprosy. The only other animal they could infect with it was the armadillo. So, naturally, there was a rumor of an escaped lab armadillo with leprosy that made the news and now all armadillos supposedly have leprosy. In fact, they may be disgusting to look at but they're just about the least dangerous wild animal there is, since they have no teeth to speak of, they're nearly immune to rabies, and they don't hang out in sewers or live in colonies.

If all else fails and he won't go into your trap, you can always shoot him with a pellet gun. But you'll have to get up at 3 in the morning to do it.

Not sure what is legal. Not in Florida I put out a have a heart trap to catch squirrels.
OK so now you have caught one. What are you going to do with it? My neighbor used to drown them. I took mine to a park a few miles away and let it go. Not as easy to do as it might seems when you have a terrified wild animal in the trap. In any case by the time I drove home, they all look alike to me but it seems he ran back faster than I could drive.

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Originally Posted by Larchap49 (Post 1949240)

Some people get carried away. Muriatic acid is hydrocloric acid surely it killed your lawn.

Why so much hatred of armadillos? They're part of the local ecosystem.

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Originally Posted by JohnN (Post 1948663)

Armadillos have a great sense of smell and a large part of their brain is dedicated to it, so the answer to how to get rid of armadillos is fairly simple. Make your yard stink!.

He should contact the guy in the other recent thread here who has a wacky dog pooper guy problem on his property and send the wacky pooper guy over to this OP's house. That will satisfy the other OP and send his poopy guy where he is needed and give this OP some needed stink.

They should exchange addresses: https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...ooping-319911/

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Originally Posted by LaneyBeckler (Post 1949391)

Why so much hatred of armadillos? They're part of the local ecosystem.

and taste like chicken once you get past the armor.

Armadillos were used to develop treatments for leprosy at Carville, LA

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Originally Posted by LaneyBeckler (Post 1949391)

Why so much hatred of armadillos? They're part of the local ecosystem.

So are mosquitoes, coral snakes, and giant cockroaches.

T.V. does a pretty good job of controlling the mosquitoes, and so far I haven't seen a snake of any type, much less a poisonous one. Far fewer giant cockroaches than Texas, too

Think we ought to ask them to quit messing with our ecosystem and bring 'em all back?

Opossum on the half shell.

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Originally Posted by Shadywood (Post 1949468)

Re: haven't seen a snake of any type.
Most successful wild life is camouflaged so as not to be seen. I've lost count on how many snakes I've seen. I'm sure I've looked right at many and not seen them. I saw a black piece of hose in my garden. I touched it with my hoe and it got up and left.