Groundhogs have eaten all my brassica, beans, pickles along with my herbs. By leaving them alone they have multiplied and have become a major problem. I shoot them when I can but those monsters are fast.
No way man. I’ve had the same one for 3 years now. I’ve tried blocking the hole that they have running all the way down the road. They dig around the block. Tried smoke bombs, deterrent, garlic powder, ghost pepper flakes, cat fur, cat pee, dog pee, dog poop, dog chasing it, me chasing it, blood meal, beer, fencing under ground, bird netting… it has eaten my garden 4 times over this year, my neighbors as well. Now I’m staking out and waiting for him with Mr. Air Rifle. Hate to do it- but I’ve tried everything.
I hear ya! Tried all of the deterrents that you describe to keep them out of my garden, right down to a 1300 fps pellet rifle. Although it worked amazingly well, I hated spending hours sitting and waiting for them in the morning and evenings taking up my free time. I looked like a military sniper hiding out in the brush in my own yard. I also didn't like shooting them because some of them would run off and die. I hated that. So now I use Dukes Body Traps. They are like the Ronco oven, set it and forget it and check it the next day. To me they are humane because death is within 5 to 30 seconds depending on their size. I have no problem protecting what is mine. The garden is mine, not to mention the time and sweat it took to put it in. And I didn't do it for a groundhog smorgasbord.
I have a groundhog destroying my garden currently for the last month in Missouri. He has eaten all the tops off the carrots, is eating potato leaves and digging in them, tramples all my green onions and bites the tops off, has destroyed a couple pepper and tomato plants, has been eating leeks off my other onions and trampling them too. Has eaten all the vegetation off my Broccoli, ate my only summer savory, he’s a real a’hole! I sprinkled some cayenne pepper around the area tonight because I hear it offends them. Will put up a chicken wire fence soon, this lil effer is not gonna win! Feel like Bill Murray in Caddyshack.
I have the same problem!!!I hate them!!! I have tried everything that this woman has said for two summers. I want them to die!!! I even put chicken wire fence up but they dig under it!! I put a hose in the den that didn’t work. I now am getting a pellet gun. Maybe after being shot in the ass a couple times they will move on!!!!
I have a garden for past 40 years , nothing will stop a ground hog from raiding your garden , fence will not work , only trapping them and relocating them a few miles away . if there is food source they love , they will get it .
Growing on a farm for a market garden, and in town where I live, this year. And, something has already gotten into the tomatoes (growing for production and to start a seed company) often leaving the plants simply cut towards the base inside a fenced area. I think its a groundhog since their is a burrow in the barn. I haven't even listened to all of the video yet and already bought a battery powered radio online to be delivered tomorrow. I'll finish installing an electric fence asap, too, and do what I can to protect my crops since this is to be a portion of my income. Thanks for making this video!
Terrible damage from groundhog burrowing under slab foundation for a mobile home. Cracked the cement slab in half. Loaded the mobile home with house flies. While pushing a running lawn mower, I stepped through a chamber, all the way to my crouch, near emasculation. Little monsters!
Ok, I'm here because I have a family of groundhogs, my husband and I don't mind them, in fact we think they are adorable. The only problem we have is they are starting to dig under my chickens fence lol I didn't know they don't like chickens. They aren't after my chickens, they are after green grass inside my run. Thanks for this, I won't kill them like most people would. I appreciate your share, humane to the animals, it's my priority ♥️
Upstate SC here. We have 3 big dogs that have access to our fenced in over acre back yard. Only a few trees. One is a persimmon and one is a huge mulberry. These trees are a natural part of landscape in our area. Grows wild in a forest across from us. The groundhogs have tunneled under our wrought iron fence and obviously don't mind being around our dogs or people. There are new burrows still popping up. We are going to need to regrade our back yard to repair where tunnels have collapsed and caused trouble with wash out of area. Last year I thought they were cute critters. Now I absolutely hate them. I'm so afraid either a grandchild or one of the dogs will break a leg due to the damage. Not to mention our yard service guys. Nuisance is a hole or two. What it seems we have is a colony. But worst than that it makes no sense when there is pasture land and other open areas just beside our property. Yet...here they are. 2 of my dobermans don't want to go into yard early morning or late afternoon any longer. These are not adorable little fuzzy critters I thought they were. They are mean as snakes and none of the things mentioned here ring true with the ones we have. It is going to cost us a fortune to eradicate and repair. In SC there is no option to catch and release. If you catch them you by law must kill them.
Hi what do you think I should do about my garden? I think my groundhogs are eating my potatoes which grows underground. It isn’t time to harvest but the stem of my veggie was leaning today. How can I install L shape fence if my garden bed is already laid? Any tips would help
!!!!??? Ah huh....you just let those cute things live under your buildings for a few years. Once they have made those buildings dilapidated, tell how cute they are.
they like the tender greens of most plants, bc today my little groundhog friend ate the tops off 3 of my biggest baby sunflowers (no flowers on them but they had their first sets of good leaves and nice healhty stalks) he ( or she) chewed them down to the dirt. :( so sad. They also ate some of my new seedling zucchini plants. (once they get bigger they wont bother with zucchini itself, but they love the leaves when it young. I have tried sprinkling blood meal around which seems work a little bit, but rain will wash that away. i wont harm this critter, its been a love hate relationship for almost 6 yrs now at least. It can just be a little frustrating when you've started thing from seed and worked hard to grow them and along comes chucky and he devourers them before they even have a chance to bloom and grow. I am going to try feeding him every day, as he seems to come out around the same times twice a day looking for food. so maybe if i keep him fed and happy, he will b less inclined to eat my plants. then maybe at some point he will go to just the one area where he will realize this is where he gets food, i can hope anyways. He doesn't seem too afraid of me anymore. so ill put the food down and walk far enough away. and see how he reacts. i dont mind sharing if he would let the stuff actually grow lol
That's what I'm trying to do too, I really hope it works because I know she has baby's, so I am just clipping the leaves that need to be pruned and putting some produce that's over it's expired date for us, so a little soft and then I put that in her litter area by her hole and in the wood pile where she chills. I hope this works.
This should be titled how to struggle to get rid of groundhogs for decades. We’ve shot 24 this spring and summer. $30l in damages so far. Hopefully getting their population under control now.
Thank you. So far the groundhogs in my yard leave tomatoes alone, but a baby slipped thru the gate to eat every kale and other greens in 20 mins. Thanks for compassionate ideas.
I have a groundhog den under the back of my house, and my neighbor keeps feeding them. She thinks she's feeding the cats but the groundhog just sits on there food when she walks away.
The only way to get rid of groundhogs especially in Ohio, is too trap them and relocate them more than 5 miles away from your property. There are no natural predators for groundhogs except for automobiles and people to get rid of them.
No way will I leave it alone! It’s burrowed under my shed and can’t get to the burrow. It has eaten so many of my perineal plants . This is living here for 3 years. I’ve tried ammonia around the opening to my shed where it runs in. This booger is the size of a medium dog! I want him gone! Can’t find anything that works. No one will come to trap it. I’m just at the point of doing anything to get rid of it
Same here and worse, they're digging has compromised the stone foundation of my entire barn! I'm going to trap and get rid of every stinking one of these "cute" beasts!
With the foundation of my home being burrowed under, I bought a havahart trap & made arrangements for an acquaintance to take it. They're from the South & were delighted to have it for a tasty protein meal. I feel better about it than pushing the problem onto neighbors or releasing it where it'll become someone else's problem. Where I live we are so overrun with them that they are even seen outside the largest grocery stores, running around the outside of the building.
I'm at the same place. I just bought a gamo 22 magnum air rifle with a built in silencer so the neighbors won't hear it. I'll shoot it through the window from inside the house so the neighbors don't see a rifle and get scared.
@@markjohnson8824 ...as luck would have it, my groundhog either died over the winter or made a run for it... Hasn't been seen since last fall... Hallelujah! It's my understanding that in the wild they don't live but maybe 4-5 years. Not sure if that true but I'm so glad it's GONE!
She says you cant relocate because they would nt know what to do??? but putting urine and blocking whole supposedly causes them to relocate on their own, How do they know how to relocate in a new area if they cant when you drop them off in the woods.
I hear Napalm is pretty effective. But, seriously, what about certain plants that might be a repellent. There's one plant (don't remember the name at the moment) that Deer don't like, and a farmer put up a video insisting since he "fenced off" an area by planting that, the deer haven't returned. I've heard Marigolds don't smell or taste good to certain pest-animals, and planting those will keep Rabbits I think it was, away. Groundhogs are a HUGE problem where I'm at. Suburban area, ranch type apartments with our own patios and planting area around the front door and windows. The dang things come in and dig a burrow right up against the building, and down/under the sidewalk and patio slab, in the process dregging up a MASSIVE pile of dirt/sand into the garden. That's all being scooped out from under the sidewald and patio slab. So, any PLANTS these things abhor that can be planted where they like to dig?
You can go to a hair cutting place and bring a bag with you and ask them for some hair put it garden flower pots or Hows where groundhogs they don't like human hair . I did not think about pee that not heard that I'm a man I can just go out to the groundhogs how an pee round it for the front yard I can just go in a container an dump it round the how thanks for the idea
Very good video I have a mother groundhog and 3 babies under my shed. The babies are adorable I was worried about the foundation under my shed but I’m hoping they leave on there own soon bc the babies got big really quick.
Last year something tunneled under my shed chewed up the cement foundation to get in had no idea what did it. I bought moth balls and stuffed it in the holes and haven't seen any more damage. I just saw a ground hog this morning in a neighbors driveway so I'm thinking this must have been what was in my shed. My dogs have been digging like crazy in my yard so I think they are smelling it under the ground. They also cornered a raccoon last week the raccoon was on the fence going in to my back yard we had quite the Mexican Standoff with it hissing and acting terrible and my dogs not backing down ( 2 dogs a Jack Russell and a Black Lab) I finally clapped my hands and yelled at it enough and got my dogs to back off, he jumped in to the yard and ran up a tree. Oh my we have never had these issues before living in the city. Thankfully none of them have bothered my garden. Good tips. Anna In Ohio
I discovered that I had groundhogs living under my back deck which is one of those decks that sits on top of the ground. Nothing appears to be damaged but I don't know how much digging they might have done under there. First I thought there was one that I saw another one and then yesterday I saw a total of three of them and two of them ran under and the third one that saw me ran back into the forest, no doubt they are probably eating off my compost pile which I think I'm going to throw cat litter in next time that is soaked with urine. I live in Appalachia and there's tons of wildlife Management areas around here they don't need to be living under my deck. I just don't know when all three of them will be out from underneath the deck and I certainly do not want to be walking on top of where they are walking and they might be carrying some kind of diseases. Yes they do look cute but I don't want them under there. My friend is coming here next week with his 360 camera and he's going to put it under there and see what he can see if they're in there or not.
So you can scare it out of its home and block entrance and groundhog will know where to go and what to do. But if you relocate it 5 miles away it won't know what to do or where to go.... Is this because they are home sick? (snickering)
If you plug enough holes they have to relocate themselves though. Plus they have that natural instinct on how to make burrows and find food way better than humans do. Just a thought.
We Don't cohabitate with groundhogs, they're anything but cute. Have tried to trap them but they are to smart for that. They have destroyed the floor in our shed, so much so they can now get into our shed from underneath. We have only one solution.
Woodchucks or groundhogs ARE NOT cute! What you are holding is a stuffed animal. Mickey Mouse may be cute, but do you like mice running around inside your house? My mood has changed and I’ve crossed over to - eradicate!
My neighbors and myself have a groundhog we've seen around for the past few years it would be in and out of our back yards, this morning I have 4 babies in my backyard and they are adorable my first garden also and they haven't touched my garden I've let the grass grow so they can eat. I'm in Ohio Akron I'm going to watch them grow. Thank you for this information
My neighbor has four chickens and I have recently gone from one groundhog to 5 groundhogs they're everywhere nonchalant have a big hole underneath my back porch.
No! I think there very fascinating creatures and I love animals! Just have to keep them out of the garden! Groundhogs actually use the bathroom underground and are very clean! I have one that visits my home and his name is Roscoe lol! I’m going to build him his own garden and then build my own!
Theyre filthy mofos. The 1st sign I had one was flies on the side of my shead & a wild animal odor the lingered. It took 2 yrs before I even saw the dang thing. Long story short it got trapped & it crapped in the cage. It attempted to destroy the trap & had poo just all over the trap trying to bust outta it. Just NASTY tracking poo all over itself!
They don't like flowers? Oh yes they do!! They eat just about everything. And mine have to fear of me. They are very smart and extremely hard to trap. I see them all the time in my yard and garden. I would shoot them but they are just too cute even though I will have no vegetables this year.
They will never leave. Holes under concrete steps may cause the concrete to settle a foot. I have heard that fresh dog poop in the hole will cause the groundhog to move.
You can also trap the groundhog and then call the SPCA. They will take it to the lab in neuter it and then drop it off in the neighborhood where you reported it. Just like they do cats and raccoons.
We have a kitchen wire fence around our garden, I thought I was good until I saw a groundhog inside my garden. It ate all my tomatoes and destroyed the plants. There’s no hole around the garden so I have no idea how it got in, maybe the fence isn’t tall enough.
Marmots just want to live like monkeys humans Don’t hurt groundhogs cause they always hungry more than monkeys humans I believed groundhogs very cool they just the babies want to eat want to live
My shed at my camp has a ground hog it was popping its head up from a brick block we tried to shoot it but we tried to block the entrance but it dug a hole up some where else so we quit because we had to find it at the store 6 stops at the store
They burrow holes, tear up your yard, I have a plastic Rubbermaid shed and it’s falling backwards from there handy work, I say trap them, kill them, get them out!
You are wrong. Groundhogs are a problem. When I was working and couldn't trap them consistently they multiplied. They burrowed under barns and the piles of dirt ruined one of the floors. The first year I retired I caught 25 or 26. They may move on but they WILL return, depending on the food sources. The good news is I found a humane way to get rid of them, a havahart trap followed up by a .22 l.r. hollow point between the eyes. (The buzzards love them).
can they dig under a basement? a groundhog has burrowed against my house basement exterior wall. i caught it. no idea if there are little babies around though.
I've known plenty of animal professionals. Vets and zoologists etc. Never have any of them even hinted at virtue signaling or preaching or condescending in the least way. We see it everywhere today and ultimately there's always a profit/political agenda behind it.
Thank you so much for your video, I find it that even good hearted people still act inhuman to any animal that they might find “inconvenient” to them. I’m glad there are still humans out there that feel the same as I about living creatures. 👏🏽👏🏽THANK YOU!!!!👏🏽👏🏽
When famine hits and it will and a garden is all you have to survive THEN tell me how much you love rodents eating your food. Not to mention the hard work for nothing.
One ground hog eating my whole half a football field garden. Im very mad i worked really hard on this garden. It's burrowed under my garage concrete pad. It's gotta go before my whole concrete pad is destroyed. Help!!
They don't eat tomatoes. I had a rat around this summer and they eat tons of tomatoes. I finally caught it. Ground hogs do a lot more damage to the garden however. So beans and cabbage and parsley lettuce and lots of flowers like Dahlia, nasturtium, Jerusalem artichoke, you name it . They 'll eat it. Best thing is to trap them and drive them to a woodlot somewhere far away.
It works for a while, & most likely makes it a pest for your neighbor. Then the neighbor chases it away & you've got a problem again. Once it's caused thousands of dollars of damage to the foundation of your home you tend to be less generous.
Poor ideas. Have an army of groundhogs. Burrow under pigeon loft with 3 entrances, next to my gas meter by the basement. Digging made them dig it bigger, dumped about 20 lbs of cat urine soaked litter, put garlic around perimeter, dumped used pigeon litter ( high urea smell), put hardware cloth over holes. What she doesn't know is groundhogs can climb very well. Had one get to second floor window, chew hole in screen. Couldn't find the thing to anesthetize it with pitchfork so closed windows, doors, and waited 6 days til it was more amenable to the idea of going away. Currently have 2 humane traps in yard and will check my car emissions with them, humanely and with love.
I’m in Hillsboro Ohio about an hour away from Clark County. I purchased my house in Oct of 2021. It’s 121 years old with a stone foundation. I been seeing a Groundhog in my yard about 60 ft away from my back deck off and on since I been here, well my neighbor told me last month the Groundhog runs under my deck and now there are two of them. I look under the deck and see the burrow hole right next to my Stone Foundation, well I through mothballs in the hole, went to Rural King and picked up two boxes and used a box on the hole,I also took a big stone that looks like it was left over from the House foundation and I covered the hole with it, it was about 20lb rectangular Stone or block knowing full well these little guys are strong enough to move it. Well tonight I heard a big crash outside and I still don’t know what it was, sounded like a limb hit the house, it is windy and raining but it’s night time and I will check in the morn. Anyway I went to the back deck door and the Groundhog ran off the deck under the deck to the burrow, well I looked under there and he has removed some of the stones in my foundation, so now what? Wait for them to enter my crawl space in the small basement. I don’t want these guys in my house and I certainly don’t want them damaging my foundation of this old house. I know full well they are extremely tough to get rid of. I am going to need to trap them and hall them over to Wilmington next to a creek. If they weren’t burrowing next to and eventually into my house I wouldn’t care and would leave them alone but I love my house to much and worked hard for it. I built houses for over 18 years and I know you don’t want foundation damage and I definitely don’t want them in my home. So now what to do? Outside of trapping them and halling them off. When I went under the deck tonight pretty good size stone pieces of my foundation was pulled away about a couple of feet from the house and I can see where they fit in the wall. If he keeps going he will eventually be in the house. It’s an old foundation with broken mortar in the joints which this guy pulled apart then removed the stones. I don’t want to fill in the burrow and have them die in there because it will smell pretty bad. Trapping seems like the only option.
I'm so sick of these animal activists harping about their animal babies! If you don't get rid of the offending animal babies grow up and now you have an infestation. Harmful to pets structures and gardens that is YOUR FOOD SOURCE! GET over yourself lady you are NOT helping!
Groundhogs have eaten all my brassica, beans, pickles along with my herbs. By leaving them alone they have multiplied and have become a major problem. I shoot them when I can but those monsters are fast.
Fat Asses too smh 😒
Fatty's They're So big & Fat !!!!! Smh 😒
yeah, hence why this is a useless video. She' just a hippie.
No way man. I’ve had the same one for 3 years now. I’ve tried blocking the hole that they have running all the way down the road. They dig around the block. Tried smoke bombs, deterrent, garlic powder, ghost pepper flakes, cat fur, cat pee, dog pee, dog poop, dog chasing it, me chasing it, blood meal, beer, fencing under ground, bird netting… it has eaten my garden 4 times over this year, my neighbors as well.
Now I’m staking out and waiting for him with Mr. Air Rifle. Hate to do it- but I’ve tried everything.
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I hear ya! Tried all of the deterrents that you describe to keep them out of my garden, right down to a 1300 fps pellet rifle. Although it worked amazingly well, I hated spending hours sitting and waiting for them in the morning and evenings taking up my free time. I looked like a military sniper hiding out in the brush in my own yard. I also didn't like shooting them because some of them would run off and die. I hated that. So now I use Dukes Body Traps. They are like the Ronco oven, set it and forget it and check it the next day. To me they are humane because death is within 5 to 30 seconds depending on their size. I have no problem protecting what is mine. The garden is mine, not to mention the time and sweat it took to put it in. And I didn't do it for a groundhog smorgasbord.
did you get it?
@@faultyd3vil917 sadly…. No. He’s too fast and I just can’t get close enough. Next season gonna have to try trapping I guess
I have a groundhog destroying my garden currently for the last month in Missouri. He has eaten all the tops off the carrots, is eating potato leaves and digging in them, tramples all my green onions and bites the tops off, has destroyed a couple pepper and tomato plants, has been eating leeks off my other onions and trampling them too. Has eaten all the vegetation off my Broccoli, ate my only summer savory, he’s a real a’hole! I sprinkled some cayenne pepper around the area tonight because I hear it offends them. Will put up a chicken wire fence soon, this lil effer is not gonna win! Feel like Bill Murray in Caddyshack.
Me too
Feels like bill murray
I have the same problem!!!I hate them!!! I have tried everything that this woman has said for two summers. I want them to die!!! I even put chicken wire fence up but they dig under it!! I put a hose in the den that didn’t work. I now am getting a pellet gun. Maybe after being shot in the ass a couple times they will move on!!!!
I have a garden for past 40 years , nothing will stop a ground hog from raiding your garden , fence will not work , only trapping them and relocating them a few miles away . if there is food source they love , they will get it .
plant extra...for them
I have the same problem. I may have to pick another hobby besides gardening, although we depend on the food raised.
Growing on a farm for a market garden, and in town where I live, this year. And, something has already gotten into the tomatoes (growing for production and to start a seed company) often leaving the plants simply cut towards the base inside a fenced area. I think its a groundhog since their is a burrow in the barn. I haven't even listened to all of the video yet and already bought a battery powered radio online to be delivered tomorrow. I'll finish installing an electric fence asap, too, and do what I can to protect my crops since this is to be a portion of my income. Thanks for making this video!
shot gun works
Terrible damage from groundhog burrowing under slab foundation for a mobile home. Cracked the cement slab in half. Loaded the mobile home with house flies. While pushing a running lawn mower, I stepped through a chamber, all the way to my crouch, near emasculation. Little monsters!
Thanks. I have a groundhog here in VA but so far it’s not a nuisance. I guess I should look for burrow entrances.
My groundhog is decimating my garden!
Ok, I'm here because I have a family of groundhogs, my husband and I don't mind them, in fact we think they are adorable. The only problem we have is they are starting to dig under my chickens fence lol I didn't know they don't like chickens. They aren't after my chickens, they are after green grass inside my run. Thanks for this, I won't kill them like most people would. I appreciate your share, humane to the animals, it's my priority ♥️
Thank you for not killing them. They are cute.
This might be the worst advice I have ever heard about destructive varmints.
I agree
I have heard about killing people what about that?
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Upstate SC here. We have 3 big dogs that have access to our fenced in over acre back yard. Only a few trees. One is a persimmon and one is a huge mulberry. These trees are a natural part of landscape in our area. Grows wild in a forest across from us. The groundhogs have tunneled under our wrought iron fence and obviously don't mind being around our dogs or people. There are new burrows still popping up. We are going to need to regrade our back yard to repair where tunnels have collapsed and caused trouble with wash out of area. Last year I thought they were cute critters. Now I absolutely hate them. I'm so afraid either a grandchild or one of the dogs will break a leg due to the damage. Not to mention our yard service guys. Nuisance is a hole or two. What it seems we have is a colony. But worst than that it makes no sense when there is pasture land and other open areas just beside our property. Yet...here they are. 2 of my dobermans don't want to go into yard early morning or late afternoon any longer. These are not adorable little fuzzy critters I thought they were. They are mean as snakes and none of the things mentioned here ring true with the ones we have. It is going to cost us a fortune to eradicate and repair. In SC there is no option to catch and release. If you catch them you by law must kill them.
I’m in SC trying to get them out from under my house now
"cute?" The damage they do is not "cute" it's costly
Guess I'll hook up my lawn mower with a hose on the exhaust, stick it down the hole and let it run
I like dynamite myself or a hyperbaric bomb . Instantly eliminate the problem and then you can landscape the way you want
I also like Caddyshack!
Hi what do you think I should do about my garden? I think my groundhogs are eating my potatoes which grows underground. It isn’t time to harvest but the stem of my veggie was leaning today. How can I install L shape fence if my garden bed is already laid? Any tips would help
!!!!??? Ah huh....you just let those cute things live under your buildings for a few years. Once they have made those buildings dilapidated, tell how cute they are.
they like the tender greens of most plants, bc today my little groundhog friend ate the tops off 3 of my biggest baby sunflowers (no flowers on them but they had their first sets of good leaves and nice healhty stalks) he ( or she) chewed them down to the dirt. :( so sad. They also ate some of my new seedling zucchini plants. (once they get bigger they wont bother with zucchini itself, but they love the leaves when it young. I have tried sprinkling blood meal around which seems work a little bit, but rain will wash that away. i wont harm this critter, its been a love hate relationship for almost 6 yrs now at least. It can just be a little frustrating when you've started thing from seed and worked hard to grow them and along comes chucky and he devourers them before they even have a chance to bloom and grow. I am going to try feeding him every day, as he seems to come out around the same times twice a day looking for food. so maybe if i keep him fed and happy, he will b less inclined to eat my plants. then maybe at some point he will go to just the one area where he will realize this is where he gets food, i can hope anyways. He doesn't seem too afraid of me anymore. so ill put the food down and walk far enough away. and see how he reacts. i dont mind sharing if he would let the stuff actually grow lol
That's what I'm trying to do too, I really hope it works because I know she has baby's, so I am just clipping the leaves that need to be pruned and putting some produce that's over it's expired date for us, so a little soft and then I put that in her litter area by her hole and in the wood pile where she chills. I hope this works.
Try throwing a bar of Irish Spring soap down the hole, and use a watering can periodically to freshen it up.
This should be titled how to struggle to get rid of groundhogs for decades. We’ve shot 24 this spring and summer. $30l in damages so far. Hopefully getting their population under control now.
Thank you. So far the groundhogs in my yard leave tomatoes alone, but a baby slipped thru the gate to eat every kale and other greens in 20 mins. Thanks for compassionate ideas.
They eat petunias and pansies too. Y poor flowers. Gone. I expect them to bloom bigger in a month. Best way to get rid of them is a bow and arrow.
I have a groundhog den under the back of my house, and my neighbor keeps feeding them. She thinks she's feeding the cats but the groundhog just sits on there food when she walks away.
Smart little critters 😊.
You have concerns. My bldg is being destroyed and you “have concerns”. Tell that to a farmer.
The only way to get rid of groundhogs especially in Ohio, is too trap them and relocate them more than 5 miles away from your property. There are no natural predators for groundhogs except for automobiles and people to get rid of them.
Thing is how is anyone supposed to know there’s babies in there?
In the mean time it’s.eating all my flowers and holes under my step.
sure when their destroying your sweet corn everyday i will just leave them that makes a lot of since
How can I be certain there are no babies in the burrow which is under my porch. It is late September right now and it’s just moved in.
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really interesting information
MOTH BALLS IN PACKETS ?
No way will I leave it alone! It’s burrowed under my shed and can’t get to the burrow. It has eaten so many of my perineal plants . This is living here for 3 years. I’ve tried ammonia around the opening to my shed where it runs in. This booger is the size of a medium dog! I want him gone! Can’t find anything that works. No one will come to trap it. I’m just at the point of doing anything to get rid of it
Same here and worse, they're digging has compromised the stone foundation of my entire barn! I'm going to trap and get rid of every stinking one of these "cute" beasts!
With the foundation of my home being burrowed under, I bought a havahart trap & made arrangements for an acquaintance to take it. They're from the South & were delighted to have it for a tasty protein meal. I feel better about it than pushing the problem onto neighbors or releasing it where it'll become someone else's problem. Where I live we are so overrun with them that they are even seen outside the largest grocery stores, running around the outside of the building.
Just kill it
I'm at the same place. I just bought a gamo 22 magnum air rifle with a built in silencer so the neighbors won't hear it. I'll shoot it through the window from inside the house so the neighbors don't see a rifle and get scared.
@@markjohnson8824 ...as luck would have it, my groundhog either died over the winter or made a run for it... Hasn't been seen since last fall... Hallelujah! It's my understanding that in the wild they don't live but maybe 4-5 years. Not sure if that true but I'm so glad it's GONE!
22 or 25 pcp pellet rifle works every time.👀
Indeed, there certainly is not a shortage of these critters.
She says you cant relocate because they would nt know what to do??? but putting urine and blocking whole supposedly causes them to relocate on their own, How do they know how to relocate in a new area if they cant when you drop them off in the woods.
Thanks god bless
I hear Napalm is pretty effective. But, seriously, what about certain plants that might be a repellent. There's one plant (don't remember the name at the moment) that Deer don't like, and a farmer put up a video insisting since he "fenced off" an area by planting that, the deer haven't returned.
I've heard Marigolds don't smell or taste good to certain pest-animals, and planting those will keep Rabbits I think it was, away.
Groundhogs are a HUGE problem where I'm at. Suburban area, ranch type apartments with our own patios and planting area around the front door and windows. The dang things come in and dig a burrow right up against the building, and down/under the sidewalk and patio slab, in the process dregging up a MASSIVE pile of dirt/sand into the garden. That's all being scooped out from under the sidewald and patio slab.
So, any PLANTS these things abhor that can be planted where they like to dig?
Anything from Plants VS Zombies, Seymour, bomb flowers, piranha plants, whomping willow, or for the faithful among us the burning bush.
Begonias will not be eaten by them.
You can go to a hair cutting place and bring a bag with you and ask them for some hair put it garden flower pots or Hows where groundhogs they don't like human hair . I did not think about pee that not heard that I'm a man I can just go out to the groundhogs how an pee round it for the front yard I can just go in a container an dump it round the how thanks for the idea
There is no way to check that burrow to make sure no one is there.
Very good video I have a mother groundhog and 3 babies under my shed. The babies are adorable I was worried about the foundation under my shed but I’m hoping they leave on there own soon bc the babies got big really quick.
Last year something tunneled under my shed chewed up the cement foundation to get in had no idea what did it. I bought moth balls and stuffed it in the holes and haven't seen any more damage. I just saw a ground hog this morning in a neighbors driveway so I'm thinking this must have been what was in my shed. My dogs have been digging like crazy in my yard so I think they are smelling it under the ground. They also cornered a raccoon last week the raccoon was on the fence going in to my back yard we had quite the Mexican Standoff with it hissing and acting terrible and my dogs not backing down ( 2 dogs a Jack Russell and a Black Lab) I finally clapped my hands and yelled at it enough and got my dogs to back off, he jumped in to the yard and ran up a tree. Oh my we have never had these issues before living in the city. Thankfully none of them have bothered my garden. Good tips. Anna In Ohio
I discovered that I had groundhogs living under my back deck which is one of those decks that sits on top of the ground. Nothing appears to be damaged but I don't know how much digging they might have done under there. First I thought there was one that I saw another one and then yesterday I saw a total of three of them and two of them ran under and the third one that saw me ran back into the forest, no doubt they are probably eating off my compost pile which I think I'm going to throw cat litter in next time that is soaked with urine. I live in Appalachia and there's tons of wildlife Management areas around here they don't need to be living under my deck. I just don't know when all three of them will be out from underneath the deck and I certainly do not want to be walking on top of where they are walking and they might be carrying some kind of diseases. Yes they do look cute but I don't want them under there. My friend is coming here next week with his 360 camera and he's going to put it under there and see what he can see if they're in there or not.
GH dug into my coop and drank water i guess. Ate from my garden.. Dug under my garage.. Caused alot of damage
My problem is I don’t want my dog to run after them and get himself bit
pour cement into the hole that worked for me
Sooo helpful!! Thank you!☺️
What about when they destroy and eat most of your vegetables? Still leave them alone? That's a BS!!!
There's a groundhog in the back of our shed and I feed the feral cats and he's been fighting them for the food I put out for them.
You can't use a trap the cat might end up in the trap. I suggest feeding him separately. 🤷 lf it would only learn to share.
So you can scare it out of its home and block entrance and groundhog will know where to go and what to do. But if you relocate it 5 miles away it won't know what to do or where to go.... Is this because they are home sick? (snickering)
If I was a farmer and I was making my living I know the answer but other than that I would probably end up feeding them
If you plug enough holes they have to relocate themselves though. Plus they have that natural instinct on how to make burrows and find food way better than humans do. Just a thought.
Actually they simply dig around the plug.
We Don't cohabitate with groundhogs, they're anything but cute. Have tried to trap them but they are to smart for that. They have destroyed the floor in our shed, so much so they can now get into our shed from underneath. We have only one solution.
Attack with extreme prejudice
I need them out of my garden.
They ruined my neighbors foundation. I went from pcp pellet to 22 LR! There's no more on my block!😂
Chooootem!
Woodchucks or groundhogs ARE NOT cute! What you are holding is a stuffed animal. Mickey Mouse may be cute, but do you like mice running around inside your house? My mood has changed and I’ve crossed over to - eradicate!
The babies are cute though 😍
Exactly, they look like rats with short tails. That is a very strange statement to say. 😳
Groundhogs are not running around in her house. Terrible analogy.
@@esaabdullah2710 Spring has sprung and yesterday I saw our big, fat woodchuck. I will give it a chance to be live-trapped and relocated or else …
No they're not! I thought I just had rabbit burrows but just seen a big FAT Groundhog now!!!! So annoying!!!
easier to just pee all over your garden every day
A Conibear 220 trap will solve your problem real quick!!!!
My neighbors and myself have a groundhog we've seen around for the past few years it would be in and out of our back yards, this morning I have 4 babies in my backyard and they are adorable my first garden also and they haven't touched my garden I've let the grass grow so they can eat. I'm in Ohio Akron I'm going to watch them grow. Thank you for this information
My neighbor has four chickens and I have recently gone from one groundhog to 5 groundhogs they're everywhere nonchalant have a big hole underneath my back porch.
They gross me out
No! I think there very fascinating creatures and I love animals! Just have to keep them out of the garden! Groundhogs actually use the bathroom underground and are very clean! I have one that visits my home and his name is Roscoe lol! I’m going to build him his own garden and then build my own!
Theyre filthy mofos. The 1st sign I had one was flies on the side of my shead & a wild animal odor the lingered. It took 2 yrs before I even saw the dang thing. Long story short it got trapped & it crapped in the cage. It attempted to destroy the trap & had poo just all over the trap trying to bust outta it. Just NASTY tracking poo all over itself!
This is nonsense and no help to anyone with a pest problem.
Those groundhogs ate ate almost all my husband's cucumbers smh
They don't like flowers? Oh yes they do!! They eat just about everything. And mine have to fear of me. They are very smart and extremely hard to trap. I see them all the time in my yard and garden. I would shoot them but they are just too cute even though I will have no vegetables this year.
You sir are an idiot. You'd rather go hungry than shoot an animal for it's "cuteness". God save me from you fools!
They will never leave. Holes under concrete steps may cause the concrete to settle a foot. I have heard that fresh dog poop in the hole will cause the groundhog to move.
Nope I tried that
You can also trap the groundhog and then call the SPCA. They will take it to the lab in neuter it and then drop it off in the neighborhood where you reported it. Just like they do cats and raccoons.
We love you! Thank you!
That has not been my experience that they leave after a while... every yr more and more groundhogs and holes if left alone
CCI 22 LR
they're eating all my Crops Eggplants or all my Veggies & Fruits
We have a kitchen wire fence around our garden, I thought I was good until I saw a groundhog inside my garden. It ate all my tomatoes and destroyed the plants. There’s no hole around the garden so I have no idea how it got in, maybe the fence isn’t tall enough.
they can climb the fence
I watched my demon ground hog climb a 4 foot fence. Destroyed my entire vegetable garden in one night.
I thought they were cute until they breached my electric perimeter garden fence. I trapped and deported 9 then poured ammonia down their holes.
Thank you for the information sweetie
They got to go before I have a horse break a leg. They have holes all over the horse pasture
High powered pellet gun
I must dig deep inside of myself to feel humane towards groundhogs🤕😡😡😡
I feel like Bill Murray from Caddyshack since a groundhog showed up in my yard. Trapper cant catch it. Hes too smart.
Wait until it has babies and they crawl under your car and chew the wires in half like they just did to me you will really love them then
Marmots just want to live like monkeys humans
Don’t hurt groundhogs cause they always hungry more than monkeys humans
I believed groundhogs very cool they just the babies want to eat want to live
A .22 rifle does wonders for groundhog control.
It would work against yo too. Where exactly do you live?
Yeah I covered the hole 🕳️ with bricks 🧱
Get some outside cats mouse gone groundhog will fight but move..catlitter works!!
Trap it, cook it,and eat it.
Where do you live?
I will pay you a visit
Ohio
@@jamale.jamison6499 nice do you have a family I can mhurder, too?
Forget the humane method.... I catch and KILL!
Wow! She is out of touch! NOT CUTE! They are a problem.
They burrow near building. Yhis includes your house. When they burrow near you home it weakens your foundation and can cause it to crack and fail.
My shed at my camp has a ground hog it was popping its head up from a brick block we tried to shoot it but we tried to block the entrance but it dug a hole up some where else so we quit because we had to find it at the store 6 stops at the store
They burrow holes, tear up your yard, I have a plastic Rubbermaid shed and it’s falling backwards from there handy work, I say trap them, kill them, get them out!
You are wrong. Groundhogs are a problem. When I was working and couldn't trap them consistently they multiplied. They burrowed under barns and the piles of dirt ruined one of the floors. The first year I retired I caught 25 or 26. They may move on but they WILL return, depending on the food sources. The good news is I found a humane way to get rid of them, a havahart trap followed up by a .22 l.r. hollow point between the eyes. (The buzzards love them).
"Buzzards gotta eat same as the worm", The outlaw Josey Wales
lol that was a plot twist
can they dig under a basement? a groundhog has burrowed against my house basement exterior wall. i caught it. no idea if there are little babies around though.
Wow what a badass 😂😂
Hello from NH. What did you bait the trap with?. I've got one ruining my garden. Thank you. ~ Diane
I've known plenty of animal professionals. Vets and zoologists etc. Never have any of them even hinted at virtue signaling or preaching or condescending in the least way. We see it everywhere today and ultimately there's always a profit/political agenda behind it.
conibear 220
There is nothing cute about those 😡
Thank you so much for your video, I find it that even good hearted people still act inhuman to any animal that they might find “inconvenient” to them.
I’m glad there are still humans out there that feel the same as I about living creatures.
👏🏽👏🏽THANK YOU!!!!👏🏽👏🏽
When famine hits and it will and a garden is all you have to survive THEN tell me how much you love rodents eating your food. Not to mention the hard work for nothing.
They are SO cute. 💕
how can i make sure theres no babies
Teach them ‘Ground hog’ birth control.
Yup, they have babies right now
One ground hog eating my whole half a football field garden. Im very mad i worked really hard on this garden. It's burrowed under my garage concrete pad. It's gotta go before my whole concrete pad is destroyed. Help!!
@@seanwoodrum3658 live trap it
Grossly incompetent on full display
They seem to ignore tomatoes in my garden.
Lucky you.I've lost over 50 tomatoes, had to fence my garden.
@@livefreeordie3992 they get into y garden also , i fenced my garden and actually watched one climb the fence to get in..
They don't eat tomatoes. I had a rat around this summer and they eat tons of tomatoes. I finally caught it. Ground hogs do a lot more damage to the garden however. So beans and cabbage and parsley lettuce and lots of flowers like Dahlia, nasturtium, Jerusalem artichoke, you name it . They 'll eat it. Best thing is to trap them and drive them to a woodlot somewhere far away.
Harassment techniques...😂😂😂😂
Dayuuuuuum. They got an underground railroad? Haaaaaaaaa. They must know Harriet tubman.
Will ammonia soaked rags chase them out?
@@CCPDOHIO1977 I’ve had them for 6 years. A Fox took over his shed now he is doing damage under deck
It works for a while, & most likely makes it a pest for your neighbor. Then the neighbor chases it away & you've got a problem again. Once it's caused thousands of dollars of damage to the foundation of your home you tend to be less generous.
Looks like you keep deleting the factual material, a great disservice to those who could use help and get the best advice.
They are even cuter after you shoot them in the face.
Poor ideas. Have an army of groundhogs. Burrow under pigeon loft with 3 entrances, next to my gas meter by the basement. Digging made them dig it bigger, dumped about 20 lbs of cat urine soaked litter, put garlic around perimeter, dumped used pigeon litter ( high urea smell), put hardware cloth over holes. What she doesn't know is groundhogs can climb very well. Had one get to second floor window, chew hole in screen. Couldn't find the thing to anesthetize it with pitchfork so closed windows, doors, and waited 6 days til it was more amenable to the idea of going away.
Currently have 2 humane traps in yard and will check my car emissions with them, humanely and with love.
Cat litter and garlic??
I’m in Hillsboro Ohio about an hour away from Clark County. I purchased my house in Oct of 2021. It’s 121 years old with a stone foundation. I been seeing a Groundhog in my yard about 60 ft away from my back deck off and on since I been here, well my neighbor told me last month the Groundhog runs under my deck and now there are two of them. I look under the deck and see the burrow hole right next to my Stone Foundation, well I through mothballs in the hole, went to Rural King and picked up two boxes and used a box on the hole,I also took a big stone that looks like it was left over from the House foundation and I covered the hole with it, it was about 20lb rectangular Stone or block knowing full well these little guys are strong enough to move it. Well tonight I heard a big crash outside and I still don’t know what it was, sounded like a limb hit the house, it is windy and raining but it’s night time and I will check in the morn. Anyway I went to the back deck door and the Groundhog ran off the deck under the deck to the burrow, well I looked under there and he has removed some of the stones in my foundation, so now what? Wait for them to enter my crawl space in the small basement. I don’t want these guys in my house and I certainly don’t want them damaging my foundation of this old house. I know full well they are extremely tough to get rid of. I am going to need to trap them and hall them over to Wilmington next to a creek. If they weren’t burrowing next to and eventually into my house I wouldn’t care and would leave them alone but I love my house to much and worked hard for it. I built houses for over 18 years and I know you don’t want foundation damage and I definitely don’t want them in my home. So now what to do? Outside of trapping them and halling them off. When I went under the deck tonight pretty good size stone pieces of my foundation was pulled away about a couple of feet from the house and I can see where they fit in the wall. If he keeps going he will eventually be in the house. It’s an old foundation with broken mortar in the joints which this guy pulled apart then removed the stones. I don’t want to fill in the burrow and have them die in there because it will smell pretty bad. Trapping seems like the only option.
I'm so sick of these animal activists harping about their animal babies! If you don't get rid of the offending animal babies grow up and now you have an infestation. Harmful to pets structures and gardens that is YOUR FOOD SOURCE! GET over yourself lady you are NOT helping!