Nova (my german shepherd) caught another wood chuck today. It was trying to tunnel under my row of firewood logs. We seem to have an abundance of woodchucks around here. Who else has woodchuck problems around their wood piles/stacks? I have had them under my pallets too!
I've had woodchuck issues now and then, but not with my woodracks, but using my perennial beds as a buffet. Voles seem to like my woodracks, though. Products like this are a decent deterrent. It deters burrowing animals. Some accounts state it has worked deterring woodchucks.
We had many more many years ago before the farms and lots were populated with houses. I usually find one digging a hole every Summer. No more dogs so I have to annoy the eff out of them myself.
Used to have a problem with them, as they seemed to like my full 12x12 woodshed which was 10' from the garden. I have since burnt and emptied that of wood and using it as an implement shed. Don't seem to be as many now, but I think the coyotes and other predators have something to do with that too.
I have them under the stacks, but the fields surrounding us are not well kept, and they are a hawg haven! I was hiding behind my main stack sniping hawgs the other night when one of the local fox family members went trotting by with its dinner, fresh hawg! I thought that was a rather unique site...
I to have have problems with woodchucks and my stacked firewood. They were slowly eliminated thru Lead exposure.
I to have have problems with woodchucks and my stacked firewood. They were slowly eliminated thru Lead exposure.
Woodchucks, aka whistle pigs are a continuous problem here. I even had one on my porch last week. I scared the what not out of it. And right, they don't seem to tolerate lead very well.
I haven't sent any fast moving projectiles after any in a while because my dog gets them before I do. I didn't know this one was here until he grabbed it. I thought he was pestering a snake, and then I heard the crunch of bones and a woodchuck went flying through the air. It never twitched. Normally we eat 'em, but this one was a little too far "gone" after my dog was done playing with it.
Something like this works fine. Set it in the tunnel where a dog can't get at it. Remember to tie off the trap so you can retrieve your catch. Keep a "dispatching club" handy.
To each their own but that is the WRONG answer in my opinion. Lead - yes Dogs - yes traps - yes scaled slithering things - Negative Ghost Rider
