Mowing this evening & spotted a huge groundhog between the barn and tractor shed. I think it had just come out from under the barn and as I turned the mower, it spooked and ran for the shed. A couple of minutes later, I saw it on the other side of the tractor shed, running flat out for the barn. It was out in the grass at that point & boy, those suckers can really run!
By the time I finished on the mower, it was late & I didn’t feel like setting the big live trap. I’ll do that tomorrow - baiting it with apples off our old apple tree and a cucumber from the garden (I have more than enough cukes - could bait 10 traps). I’ll cut them up so the smell will waft in the air & maybe I’ll get lucky. I’ve not had good luck live trapping groundhogs before - only caught one young one years ago. While trying to catch ground hogs, I have caught a crow and a baby bunny (crow & bunny released with no harm done although the crow was pretty upset). If this big one finds my garden ....well, I don’t want to think about it.
Sometimes I wonder why certain animals were added to the mix; groundhogs are one of them. I mean, they’re not really FOOD for anything else, and all they are is destructive to buildings and food plots.
But, you know, it wasn’t my call back when all of this was being designed, LOL!