Sometimes I wonder why certain animals were added to the mix; .... they’re not really FOOD for anything else
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My brother was in a deer stand a couple of years ago on another farm and a large coyote came across the field in front of him carrying a groundhog - he got a picture of it & showed it to me. Sometimes, a predator will catch them! I’d rather have coyotes than groundhogs.
A first cousin of mine just died Monday - her former husband would hunt groundhogs on her mom’s place & then give the cleaned/dressed ‘hog’ to her mom to cook (my aunt, an excellent cook, did it, but wasn’t happy about it). He liked young ones.
The damage the groundhogs have done around our barn/sheds is just terrible. My dad has been getting Quikcrete & putting it down the holes. I think I spotted a fresh hole from this latest groundhog & that’s where I’ll set the trap.
As for ‘animals’ in the mix that seem to not have much value to us, I saw a ‘meme’ lately from someone in AK ..... “why oh why didn’t Noah swat the two mosquitoes before they got on the Ark?”
On a totally different topic - waiting for Elsa to arrive. We should get 2-3 inches of rain so I did not water the garden last night ... which means we will probably get a ‘sprinkle’ instead. I mowed like a fiend late yesterday, trying to get all the “lush” grass spots cut down (they’d gotten fairly high) - once the grass gets thick/high, it takes forever to dry & chokes out the mower. I had the mower slow down a few times going through some spots, but the worst is done & I can tackle the rest this weekend, after Elsa’s rain/winds clear off (should be after midnight tonight).