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Suburban wildlife question
6-25-2025 | Self

Posted on 06/25/2025 5:24:23 PM PDT by Dacula

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To: Dacula

Mothballs


41 posted on 06/25/2025 6:09:35 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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42 posted on 06/25/2025 6:09:48 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Dacula

It can be argued that those two words are interchangeable.


43 posted on 06/25/2025 6:12:27 PM PDT by dznutz
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To: piasa

“The unmarried foxes are the worst.”

Yeah, they always wind up on the Crazy chart! ;-)


44 posted on 06/25/2025 6:14:48 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star! ;-))
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To: Dacula

Get some CaCN or KCN. Hold your breath and wear rubber gloves and put a tablespoon or two down each hole. Plug holes with dirt. Make sure you plug ALL the holes and exits. This is how the county extension agent got rid of them on my grandmother’s farm in the early 1950s. Of course you have to do this when they’re home.


45 posted on 06/25/2025 6:15:06 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Dacula

Have those critters and more in our coastal GA neighborhood.
The deer population is outta control to the point where most yards are showing “browse lines” on non-preferred vegetation.

We’re all hoping H.R.850 passes as a stepping stone to backyard backstrap...
Will be quite tasty considering the piles of corn some neighbors throw out for the “poor” deer.

Considering your situation, suggest Havahart traps as I’ve used in the past. They make several sizes, the lg or xlg will be big enough for your critters.
Not to hard to figure out what kind of food they like.


46 posted on 06/25/2025 6:18:59 PM PDT by SakoL61R
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To: Dacula
“Are there regulations against use of bow and arrow? “

That is the solution I found that resolved the immediate problem. It makes no noise within the city limits.
However if you live in a wooded area on a large plot. You will have to keep them in check as long as you live their.
Good Luck.

47 posted on 06/25/2025 6:20:07 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !!s)
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To: Bonemaker
#37: "At least you don’t have copperheads."

Hahaha. He has copperheads. He's walked within inches of them many times. He just doesn't know it yet.

48 posted on 06/25/2025 6:23:20 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Dacula

Foxes?
Call the Festrunk brothers.
Georg Festrunk: And here is a thing I will tell you: that two swinging foxes have the hots-on for us, and are coming here tonight to let us hold on to their big American breasts!


49 posted on 06/25/2025 6:26:11 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Dacula

Personally I would LOVE to have that variety of wildlife in my yard! As others have pointed out, critters like opossums are very beneficial, and the others you mentioned pose no threat, unless you had chickens etc. Even foxes are not considered potentially dangerous to anything but the very smallest dogs.

As for the foxes: According to every resource I can find, they only occupy dens when caring for their young. Everything I found states that the family will abandon the den by late summer/early fall at the latest.

It’s your call of course, but I would be sitting there with multiple cameras enjoying and recording the show!


50 posted on 06/25/2025 6:26:14 PM PDT by gbunch
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To: Dacula
In before the foxy wife pictures.

-PJ

51 posted on 06/25/2025 6:28:21 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Dacula

Thanks for clearing that up. The methods of dealing with wild foxes differ greatly from those used to deal with a wild wife.

Unless your wife is a fox, of course.

L


52 posted on 06/25/2025 6:28:42 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: woodbutcher1963

.22 air rifles would probably work.


53 posted on 06/25/2025 6:29:25 PM PDT by ebshumidors ( )
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To: Dacula

Another suggestion and one I don’t like is to use conibear traps. I don’t like them because they’re kill traps and you never know what’s going to get in them - a pet cat or someone’s dog. You’re less likely to have collateral damage with the KCN. It’s quite toxic stuff and works by reacting with the natural acidity in the soil to produce HCN gas which quickly builds up to lethal levels in their burrows, but still a better option than a trap that doesn’t care what it catches.


54 posted on 06/25/2025 6:37:48 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Dacula
I have had foxes den up under a crawl space at my house and, in a different year, build a den under my detached garage. I was able on both occasions to observe the vixen feeding, teaching, and raising her kits. It was fascinating and I really enjoyed it. On both occasions, they went their separate ways once the little ones were raised and didn’t return.

If they’re not causing damage or other problems, you might want to consider letting them stay. They will keep down the mouse and vole populations. Personally, I like them.

55 posted on 06/25/2025 6:39:00 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: ebshumidors

Dacula (city of) is in Gwinnett county and Gwinnett has the same prohibitions on air guns as on real firearms.


56 posted on 06/25/2025 6:44:01 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Dacula

I have hears some animals like antifreeze as it is sweet. but deadly.


57 posted on 06/25/2025 6:51:35 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: woodbutcher1963

CCI Quiet Rounds are lower noise than a Gamo pellet gun. I’ve used them on ground squirrels with success. Also, if I need something more potent, I find a place where I can see the target from inside a room. Get well back from the window (open without a screen) and it will pretty much keep the neighbors clueless.


58 posted on 06/25/2025 6:52:24 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Dacula

I cannot shoot them them because there are house close to my property.

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Become a better shot. A .22 should do the trick and it’s not too loud.


59 posted on 06/25/2025 7:02:15 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: kvanbrunt2

Antifreeze has the Same problem as with traps. You can’t control what drinks it. Neighbor’s cat, dog, child?


60 posted on 06/25/2025 7:02:17 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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