Posted on 06/25/2025 5:24:23 PM PDT by Dacula
Mothballs
It can be argued that those two words are interchangeable.
“The unmarried foxes are the worst.”
Yeah, they always wind up on the Crazy chart! ;-)
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.
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.
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.
Hahaha. He has copperheads. He's walked within inches of them many times. He just doesn't know it yet.
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!
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!
-PJ
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.
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.22 air rifles would probably work.
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.
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.
Dacula (city of) is in Gwinnett county and Gwinnett has the same prohibitions on air guns as on real firearms.
I have hears some animals like antifreeze as it is sweet. but deadly.
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.
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.
Antifreeze has the Same problem as with traps. You can’t control what drinks it. Neighbor’s cat, dog, child?
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