Posted on 04/07/2006 1:12:25 PM PDT by Abathar
I was hoping someone could answer a couple of questions I have on how to get rid of beaver out of a lake. I live in Indiana now but grew up in Michigan my whole life. Up there if you even look crosseyed at one the DNR will arrest you on the spot, so I was surprised when I called them here to get permission to live trap the d@mn things the officer just laughed and suggested I use dynamite on their home. He told me they were endangered once but since they brought them back our county has classified them as a nuisance. He told me if they were a problem just trap them or shoot them. The problem is they come out mostly at night, and the spillway the little b@stard keeps daming up is about 300 yards away from my back porch, and since they haven't started building a den yet I don't know where they sleep. I have to clean the stupid spillway up at least 3 times a week now, and I am getting pretty upset. If someone has some ideas not involving high explosives I sure would appreciate it.
I thought this thread was going to be another tiresome argument over that Sharon Stone movie.
"Uh huh huh heh, you said 'beaver', uh heh uh huh..."
The column was titled Ham on Wry which I had stolen from a quote by Bill Vaughn.
When I inserted, "A brown furred, warm blooded small mammal with a wide, flat, broad muscular tale and nocturnal feeding habits..." I was only saved because I had actually quoted it verbatim from a Desk Encyclopedia published by (who else) Funk and Wagnells.
a CB cap is an ultra quiet .22 rim fire available in short and long by CCI. it sounds like popcorn popping but it will "get her done!" and without the neighbors calling the local constabulary
Onions? are you serious?
One serious reply.
I have a couple beavers in the pond behind my house.
I do enjoy them but I fully understand how they can destroy shrubs and trees so quickly.
FYI ping
Wynona's Big Brown Beaver by Primus
Wynona's got herself a big brown beaver
and she shows it off to all her friends.
One day, you know, that beaver tried to leave her,
So she caged him up with cyclone fence.
Along came Lou with the old baboon
And said "Recognize that smell?"
"Smells like seven layers,
That beaver eats Taco Bell."
Now Rex he was a Texan out of New Orleans
And he travelled with the carnival shows.
He ran bumper cars, sucked cheap cigars
And he candied up his nose.
He got wind of the big brown beaver
So he though he'd take himself a peek,
But the beaver was quick
And grabbed him by the kiwis.
Now he ain't pissed for a week.
(And a half!)
Now Wynona took her big brown beaver,
And she stuck him up in the air.
Said "I sure do love this big brown beaver
And I wish I did have a pair."
Now the beaver onces slept for seven days
And it gave us all an awful fright.
So I tickled his chin and I gave him a pinch
And the bastard tried to bite me.
Wynona loved her big brown beaver
And she stroked him all the time.
She pricked her finger one day and it
Occurred to her she might have a porcupine.
I guess you know what to expect...and it is Friday so it will be even worse!
Look at it this way, even if you don't come up with a solution, there should be some satisfaction from starting a thread about dealing with a yard problem that gets 600+ responses.
Sure. Beavers are herbivores and are attracted by the smell.
Try thinking of a vanity post with the word Beaver in it and not make it sound bad, try, I dare ya... :-)
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