Squirrels are rats with bushy tails. They dig up bulbs and make a damn nuisance of themselves. It’s a freaking pellet gun. Pay the old man bounty and buy him more pellets!
If you think squirrels are bad you should have a problem with woodchucks.Those things are a disaster in the making.They make tunnels in your yard about six inches wide and tear up your lawn.
They are NOT cute and cuddly.
Woodchucks will also gladly undermine your buildings if they can get deep enough. I had one family wreck the foundation of a chicken coop.
Woodchucks, I learned, have an irresistible taste for apples and very poor heat tolerance. I highly recommend live traps which open at both ends.
I’m not sure what animal we have that wants free access to our yard, but we have a chain link fence and in a couple or three places, the chain links at the bottom have been taken apart and spread so there are voids in the fence more than a foot across and 6-8 inches high.
That’s right, this unknown animal has made a place in our chain link fence by straightening the links and spreading them apart so that he can crawl straight through.
Our dog couldn’t have done it. I’m thinking raccoon, but I can’t be certain. It’s a residential area, but there is a park with a wooded area that has a creek running through it less than 1/4 mile from us. There are foxes and coyotes and raccoons and opossum and pit bulls.
We've got one the size of a bear cub. The first time I saw it standing up I looked around for Momma Bear before my eyes focused and I saw it was just a woodchuck.