Call one of those pest control people, they’ll kill them for ya! Or get a gun and do it yourself! Because there is nothing you can do to just ‘shoo’ them away, you’ll have to kill them.
moth balls – they’re cheap, easy to use, and critters hate them – I live in a wooded area and had racoons, possums and armadillos. Took about four boxes of moth balls and spread them around, and the animals hig-tailed it out of my yard!
Try calling the animal care and control in your area, they will trap them and move them to a more suitable location.
You could also try Human Hair…. i put it in the gardens to keep pets and pests out.. and it seems to work…. ask your stylest to keep it when someone goes for a trim.
Make sure no food or other desireable items are keeping it at your home.
Possibly chicken wire…. cover any openings wherre they are getting in… they may find it is too much work and go find an easier place to stay =)
Most home and garden stores sell a battery operated device that emits an ultrasonic sound that scares them away. My friend has some and he says they work fine. Home Depot carries a couple of different ones made by Black and Decker.
Well for me I would call a pest elimanation service or by a have a heart trap and trap them and then let them go in the woods some where…but I wasn’t sure so I looked it up and here is what I found…….good luck!
1) Frightening groundhogs away from the garden with motion devices.
2) Discouraging groundhogs with repellent smells or tastes.
3) Fencing groundhogs out of the garden.
4) Bringing out the heavy artillery: tossing gas cartridges into the groundhogs’ burrows, etc.
5) Live-trapping groundhogs as they exit their burrows and relocating them to an area far-removed from your garden (illegal in some states).
Option #4 above may be unacceptable in all but rural districts. Option #1 simply entails installing pinwheels or other devices around garden areas to frighten groundhogs away (groundhogs are timid, and the motion will bother them). In relation to this strategy, I should make note of a preventive measure you can take. In order to reduce the chances of having to deal with groundhogs, deprive them of areas that have tall grass, tall weeds (such as Japanese knotweed) or brush piles; these will only serve as hideouts for groundhogs, from which they can launch attacks upon your garden. Timid animals such as groundhogs may never take up residence near your garden in the first place, if sufficient cover is lacking.
Groundhog Control With Repellent Smells or Tastes
Epsom salts can be sprinkled on the vegetation and fruits of your garden plants to render them foul-tasting to groundhogs. The good news about this strategy is that Epsom salts will also help some of your garden plants to grow better. But the bad news is that rain will wash off the Epsom salts, meaning that you will need to make repeated applications. Another strategy that suffers from the same drawback is discouraging groundhogs with foul-smelling agents such as ammonia. Ammonia-soaked rags can be strewn along the perimeter of your garden, forming a stinky barrier to repel groundhogs. But even ammonia’s smell fades eventually and a re-application will be necessary.
Groundhog Control With Fencing
Fences such as chicken wire fences can provide a more permanent solution to your groundhog pest problem. Be aware of two factors, however: groundhogs can climb over your fences, and groundhogs can tunnel under your fences. To discourage the former, make your fences 3′-4′ high. To foil groundhog tunneling attempts……
“The buried portion of the fence should be bent at a 90-degree angle, 1 foot below the surface, with the bottom of the fence pointing away from the garden. This design discourages burrowing if it is started at the fence line.”
Such a fence can be supplemented with an electric hot-shot wire. Install the wire 4″-5″ away from the fence, all along the outside. The electric wire should stand 4″-5″ high.
For many gardeners, live-trapping groundhogs as they exit their burrows is the preferred method of pest control.
We live in the country and were told to place a piece of Juicy Fruit gum in their hole in the ground. Apparently they have a thing for sweets…….The gum is used because they do injest it and they cannot DIJEST it………..so it binds them up and we were told they die………….We did try it and I guess it worked because we no longer had their tunnels in the yard…Good Luck.(use either a stick chewed up, or place 1 stink unchewed)
asking again how do i fix this problem with neighbors pets?
What to do about neighbors animals?
they have come into our yard, tore up our fence and tore up the other fence to the chicken coop and killed 12 of our 18 chickens which cost us about 10.00 each PLUS the eggs we sell.
what can i do to get rid of these animals!
weve told them to keep there animals out of our yard, weve called the authorities they told us that if the animals are on our property we have the right to shoot them.
can you think of a less lethal way?
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we had a perfectly fine fence brand new before that tank of a lab tore it up
ADD: someone had the NERVE to say this is my fault, we bought and have replaced the fence three different times! we have the heavey duty stuff the dog gets out there at night and pulls and gnaws at it until he gets in! we caught him on the survelance camera
quote: “Part of it is your fault but also the owner of the animals who keep getting into your yard. ”
lucky: how in the Hell is this my fault? we have two fences one for the house and yard and another fence that is around and above the chicken coop . there dog and cat are tearing apart new fences! we called the police , humane society and animal control and they say that if they dont see the dogs doing it themselves they only have our word even though we have pictures of those animals in the act.
THE PURPOSE OF ASKING THIS QUESTION IS SO I CAN AVOID HAVING TO SHOOT AT THE ANIMALS. i am an animal lover i dont want to shoot them despite the authorities recomendation to do so. god knows that mutt probably deserves it but i wont be the one to do it
no dodger doesnt bite or rather hasnt yet, he chases people that walk by his house and ours! he will get close like he might bite then runs off a ways and when you turn your back on him he will rush forward and do the same again. no biting yet
we dont use an electric fence because of our own dog he likes to visit the ****** and we dont want him shocked tryign to sniff them through the fence not to mention my little nieces and nephews like to run out there and play with the birdies i dont want them shocked
So my parents were digging their garden and backyard stuff. When my mum said: ” Hey there’s thing hole tunnel thing that appeared.”
So now what should we do now?
We don’t even know how it got there and when you look down the hole, you can see little tunnels and burrows?
I want to tell them to dig their garden some place else because I think animals might live down there or something.
Any info or suggestions?
uh…the hole is about 1 foot wide or around there, and the burrows or tunnels is about 1 foot too.
And i haven’t measured how deep it is because my mum say something might be down there. But it’s pretty deep.
do you have a .22 ?
put a hose down a hole a flood them out. But they will always come back if you live near open land.
gun, kill traps.
Live traps don’t work, I’ve tried them. I’ve taken the little buggers 20 miles out into the country, a week later they return with an attitude.
Death to Rodents.
Call one of those pest control people, they’ll kill them for ya! Or get a gun and do it yourself! Because there is nothing you can do to just ‘shoo’ them away, you’ll have to kill them.
moth balls – they’re cheap, easy to use, and critters hate them – I live in a wooded area and had racoons, possums and armadillos. Took about four boxes of moth balls and spread them around, and the animals hig-tailed it out of my yard!
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Try calling the animal care and control in your area, they will trap them and move them to a more suitable location.
You could also try Human Hair…. i put it in the gardens to keep pets and pests out.. and it seems to work…. ask your stylest to keep it when someone goes for a trim.
Make sure no food or other desireable items are keeping it at your home.
Possibly chicken wire…. cover any openings wherre they are getting in… they may find it is too much work and go find an easier place to stay =)
Best of luck =)
Most home and garden stores sell a battery operated device that emits an ultrasonic sound that scares them away. My friend has some and he says they work fine. Home Depot carries a couple of different ones made by Black and Decker.
Well for me I would call a pest elimanation service or by a have a heart trap and trap them and then let them go in the woods some where…but I wasn’t sure so I looked it up and here is what I found…….good luck!
1) Frightening groundhogs away from the garden with motion devices.
2) Discouraging groundhogs with repellent smells or tastes.
3) Fencing groundhogs out of the garden.
4) Bringing out the heavy artillery: tossing gas cartridges into the groundhogs’ burrows, etc.
5) Live-trapping groundhogs as they exit their burrows and relocating them to an area far-removed from your garden (illegal in some states).
Option #4 above may be unacceptable in all but rural districts. Option #1 simply entails installing pinwheels or other devices around garden areas to frighten groundhogs away (groundhogs are timid, and the motion will bother them). In relation to this strategy, I should make note of a preventive measure you can take. In order to reduce the chances of having to deal with groundhogs, deprive them of areas that have tall grass, tall weeds (such as Japanese knotweed) or brush piles; these will only serve as hideouts for groundhogs, from which they can launch attacks upon your garden. Timid animals such as groundhogs may never take up residence near your garden in the first place, if sufficient cover is lacking.
Groundhog Control With Repellent Smells or Tastes
Epsom salts can be sprinkled on the vegetation and fruits of your garden plants to render them foul-tasting to groundhogs. The good news about this strategy is that Epsom salts will also help some of your garden plants to grow better. But the bad news is that rain will wash off the Epsom salts, meaning that you will need to make repeated applications. Another strategy that suffers from the same drawback is discouraging groundhogs with foul-smelling agents such as ammonia. Ammonia-soaked rags can be strewn along the perimeter of your garden, forming a stinky barrier to repel groundhogs. But even ammonia’s smell fades eventually and a re-application will be necessary.
Groundhog Control With Fencing
Fences such as chicken wire fences can provide a more permanent solution to your groundhog pest problem. Be aware of two factors, however: groundhogs can climb over your fences, and groundhogs can tunnel under your fences. To discourage the former, make your fences 3′-4′ high. To foil groundhog tunneling attempts……
“The buried portion of the fence should be bent at a 90-degree angle, 1 foot below the surface, with the bottom of the fence pointing away from the garden. This design discourages burrowing if it is started at the fence line.”
Such a fence can be supplemented with an electric hot-shot wire. Install the wire 4″-5″ away from the fence, all along the outside. The electric wire should stand 4″-5″ high.
For many gardeners, live-trapping groundhogs as they exit their burrows is the preferred method of pest control.
We live in the country and were told to place a piece of Juicy Fruit gum in their hole in the ground. Apparently they have a thing for sweets…….The gum is used because they do injest it and they cannot DIJEST it………..so it binds them up and we were told they die………….We did try it and I guess it worked because we no longer had their tunnels in the yard…Good Luck.(use either a stick chewed up, or place 1 stink unchewed)
Put some mothballs out, that should do the trick, if not shoot the pesky rascals
i have nice fenced garden. but cant seem to keep the squirrels and rabbits out. tried marigolds but didn’t seem to work. any suggestions?
Where I live, shooting him is not an option.
asking again how do i fix this problem with neighbors pets?
What to do about neighbors animals?
they have come into our yard, tore up our fence and tore up the other fence to the chicken coop and killed 12 of our 18 chickens which cost us about 10.00 each PLUS the eggs we sell.
what can i do to get rid of these animals!
weve told them to keep there animals out of our yard, weve called the authorities they told us that if the animals are on our property we have the right to shoot them.
can you think of a less lethal way?
6 hours ago – 1 week left to answer.
Additional Details
we had a perfectly fine fence brand new before that tank of a lab tore it up
ADD: someone had the NERVE to say this is my fault, we bought and have replaced the fence three different times! we have the heavey duty stuff the dog gets out there at night and pulls and gnaws at it until he gets in! we caught him on the survelance camera
quote: “Part of it is your fault but also the owner of the animals who keep getting into your yard. ”
lucky: how in the Hell is this my fault? we have two fences one for the house and yard and another fence that is around and above the chicken coop . there dog and cat are tearing apart new fences! we called the police , humane society and animal control and they say that if they dont see the dogs doing it themselves they only have our word even though we have pictures of those animals in the act.
THE PURPOSE OF ASKING THIS QUESTION IS SO I CAN AVOID HAVING TO SHOOT AT THE ANIMALS. i am an animal lover i dont want to shoot them despite the authorities recomendation to do so. god knows that mutt probably deserves it but i wont be the one to do it
no dodger doesnt bite or rather hasnt yet, he chases people that walk by his house and ours! he will get close like he might bite then runs off a ways and when you turn your back on him he will rush forward and do the same again. no biting yet
we dont use an electric fence because of our own dog he likes to visit the ****** and we dont want him shocked tryign to sniff them through the fence not to mention my little nieces and nephews like to run out there and play with the birdies i dont want them shocked
So my parents were digging their garden and backyard stuff. When my mum said: ” Hey there’s thing hole tunnel thing that appeared.”
So now what should we do now?
We don’t even know how it got there and when you look down the hole, you can see little tunnels and burrows?
I want to tell them to dig their garden some place else because I think animals might live down there or something.
Any info or suggestions?
uh…the hole is about 1 foot wide or around there, and the burrows or tunnels is about 1 foot too.
And i haven’t measured how deep it is because my mum say something might be down there. But it’s pretty deep.