How do I get rid of an unwanted house guest?

[SpottedCrow]

I had a baby groundhog in the porch with Obelisk all winter...didn't know what it was until I was doing a bit of spring cleaning...All three of us went different directions...Ground hog crashed into a tree and kept going...now he's back and eating the floor around the door of the back porch. I keep pouring mothballs in the hole, but I think it likes the taste...

My next stop is DH pee and after that is bobcat urine, because I KNOW I don't have them near me...

Any other suggestions besides an all night vigil and a lead vitamin?

I just found a bunch of boxes he's peed on and I'm not happy because they have my chicken emergency kit in em.

 

[sundance]

have your tried pouring some bleach down the hole, we have groundhogs but they are way back in the woods and I guess they are afraid of our dogs. marrie

 

[Brindlebtch]

Got any source for dog poop? Try putting as much dog poop as you can down the hole. The more the better.

 

[giasmom]

We've had good luck using Pine-sol to deter wood chucks ( chipmunks). Something about the smell they don't like.

 

[TrixiePA]

Filled a hole once with dog poop and they pushed it all back out. My farmer neighbor said they are very neat creatures. He shot ours. Then I shot one. Now we don't have anymore.

Whatever you do, do it before the g/h has babies.

 

[Judy]

Well, when I read the title, I thought, "Throw him out, or have the cops do it, and change the locks."

I've never even seen a groundhog. Wonder if they would eat One Bite (bromadiolone.) It is a rat poison that is supposedly safe for any animal who eats the carcass. Our rats sure love it, and I have dogs who hunt rats and mice, who have not gotten sick.

Of course I'd try something like the Pine Sol first.

 

[Whispering Winds]

You guys . . . . .

 

[Uppity Peon]

I have heard housecat poo dumped near their holes can work. That shouldn't too hard to find if you or your neighbors have cats.

 

[emvickrey]

By the time you dump all that stinky stuff in and around the hole you won't be able to go outside for the sstench.

Either get yourself a live trap and trap the thing and take it far far away or get out the gun and shoot it.

I know I would be telling DH to get his gun. I couldn't do it myself. I can't kill anyhting but bugs, mice, rats and snakes. Everything else DH has to take care of. But I would do the live trap if I had to do it myself then load it in my car and drive a long way from my house and leave it in the wood somewhere.

Surely its not like a dog and find its way back. Good luck, I hope you find a way pretty quick.

 

[SpottedCrow]

Considering it's under my porch...yeah...He's trying to chew his way back in through the floor near the door, so I want him to take a hike...

I have a pellet gun, so I know what I'll be doing over the weekend...