Tell me how to get rid of ground hogs, please?

Question

have one under the front porch and one under the wooden deck at ground level in the back yard. We live in a wooded area.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

I live in the country where we have been over ridden with ground hogs. I am an animal lover, and don't mind the odd one but will not be pushed out of my house by any of them. There are ground hog hole bombs that you get from a farm supply store. You need to find the second exit that should be within 50ft. of the hole under your porch, stuff it and insert the bomb in the other hole. You have to be sure that the ground hog is in the tunnel, light the bomb and the treated smoke will humanely kill the ground hog. The only other way I know of is taking a shot at it with a beebee gun. Our son tried that one year. He aimed at and got it in the rump. No blood or serious injury, just a ping in the butt. It ran as far as it could and never returned.

Answer 3

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 =)

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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)

Answer 6

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.

Answer 7

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!

Answer 8

Put some mothballs out, that should do the trick, if not shoot the pesky rascals

Answer 9

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.

Answer 10

do you have a .22 ?