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07-13-2011, 08:53 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: hudson valley | | | Animal Burrow next to house foundation? What to do?
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I found a rather large burrow next to the foundation of my country home (upstate NY).
The hole is about 6-8 inches. Is it an Opossum? Fox? Wolverine??? The creature from the movie Alien? A gopher?
Should I do anything? I'm thinking Bill Murray in Caddie Shack. Pour gasoline down hole and ignite? Then again that would probably burn my house down. Offer it food? Lower my Ampeg VR into the whole and give it the funk?
I've come to prefer the off-topic advice of bassists rather than professionals who know something.
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07-13-2011, 08:57 AM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | Look under your house and see if they made it there. If so, flush them out, then plug the hole.
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07-13-2011, 09:05 AM
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07-13-2011, 09:09 AM
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Originally Posted by BurningSkies  Fill it with cement? | kind of cruel.
wouldn't molten tar be better?  |
07-13-2011, 09:16 AM
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07-13-2011, 09:17 AM
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07-13-2011, 09:42 AM
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07-13-2011, 10:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Buffalo, NY | | I've got groundhogs in my yard (I live along an old set of RR tracks and they're along there) and that's about the size of the hole. Never got them right next to the foundation though... If it's a groundhog, there is more than likely another exit.
You can try filling it in so it'll move elsewhere, or it'll just dig it out. Get a trail camera hunters use, set it up there and find out definately what it is...could be a skunk too!
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07-13-2011, 11:15 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | You could try to chuck some mothballs down there. I think most everything hates mothballs. I don't think I'd try to flush the hole with water if it's right up to the foundation.
Or...... Call critter control!
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07-13-2011, 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by DblG I've got groundhogs in my yard (I live along an old set of RR tracks and they're along there) and that's about the size of the hole. Never got them right next to the foundation though... If it's a groundhog, there is more than likely another exit.
You can try filling it in so it'll move elsewhere, or it'll just dig it out. Get a trail camera hunters use, set it up there and find out definately what it is...could be a skunk too! | I have a pretty much perpetual war against groundhogs here...
I've filled their holes in many many times, then they just dig them back out at night. If you cover their hole with something - plywood, a pile of firewood, whatever, then they'll just dig diagonally to get under it.
I think that if/when they have little ones in the hole, they'll never give up.
I'm not sure there's much you can do other than killin' the suckers. Maybe you can trap it and move it far away or something like that? Some places will rent out animal traps.
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07-13-2011, 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Phalex You could try to chuck some mothballs down there. I think most everything hates mothballs. I don't think I'd try to flush the hole with water if it's right up to the foundation.
Or...... Call critter control! | This is true. I have mothballs in my closet to protect my suits from moth damage...I hate the smell as much as they do.
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07-13-2011, 11:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Massachusetts, USA | | For woodchuck/groundhog you can buy a smoke bomb called "the giant destroyer" but the problem in this case is that the hole is close to your house... if it vents into your basement at all you'll get a house full of sulfur smoke! 
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07-13-2011, 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by richnota I've come to prefer the off-topic advice of bassists rather than professionals who know something. | this is where it went wrong haha.
I'd start off with smoke bombs then work my way up the firework levels. Or just fill it with concrete haha.
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07-13-2011, 11:32 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Best solution for animal problems in my experience has been other animals.
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07-13-2011, 11:36 AM
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07-13-2011, 11:39 AM
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07-13-2011, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by dbhokie Best solution for animal problems in my experience has been other animals.
The war I have been waging against groundhogs has been virtually solved by a dog and cat. | I didn't even know mice were sneaking into my basement until I got a cat who turned to be an expert mouser. Now I'm tossing them out once or twice a month. She even took out a small bird in mid-air when one flew into my house one night. |
07-13-2011, 12:18 PM
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