Why Groundhogs Are So Hard To Get Rid Of 

What do you do if your in the city?

Air gun.

A good groundhog is a dead groundhog

Luxemburg: I have a pet groundhog now, because he keeps eating my garden. YKW: I shot them Luxemburg: What? YKW: What?

😂😂😂😂😂

You are handsome make a wish kid

Haha, Im sure you are 😂

I agree

RammyCat But true like a shrew.

I imagined the same thing...

It appears we have ourselves a regular "Optimist", here.

Media do be like that

I kill every groundhog I see. I hate to do it but it has damaged my vehicles twice by chewing on stuff under the hood. First time this happen when I start up the car a groundhog was under the hood somehow got tangled in the belt and derailed the belt off the track but the groundhog was un-harm, imagine that.

@@donnysath9084 You should be trapping them and relocating them instead of killing them. Killing is just lazy and despicable. I don't know how you sleep comfortably at night.

@@magamyassgotarrested3707 i killed 2 this week. Slept well, infact i had dreams of killing more groundhogs. You obviously never had ground hog problems.

@@magamyassgotarrested3707 Relocate them to bother someone else? Nah, I trap and kill them. They do so much damage in a short amount of time. I don't enjoy killing them, but it has to be done...

​@@magamyassgotarrested3707 wood chucks and Skunks live in the Same hole, sending the woodchucks to visit Jesus, than closing the hole is the only solution.

And pretty cute

Gun

You have a gun right? Squash your fears.

Relocate to Leadville

I think mine got smart they won't go In the traps lol

I don't trap i hunt them with terriers

Just kill them

So you're dumping them on others. Even dumping them in a great big park will eventually cause someone, some trouble!

Tempting lol

I trap and then shoot them. A 22 short in a bolt rifle makes almost no noise for the neighbors to notice. I have had a 22 short shot 3 inches from their head bounce off their skull. It was just looking up with a blood spot in its head saying what the f?

How much was the gun? lol

@@dragnet53 If you don't have a .22, you should get one anyway, lul. Fun little guns.

But are the groundhogs edible? Like its meat is good?

@@darksesh8247 just use them as fertilizer not worth eating.

They won't eat it, but they will attack.

My state is pretty practical. Releasing them is still not allowed. It spreads disease. I know it's hard but you have to kill the nuisance ones.

Ahh, New Jersey the shithole of the world, but California and New York are catching up....

@@dragnet53 And where are you from, person with no uploads?

2 on my property took their last dirt nap yesterday. I like the kitty litter idea, don't make any noise.

I prefer to kill them

It took 2 months to trap one, and now I'm getting over-ran with them critters. I think I'll try mixing some Mallerin with some Cantelope.

@Rooster Cogburn i wouldn't recommend it, as it might kill unintended animals.

Well, if it got zapped it probably thinks to dig under is worse....

@@donnysath9084 These are groundhogs, can you guess what they do?

@@etzioplay6904 They fly.....?

Damn

I'm disappointed

I thought that there are more than spider and snakes but it seem like I was lied to believe that there are more dangerous creatures in Australia

@@thelichking7671 There are but i'm from Sydney

@@onlyairpodsigotisair3810 ahh ok

Ugh I seen one go under my house . It keeps digging new holes every time i fill them with bricks. Any ideas 💡 please

@@amandawallace105 place a live trap near the hole and toss a slice of apple in the trap.

@@michaelsmith7668 Thank you Mr. Micheal

Amen.

😢 they are a real nuisance

They don’t live everywhere

Thank your stars. I had to get rid of two late last fall, and blam this morning I saw another one.

@@AChi__ oh right :/ , maybe it's because i live in europe, i don't think they exist down there xD

@@oataoa 🤣🤣 good one

I'll mail you one if you want...

Booo. . . .hisssss. . ..

Has it caused any damage yet?

Just heat some metal and pour it in there. Next, watch them burn.

@@pureocd7227 Jesus christ you psychopath.

@@appletuntrainer You mean genius lol.

I lost my trap, saw ground hog get trapped around head and walk/roll 20 feet away since I didn't stake it down. He couldn't move anymore so I left him and came back the next day and everything was gone, the groundhog and the trap. Coyotes must have taken it all.

No shotgun

Lol! You have snakes (pythons)) gators etc in Florida ..... they'd have a field day on groundhogs!? When u see a bunch let me know! Until then watch out for those big snakes....

@@orlandojohnson5742 I haven't seen any pythons but that's because I don't live in the everglades. I've only seen small black snakes or corn snakes

Lol mines too

We have had one living in our backyard for four years. One year she was soooo fat I referred to her as the world's fattest ground hog/wood chuck. Then she disappeared for a few days and I though she was gone. And then. . . you know what's coming don't you? Yup, then she showed up and was normal sized again but had four babies with her. Watching the entire family eat the clover in my back yard was seriously adorable, I must admit. She lives in a log pile at the back of the yard and hides when she sees our dog. We've got the veggie garden fenced and she stays away from the flowers and herbs, so I would say we are peacefully co-existing.

@@nancywaters253 Those 4 young ones will all have to build burrows somewhere, probably nearby. Oh, and each one builds at least 2 burrows, so that's 8 more tunnels on or near your property. Keep an eye out for them going under any decks that you may have. We didn't bother with them for the first few years that I lived at our current home, and that was a mistake, since they started coming up to dig under our decks and steps. We now have a shoot on sight policy for them if they show themselves anywhere on our property that we can see from the house. My dad grew up about 30 miles or so from here on a farm with woods and a stream on the property, where he wandered around as a kid and observed all kinds of wildlife, and yet he never saw one, probably because the farmers had eradicated them in the area for being the absolute menaces that they are. As this area loses more farmland, though, the people stop being vigilant about the threat that they pose, until it becomes a problem for them. Whenever I see one that was hit by a car, which is sadly pretty rare, I just say, "Good." No coexistence for me.

Keep your fingers crossed and hope its den does not lead to a sinkhole under the shed. Good luck.

He can have the shed. 😂😭 hes a good boy.

@@plannerbrittany 😂 Awesome! I'm happy for him. What a lucky little fella 😂

If you haven’t already, check out Chunk the Groundhog. He has a RU-vid page, he lives under a shed, and he is so stinking cute.

Fences lmao 😂😂😂

@@hyejoo5244 k

If you had a cat ground hogs wont bother you

We have multiple rifles for different ranges. The farthest open parts of the property are over 100 yards from the house, so a scoped .223 rifle is the weapon of choice for any out there, while a lever-action .22 or even a .22 revolver is fine for the close ones. The problem with the close ones is that they tend to be skittish, so you have to be careful about making noise.

@@AnodyneJS yeah, most of the ones I deal with are from 100-600 yards. I run a 18” AR-15 with a can on the end of it, and shoots like a dream

@@AnodyneJS man I tried that, apparently the little hog hears me aiming at him/her, even before I prime for shooting.

You should be trapping them and relocating them unless you're a psychopath who gets pleasure out of killing. Killing is just lazy and despicable.

@@magamyassgotarrested3707 there is no effective way to relocate them in my area. And I do get joy out of killing groundhogs, because they do so much damage to my farm equipment, animals, and crops.

Philippines dont have that animals😂

How?

@@randygreen007 I love animals but he had a moved under my porch after construction started on a neighbours house and my porch sits on 10 brick columns so I didn't want it to collapse so I flooded the burrows with my hose 5 minutes later he ran down the street to another porch I repaired the fence he broke he's never been back

@@Jaybob33 I’m a fan of animals as well but when they become destructive it’s time to take action. I’ve thought about flooding them out but they will likely just return in a few days. I’ve live-trapped as many as 7 in one season but the next year they’re back. I’m thinking it’s time to chose a more lethal route.

@@randygreen007 wow 7 🙈 I guess I'm lucky I have more skunks in my area than groundhogs 🔫🔫🔫

you are a piece of shit

Animal cruelty is an early sign of being a serial killer.

@@Samo-tg4nv animal "lovers" like you are the problems

@@crystalball020 What is that supposed to mean? How would you like it if somebody kicked you for no reason? You probably wouldnt like it, unless you are into bdsm. Animals feel pain too. Only if you plan on killing and eating them, you should not be harming them otherwise.

You're going to grow up to be one sick individual if you found pleasure in commenting that

Exactly! I love Chunk!

How about if it chooses your house under tunnel to poop under! How cute would that be? Farmers have sunk down into deep holes due to underground tunnels??? 😩😠😟Think about being one of those folks ! Their wild animals .. Period.

I can tell you don’t have to live with the consequences of their destruction. If you did you’d think otherwise.

Chunk is great, yes, but when you taste the bitter disappointment of a fledgling garden being destroyed by one it may sour the idea of having them nearby

They make a mess of my flower gardens and veg

They have some intelligence.

I you get rid of one another one comes and takes it place. Even If you fill in the holes the next one always seem to find the old hole and re-dig it. I have rid my yard of 75-100 in the last 15 years and there is always a new one.

Hamizan poor thing

Some animal have hard wired instinct to fight till death as a survival mechanism, to deter predators from hunting them, much like nuclear deterrence. Not sure about groundhog, but wolverines for example, WILL fight you till they die. Your goal should be to survive, not to power trip against an animal, which literally couldn't care less that it will lose and die, but to inflict as much damage as possible to warn predators against attacking their kind.