Help identifying this creature that’s terrorizing my yard
Keep finding holes everywhere find them up with yard stone just to find another hole next to it. Finally got a picture of the creature and someone let me know what this is and the best course of action of catching it.
Groundhog. My wife thinks they’re cute and won’t let me… “permanently deal with them” so I have to use a have a heart trap and drive them a couple miles away to get rid of them.
Obvious-Captain1951
Gold fish
nonvisiblepantalones
Hot_Dot_Vanguard
That there is Bob. Bob’s a little bitch.
Desperate_Mongoose70
Fuck Bob!
VocationalWizard
Gustavo
CJRedbeard
Groundhog. Interesting, I seen one 2 feet up a tree one day, didn’t know they could do that.
He’s probably wondering why there’s a huge useless green space here
Little perspective goes a long way
Swansaknight
I had this problem, got real comfortable on the porch. No longer have this problem.
DependentTurbulent34
Big ol fat groundhog.
assistancepleasethx
Woodchuck and they can’t stand the scent of humans around here. I got rid of mine by doing yard work in multiple shirts throughout the week. Planted stakes and hung my shirts on the stakes. He moved on.
He’s lived in my yard for years prior but never came out when I was outside. Would only see him from my patio and when he smelled me he ran to his hole in the side of the woods. The shirt trick worked well.
insiduoustek
That’s Allan!
bones_1969
I’m all right
RhinoIA
That’s Gary. He’s a son-of-a-bitch.
Looks like a relatively young one. If you live in town, and can’t shoot it, you need to get a live trap and put cabbage/lettuce as the bait in the middle/back of a trap. If you don’t feel comfortable enough doing that, call an exterminator, they likely have a wildlife person on staff who can come out and do it for you. They’ll release it out in the country somewhere.
You need to get rid of it, though. They can be incredibly destructive to foundations if they start burrowing under your home/structure.
ReplacementSweet4659
Like everyone has said, that’s a groundhog/woodchuck.
You may know it as among the same species as Gus, the spokesrodent for the Pennsylvania lottery, or Phil, that f-er that always gives us 6 more weeks of winter.
Anyways, I had a similar problem. What worked pretty well for me is a .22 cal air rifle pellet. Imagine a line coming horizontally from behind the eye and one coming down from the ear. Where the lines intersect is the brain. After pulling the trigger I left him where he lies and I presume a cat or something dragged it off later that day. Never had problems from groundhogs again.
Chimbo84
My kids call ours Chuck Baxter. He’s cool and eats all the clover. We love him.
Quick_Possibility_71
I’ve got one in my backyard too! He teases the kids (my cats)
As a teen visiting my aunts farm in New England for the summer and she was complaining about the family of woodchucks eating her garden. I had never heard of a woodchuck before. Then, one day, I saw one! through the barn window, grabbed a shovel, and raced out convinced it was going to try to outsmart me.
I quietly snuck up behind it and pulverized it.
I thought I was doing the right thing but immediately hated myself. It was just a baby. It was so innocent. It was not trying to outsmart me.
To this day I think about that little woodchuck.
NavierIsStoked
That’s Phil.
Bambiraptor20
Whistle pig
agoraphobic_mattur
Very easy to tell that you’re not from Pennsylvania
LostinLies1
The one that used to live under my shed was called Vito.
Euresko
Wood Chuck. They like apples. Get a live animal trap and toss in a chunk of apple. Probably have it trapped in a day or two. Call animal control or take it out in the country and let it go. Be careful, they have digging claws.
No_Box_4996
QuietGuyInTheRoom1
Enxer
Ground hog. The only type of pesticide I know that works are lead or field tip based.
shock1964
Have you watched Caddyshack? Bill Murray can help you out.
Distended_Scrotum
That would be a ground hog. Fun fact… they can climb trees! My Rottweilers ran one up a tree. The ground hog climbed it like a bear would. It was crazy to see!
GoldenK93
Ground hog, remove it with a trap and set free deep in the woods. The other option is shoot it and make it pain free for it. Reason is that they will completely wreck a foundation of homes and buildings, even a driveways. Ask me how I found that out, not cute looking after that…
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That there’s a woodchuck.
Groundhog. My wife thinks they’re cute and won’t let me… “permanently deal with them” so I have to use a have a heart trap and drive them a couple miles away to get rid of them.
Gold fish
That there is Bob. Bob’s a little bitch.
Fuck Bob!
Gustavo
Groundhog. Interesting, I seen one 2 feet up a tree one day, didn’t know they could do that.
Groundhog
It’s Mike.
https://i.redd.it/2jjchhp21phf1.gif
Cue the caddyshack theme song …
How much wood…..
He’s probably wondering why there’s a huge useless green space here
Little perspective goes a long way
I had this problem, got real comfortable on the porch. No longer have this problem.
Big ol fat groundhog.
Woodchuck and they can’t stand the scent of humans around here. I got rid of mine by doing yard work in multiple shirts throughout the week. Planted stakes and hung my shirts on the stakes. He moved on.
He’s lived in my yard for years prior but never came out when I was outside. Would only see him from my patio and when he smelled me he ran to his hole in the side of the woods. The shirt trick worked well.
That’s Allan!
I’m all right
That’s Gary. He’s a son-of-a-bitch.
Looks like a relatively young one. If you live in town, and can’t shoot it, you need to get a live trap and put cabbage/lettuce as the bait in the middle/back of a trap. If you don’t feel comfortable enough doing that, call an exterminator, they likely have a wildlife person on staff who can come out and do it for you. They’ll release it out in the country somewhere.
You need to get rid of it, though. They can be incredibly destructive to foundations if they start burrowing under your home/structure.
Like everyone has said, that’s a groundhog/woodchuck.
You may know it as among the same species as Gus, the spokesrodent for the Pennsylvania lottery, or Phil, that f-er that always gives us 6 more weeks of winter.
Anyways, I had a similar problem. What worked pretty well for me is a .22 cal air rifle pellet. Imagine a line coming horizontally from behind the eye and one coming down from the ear. Where the lines intersect is the brain. After pulling the trigger I left him where he lies and I presume a cat or something dragged it off later that day. Never had problems from groundhogs again.
My kids call ours Chuck Baxter. He’s cool and eats all the clover. We love him.
I’ve got one in my backyard too! He teases the kids (my cats)
https://preview.redd.it/i32e9mjw9phf1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb2f6857de867be6a5b8fdf10c985450efa1942e
I call them target practice.
Whistlepig
As a teen visiting my aunts farm in New England for the summer and she was complaining about the family of woodchucks eating her garden. I had never heard of a woodchuck before. Then, one day, I saw one! through the barn window, grabbed a shovel, and raced out convinced it was going to try to outsmart me.
I quietly snuck up behind it and pulverized it.
I thought I was doing the right thing but immediately hated myself. It was just a baby. It was so innocent. It was not trying to outsmart me.
To this day I think about that little woodchuck.
That’s Phil.
Whistle pig
Very easy to tell that you’re not from Pennsylvania
The one that used to live under my shed was called Vito.
Wood Chuck. They like apples. Get a live animal trap and toss in a chunk of apple. Probably have it trapped in a day or two. Call animal control or take it out in the country and let it go. Be careful, they have digging claws.
Ground hog. The only type of pesticide I know that works are lead or field tip based.
Have you watched Caddyshack? Bill Murray can help you out.
That would be a ground hog. Fun fact… they can climb trees! My Rottweilers ran one up a tree. The ground hog climbed it like a bear would. It was crazy to see!
Ground hog, remove it with a trap and set free deep in the woods. The other option is shoot it and make it pain free for it. Reason is that they will completely wreck a foundation of homes and buildings, even a driveways. Ask me how I found that out, not cute looking after that…