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Posted by ransley on October 8, 2009, 7:31 am
> This year we noticed a number of animal holes in our yard (we live in
> a near city suburb). I think they are squirrel holes.
> The holes are ugly and mess up the lawn.
> I wouldn't mind killing them or chasing them far away since I don't
> want them to nest anywhere on our property -- and certainly don't want
> them tunneling into our attic.
> Any suggestions?
> Would rat poison work?
> Note we are way too urban to use things like guns and I don't want to
> use anything that will turn our yard into a Superfund cleanup site. On
> the other hand, I have nothing against accepted methods of
> chasing/killing animals.
Put out poison and you might be killing neighbors pets, put out a
trap. You likely have grubs, several animals dig for them at night. Is
a few holes worth worrying about.
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Posted by dgk on October 8, 2009, 9:23 am
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 04:31:46 -0700 (PDT), ransley
>> This year we noticed a number of animal holes in our yard (we live in
>> a near city suburb). I think they are squirrel holes.
>> The holes are ugly and mess up the lawn.
>> I wouldn't mind killing them or chasing them far away since I don't
>> want them to nest anywhere on our property -- and certainly don't want
>> them tunneling into our attic.
>> Any suggestions?
>> Would rat poison work?
>> Note we are way too urban to use things like guns and I don't want to
>> use anything that will turn our yard into a Superfund cleanup site. On
>> the other hand, I have nothing against accepted methods of
>> chasing/killing animals.
>Put out poison and you might be killing neighbors pets, put out a
>trap. You likely have grubs, several animals dig for them at night. Is
>a few holes worth worrying about.
I know what he means since I have holes sometimes as well. Not
tunnels; they just dig eight inches or so. I suspect squirrels as
well. We're city also and only have them, possums, and raccoons. Well,
and cats. We feed and neuter the cats though.
But I'm not up for killing the digging critters; they're all kind of
cute and just trying to survive. I just fill the holes and the lawn
looks pretty good again. It seems to happen every other week or so. I
suspect they rotate to other folks lawns so the grubs and stuff get a
chance to resupply.
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Posted by blueman on October 8, 2009, 6:41 pm
>> This year we noticed a number of animal holes in our yard (we live in
>> a near city suburb). I think they are squirrel holes.
>> The holes are ugly and mess up the lawn.
>> I wouldn't mind killing them or chasing them far away since I don't
>> want them to nest anywhere on our property -- and certainly don't want
>> them tunneling into our attic.
>> Any suggestions?
>> Would rat poison work?
>> Note we are way too urban to use things like guns and I don't want to
>> use anything that will turn our yard into a Superfund cleanup site. On
>> the other hand, I have nothing against accepted methods of
>> chasing/killing animals.
> Put out poison and you might be killing neighbors pets, put out a
> trap. You likely have grubs, several animals dig for them at night. Is
> a few holes worth worrying about.
I used a good layer of GrubX in the spring...
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Posted by Van Chocstraw on October 8, 2009, 9:59 am
blueman wrote:
> This year we noticed a number of animal holes in our yard (we live in
> a near city suburb). I think they are squirrel holes.
>
> The holes are ugly and mess up the lawn.
>
> I wouldn't mind killing them or chasing them far away since I don't
> want them to nest anywhere on our property -- and certainly don't want
> them tunneling into our attic.
>
> Any suggestions?
> Would rat poison work?
>
> Note we are way too urban to use things like guns and I don't want to
> use anything that will turn our yard into a Superfund cleanup site. On
> the other hand, I have nothing against accepted methods of
> chasing/killing animals.
Get a big Victor rat trap. Use dried fruit for bait, they love it. I
slice a dried apricot in the middle and put it on the trip lever.
Sprinkle a couple raisins and dried cranberries around it, maybe half a
cashew. In short time you will have a squirrel, chipmunk, rats, mice and
a few other things in your compost pile dead. I was catching stuff every
other day until they were all gone.
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Posted by Stepfann King on October 8, 2009, 10:02 am
> This year we noticed a number of animal holes in our yard (we live in
> a near city suburb). I think they are squirrel holes.
>
> The holes are ugly and mess up the lawn.
>
> I wouldn't mind killing them or chasing them far away since I don't
> want them to nest anywhere on our property -- and certainly don't want
> them tunneling into our attic.
>
> Any suggestions?
> Would rat poison work?
>
> Note we are way too urban to use things like guns and I don't want to
> use anything that will turn our yard into a Superfund cleanup site. On
> the other hand, I have nothing against accepted methods of
> chasing/killing animals.
man, you are so stupid. YOU move into the animal's habitat and now
you want to kill them. It'd be great if you stepped into one of the holes
and snapped your leg off. Maybe you could snapp off both legs.
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> a near city suburb). I think they are squirrel holes.
> The holes are ugly and mess up the lawn.
> I wouldn't mind killing them or chasing them far away since I don't
> want them to nest anywhere on our property -- and certainly don't want
> them tunneling into our attic.
> Any suggestions?
> Would rat poison work?
> Note we are way too urban to use things like guns and I don't want to
> use anything that will turn our yard into a Superfund cleanup site. On
> the other hand, I have nothing against accepted methods of
> chasing/killing animals.