Why Groundhogs Are So Hard To Get Rid Of
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 พ.ค. 2019
- Groundhogs, aka woodchucks, can be found in central and eastern US. They’re actually very aggressive animals and are known to burrow through yards and eat through gardens.
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Why Groundhogs Are So Hard To Get Rid Of - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
I had 2 groundhogs causing damage to structures in my yard. I shot them both. They aren't 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?
😂😂😂😂😂
*Groundhog #1:* _"Why are humans so hard to get rid of?"_
*Groundhog #2:* _"Relax, they'll get rid of themselves."_
I agree
RammyCat
But true like a shrew.
I imagined the same thing...
It appears we have ourselves a regular "Optimist", here.
They’re hard to get rid of because when you do, the next day everything resets and they’re back all over again.
0:57 my mom says I’m handsome ☺️😤
You are handsome make a wish kid
Haha, Im sure you are 😂
There's this fat groundhog in my yard that likes to sunbathe on a rock most of the day and I love him lmao. I know they're considered pests but he hasn't bothered us so far he just vibin honestly.
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.
Video doesn't exactly say why they're hard to get rid of...maybe change the title? :P
Media do be like that
Because they come back all the same every single day
And pretty cute
Gun
i live on a farm and there’s this enormous ground hog that comes out often in the morning from our entry way and slowly walks back to take a nap. it’s huge it freaks me out
You have a gun right? Squash your fears.
I live in a town where groundhogs and other wildlife have more rights that people. You can't even trap them and release them in a nearby woods owned by the state. What sate is this? NJ, of course.
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?
This “article” is what a city person would consider “ research”
I been relocating Ground Hogs for some time now for farmers in my area!
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!
I had a turkey decoy that I used in hunting season. I put it out near where the groundhog was trying to establish a burrow. It scared the critter away. Low cost solution. I had tried trapping, smoke bombs, even bear spray. Groundhogs apparently know turkeys will eat their young, so they move on!
They won't eat it, but they will attack.
Our solution for dealing with groundhogs without killing them is used cat litter. Every day for about a week we dumped it down every burrow hole. The next week they were gone. Though a .22 rifle round does the trick without needing a cat.
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
Cost of cage trap: $50
Cost of lettuce bait: $1
Cost of .22short round: $.10
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.
If you have the ability... Trapping and shooting them is the most cost effective way to eliminate ground hogs.
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.
they’re so damn annoying but so damn cute
I live in Australia so i have no squirrels or Groundhogs only red back spiders and snakes but its not bad i've lived there my whole life
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
0:29 The jungle's squirrels: *Are we a joke to you?*
I saw that movie Caddyshack and they had a hell of a time with that one I don't think I've ever seen one but I would probably end up feeding it like a pet raccoon
No mater how many I shoot, there are always at least 50 more. Due to this, and deer, the local soy bean fields get nearly destroyed every year.
😢 they are a real nuisance
My dog killed two ina matter of weeks. I felt bad but had to get it done.
My dog killed one last night. Almost got one tn. I hope we can get rid of them all soon. Amy suggestions on getting rid of them?
22lr is pretty cheep
But are the groundhogs edible? Like its meat is good?
@@darksesh8247 just use them as fertilizer not worth eating.
I trapped 5 this summer in my yard. Very difficult to catch.
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
"just about only way to keep them out is an electric fence" yes if they didn't dig under it lol
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.....?
They are big squirrels. Stop the hate. Try respect. I live on a farm and freely feed them vegetables and they leave my gardens alone. They eat weeds.
I've relocated a couple. They can make a mess, that's for sure.
Yeah, imagine it consistently living bellow your old-ass house for two years straight.
I have seen two times where our dog has treed a groundhog, or a woodchuck, same thing. One stayed up there for two days before it would come down, and get murdered by our dog who waited there the whole time.
Every time I am home and am vigilant for the little things they aren’t there but the minute I leave my cabbages are fair game
i was playing basketball and one came from behind and we stared at each other for like 10 seconds then he left
.22 air rifle solved my problem.
They can totally undermine the integrity of a dam as well.
Amen.
ALAN!!
I have tons of these in my backyard I was barbecue in one day and one snuck up right behind me and ran off thank God Lol
never saw a single Groundhogs in my life
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...
i've recently acquired a woodchuck over here... at 1st, i THOUGHT he was a cute addition to the channel, but NOW i aint so sure.. 😳
I came here to make a joke about _Groundhog's Day_ but I realized that it's been done before.
Booo. . . .hisssss. . ..
lul "hi forst them" hi got a gun
Smoke, and gun = no more groundhog
5.56x45
Punxsutawney Phil: What did you say about me?!
How many groundhogs could I chuck into the trash can? My neighbors sub-porch dweller and two juniors running down my driveway each day at least. We are in the city with coon possum fox, I even saw a bald eagle swoop by the other day.
Find their entrance, use a #220 conibear trap. Keep setting the trap until you find another exit. Place it there. Costs $10.
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.
Had two groundhogs eat my entire vegetable garden. Bang Bang..... no more problem. Not too hard to get rid of. Just wish I'd done it sooner
I got a mama and 3 of her babies here in the side yard and here I am thinking about how to get closer to them by knowing what else they eat. Silly me! And yes we have a HUGE front lawn, a specious side lawn and the back yard area that’s smaller but leads out to the woods or over to the next yard. The thing is our property is the furthest away from the main road where the house is far from the road but closer to the woods so we get ALOT of deer strolling and chilling in the yard areas because it is so far from the road no humans other than the ppl living here and the whole property is mowed every 9 days! So any animal that lives open spacious far from cars ppl and traffic close to the woods would love this property. Mama ground Hogg’s looks so cute with her babies in the yard feeding on stuffs I had to look up info on them but now thinking 2ce about trying to get closer to them cuz of their cuteness.
Firearms seem to do the job nicely. A good pellet gun with about 50 Pounds per square inch of impact will also.
Varmint Cong!
This year I'm setting up an electric fence after they made holes through my old chicken wire fence. If that doesn't work to protect my small garden, it's either A) forgetting about the garden, B) setting traps and make stew, or C) move to a house where I can build a rooftop container garden.
You said ground hug are hard to get rid of how about gopher are the same ground hug in my area, gopher it is hard to get rid of them too in my area .
We have a groundhog thay lives under our built in pool...
Has it caused any damage yet?
Jokes on you I don't have a backyard
Rip of it .
Because some people who are upset and angry at groundhog.
It eat their flowers and vegetables too.
Same mine .
I not like groundhog and mole too.
Hmm we have seen one! Ran under several cars we have & a strange nesting under the hood of the newest car(plenty room under there 4 cyc engine!?)
For now trying to keep yard/grass cut more often!
Got a hand air gun & rifle air gun!
It keeps coming back we are gonna start having target practice on its behind!
A friend of mine jus told me he has 5 at his dads old open shed!
A family of them!!!
the 7 i shot in my back yard this year weren't too hard to get rid of
In conclusion, plant trees
No shotgun
Bruh I just use me 22 does the job
There's one under my shed
Lol mines too
They are good to eat..
*heres an unrealistic but fictional way to keep groundhogs out of my house:*
Put lots of portals that send groundhogs to space,making my house have spikes on it,and have lava on the backyard or front yard.
It had too many escape holes
Better to put huge rocks In my backyard and get a hunting dog
.308 and a German Shephard
Haven't seen any in Florida yet
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
Did I see this channel in epic
My 2 pitbulls have taken care of 4 of these..
My ruger 22lr works great.
*Citizen used Fences*
_Its not very effective_
*Ground hog used Rabies Bite*
Citizen: 😲
Fences lmao 😂😂😂
@@hyejoo5244 k
If you had a cat ground hogs wont bother you
There’s a groundhog that lives under my boyfriends shed. We love him and named him Walnut. He likes potato’s.
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 TH-cam page, he lives under a shed, and he is so stinking cute.
Groundhog day
Because they keep repeating.
Why humans are so hard to get rid of?
A bullet is a lot cheaper
My Irish Terrier flushed one out today and I "eliminated" the pest.
Groundhogs don’t carry rabies.
The whole avoiding obstacles thing is BS. They LOVE digging around tree roots and by buildings, because it gives extra support to their burrows. The easier way to get rid of groundhogs is to get a decent rifle and have a good time with friends shooting them
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.
i find a 300BLK works really well at gittin rid of them
One does not simply get rid of a ground hog
Conibear 220
I have one living in my backyard:D
They are chunky bbys
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.
nice scary story, but no explanation WHY
Yea but we need the ground hog, this video Seams to:be against them
call me for ground hog its a delicates in my country
I shot 15 woodchucks with my pellet gun and they come back
You can eat them too
Every Sunday morning one would be gnawing on my steps. Finally I got tired of it and posted up at my bedroom window and shot it in the head. After I killed it I took it to a friend's house and propped it up on sticks. He got home and pulled his pistol out and started shooting it. We had a good laugh about it the next day lol.
Can't relate, live in EU. #feelsgood
Philippines dont have that animals😂
67000 in an entire state is not that high for a small animal, and the 1:45 ratio shows clearly who's the real vermin
Got rid of mine in 1 night
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 🔫🔫🔫
So none of the co-workers could have punted the groundhog? The intimidation tactic only works if you can back it up. I have chased geese away, I could definitely punt something that isn't a protected animal
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.
Why are they hard to get rid of?
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.
I love Chunk The Groundhog & his family & I watch their videos all the time. I can’t believe anyone would want to get rid of them.
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
Grains with zinc phosphide or antifreeze kills them nicely
Good.
We need more Groundhogs in the world.
Groundhog Day is my favorite day and favorite movie.
I kicked a groundhog before and it ran away
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
Call thanos
to show you how cute they are
Conibear. Nuf said
This might be the least informative video on TH-cam, and that’s saying a lot.
An electric fence won’t keep out a groundhog.
I shot a groundhog once with my airsoft rifle. Hit the damn thing on the eye and killed it 💀
Hamizan poor thing