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Oct 9, 2016 12:55 AM CST
Name: Yardenman
Maryland (Zone 7a)
But I have to nominate Radar The Groundhog. He is impossible to trap. I have tried using melon slices, apples, and strawberries to lure him into the cage.

I call him Radar because if I so much as peek out of a door or window, he seems to know it and stands straight up to stare in my direction.

Then he runs back to his burrow.

I know where the main burrow is. I could drop cat poop down there. But I need to know where the other escapes are. I'm going to have to cut the overgrowth back first. I let it get away from me this year.

And the worst thing is that he probably has an opening under the toolshed I built on cinderblocks above ground.

I am considering attaching a long shop-vac hose to the exhaust of my riding mower and trying to asphixiate him, but then I would never be sure he was dead.

But at least maybe I would see where his escape burrows are...

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