Gophers and Groundhogs

There are many items on the market to kill groundhog including trapping and releasing them. I'd rather kill them outright ... after years of dealing with them, they have destroyed and chewed through my cedar fence, they destroy everything in the yard, I have a huge backyard and I no longer plant ANYTHING...these animals eat flowers, vegetables all of it...I too love animals, don't get me wrong but when groundhogs are destroying my property you better believe it's a problem...there are holes in my yard and my dogs have fallen in...I have used the poison smoke which works extremely well for the young groundhogs but you must do it at night or early evening when they are all underground enjoying a nap. I was able to kill all the young groundhogs. The adults are tough. It looks like I will be trapping those because the poison hasn't worked and besides I have dogs. I know some of you are besides yourself but unless you live in a hut with no running water and electricity and strictly eat plants and wash your hair with just water I don't want to hear it...we ALL leave a carbon footprint behind and pests are a nuisance. I assume you won't kill roaches either?

Is a groundhog a autotroph

No. Woodchucks primarily eat wild grasses and other vegetation, and berries. They also eat grubs, grasshoppers, insects, snails and other small animals. The name woodchuck is unrelated to wood or chucking. It stems from an Algonquian name for the animal, wuchak.

No because they can choke on them and they can not eat sugar.

Cascades

Ground hogs are blind at birth but not as an adult.

no they are cousins but still diffrent species

Yes. The groundhog saw his shadow. Today is 2-2-10.

He can chuck 4 because there are 4 woods in the sentence for him to chuck

Frogs and Toads can breathe through their skin underground in a process called cutaneous gas exchange. They get moisture and oxygen through their skin.

if they are not hurting your house then just leave them. they are doing you no harm & that is their home just as much as yours. If they are hurting your house try building a space for them to live. put food out for them in this space and they will probably go live in the space instead of your house!

they look like

it depends on whether the groundhog is curious.

I think he uses oil paints, especially for the portraits with all the colours incorporated, because oil paints take a long time to dry so he will still have time to mix in the colour components to resemble a face.

Yep, gophers (groundhogs etc) love to eat the leaves. They will chomp it off and there will be only the stem left. You can solve this with a chicken wire fence.

Groundhogs in the wild eat succulent green plants, such as dandelion greens, clover, plantain and grasses. They also are tempted by nearby garden vegetables. At Cornell, they dine on Agway Woodchuck Chow, a similar formulation to rabbit feed but in larger-sized pellets. Woodchucks binge and purposefully put on weight in the summer, reaching their maximum mass in late August. They become lethargic and prepare for hibernation in October. By February, hibernating woodchucks have lost as much as half their body weight.

Groundhogs can be a small nuisance to a big problem. This usually depends on the amount of critters you have in your area. I have used "critter ridder" I got from The Home Depot and it works fine.

As for plant choices, gardeners have told me that groundhogs usually don't bother flowers like: cleome, nasturtiums, calendula, orange cosmos, impatients, California poppy, coreopsis, ageratum, and alyssum.

Another ideas is to try a trap. The trap usually doesn't work if a large amount of food is available.

I've tried cayenne pepper mixed with baby oil and poured it over areas groundhogs have been seen.

The best way I know of is a dog. Dog's are territorial and will be on watch 24/7.

he never does

Woodchuck feces look similar to rat feces. It looks like large grains of dark rice. However, you will not likely see woodchuck feces on your property. Woodchucks have special chambers under the ground that they use as their bathroom.

Repellent plants, row covers, and wire guards are ways to eliminate gophers and raccoons from back yards. Castor beans or squills and prickly-leaved squash vines respectively repel gophers and raccoons. Row covers tend to protect the above-ground parts of back yard plants while wire guards need to be anchored firmly in the ground and to posts.

Probably not because it needs wide open space to dig in plus it might knaw your finger off.

Groundhogs are one of the few species that enter into true hibernation, and often build a separate "winter burrow" for this purpose. This burrow is usually in a wooded or brushy area and is dug below the frost line and remains at a stable temperature well above freezing during the winter months. In most areas, groundhogs hibernate from October to March or April, but in more temperate areas, they may hibernate as little as 3 months. To survive the winter, they are at their maximum weight shortly before entering hibernation. They emerge from hibernation with some remaining body fat to live on until the warmer spring weather produces abundant plant materials for food.

Not for most. Except the blucose de clomust, commonly found New England, they stay for a while, then they fly into a burrows and sleep all winter.