Woodchuck aka groundhog... I have 5 of those bastards living under my shed, DESTROYING the gardens in the neighborhood... they are really cute until you plant a garden...
Woodchuck aka groundhog... I have 5 of those bastards living under my shed, DESTROYING the gardens in the neighborhood... they are really cute until you plant a garden...
the darn buggers will take one bite out of everything in your veggie garden. Wouldn't be bad if they just ate one thing complete but they like to sample and move on. Find the burrow, hope for only 1 entrance, jam a hose down it and flood them out and wait at the entrance with a pellet gun and a shot to the noggin. Stinks killing anything but they are too destructive. A free ranging dog at home will usually keep them away too. Under a shed will be tough. Maybe a smoke bomb to drive them out. Day time is normal. I see them along the highway a lot eating stuff. On a porch is not normal.
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The face when compared to other woodchuck pictures on google images doesn't match up.The black snout and a few other features had me on a wild goose chase.
As stated above - it is a juvenile. Older ones get white around their snout. They can wipe out a garden pretty quick.
.22 HP short should do it. Very fatty meat and gamey. I rather eat beaver! Muskrats aren't bad either, but tree rats are tastier. Sewer brains ...... LOL. I got ya on that one, huh?! :P
Any mammal can get rabies. Most rabid animals I have seen just look like they have had way to much to drink. There was a wave of rabies on the cape a few years ago. was menaced by an otter that tested positive for the virus. Seen many many sick racoons.
Can't be a beaver...there's tons near my house and none of 'em are that furry...
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
This one taunted my wife for a couple weeks before I got him last year....then....ANOTHER ONE MOVED IN a few weeks later. I trapped both and let them go 10 miles away in a heavily wooded area. Both fell for fresh brocolli. I told my wife to get some fresh brocolli to bait the trap......she proceeded to buy 3 heads Check him out sitting on the deck....
Then I had to do this to my deck.....dug down a foot and angled the screening 90 degrees so they can't dig under.
Very fatty meat and gamey. I rather eat beaver! 
Muskrats aren't bad either, but tree rats are tastier. Sewer brains ...... LOL. I got ya on that one, huh?! :P
Check him out sitting on the deck....
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