mud footprints on garbage can of coons. used truck bunji chords 1st. a pain to unhook every time you want to put garbage in can. have a Koi pond. last summer i had 29 Koi's. only one left. you can tell when the coons have been there, mulch moved, hobies knocked over, wood fisherman usually knocked down. new trick for garbage can lid, 4"x4" cut to length, 2"x 6" cut across other way of lid, between the both so far they haven't figured it out yet. drill holes for steel spike to remove boards, just easy to remove boards. one big coon tore/ bent my trap. he got out a few times! had to reshape/ bend cage back to shape. ground hogs here, they seem to tear/ dig holes where ever they want, had one did under wooden fence to other yard, solution, 16x16x2" yard block, dug down, buried step stone, she just dug next to it the next day, 4x4 inplanted next to block, she gave up. suggestion, used break rotors fit there digings perfect, they can't move the rotors, house sideing on outside of fence deters them from diging. leave 1 hole for them to enter the yard. when i had the whole back fence lined w/ as my wife calls junk, they would just come in from the driveway side we share, other yard. can't really see the sideing, rotors in backside of fence, just the woods.i trapped 5 ground hogs in 3 days, started to pant them and dolley them to a coldersac maybe 150 yds. from the house, they would be back in 2 hrs. my buddy 2 doors down from me one day related he saw something strange in his yard. a ground hog that looked like a skunk. he just laughed, and shook his head. well i took up enough of time on this subject. everyone have a good weekend. oh yea last summer security light come on front porch, walked out the door, 3 baby skunks 3 feet from my body, SLOWLY went back into the house.
