Tag: groundhog

I’m starting to feel like Bill Murray.

I was out watering the garden yesterday afternoon, when once again I saw massive evidence of yet another groundhog invading the vegetable garden.  Since I am becoming quite handy with the trap, I quickly obtained it from the garage, baited it with the vanilla extract and broccoli mix, and set it up right next to the hole under the neighbors fence.  Within an hour or two, the critter had been caught.

I decided not to try and relocate the rodent while on my way to work this morning, so I left it inside the cage until I returned home this evening, then loaded the trap into the car after dinner, and went for a ride to the same spot I had relocated the first groundhog, not far from my in-laws’ house.

Why do I get the feeling this saga isn’t over just yet?

Another day, another groundhog.

I came home from work on Monday and found evidence of another groundhog: a hole had been dug under the fence from our neighbor’s back yard, so I decided to set up the trap again, baiting it with broccoli doused with vanilla extract.  Tuesday night the trap and bait had been untouched, so I moved the trap closer to where the hole had been dug, and sure enough when I came home Wednesday there was another groundhog peering out at me from the trap.  Instead of throwing the cage into the back of the car to “go for a ride” with the varmint, I took it with me for the 35+ mile trip to work at the Hopewell site and let it loose there.  I could almost hear the strains of Born Free playing as I watched it run away from the cage and into the wild; well, maybe not, but I did learn something from the experience: if you leave your formerly groundhog occupied trap in the back of your car in the hot sun while you are at work all day, leave the windows open.  A lot.