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Old March 26, 2017   #1
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Default skunk ? night 2

I will set a live trap tonight. Would making my soil poor with no grubs or earthworms help ? (snicker )
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Old March 26, 2017   #2
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That would help, but how about a fence?

What are you growing?

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Old March 26, 2017   #3
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Most of the garden has chain link but the pest dug under. Actually the whole lot is fenced except the drive along side the house. About 600 feet of chain link. We grow tomatoes peppers radishes spinach beets chard squash turnip no corn. A little of a lot of varieties.
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A skunk in a trap will smell awful and could spray all over you.

I ended up with too many different types of varmints in my garden, now have a deer fence dug into the soil to stop the rabbits & ground hogs. The fence is about 8' tall but the posts are only about 6' above ground, so the top part flops around a little- and so far no squirrels have et my produce. I don't think they or the deer like the floppy top.

I feed the birds & have ponds, so they don't go after the garden for food or water.

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I think I have a good method to avoid spray, if not my wife will keep the dog in the house and kick me out. We have an occasional ground squirrel but no ground hogs. Road runners will come within 3 or 4 feet when I am digging in the compost and will stand still when I throw a grub to them. Doves land but the pigeons who roost on the electric wires above the garden never do.
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Are you sure it's not a cat? Scat full of bugs would ID the perp!

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Earthworms yay! But grubs eat roots. The varmint may be doing you a favor, and frankly, I see little crop damage.
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Cats don't dig that much, I don't have any problem with the grubs at this point, and yes there are at least 2 or 3 spinach dug up and lots of dirt on some others.
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Have you considered it might be chipmunks?
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I have squirrels that dig like that but they would go over the fence, not under it.
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Haven't seen ground squirrels or heard them lately, no chipmunks here only in the mountains. Set out the live trap last night. No skunk or feral cat or anything and no digging either.
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google "Gammo Whisper" this solved all my critter problems
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Definitely not a cat. Cats do dig in gardens, but they cover up after themselves.
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Get a live (Humane ) trap and catch them.
That I would do short of shooting them.
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Looks like Armadillo digging to me.
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