My Doggy Door Must Be Defective...

[VUPDblue]

My Doggy Door...UPDATE With Pics!!

So I'm sitting in my recliner this morning with my daughter asleep on my lap. My 90lb wuss of a dog is asleep on his bed in another room. I hear the doggy door moving like he is either coming or going. I look over to see what I thought was a cat trying to come in the door, so I threw a Kong toy at the door to scare it off. It walked past my french door on its way away from the doggy door, and it was certainly not a cat. Much to my surprise, it was a GINORMOUS groundhog! WTF is this thing doing in my back yard? More importantly, why is it trying to get in my house?! Now, I'm a country boy at heart even though I live in the city, but I've never had much experience with these things other than through a scope down at the farm. Are they dangerous? Should I 'deal with' it? What to do? Here I thought my doggy door was defective cuz' I certainly did not buy a groundhog door...!

 

[Cwood]

Groundhogs can be quite mean if they feel threatened and can not retreat. My suggestion is to take the critter out. I would not want my child to run across one sitting in the middle of the kitchen.

 

[epsylum]

.22lr + suppressor.

 

[Disposable Heart]

Ive began loading 55gr subsonic (roughly 1000fps) .223 using pistol powder (Titegroup). Its quiet, accurate and heavy enough to stabilize in my AR. Should be perfect for the little sucker!

Groundhogs can be dangerous when cornered, not to mention a wet, dirty stinking animal like that in your clean kitchen can be recipe for disaster. Shoot it or get a badger .

 

[jontheturboguy]

They carry fleas, tape worm, round worm, and other lovely stuff.
They also bite.
Kill and be done with it.

 

[Hooba]

If you corner a groundhog, they can come at you....
If you can find his hole, shove a garden hose down it and wait.

 

[Dogman]

With the right sauce they're quite tasty. and yeah I've eaten groundhog before, not a lot but some.

 

[trusite]

you should tame it and use it for house defense

 

[Cwood]

 

[JcJ]

In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher'.

License to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill gophers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that's all she wrote.

 

[lovemywoods]

I suggest the Three 'S' Model

1. Shoot
2. Shovel
3. Shut Up!


lovemywoods

 

[bigcraig]

SSS

YOU HAVE THE TOOLS TO DO THE JOB!

 

[AFA1CY]

They can also do massive damage to foundations and floors (tunneling). A friend had problems on his farm with them destroying cement floors in his equipment shed. We took 2800 gal of water and tried to flush them out. All the water went down the hole and nothing came out.

 

[Zephri]

That's why you pump the hole full of hydrogen and light it.




Note: you'd have to be extremely stupid to do this.

 

[VUPDblue]

Got him!

Little sucker tried the dog door again! I shutter to think what would have happened if he had goten in the house. Now for the spec's: Walther P22 with 5 1/2" barrel and Gemtech Outback II suppressor using Federal Bulk 36gr HP's. Approximately 20 yards out. 1 shot through the shoulder (while standing on back legs). He flopped a couple times, but in the time it took me to walk that 20 yards he had expired.

 

[wolfman]

Actually, if you can find his den, the most efficient way to get rid of a groundhog is running a hose from the exhaust of a gasoline engine that smokes, down into the hole, and then seal it off with dirt. After about 30 minutes, you should notice smoke coming up out of the ground in a couple other places. (groundhogs dens usually have several back doors) After you fill all the back doors you can find,pull the hose, and forget about him.

Dang ,,, posted this after he had already been dispatched ,,, will leave it in case anyone else runs into a burrowing animal and can't shoot it.

 

[trusite]

Little sucker tried the dog door again! I shutter to think what would have happened if he had goten in the house. Now for the spec's: Walther P22 with 5 1/2" barrel and Gemtech Outback II suppressor using Federal Bulk 36gr HP's. Approximately 20 yards out. 1 shot through the shoulder (while standing on back legs). He flopped a couple times, but in the time it took me to walk that 20 yards he had expired.

very nice bro.

 

[Zephri]

Most peaceful sleep he'll ever have.

 

[JcJ]

nice work..

 

[turkeykiller]

Problem solved!