I have a woodland garden that gets covered in wood chips after every weeding.
During droughts, the armadillo come and tear everything up.
The home owner was able to achieve a bit of satisfaction last year with a shotgun.
I warned him that hunting was going to have very limited success...

he's out there raking the paths smooth ...
That's an unsatisfying bit of unending labour.

He's complaining that he's not seeing armadillo when he goes out with the shotgun... I did warn him...

At my previous garden, I spent a lot of effort trying to fence those little bastards out...
Repairing the fence by flashlight... and as soon as I repaired one section of fence, they'd tear a new hole or 3...

They'd spend their time testing every inch of fence for weakness... and an animal that can tear it's way out of a havahart trap... can also rip through a fence anytime it wants...

Eventually... I understood that I wasn't ever going to successfully fence armadillo out...

Much simpler to find and monitor holes in the fence... when there's evidence of use... place trap there.



This pic is from my house... that armadillo isn't going to bother anyone...

Still haven't convinced the townie that a trap is the way to go...
But raking the pathways every morning soon gets old.

Can armadillos be relocated?

Don't do that... Unless you plan to take it back to Texas...

They're not supposed to be here.
And catching and dumping just educates the problem animal...

I've been having huge problems with raccoons this year... where someone's been dumping them out near me... and trapping a cage wary animal is not easy.

Most of these pests are illegal to dump...

Even the humane society disapproves of trap and dump...
https://www.humanesociety.org/...

We have armadillos here too. I've never seen a live one though, they're always dead on the side of the road.

Do the raccoons cause you issues too? We had one that tried to take off with my suet one day (broke the feeder) and pooped in the yard (🤮). I thought it washing its hands in the bird bath was okay until it decided to use the yard as a bathroom.

I just hope that if people have to dispose of an animal (not implying you here), that they do it humanely. I read of someone drowning an armadillo. That just sounds awful.

A bullet and a burial...
Death is never easy... But to me? Drowning doesn't sound bad.

Raccoons kill my chickens, they've started biting them through the wire...
Had a raccoon come by a few nights ago that dug under the door of the pen that some roosters were in... killed all the roos b4 carrying one off...
Not any call for that... That's the kind of behaviour I expect from dogs..,.

Well, at least a bullet is quicker than drowning. And more humane if done right. Drowning just sounds cruel.

I'm not sure one can compare a wild animal to a domesticated one though.

Hamwild said: I'm not sure one can compare a wild animal to a domesticated one though.

In this frinstance, I certainly can...
I've also lost birds to dogs... One night they went from pen to pen... Killing everything...
Lost 25 birds in a single night... I eventually got up, heard an inappropriate sound... went and investigated... Buried dog(s) with kill.

Wasn't my only run-in with dogs out here... There's people dumping dogs here too...

People like to dump dogs around here too. The neighboring county has had an issue with strays for years.

So... What do those people expect to happen to those dogs?
If they've become problem animals... shoot them... Don't dump them out to starve! And otherwise cause problems for people...

Trapped a raccoon overnight... large healthy looking dude... Suspect him of being the culprit of the rooster slaughter last week...

Nebody want a coonskin cap? Seems like a goodun fer that...

I don't think the kind of people that dump dogs care what happens to them.