Wood rat try to destroy your Toyota

Exactly.

 

I was out skateboarding at 3 am in the industrial parks across from MCAS Miramar one night. A coyote popped up from some little creek bed and stopped and stared at me. I thought it was cool as hell, I like dogs, so whatever. Then it started coming right for me. At full sprint. I was like "this isn't supposed to happen" so I skated off around this building, no big deal I thought. I looked behind me and it was still coming but it didn't seem like it was running as fast as it could. Then as I turned the corner, I saw 4 more coming directly at me from the opposite corner of another building. Classic velociraptor technique. So I spent a handful of drunk hours on top of someone's gmc minivan, for an impromptu discovery channel program.

 

That'll teach you to skateboard at 3am lol

 

We had a pack hunting my neighborhood. Haven't seen them in a while. We have a bunch of foxes hunting my yard and the surrounding yards.

 

You need a pack of purpose bred camo/reverse brindle pitbull terriers patrolling the neighborhood.


#fightfirewithfire
Plus as another said
#welcometothethunderdome

 

I've got a red tail fox digging around my chicken coop. I built it like Fort Knox so he hasn't gotten in so far.
Although I keep having to fill all the holes he digs. So I've started stacking rocks but now he's moving those too.

 

A nice 30-06 will take care of that

 

Think it has enough kinetic?

 

If he gets in and takes a chicken...

Otherwise I'm curious how long he'll try.

Chickens seem to have stopped caring. They don't even get loud anymore.

 

Good point. Get the .50 BMG

 

No need for lethal weapons. When I wanted the family of five to move off my property, I hazed them with a good automatic paintball rifle. One of my buddies has one and we went to the range with it and adjusted the settings for application in my yard. Set on auto, it pumps balls out very fast with high accuracy at 40+ yards.

I put about 20 rounds all around daddy fox as he tried to escape under the fence into the next yard. A couple of rounds caught him in the ass.

He came back into the yard a few seconds later down on the other end of my acre and started barking at me. He was like, "WHAT THE FUCK? I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS!!!"

I dropped another three rounds in his vicinity then peppered the area near the fence he went under. They have not been back with the kits.

They are still hunting the front yard. I catch them on surveillance cameras almost nightly. I need to set one up back by the barn to see if they are truly gone.

The paintball rifle did the trick for now. No more half eaten dead animals in the backyard for my dog to find.

Foxes are actually pretty cool if you don't have chickens. Like cats they are great hunters and don't fuck with reasonably sized dogs. They clearly played with my puppy for months before I knew they had taken up residence in the corner of my property.

If I see a coyote in my backyard, I will use lethal force.

 

So instead you'd rather torture them with a paintball gun?

 

Says the guy who suggested a high power rifle...

Hazing is not torture cupcake. Skin was not cut, bones were not broken.

 

I use the Rat Zapper.

Cost $45.00 need 4 aa batteries. Put a peanut inside. flip the switch and when a mouse or rat venture in they get a lethal shock.

 

A rifle is gonna put it down and out, quick with no suffering unless you just graze it with a bad shot. tormenting is a form of torture. You don't think you are tormenting the animal spraying a bunch of paintballs at it?

 

Killing an animal upsets the food chain. The reason so many urban areas have rodent problems is that they have killed off all the predators. If you think it is more humane to kill an animal than it is to chase it off by scaring the crap out of it you are nuts. H

This is from Mammoth Lakes Police Dept.

WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

The Mammoth Lakes Police Department has an added duty unique to law enforcement, policing interaction between humans and the large wild animal species that inhabit the town as well: bear, deer, mountain lion and coyote. Primarily, the duty involves the bears who have become too accustomed to urban life with a taste for human food.

Working in conjunction with contract Wildlife Managment Specialist Steve Searles, police officers use a combination of loud noise and pain compliance techniques to attempt to convince the bears to quit eating human food and return to their normal food sources out in the wild. Officers and Searles have rubber bullets to sting a bear's hide and noisemakers that are similar to firecrackers. The idea is to make it uncomfortable for the bears to be near humans and houses, as they were before we started feeding them our trash.

You should read the rest of the article too. The idea is to make wildlife afraid of people again. That ends up protecting everyone.

 

Bleach in the trash can is a good deterrent too. Before I moved into town I had a bear dragging my trash cans around the yard, I sprayed some bleach in there and the bear moved on.

 

Fill the holes with Sakrete.

 

I like this...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV8VyviJYsw