Need to borrow a trap for groundhog

[schr8er2000]

I live in the beautiful ( ? ) city of Hazleton and have a groundhog that is burrowing under my front porch... since I cant shoot the damn thing I need to trap it and move it out... Does anyone nearby have a Havahart type trap I can borrow ????

Would appreciate ANY help...

Thanks for looking

[hornady]

You have two problems, one a ground hog is pretty hard to get into a box trap, the second part is the legality of trapping them, I would contact animal control or PGC, chances are they will not be much help, but I have heard animal control do rent traps out for a small fee. I would not want to get on the wrong side of the Game commission or some Bunny hugger in the city counsel.

[cobaltss]

I live in the beautiful ( ? ) city of Hazleton and have a groundhog that is burrowing under my front porch... since I cant shoot the damn thing I need to trap it and move it out... Does anyone nearby have a Havahart type trap I can borrow ????

Would appreciate ANY help...

Thanks for looking

I tried for weeks to get a ground hog in a havahart trap. I finally harased it enough by blocking hole after hole. It left on its own. The G/H was under my shed. Flooding the hole is another option. The water will make the G/H want to stay out. Dont flood the hole while it is inside the smell will be disgusting after its dead ! The best thing to do is plug the hole while it is out. Farm stores may sell some other options worth looking into.

[Tootie]

My mothers neighbor (PRNJ) uses a shovel to rid herself of these pesky animals. One good whack knocks them out another finishes them off to never bother you again.

[wis bang]

Bananas! I asked this last year when my mom was selling her home, she had them under her shed and neighbors in the line of fire...

She's now using it a their new place too...

so far:

Mom 11
GH Zero

[Azzy]

Broccoli works too, has for my dad, he has caught a couple.

[XD40coyote]

I've used apples before, they love apples, but yeah I too have had the smart ones that won't go in. I've tried guiding and using things to block things. Wouldn't go in. One day I came to check and the trap had a raccoon in it LOL. The customer didn't want them either, so I got rid of the coon, and got my conibears out. I nailed that groundhog by the next day. I have found that for farmland and rural use, that the 160 conibear stabalized over the holes and the chain staked down, is the best groundhog trap. I would stake them down as foxes were known to steal a dead trapped groundhog- and the trap. Staking allows foxes to eat it from the trap, but leaves the trap- and often the groundhog's head still stuck in it.

[R.W.J]

I've used apples before, they love apples, but yeah I too have had the smart ones that won't go in. I've tried guiding and using things to block things. Wouldn't go in. One day I came to check and the trap had a raccoon in it LOL. The customer didn't want them either, so I got rid of the coon, and got my conibears out. I nailed that groundhog by the next day. I have found that for farmland and rural use, that the 160 conibear stabalized over the holes and the chain staked down, is the best groundhog trap. I would stake them down as foxes were known to steal a dead trapped groundhog- and the trap. Staking allows foxes to eat it from the trap, but leaves the trap- and often the groundhog's head still stuck in it.

You cannot set conibearers in PA on dry land. Apples and a little peanutbutter have done the trick for me. just be sure to close the trap at night and open in the morning.

[schr8er2000]

OK people.. thanks for the info... now all I have to do is get a trap and get to work... but I appreciate all the help on this... hopefully the little "critter" will cooperate and I can relocate him FAR away from here...

Thanks again

[XD40coyote]

You cannot set conibearers in PA on dry land. Apples and a little peanutbutter have done the trick for me. just be sure to close the trap at night and open in the morning.

You can with nuisance lisc, and I heard if a farmer is experiencing crop damage, the farmer can use them. Used to be ok in MD with same type lisc, but new rules= can only set at holes going under a shed or barn- pretty stupid rule considering rural farmland and soybean fields, and along with other new nonsense, I decided to not renew my lisc.