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Old 05-04-2010, 05:34 AM
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Anyone got any good ways to get rid of armadillos that dig up my back yard?
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Old 05-04-2010, 07:07 AM
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Never saw one though...They cute?
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Old 05-04-2010, 07:16 AM
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I guess, in an ass-ugly type of way.

They're digging up my yard. I just might try pissing in the yard, in addition to cayenne pepper and coyote piss.
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Don't screw around. Call someone to trap them.
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Don't screw around. Call someone to trap them.
Yeah I did. I don't want to turn into Carl Spackler.
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Silly! That would blow up my house too!
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You never said the house had to remain intact.
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So, when we nuke our house could we come live with you?
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God damn megamods. Always eating armadillos and squirrels and other varmint.
















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No, you'll be irradiated.
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No, you'll be irradiated.
Well then WTF!
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Hey, you just said you wanted the armadillos gone. If you want me to worry about trivial things like plants, grass, houses, and assorted body parts and/or potential survivability, you should have said so to start with.

Also, I never said you'd retain the ability to reproduce.
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Originally Posted by CocheseUGA

Also, I never said you'd retain the ability to reproduce.
No no, I'm good!
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WTF! $499 for an initial trapping? Are you serious?!

Anyone want to play Carl Spackler for two weeks? I'll pay $10 an armadillo.
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aren't those things immune to leprosy too?
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aren't those things immune to leprosy too?
and can be passed to humans.
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I'm stopping by HD on the way home to get some coyote piss.
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I'm stopping by Dick's on the way home to get a baseball bat.
Good plan.
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Originally Posted by CocheseUGA
Good plan.
I want to fire and forget, not track and kill.
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You hit 'em hard enough, they'll forget where you live.
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You hit 'em hard enough, they'll forget where you live.
I want to fire and forget, not track and kill at 4AM.
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WTF! $499 for an initial trapping? Are you serious?!

Anyone want to play Carl Spackler for two weeks? I'll pay $10 an armadillo.
That's insane. You can buy your own trap for far less and the only risk you run is trapping in your area might require a license, so if you get caught you get a fine.
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Originally Posted by svtmike
That's insane. You can buy your own trap for far less and the only risk you run is trapping in your area might require a license, so if you get caught you get a fine.
I have decided on a course of action.

1.) Get this for my dog to prevent her from being bit by mosquitos.

http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1...atalogId=10053

2.) Leave dog outside at night.

3.) Buy two to three traps and bait using worms in a silk stocking.

4.) Relocate armadillos 12 miles away.
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They roll into a ball for defense. Pick up ball and punt it into your neighbors yard.
Problem solved
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4.) Relocate armadillos 12 miles away.
By firing them out to sea from a cannon?

You should try to get some videos of them jumping straight up in the air.
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By firing them out to sea from a cannon?

You should try to get some videos of them jumping straight up in the air.
If I can trap the little bastards, I will take pics. They're stupid and wander around, like Water-S or StonedCL.
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If I can trap the little bastards, I will take pics. They're stupid and wander around, like Water-S or StonedCL.
Can you put an Infinity badge on one?
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If I can trap the little bastards, I will take pics. They're stupid and wander around, like Water-S or StonedCL.
Hey man, that's insulting........to armadillos.
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Hey man, that's insulting........to armadillos.
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Can you put an Infinity badge on one?
hahaha and then I read NSX's response, epic!

My mom has them at her farm and they dig so many holes. We are always worried the horses will get a leg in one and break a leg. Some say it is illegal but most shoot them...
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Originally Posted by Whiskers
http://www.aaanimalcontrol.com/armadillos.htm

Never saw one though...They cute?


Possums.. not so much.... but better eating.

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Hey man, that's insulting........to armadillos.
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I put up a 16" tall wire fence in the back of my yard where it borders the preserve, and it seems to have foiled the little bastards for now. Of course, my wife said she heard strange sounds the night that I put it up, and she said the sounds were sounds of laughter from the armadillos coming from the preserve.

She's a funny woman.
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We used to use a .22 with rat shot for varmits. Doesn't break the skin, but it makes a hell of a welt and they don't usually come back.
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If ya kill one make an armadilla helmet to block the governments spy rays from reading your thoughts.
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If ya kill one make an armadilla helmet to block the governments spy rays from reading your thoughts.
I'm the one reading your thoughts.
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