What demon critter is doing this to my yard?

[turkeyrun]

I worked with a guy that worked his flowers bed an hour or two everyday.
He had an armadillo move in and was wreaking havoc.
Friday night, he takes wife out. Getting home, he sees dillo at corner of house, in a shadow, at end of the flower bed.
He sneaks up the drive and in back door. Grabs his 10/22 and goes on the hunt.
Ends up back at the car, only place he could barely make out the dillo in the shadow.
He shots. Hears a thump. Dillo jumps and is hissing. He shoots 5-6 more times. Each shot, dillo jumps and keeps hissing. 10 shots and dillo quits jumping and hissing. Satisfied, he struts in the house, smiling.
Next morning, he is having breakfast and his 9yo son comes in crying. He asked what was wrong? Kid shows him the football he had just gotten for his birthday, full of .22 holes.

 

[Cowboy777]

All God’s creatures deserve to live.

What happened to if you’re gonna shoot it you need to eat it?

Armadillo recipes?

Do you swallow flies that you swat?
Pest and rodent control are necessary.

 

[XYZ]

Do you swallow flies that you swat?
Pest and rodent control are necessary.

You saying I shouldn’t?

 

[leemozoid]

I came home from a week long work trip and found about a dozen of these little holes dug out in my lawn. Can anyone tell me what type of varmint is doing this, and any possible remedies?

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Pour water into them and see what comes out.

 

[osu007]

Tail make great sausage

Have you ever heard of armadillo chili. Used to be an old gentleman. Had turned a rail road box car into a cafe. Called it the hickory castle. Wewoka, Okla. in 1973/74 he didn’t open until about dark thirty (8-10pm). Made armadillo chili. After a pony pack of miller, it sure was tasty…. Might not have been USDA approved, but neither was miller pony packs for high school students……

 

[dennishoddy]

I had holes like that showing up in large numbers. Kept checking out the window at night with a flashlight before bed or if I got up in the night. After a couple weeks finally one night I looked out and there was 2 huge armadillos! I jumped out the door and headshot them with 12ga high velocity #4s. They jumped around like crazy! Chicken with its head cut off on crack.

Coons and skunks will dig like that too though.

Pest control is one of the exciting parts of living in a rural area lol

Wait until you shoot one next to the pool with the resulting flip flopping ending up with them in the water and bleeding out.
I can't tell you how much bleach we added to the water, drained it, filled it, bleached it once more and refilled it on orders from the wife. She never got back into it. After a couple of years, I removed it.

 

[dennishoddy]

About a month ago the area around the front stoop in mamas flower bed started smelling of pee pretty bad and piles of poop were present so trying to play nice I called animal control first and they told me that they had live traps that I could sign out, told them thanks anyway but I had one.

Stopped by Dollar General and bought some el cheapo canned cat food for bait....must have been a whole herd of them hanging around the circle because I caught four in six nites till I quit catching them and now no more pee smell and poop piles.

I haul them off to a wooded area on the other side of the river not far from the range and release them unharmed....thought about asking @swampratt if he had a good recipe for them but I was afraid that he'd actually have one.

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Omnivores that will eat anything. I've seen too many climbing in and out of the anus of a dead cow to even consider eating one, although some profess to do so.

 

[turkeyrun]

I've seen possums crawl out of dead cows. Never a dillo.

We were drinking heavily, one Saturday night, in college. Started getting hungry and decided to BBQ a dillo.
Drove around for hours, finally found one. Got it cleaned and grilled. But, we had sobered up and nobody would eat any of it. We threw it to dogs and they wouldn't touch it. Decided we made a good decision in not eating it.

 

[Ready_fire_aim]

Wait until you shoot one next to the pool with the resulting flip flopping ending up with them in the water and bleeding out.
I can't tell you how much bleach we added to the water, drained it, filled it, bleached it once more and refilled it on orders from the wife. She never got back into it. After a couple of years, I removed it.

Haha I bet! The 2 I shot made quite a mess as well. They covered a lot of ground flopping around bleeding everywhere. One of them was huge too! I had to get the water hose out and do some good clean up to keep the wife off my case. One got blood on my wife’s vehicle.

Nothing like shooting 2 Dillos at midnight then having to get dressed, go out to do shovel work and hazmat clean up, when you just want to back to bed lol

 

[dennishoddy]

Haha I bet! The 2 I shot made quite a mess as well. They covered a lot of ground flopping around bleeding everywhere. One of them was huge too! I had to get the water hose out and do some good clean up to keep the wife off my case. One got blood on my wife’s vehicle.

Nothing like shooting 2 Dillos at midnight then having to get dressed, go out to do shovel work and hazmat clean up, when you just want to back to bed lol

You just described my life. When the dillos attack, wife puts me on patrol. Fortunately, we have pan cameras everywhere outside to monitor it for me.
I just have to take care of the wet work and disposal.