What demon critter is doing this to my yard?

[Hack]

I had to deal with this today.
I really want to thank all of the "skunk whisperers" for giving me the courage to act like I knew what I was doing. My wife insisted I call someone else to deal with it. Got 2 quotes. $300 and $600. With the money I saved I can probably find something to buy here.

 

[TwoForFlinching]

Just caught my critters in the act. Cottontail rabbits are digging my holes. Not big enough to den, not sign of scrape, best I can figure is they're digging in the shady watered area to lay in and keep cool.

 

[dennishoddy]

Update on my rifle click when stalking a Diller the other night. It was a CCI stinger that evidently didn’t get primer material added to it.
Loaded the round into a revolver so it could be rotated. Four good strikes and it still wouldn’t go off. Never had a failure with that model of ammo.

 

[Buck98]

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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Yum! Yum!

 

[Ready_fire_aim]

our cat has been catching these
Maybe "prairie vole"?

Heck of a set of nuts on that lil SOB