26 Replies to “Small Dead Animals”

  3. As someone who used to set up a lawn chair, toss a homemade smoke bomb down a ground hog hole, and patiently wait with a drink and a shot gun….I’m having trouble relating to this scenario.

    Anyone who has nearly bit their tongue off by taking a riding mower over a hidden ground hog hole understands.

    1. Oh, man, Orson, thanks for the real laugh out loud.
      I have sat vigil with pellet gun waiting in vain for the little bastards, chewing my tongue and sippin’ on some juice.

      1. In the early 1980’s I lived in a rental house in close proximity to a couple of livestock barns. The mice (big ones) would come out and dance in the kitchen at night, where I lay in wait with a Colt Woodsman loaded with shot shells after getting off work on the 2nd shift.

  5. I’m partial to groundhogs. There were pretty rare around my place. Gophers are something I killed in quantity.

  6. That is so sad, I lived in Manitoba for five years and we had our version of Rodent MAID, a garden hose and a shovel.

    1. My brother and I with our cousin went drowning groundhogs one day with 6 milk cans of cold water and our hog-hating dog, Rory, who was squealing with excitement at the water-filled exit hole.  There were a couple of bubbles, a lttle ripple, and the instant a little black nose broke the surface, old Rory pounced, grabbed the snout and hauled the critter out, shaking the shit out of it from side to side.  

      The excitement went up a pitch or two with my cousin’s honking yell “SKONK, SKONK, ***KING SKONK!” as he started gumbooting across the pasture with Rory more or less following him, still shaking the skunk who was pissing out stink from left to right.

      1. My dog did that with voles out on our 40 acres east of edmonton. A sight to see. My dog Betty, half Rottie, half black Lab, a ruthless killer of various rodents.

      2. Terriers are epically effective at that, and it’s amazing how that instinct to shake the hell out of small varmints endures through generations.

    1. It was a Ferrari. Millions of dollars in damage and now they have an excuse for not winning.

  10. Bro is lucky the varmint didn’t take one of his wheels off. Bullseye a groundhog at 200mph? Could be ugly in a car with two to three inches of ground clearance.

  12. I remember a gopher on the rifle range at CFB Shilo. Must have been 50 shots and the bugger lived. Then again maybe I don’t remember.

  13. “Hamilton, an animal rights activist and vegan”

    I guess he’s not at all upset about what happens to all the critters in the fields growing his vegan food.

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