Gotta watch that ground hog!

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I've designated Wednesday as cleaning day for my daughter's guinea pig cage since Thursday is the garbage pick up. Every day I do a spot cleaning in the evening and reload the cage with fresh bedding.

I have a 4 foot long cage for them (yeah, it's a mansion my daughter says) and it has a canvas bottom but on top of that I use puppy pads then a layer of fleece (real cheap from WalMart!) and then on top of that guinea pig bedding (not pine shavings).

I soak their furry bed and the fleece and hand wash those then hang them outside (my husband doesn't want that stuff in our washer/dryer. I actually hang them on a bush next to our back deck steps! I went outside a few moments ago to find the ground hog who lives in the back field investigating! I need to keep an eye out in case he decides to steal their bed or fleece to have a blanket for the winter :O_O:
 

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I don't know much about groundhogs, but I suspect it will eventually nab those things unless you find something more out of reach! :scared:
 

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I don't know much about groundhogs, but I suspect it will eventually nab those things unless you find something more out of reach! :scared:

Did you know they can climb trees? LOL This one is so fat I doubt he can climb this bush I have the items hanging on without bending the branch and falling to the ground! LOL
 

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lol didnt know they could climb around here some eat them
 

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Did you know they can climb trees? LOL This one is so fat I doubt he can climb this bush I have the items hanging on without bending the branch and falling to the ground! LOL

No, I didn't know they can climb trees. :D

It may be able to sufficiently disturb the bush and knock your material down and run off with it.
 

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I've designated Wednesday as cleaning day for my daughter's guinea pig cage since Thursday is the garbage pick up. Every day I do a spot cleaning in the evening and reload the cage with fresh bedding.

I have a 4 foot long cage for them (yeah, it's a mansion my daughter says) and it has a canvas bottom but on top of that I use puppy pads then a layer of fleece (real cheap from WalMart!) and then on top of that guinea pig bedding (not pine shavings).

I soak their furry bed and the fleece and hand wash those then hang them outside (my husband doesn't want that stuff in our washer/dryer. I actually hang them on a bush next to our back deck steps! I went outside a few moments ago to find the ground hog who lives in the back field investigating! I need to keep an eye out in case he decides to steal their bed or fleece to have a blanket for the winter :O_O:

Are you allowed to shoot them in your area, if they are considered a pest species?
 

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The fleece is dry already! I use plastic clothespins to secure them.
 

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Are you allowed to shoot them in your area, if they are considered a pest species?

Probably. We enjoy watching these though. There is a male and female and the female is lighter in color (I think that's the female??) and it was pretty cool watching them dig their homes (door in and door out ahha) but I doubt the Amish who own the field are happy with them.
 

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Open season on them year round
 

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Probably. We enjoy watching these though. There is a male and female and the female is lighter in color (I think that's the female??) and it was pretty cool watching them dig their homes (door in and door out ahha) but I doubt the Amish who own the field are happy with them.

I used to like watching squirrels until they started digging up my flowers. Then I found I liked watching them, through the scope of my air rifle. I got to be pretty good at taking them down. I adjusted my sights by shooting the heads off dandelions from about 30 feet away. If I can lop the head off a dandelion I can effect a clean kill of a squirrel. I think the local fox liked me, the dead squirrels disappeared fast enough that something was obviously eating them. Usually all that was left was the tail.
 

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Yeah I have an air rifle thta is 1250 fps and I can take out small animals with it, teach those squirrels to steall my bird feed
 

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I've designated Wednesday as cleaning day for my daughter's guinea pig cage since Thursday is the garbage pick up. Every day I do a spot cleaning in the evening and reload the cage with fresh bedding.

I have a 4 foot long cage for them (yeah, it's a mansion my daughter says) and it has a canvas bottom but on top of that I use puppy pads then a layer of fleece (real cheap from WalMart!) and then on top of that guinea pig bedding (not pine shavings).

I soak their furry bed and the fleece and hand wash those then hang them outside (my husband doesn't want that stuff in our washer/dryer. I actually hang them on a bush next to our back deck steps! I went outside a few moments ago to find the ground hog who lives in the back field investigating! I need to keep an eye out in case he decides to steal their bed or fleece to have a blanket for the winter :O_O:

Maybe you can take pity on him (or her) and buy another fleece at Walmart for the sweet little critter. Winter is coming in the topsy-turvy seasons of the deep north where you live.
 
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