What the heck did this? [Warning: Graphic photos]!
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greybeard
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I've been waging war on those spawn of satan for 3 years now. They're incredibly destructive. I don't mind the tree cutting too much but the dam damming up stuff has to stop...and the burrowing is even worse. All those sharp pointed stumps are a tire and hoof hazard all their own tho. Took these pics less than a week ago.
There shouldn't be but a tiny trickle of water in these pictures.
I've taken them with conibears, foot traps, snares and 10 ga slugs and .270 and they keep coming up out of the river to my pond and it's drainage to plague me.
babsbag
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A badger hole is wider than it is tall...a fox hole is taller than it it is wide.
OzarkSerenityAcres
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Could be momma fox teaching her youngins to hunt. Then opportunist badger took the head. Just a thought!
Mike CHS
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We have Ground Hogs that dig holes about that size.
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Yeah, big enough to have dropped a tractor front wheel (on a big 2 wd tractor) in and break a spindle; to the tune over $1,000 to replace. Here they will dig big holes both in the field and along the woods . Straight down and in the side hill.
Bruce
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I would also guess fox or groundhog. I think the groundhog holes I've "suffered" (fortunately haven't broken anything yet) are a bit smaller than that so I'll vote fox.
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babsbag
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No groundhogs in CA. Ground squirrels, yes, but they don't make dens like that. You could break an ankle in a ground squirrel hole but not likely that a tractor would fall in one.
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