Your best guess the animal that lives under my yard

[Dominus]

She probably is just used to running the neighborhood. Although if I were living across from a dumpster, I'd sure hate it for the noise and spillage and view, but that's city living.

Many old retired and single people have little to fill their days but keep watch. Your best bet is to befriend her while assuring her you are in charge. She should have apologized for presuming you were not entitled instead of asking.

I generally have little patience for people who threaten first before asking. I would have been more polite had she asked if I was part of this project or something like that. But she came out and the very first thing she said was what I was doing was illegal and she was calling the police. Go ahead, I got 30 guys here all can tell you I'm the boss and this is my site, my dumpster.

Edit.

This is why I have little patience for people who accuse me of lying on here. They somehow think engineers are such mythical creatures that I couldn't possibly be one.

 

[NotHardUp1]

/\ Yes, take time to chat a bit.

Find out if she has lath and plaster walls, and if there are any weak or loose floorboards in the attic.

This.

Although, that poor lady in Texas looked nice and she was but 61. That really bothered me to think of that tragic accident. As I said, I hope she died in the fall.

 

[Dominus]

This.

Although, that poor lady in Texas looked nice and she was but 61. That really bothered me to think of that tragic accident. As I said, I hope she died in the fall.

Freak accidents scare the hell out of me.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I think I'm grateful for learning about them We are never guaranteed another day or hour. Realizing that is very freeing. It affords us a path to intentional living. We worked, played, loved, rested, dined, or whatever, because we chose to do so, and if we die tonight, we have no apologies and no regrets or recriminations.

Of course, the odds are against accidental death, but fate plays no favorites, so I make no assumptions. Think of those Lamborghinis that feel into the sink hole under the garage that housed them. The odds didn't save them.

 

[gsdx]

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Just as much wood as a woodchuck would chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood.

 

[cityboy-stl]

Back to topic....So did you ever determine what little critters are digging holes in your yard?

 

[Dominus]

Back to topic....So did you ever determine what little critters are digging holes in your yard?

Not directly, no. Indirectly, according to the chart above we got a norway rat.

We don't like to kill stuff. And I don't like to relocate anything, especially mammals, because there might be helpless babies in the nest and relocating the mom or dad would doom the babies. We are just going to leave whatever it is down there alone.

 

[Dominus]

So, looks like these guys are building an underground city in my front yard. Just found several more holes where there were none before. And I even managed to get a picture of one of them.

 

[Cormac135]

Kill them before they undermine the entire foundation of the house.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Chipmunks or ground squirrels? Hard to tell from the pic.

I learned this week that I have chipmunks under my pool deck. I'm concerned that they may have burrowed back under the embankment and under the pool's fiberglass steps. If this is true, it means that they may break through at some point, weakened without the underfill of sand that supported them decades ago.

I am going to look into baiting some live traps to see if I might relocate them to the other side of the city.

Problem is, I'm likely to have to catch a dozen squirrels before catching a chipmunk.

 

[Dominus]

Kill them before they undermine the entire foundation of the house.

I've got a basement. They don't go that deep.

 

[Cormac135]

I've got a basement. They don't go that deep.

They're like water, they get in everywhere, it's only a matter of time before disaster descends, set traps and destroy them all, kill the young with a spade or poison.

 

[72-Jay]

Time for a pellet-gun or air-rifle

 

[NotHardUp1]

Glue traps would work, but are grisly.

Live traps would let your relocate them.

 

[opinterph]

(Animal Diversity Web)

 

[Alistair]

But what is it?

 

[opinterph]

But what is it?

Click the link.

 

[opinterph]

I'm concerned that they may have burrowed back under the embankment and under the pool's fiberglass steps.

Eh, I doubt they are there. FWIW~ The sand is intended to shift over time as necessary. I think my steps may have lost some of their under-support. The steps are one of the structure's strongest points. And even if there’s a small city under there, I don’t think an animal would voluntarily chew through fiberglass.

 

[Alistair]

They count the stripes

 

[72-Jay]

But what is it?

In the neighborhood, its a varmint.
Out in nature - like a forest, its a cute little critter.

... clicking the pic leads to a page that says its a "permophilus tridecemlineatus" or "thirteen-lined ground squirrel"