{"id":4077,"date":"2012-05-02T18:14:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T01:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/varmint-control\/"},"modified":"2023-05-02T21:20:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T04:20:34","slug":"varmint-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/varmint-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Varmint Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/trapped.jpg' title='trapped.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/trapped.jpg' alt='trapped.jpg' width='320' class='alignleft' \/><\/a>Before we left for California last month, there was a white-tailed antelope squirrel burrowing under the quarter minus landscape topping in our courtyard. The burrowing would have endangered some of the shrubs in the courtyard, so I caved in the critter&#8217;s excavation, patched up the holes and covered it with a large flower pot to keep it from trying to burrow there again. <\/p>\n<p>When we got home last week, there were no signs of additional burrowing, so we thought the problem had gone away. Yesterday, however, Verna saw the little critter gnawing on a decorative scarf she tied around the neck of a small statue of a coyote. So, I set the little Havahart rat trap next to the statue and baited it with a couple of dog kibbles. Sure enough, the trap sprung this afternoon with the critter inside. I took the trap over to the neighbor&#8217;s unimproved lot and let the squirrel run off into the underbrush.<\/p>\n<p>I do not know if catching the squirrel will discourage it from returning to the courtyard, so I set the trap again. We&#8217;ll see what happens. Click on the image above to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we left for California last month, there was a white-tailed antelope squirrel burrowing under the quarter minus landscape topping in our courtyard. The burrowing would&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-pretty-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7328,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions\/7328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}