If you are an avid gardener, the you will woe the day that woodchucks move in. With a voracious appetite, woodchucks can eat up a garden in no time flat. Woodchucks are brown smooth furred animals about the size of a large cat. They have a small tail that is not bushy, but is not hairless either. They look much like a beaver but without the flat paddle-like tail. They are chewers like beavers, but they prefer roots and tender shoots instead of trees, saplings, and bark.

In an effort to find the best chow in your garden, they will destructively dig, claw, and root through your plants. Woodchucks also are prolific tunnel and den builders destroying your garden even farther. Typically trapping is done to remove woodchucks, as home remedies like pin wheels and sprays simply don’t phase them. They are hungry and just won’t be deterred once they have found that you have laid out a garden smorgasbord for them.

An avid gardeners will typically consider their garden a labor of love, the seemingly overnight destruction of favorite plants and bushes by woodchucks can nearly bring tears to the gardener’s eyes. Woodchucks are busy in the spring, summer and fall. They will typically hibernate in the deep winter. Right now in September they are active storing up food for the winter’s rest. We take care of problem woodchucks. If you need professional help to trap your nuisance garden destroyer just give us a call!