My dog went into a varmit hole, $300 vet bill later, now what?
My wife took our dog into the woods behind our house yesterday afternoon. He is fairly large dog (German Shepherd ), Anyway, she heard him barking and found him inside an animal hole on the side of a hill. It was large enough for him to crawl inside and she couldn’t even see his tail. She said there was barking, growling and whimpering coming from the hole. She finally shot pepper spray into the hole (which she carries ) and whatever it was let go of the dog. He came out and was pawing his mouth and eyes. She assumed it was from the pepper spray, but it turned out something bit his lip and his canine tooth was sticking through his upper lip. She took him to the emergency Vet, and 2 hours and $300 later he is now home with 3 stiches, 2 antibiotic shots and sedated sleeping it off in our bed..
My first instinct was to take a gun down to the hole and pop whatever it is when it sticks its head out. However my brother made a good point. He said if was anything cute, like killing a coyote and leaving the pups in the den then my wife would want to nurse the pups.. Ugh..
Any suggestions?
Last edited by walterb; 03-25-2012 at 07:31 AM.
No I have no suggestions for a wife that would want to nurse coyotes. Good luck though.
hook up a hose to the exhaust on your car, and run it into the hole.
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I love buying used guns.......No honey it's not a new gun, I've had that thing for years. look at all the marks on it!
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Oxygen/acetalene for 10 or 15 seconds and 5 or 6 feet of cannon wick.
UPDATE :
I followed my wife about 1/2 back into the woods to this hole. It was about 16" high and about 2 foot wide. However it looked like one of those old Japanese bunkers you see in the jungle that hasn't been used in a long time. Last year's leafs were down in the entrance and no fresh dirt was flung on top of them, smaller trees 1/2" in diameter were growing up in front of it. I realized the dog probably chased something down the hole and that this wasn't its primary den. The only tracks I saw were my wifes shoe prints, and deer tracks trying to climb up the creek bank and various points. I didn't even see the dog tracks which made me think she couldn't locate the actual hole again. :-)
It made the wife happy that I cleared out a field of fire to shoot at it from across the creek bank.
I also realized I'm not as young as I used to be. Knew it, but humping back home brought that fact from the back of my mind foward. :-)
thanks for the help.
actually I thought about gasoline and then after it worked up some funes get on the other side of the creek and shoot a bottle rocket into the hole. :-)
Rube Ginsberg pest control? Oh we could have a field day with that.
Fluently vocalizing from my rectum
I love buying used guns.......No honey it's not a new gun, I've had that thing for years. look at all the marks on it!
Fugaloo Foo-gah-loo
My advice? Buy a leash.
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.
The U.S. city with the most restrictive gun laws in the nation, Washington, D.C., has the highest murder rate at 24 per 100,000. The state with the most unrestrictive gun regulations, Vermont, has the lowest murder rate at 0.48 per 100,000.
Dude...Fragmentation grenade....it's the only answer.
Science flies people to the moon...Religion flies people into buildings
shoot the dog...and maybe the wife, then go back to the house and watch football..
All is for nothing, if not for GOD.....
"Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me"
You don't even have to dig a hole just throw them in that one and cover it up.
Gotta agree with Bruce on this one. And if the wife won't use it she can't take the dog out.
A bigger hammer always works... my kind of thinking!Originally Posted by palladin
THE WORST DAY OF HUNTING OR FISHING IS BETTER THAN THE BEST DAY AT WORK
Probably was a badger, they can fight like nobody's business ... especially when cornered.
My advise ... keep the dog on a leash. If not badger's, the rattlers are out now. Use caution to protect your dog.
Teach your dog to be under control at all times and do not let him stick his nose into varmint holes. I always keep track of my pointers when they get "birdy" round squirrel holes as ground squirrels carry the plague and rattlers can kill. IMHO. it was probably a badger or fox...
Stop Global Whining...
just dogs being dogs why leash it your are in the woods let it have some fun plus it's a big dog.Get some gas bombs that are made for varmints and throw in a few packs. You can find them in any hardware store.I would use a shotgun for what ever comes out of it use heavy shot like bb's double ot buck etc,
Last edited by shoot-it; 05-10-2012 at 08:53 AM.
Be careful about pouring stuff in the hole just for legality's sake. We have specific laws against it here because it was traditional to gas gopher tortoise holes to collect the rattle snakes that lived inside. You may not have specific laws against gassing animal holes there but if a gung-ho animal rightest reports you they may try to get you written up for some sort of generic animal cruety. Why not put a trail camera on it to see if something is regularly using the hole?
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