You may have probably faced that when you planted your first garden, New Jersey groundhogs have been a nuisance. The community of groundhogs, however, has given rise to numerous different methods of control and removal of groundhogs. Some methods prevent entry while others allow the re-homing of annoying groundhogs. How you want to control marmots depends on you and the resources you have at your disposal.



Know the signs:
• Look for signs of Middlesex County groundhogs on your property. You can find great brands of chopping vegetables that grow in your garden or the vegetables themselves can be lifted off the ground.
• Inspect the fruit trees on your property. Look for bite marks that are visible on the bark near the lower parts of the trees.
• Look for large holes in your yard that are approximately 10 to 12 inches wide. Groundhogs holes will also have large mounds of dirt next to the big holes.

Here are some tips how can you keep New Jersey groundhogs away from your property?
• Do not give groundhogs the opportunity to get close to the food sources. Check if your garbage bags are strong enough to not break or be a bite. Hide food products in the kitchen. Close the cubes and put bricks under your covers.
• Keep close the faucets so that the raccoons do not have the reason to enter the garden or the kitchen to drink.
• Prevent trash and food smell in your home. Remove all crumbs after the picnic or barbecue is over. Do not leave until the next morning. Wash the dishes immediately after eating so as not to attract groundhogs because of the fragrance of the food.
• Raise a fence around your garden, it will confuse the Middlesex County groundhogs.

So you can see that it will be easier to get rid of the groundhogs if you take care of all these points. Remove the remains of food, close the pool with nets and not give the animals the opportunity to enter the garden or the house.

You can also set a live trap in the normal path of New Jersey groundhog circulation. This is a safe and easy way to control them. Bait the live trap with apples or use some of the vegetables from your garden that the groundhog has been eating.

Once you are succeeding to catch it, you can take help of wildlife removal service for relocation. If the groundhogs damage your plants and the territory to be treated is too large, it would be best to call the wildlife removal experts. They are very well trained and licensed to handle all such animals.

Visit our Middlesex County animal removal home page to learn more about us.