Armadillos (home, living, move)

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by dfiddler

I was driving to a friend's place in Washington , MO. - just outside of St.Loius .... and there were smooshed armadillos all along the way ...

I firmly believe that the only purpose for which they exist is to be roadkill!

[lifelongMOgal]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

I firmly believe that the only purpose for which they exist is to be roadkill!

Vultures have to eat too!

[firebll31]

Unfortunately (for them) one of their escape mechanisms is to jump straight up in the air. Not a good defense when it is the grill of a semi bearing down on you!

[latetotheparty]

i have been seeing them (roadkill) in the southern 'burbs of st. louis for at least a decade now......

i remember the first one i saw..... i was so surprised by it, i actually turned my car around to get a better look to be sure it was ACTUALLY an armadillo..... being from houston and south texas originally, i was used to seeing them there, but never in a million years thought they would make it up here.......

[christina0001]

Trapping and drowning an animal is awful, I hope that post was a joke! Just shoot them if they are a nuisance to you. Be on the lookout for them at dusk and dawn.
I have not heard of anything that could be used to deter them from your home. We have shot a couple over the past couple of years. I see them as roadkill all the time but they haven't been near our home too often so it's not been too much of an issue.

[Versatile]

Hey! I am not a PETA person etc. But why the necessity of killing them unless they're doing damage?
Same way as a Possum. They aren't out to hurt you at all and for whatever reason they are part of our ecosystem. I never did see the logic of killing something just because you don't like it. Never ever heard of anyone getting Leprosy from them either! They way i was taught is if you are gonna kill it then eat it!

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by Versatile

Hey! I am not a PETA person etc. But why the necessity of killing them unless they're doing damage?
Same way as a Possum. They aren't out to hurt you at all and for whatever reason they are part of our ecosystem. I never did see the logic of killing something just because you don't like it. Never ever heard of anyone getting Leprosy from them either! They way i was taught is if you are gonna kill it then eat it!

Bon appetite!

Do Armadillos Carry Leprosy?

I'm an old soldier. Cannibalism was never high on my list, but survival was.

[TedH71]

Eat 'em. They're tasty.

[lifelongMOgal]

Originally Posted by Versatile

Hey! I am not a PETA person etc. But why the necessity of killing them unless they're doing damage?
Same way as a Possum. They aren't out to hurt you at all and for whatever reason they are part of our ecosystem. I never did see the logic of killing something just because you don't like it. Never ever heard of anyone getting Leprosy from them either! They way i was taught is if you are gonna kill it then eat it!

The OP noted the armadillos were damaging her property.

[Nu2pomona]

Thanks, lifelongMOgal, for pointing out the "jist" of my original post. Haven't seen another armadillo since I posted, and it appears the one that was digging up our yard has moved on as the damage has stopped.

We have had other visitors in the past couple of weeks. Woke up to find a ground hog sitting on the patio on the north side of the house one morning last week. Two days later there was a racoon perched on top of our birdfeeder. The dogs must have chased it up the chain link fence during the night and kept it there til morning. I had to bring them in on leashes (they are hounds), and then chase the coon away with the garden hose. Good thing we have no neighbors - a portly, older woman in her nightgown and slippers running after a racoon with a garden hose must have made quite a picture.