Something's digging up the place...

GoDawgs · March 14, 2018

Something's digging lots of holes at night. The average hole is 6-8" deep, 4-5" wide at the top and cone shaped. I searched online last year when this was happening (it eventually stopped after a couple of months) and think it's probably either a skunk or armadillo. Haven't smelled any skunk around this year so maybe it's a 'dillo. Whatever it is, it's baaaaaack!

Can anyone confirm this or provide another possibility?

Where these clusters of holes are, there are usually about for or five of these large ones and a lot of smaller 3-4" ones. Like maybe it started digging, thought better of it and moved. Yesterday I backfilled fifteen holes in a 20' diameter area with maybe 6 large ones and the rest small ones. I grab a hoe and use that to scrape dirt back into the holes.

Here's one of the larger holes, located at the corner of one of the garden beds. Fortunately they haven't gone into any of those beds. So far, whatever it is has avoided the game cam.

March 14, 2018	#1
GoDawgs Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2018 Location: Augusta area, Georgia, 8a/7b Posts: 1,685	Something's digging up the place... Something's digging lots of holes at night. The average hole is 6-8" deep, 4-5" wide at the top and cone shaped. I searched online last year when this was happening (it eventually stopped after a couple of months) and think it's probably either a skunk or armadillo. Haven't smelled any skunk around this year so maybe it's a 'dillo. Whatever it is, it's baaaaaack! Can anyone confirm this or provide another possibility? Where these clusters of holes are, there are usually about for or five of these large ones and a lot of smaller 3-4" ones. Like maybe it started digging, thought better of it and moved. Yesterday I backfilled fifteen holes in a 20' diameter area with maybe 6 large ones and the rest small ones. I grab a hoe and use that to scrape dirt back into the holes. Here's one of the larger holes, located at the corner of one of the garden beds. Fortunately they haven't gone into any of those beds. So far, whatever it is has avoided the game cam.