Came home to HOLES in my yard!

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I came home this evening, and I kid you not, there must be 50+ holes in my back yard all along my back patio and just outside of my flower beds. The holes are about the size of a small fist, and if you look inside, there's another almost perfectly round hole. The inside hole is ~1.5-2 inches in diameter. I'm thinking armadillo's but this is the first time I've had this issue in the 5 years I've been living in this house. I'll try to take pictures tomorrow, but photobucket is being stupid.

So what says the hive? Armadillo's or my wife thinks there's Vole Holes. Which I've never heard of.

How do I rid myself of this issue (shooting suppressed 22 is not an option, I do not have a privacy fence and my neighbors FRONT yard faces my back yard.

 

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Could it be mole holes?

 

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Probably armadillo or squirrel, if it were a mole you would see the raised ground trail


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You live in N.O.? I'd say falling 12ga slugs are more likely than moles...

 

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LACamper said:

You live in N.O.? I'd say falling 12ga slugs are more likely than moles...

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We use the term "New Orleans" loosely where I live. I want to say we are only "orleans" for the tax money, otherwise we would be considered Plaquemines

 

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Actually I have always thought it was pronounced "Nawlins".

 

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Firearmfanatic said:

Actually I have always thought it was pronounced "Nawlins".

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"orleans" as in Orleans parish. but I'm of the border of plaqumines and orleans. Literally the bridge the I take home is crazy, when you get on the bridge, you are in Orleans, then 3/4's of the way down the bridge you are in Plaquemines, but it then curves, and you are back in Orleans when you get off the bridge.

 

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Somebody's potbelly pig may have gotten loose

 

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noob said:

"orleans" as in Orleans parish. but I'm of the border of plaqumines and orleans. Literally the bridge the I take home is crazy, when you get on the bridge, you are in Orleans, then 3/4's of the way down the bridge you are in Plaquemines, but it then curves, and you are back in Orleans when you get off the bridge.

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Now that is totally messed up if you ask me!

 

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Squirrels or armadillos. My neighbors put up a bird feeder in their yard and now the squirrels are EVERYWHERE and digging lil holes all over the place to bury their treasures.

 

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RedStickChick said:

Squirrels or armadillos. My neighbors put up a bird feeder in their yard and now the squirrels are EVERYWHERE and digging lil holes all over the place to bury their treasures.

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Never realized squirrels dug holes. Always had tons of squirrels behind my property, but never any holes.


Yard typically looks like this, nice and flat

 

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Armadillo would be my guess. You'd be surprised how fast they can dig 100 holes in a yard.

 

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This is one of the holes as of this morning

 

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Pigs. Lower Coast is full of them.

 

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Pigs. Lower Coast is full of them.

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I have a fenced in yard.

 

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This is one of the holes as of this morning

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Yeah, probably armadillo. Get rid of the grubs in your yard that they are digging for and they will move on somewhere else. Poisons for lawn grubs can be purchased darn near everywhere.

 

• Jul 18, 2017

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Noob, now is the time to break out the 22lr can with some cci quiets!

 

• Jul 18, 2017

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You have a mole problem, Get a good rat terrier!

 

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That's not moles . Looks like Armadillos .

 

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I had holes like that and thought it was squirrels or armadillos and stayed up late one night and it was raccoons. Squirrels usually sleep at night and armadillos eat a lot of bugs and stuff under leaves which u don't have. Raccoons must be digging for acorns that the squirrels hide.