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They use the jumping technique as a defense mechanism. That's why you see so many dead along the highway. A car passes over them. If they stayed still, they would have survived. But the dumb things get scared and jump up and kill themselves on the undercarriage. They can bounce themselves about 4 feet into the air when they are scared.
 
We don't have livestock and i won't kill armadillos.

Southwest Oklahoma does have porcupines. Most folks here live and pass away without seeing a porcupine, One day a friends grandson claimed he had seen a porcupine at the ranch. The response; "sure you did". Couple weeks later a horse came in with quills in its nose.

Have personally seen two porcupines, one near Faxon and the other on Quanah Parker range, Fort Sill. Our deer lease is in the wetlands reserve program. The Dep't. of Agriculture has planted some awful bean trees with 3 inch thorns. Something is tearing the bark off those trees, an acquaintance says its porcupines.
 
They are plentiful where I currently live in Texas. I don't mind them. They feast on bugs, worms, roaches, wasps, rodents, lizards, etc, so they are more beneficial than harmful for me. The stray cats that live in my garage mostly ignore them. The possum that lives in my shed seems to steer clear of them, too. The only problem I had was my dog chasing one that was trapped in the backyard and it slamming itself against the wooden fence until it created a hole to escape. I think the bobcats that live down by the creek come up and kill them occasionally. I'm always a little sad when I see them squashed on the main road.
 
Well seen a armadillo in my neighbors back yard last night. Dog went nuts. And I was blaming him for all the holes in the yard. How can I humanly kill them when trapped? No guns allowed. Neighbors wouldn’t appreciate it. Don’t want to just drown them. And sure ain’t paying someone to trap them. I have a havahart steel cage trap.
 
Well seen a armadillo in my neighbors back yard last night. Dog went nuts. And I was blaming him for all the holes in the yard. How can I humanly kill them when trapped? No guns allowed. Neighbors wouldn’t appreciate it. Don’t want to just drown them. And sure ain’t paying someone to trap them. I have a havahart steel cage trap.
Glad you trapped it and hopefully relocated it. He can't help that the world is encroaching on his territory. Unless there's a problem, live and let live I say. If I am not eating it, I try not to kill it. Except mosquitos.
 
Been quite a few years, but I found a Nylon 66 worked quite well.

I have actually taken one out with Nylon 66, head shot, dropped him quick.

And we also used to hunt he dumps with flashlights taped to our 22’s, at night,
 
Well seen a armadillo in my neighbors back yard last night. Dog went nuts. And I was blaming him for all the holes in the yard. How can I humanly kill them when trapped? No guns allowed. Neighbors wouldn’t appreciate it. Don’t want to just drown them. And sure ain’t paying someone to trap them. I have a havahart steel cage trap.

I used to take venomous snakes to a local biological supply company that packed them for research, dissection, etc.
They would put the snakes in a 5 gallon bucket with a small hole in the lid, then spray Ether in the hole. Put them to sleep permanently in about 5min.
If you've already got it in a trap, place the whole thing inside a heavy trash bag. Spray half a small can of starting fluid in and quickly tie the bag shut.
 
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I used to take venomous snakes to a local biological supply company that packed them for research, dissection, etc.
They would put the snakes in a 5 gallon bucket with a small hole in the lid, then spray Ether in the hole. Put them to sleep permanently in about 5min.
If you've already got it in a trap, place the whole thing inside a heavy trash bag. Spray half a small can of starting fluid in and quickly tie the bag shut.

A big rubber tote bin with lid might make a good enclosure to gas em in. Easier than wrangling the cage into a bag at least I'd think.

Just spray it in and shut the lid.
 
Story worth reading, similar experience, 1982.
We don't have those things in Va.
Glad we don't, they look demonic in a way like God created everything and Satan was allowed to make a few, with
this one being his first try.
I have seen them, and they look like an opossum in early evolution.
All the shots remind me of a time during deer season one year my wife and I were returning from a rifle
hunting trip. A racoon crossed the road acting nuts. I got out with my camera and a model s&w 29-2 in the
other hand guessing it had rabies --- I had helped law officials handle them before and knew it need to be
dispatched.
It climbed a tree up to my head high and began reaching at me as if it were a zombie and I was just about
to GIVE HIM MERCY like a head removal with the mag, when I heard a vehicle idling at a distance. It was a pair of game wardens
watching this guy in deer season with a mag and a camera standing just off the road with blaze orange on.
I handed the revolver to my wife in the truck and motioned them to come drive on up.
They crawled their vehicle up and one, Wayne, recognized me, so all was good.
I showed him the racoon and he agreed it probably had rabies and told me they need to shoot it without
damaging the head, so they could send it off for confirmation in case of a breakout.
He said to warn my wife not to watch and she insisted she get to see it.
Wayne got a semi auto 22 caliber Ruger from his vehicle and ---get this --- he had to shoot it in the body
8 as in the #8 times before it dropped off the tree and still wallowed around a bit. If my wife had been squeamish
it would have been a nightmare. But it seems like the THREAD said, an unusual amount of ammo to kill
some common animals. The armadillo probably didn't have rabies but sometimes the smaller stuff can be tuff.
PS: Back then we didn't know we had to shoot ZOMBIES in the head.
 
Armadillos are not vicious. You can pick them up by the tail or the body if you keep yourself clear of their feet so as not to get kicked. They are insectivores and are pretty docile. After too many beers I caught one three times in Mexico while trying to get it to stay on my motorcycle.
 
Armadillos are not vicious. You can pick them up by the tail or the body if you keep yourself clear of their feet so as not to get kicked. They are insectivores and are pretty docile. After too many beers I caught one three times in Mexico while trying to get it to stay on my motorcycle.
Vicious or not, you are welcome to ride them all back to Mexico! I'll buy the beer! Lol.:)
They're not native here. They are an invasive species. Like the Nutria in Louisiana and the Iguana in Florida, Armidillos don’t belong in TN !
 
Iguanas may be invasive, but they are interesting to look at. This big boy was about 4 feet long sitting on the bank of a canal in S. Florida. 100_0051.jpg
 
Btw,
Easiest non-ballistic method of dealing with armadillos is to catch them in a hav-a-hart live trap.
To dispatch them, simply put them on asphalt pavement in direct sunlight. By noon they’ll be taking a long dirt nap.
We catch dozens at the local airport terminal.
 
Looks like these things are a real nuisance and extremely difficult to control:
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/UW362

"Most of the methods used to reduce damage caused by wildlife are not effective against armadillos.There are currently no repellents, toxicants, or fumigants registered for use with armadillos. Exclusion with fences is challenging because armadillos are good at both burrowing beneath and climbing over them. There are also no effective methods for baiting armadillos into traps. Although armadillos occasionally enter live traps when fencing material is used to divert them from habitual travel paths into trap entrances, capture rates are extremely low. A recent study in Georgia reported one capture for every 132 nights a trap was set open."
 
I’ve come across the Panzer Schwein while in Texas hunting Javelina. Never felt the need to shoot one although I had the opportunity.
 
We don't have livestock and i won't kill armadillos.

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Thank you.
I live right by a very long creek that serves as a greenbelt throughout the northern part of Houston, and along with lots of urban deer, I have a few dillos come up most nights. Other than a little digging they don't bother me, and I appreciate them eating their fill or bugs and rodents and so forth.

They can't help that the continued Yankeefication of my part of Texas means their natural habitat continues to shrink at an ever increasing rate. Possums, coons, dillos, bobcats, urban deer and lots of stray cats visit my place on a continual basis and as long as they don't cause too much of a ruckus I leave them be. Plus I hand out twice daily free meals to whichever of them shows up most days and nights.

I grew up on a small ranch out in West Texas, near to Notrees, and my Dad taught me to co-exist with whatever creatures the Good Lord chose to grace our small ranch with. We were wary of rattlesnakes of course. And scorpions. And we made sure the coyotes couldn't get in the henhouse. But we mostly let them all be and except for the occasional time one of the dogs go a little too nosy with a skunk or a porcupine, we all got along fine.

We slaughtered cattle and hogs and chickens and goats to feed us, and hunted deer and rabbits, but we didn't kill anything we didn't eat for sport or unless there was a danger. I know that's probably not a popular sentiment here. And I don't judge or begrudge anyone else going their own way and acting as they see fit. But maybe show a little reverence for the life you just ended that God put here for a reason. Except for mosquitos and fire ants. F**k them.
 
I appreciate them eating their fill or bugs and rodents and so forth.

Armadillos do eat bugs. They do not eat rodents. They are edentates. They have a greatly reduced dentition with no incisors or canines and their cheek teeth are nothing but tiny pegs. They crunch up bugs and that is about it.

They can't help that the continued Yankeefication of my part of Texas means their natural habitat continues to shrink at an ever increasing rate.

Natural habitat would decrease even without "yankeefication." The birth rate exceeds the death rate. Texas' population would continue to grow without migration into the state and natural habitat would continue to decrease.
 
Armadillos do eat bugs. They do not eat rodents. They are edentates. They have a greatly reduced dentition with no incisors or canines and their cheek teeth are nothing but tiny pegs. They crunch up bugs and that is about it.



Natural habitat would decrease even without "yankeefication." The birth rate exceeds the death rate. Texas' population would continue to grow without migration into the state and natural habitat would continue to decrease.
Maybe they just scare the rodents away with tough talk.
 
I kill them with .22 Cee Bee’s. They are very hard to trap as far as bait goes, you will likely catch everything except them (I stopped after I caught a skunk). A 2x6 fashioned so they bump into it and are “funneled” works because they are one of the more blind and stupid animals out there.

Think of them as a little drunk animal just going where they can and changing direction when they hit something.

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I don’t mess with them at all at the farm and with NVD’s or thermal you can walk up close enough to kick them if you were evil but I have killed lots of them tearing up the portion of my yard that is irrigated.

I never could completely get rid of them until we let the chickens out. They eat anything that moves around the house.

After the chickens consume everything in the yard, the armadillo’s don’t have anything to dig for. So they stay in the woods.
 
But maybe show a little reverence for the life you just ended that God put here for a reason.
Nope, no reverence for them here. God didn't put them in TN.
They crossed the Mississippi on semi trucks in the early 90's.
If I shoot one, I'll make sure it's killed ethically and swiftly. That was the berth of this thread. The one digging in my garden just didn't want to go easily. Once I wounded him, I wasn't quitting until the job was done.
I have trapped and relocated problem racoons and fox, but I'm not doing that with these critters.
 
Traveling towards Florida, I felt I had arrived in South Alabama when I crossed the Armadillo Line; more run over armadillos than 'possums.

Seeing more run over raccoons than before.

(I live in town and roadkill is my main wildlife census technique.)
 
…roadkill is my main wildlife census technique.)

Just like with people, there are lots more deaths where automobiles are responsible than firearms. “Texas speed bumps.”
 
I'd just pat him on the head and let him go about his business eating bugs.

I don’t do that, when I was killing them here in our yard, I would pick them up with channel locks by an appendage or go put of gloves to move the carcass.

In the southern United States, some armadillos are naturally infected with the bacteria that cause Hansen’s disease (Leprosy) in people and it may be possible that they can spread it to people.

https://www.cdc.gov/leprosy/transmission/index.html

At the farm I just don’t mess with them at all.
 
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