rodents in pumpkin patch

[SmokesAhoy]

Snap traps aren't working, it's on a steep slope so I don't think I can set up a barrel for drowning them... They are nibbling the skin off the pumpkins, one is nearly destroyed, many others have been nibbled all over.

I thought it was chipmunks and shot 2 in the vicinity but the damage continues. I thought I saw something run off in the canopy that was gray so maybe mice.

Next step will be bait but I don't see why they would choose that over the pumpkin.

I read somewhere that they nibbled to the skin because they were looking for water but there is a creek 20 feet away. I dunno, at work and thinking about how to kill the bastards

 

[Jitterbugdude]

Mouse/Rat bait works well. I had something digging inside my barn, put some rat bait down and 2 days later a big fat dead rat was laying on the dirt floor.

 

[indianjoe]

Get u some rat snatchers

 

[Brown Thumb]

Do you have turkeys around. They ate my watermelon last year and pecked at the pumpkins. So far this year they are only eating the corn. The only way I figured it out, I caught them in the act.