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Location: The end of the Earth, SE AR | Your mastiff: What a Good Boy!
We took a walk in the woods on Sunday and our English Mastiff and 2 Boston Terrors chased armadillos the whole time but didn't manage to catch any. We kept having to call Ruger away from their holes as he was bound and determined to dig them out no matter how long it took. We need to go repeat the walk after a rain when their holes are filled with water. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | Can we borrow your dog. The armadillos have really been digging up our pasture too. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | missroselee - 2014-02-18 7:04 PM
I think they are only from Colorado across to north carolina and south of that, but I'm not for certain on that. Â We are in MO
Those are actually fairly new in your/our area Missroselee. They started drifting in about 10 years ago. Before that you had to go to Arkansas or Oklahoma to see one. Just like the bears drifting up from Arkansas nowadays. There was a kid that shot a bear close to his barn down by Houston Mo. and when he called the game warden he got chewed out for calling in a prank phone call and the officer hung up on him.  |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | komet. - 2014-02-19 2:12 PM missroselee - 2014-02-18 7:04 PM I think they are only from Colorado across to north carolina and south of that, but I'm not for certain on that. We are in MO Those are actually fairly new in your/our area Missroselee. They started drifting in about 10 years ago. Before that you had to go to Arkansas or Oklahoma to see one. Just like the bears drifting up from Arkansas nowadays. There was a kid that shot a bear close to his barn down by Houston Mo. and when he called the game warden he got chewed out for calling in a prank phone call and the officer hung up on him.
I am surprised we have NOT seen a bear in this area yet because it seems prime habitat for them. |
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Location: Kentucky | Wow, I had no idea armadillos were a problem! We don't have them in KY, and I've only seen them one time, in TX/OK when I was a child. I think one was roadkill. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Murphy - 2014-02-19 1:25 PM
Wow, I had no idea armadillos were a problem! We don't have them in KY, and I've only seen them one time, in TX/OK when I was a child. I think one was roadkill. Â
Yeah.. we call them possum on the half-shell...
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To show the armadillo it could be done. |
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Location: Southeast Louisiana | missroselee - 2014-02-19 7:28 AM
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Location: Dearing, GA | missroselee - 2014-02-19 7:28 AM
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Location: SE Louisiana | Just Let Me Run - 2014-02-19 2:56 PM
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| We are over run with them. My dogs bring up something every day to show off: skunk, armadillo, or opossums. One night we had one digging next to the house so I yelled at my husband to grab the gun and shoot it before it destroys the yard and gets under the house. Well... he's from Colorado and this was the first year in Oklahoma for him and hadn't been around these kinds of critters. Anyways, I told him to step back a little because they will jump (if you have ever startled one and they can't run they'll hiss and jump straight up in the air, sometimes they'll do it when something is chasing them too, oh and they do it when you shoot them). He took one little bitty step back, im assuming because he thought I didn't know what I was talking about, the great white hunter he is... He shot that poor thing and it shoot back about 6ft in the air, husband and the pit bull took off around the house like they were being chased by a 20ft fire breathing dragon. That darn ferocious Pit of ours wouldn't even come around the corner to see if it was dead yet. Still the funny as hell to me! |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | FlyingJT - 2014-02-19 4:07 PM We are over run with them. My dogs bring up something every day to show off: skunk, armadillo, or opossums. One night we had one digging next to the house so I yelled at my husband to grab the gun and shoot it before it destroys the yard and gets under the house. Well... he's from Colorado and this was the first year in Oklahoma for him and hadn't been around these kinds of critters. Anyways, I told him to step back a little because they will jump (if you have ever startled one and they can't run they'll hiss and jump straight up in the air, sometimes they'll do it when something is chasing them too, oh and they do it when you shoot them). He took one little bitty step back, im assuming because he thought I didn't know what I was talking about, the great white hunter he is... He shot that poor thing and it shoot back about 6ft in the air, husband and the pit bull took off around the house like they were being chased by a 20ft fire breathing dragon. That darn ferocious Pit of ours wouldn't even come around the corner to see if it was dead yet. Still the funny as hell to me!
OMG, that's hilarious. I can see somebody doing that if they weren't expecting it...like my citified BIL.  The Jump and Squeal thing is funny just by itself. |
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| komet. - 2014-02-19 1:12 PM
missroselee - 2014-02-18 7:04 PM
I think they are only from Colorado across to north carolina and south of that, but I'm not for certain on that. Â We are in MO
Those are actually fairly new in your/our area Missroselee. They started drifting in about 10 years ago. Before that you had to go to Arkansas or Oklahoma to see one. Just like the bears drifting up from Arkansas nowadays. There was a kid that shot a bear close to his barn down by Houston Mo. and when he called the game warden he got chewed out for calling in a prank phone call and the officer hung up on him.
 I'm a little more south and west of MRL, but still in Mo...I saw my first one dead on a Mo road in the summer of 1988 on HWY 174 just west of Republic. LOL! I remember the year because I had just moved home and I was so disbelieving of what I saw, that I turned around and went back for a closer look. They are a pestulance! |
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| Can someone educate me about armadillos?
What do they eat, are they aggressive? Can people keep them as pet?
I am from Alberta so we have wolves, bears, cougars, porcupine, and skunks to worry about.
I would also like to know the magical soap to eliminate the smell, we have one dog that likes to tango with a skunk yearly.  |
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Location: The Saudia Arabia of Wind Energy, Western Oklahoma | We used to have a government contract to collect fresh dead ones so they could do a study on them to see if they were carrying leprosy. We got 25 bucks a piece for them. None of the Oklahoma armadillos showed signs of leprosy. Apparently in some areas they eat them. (Not Oklahoma) LOL I used to drive around early in the morning and collect fresh road kill. 25 bucks is 25 bucks. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | cheryl makofka - 2014-02-19 5:55 PM
Can someone educate me about armadillos?
What do they eat, are they aggressive? Can people keep them as pet?
I am from Alberta so we have wolves, bears, cougars, porcupine, and skunks to worry about.
I would also like to know the magical soap to eliminate the smell, we have one dog that likes to tango with a skunk yearly.
They eat bugs and grubs and dig holes to find them. They don't see well, and don't seem very smart, so I can't imagine having one as a pet. The ones around here are apparently raging alcoholics. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | ksjackofalltrades - 2014-02-19 7:46 PM
We used to have a government contract to collect fresh dead ones so they could do a study on them to see if they were carrying leprosy. We got 25 bucks a piece for them. None of the Oklahoma armadillos showed signs of leprosy.  Apparently in some areas they eat them.  (Not Oklahoma) LOL I used to drive around early in the morning and collect fresh road kill. 25 bucks is 25 bucks.  Â
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The Advice Guru
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| Three 4 Luck - 2014-02-19 8:39 PM
cheryl makofka - 2014-02-19 5:55 PM
Can someone educate me about armadillos?
What do they eat, are they aggressive? Can people keep them as pet?
I am from Alberta so we have wolves, bears, cougars, porcupine, and skunks to worry about.
I would also like to know the magical soap to eliminate the smell, we have one dog that likes to tango with a skunk yearly.
They eat bugs and grubs and dig holes to find them. They don't see well, and don't seem very smart, so I can't imagine having one as a pet. The ones around here are apparently raging alcoholics.
Thanks I appreciate the info |
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Damn Yankee
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | You don't want one as a pet. They are kind of like groundhogs, mean as a snake when provoked :) And yes, armadillos and humans are the only two creatures that can contract leprosy. So you definitely don't want one. |
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