Amazing armadillos
July 21st, 2010 by admin
Recently the St. Petersburg Times spoke to a Clearwater homeowner who doesn’t like armadillos because they dig holes in his yard in their search for worms and insects to eat.
We don’t believe everything we read in the newspaper, but the man said something that we want to believe! He told the newspaper that his previous attempts to catch armadillos using live traps were frustrated because once an armadillo became trapped, word got out and other armadillos came to the rescue: “They come through the … fence at his Clearwater home. And then they start rocking the trap until they liberate their comrade.”
Armadillos are strong little animals, so it’s more likely that the trapped armadillo simply busted out of the trap. But we like the idea of armadillos organizing a jail break!
It’s illegal to release armadillos who have been trapped back into the wild, so when homeowners hire a trapper, they are paying to have the armadillo killed. ARFF does not think that foraging for food deserves a death sentence! There are humane, non-lethal methods of discouraging armadillos from damaging lawns.