Texas Gardening: Need Armadillo advice.........., 0 by morganc

morganc wrote:
After noticing extensive digging throughout our garden beds, we were told we have a "Dillo" on our premises. Since we didn't wish to kill it, we contacted a company to trap and release it......hopefully far, far away.

The company guy came out and set the trap right outside the burrow hole. Then he baited it with dry cat food and apple pieces. So of course, the first night we caught a........cat. I asked him why didn't he bait it with worms or grubs that Armadillos eat, and he said the worms die in the heat.

So the second night, he left off the cat food and just baited with the apple pieces. And we caught two little raccoons.

Here's my questions..........Should we relo the raccoons, or just set free? And does the company sound like it knows what it is doing?

If we continue to use them, they will charge us more money, and we've already paid them several hundred dollars.

I need opinions from you because we only moved here 3 and 1/2 years ago and this is all new to us. We have an acre and a half of Hill Country property, next to other residential and also some large empty lots.

This is the burrow we found.

Thanks everyone.