I have a woodland garden that gets covered in wood chips after every weeding.
During droughts, the armadillo come and tear everything up.
The home owner was able to achieve a bit of satisfaction last year with a shotgun.
I warned him that hunting was going to have very limited success...
he's out there raking the paths smooth ...
That's an unsatisfying bit of unending labour.
He's complaining that he's not seeing armadillo when he goes out with the shotgun... I did warn him...
At my previous garden, I spent a lot of effort trying to fence those little bastards out...
Repairing the fence by flashlight... and as soon as I repaired one section of fence, they'd tear a new hole or 3...
They'd spend their time testing every inch of fence for weakness... and an animal that can tear it's way out of a havahart trap... can also rip through a fence anytime it wants...
Eventually... I understood that I wasn't ever going to successfully fence armadillo out...
Much simpler to find and monitor holes in the fence... when there's evidence of use... place trap there.
This pic is from my house... that armadillo isn't going to bother anyone...
Still haven't convinced the townie that a trap is the way to go...
But raking the pathways every morning soon gets old.