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They started showing up in Southern Missouri in the later '80s..
There are now a lot of them around here. I shoot everyone I get the chance they dig holes and hay fields and under barns and everywhere little bastards

Never mind the little ones, it’s the big fuggers ya gotta watch out for, hard to see and about like hitting a Volkswagen Beetle. Corner one in your yard and they can get mean too, or else take out the fuggin fence on their way out.



Don’t even get me started on what they do to the garden

I let them be when they are outside the fenced landscaped area. Though rare, once inside...

Here’s a good armadillo!

When I lived in the Florida panhandle they where a pest. Tearing up the yard, drinking your beer. 😂😂

I know they can carry leprosy but has anyone made a pet of one. Or something else unusual. I am learning alot from you southern gentlemen.

I caught several when I was a kid, would run them down, never kept one more than a couple of days.

I killed my 24th one off my house 3.5 acres this morning. Big fugger. I have a couple of box traps that are scented with armadillo, they just walk in. Wait till about 9:00 AM and they go to sleep, set the ox up on the end, slide the door out and shoot them through the back. Easy peasy...re-set.
Pictures are from a different 'dillo, just to illustrate.

They are even starting to show up in Western Kentucky, which I never thought I'd hear. Of course, when I was a kid, I never thought we'd have coyotes running all over Kentucky either.

If you just leave em alone they will stay around your house with no problems

Thanks guys

Been seeing them here since the late 80’s. At first the Lowcountry now here in the capital. A 22 LR takes care of them nicely.

GreggH

You've officially entered stage one of being retired

They are really just tactical opossums.

G23

I don't sweat them but I also don't care about the yard/lawn. Mrs. Geno will occasionally decide a garden digger has to go. .22 cb and flashlight usually does the trick. I have trapped a couple I couldn't get a bead on. Build a funnel out 1x4's in the yard and they'll walk right into a trap.

Some funny stuff guys. Glad I asked. I especially loved the beer drinking diller.

I turned 15 armadillos loose at the Delray drive-in just before dark 50 years ago.

Yard got hit again last night. Now instead of 5 or 6 places rooted up, I got 8 or 10. Back yard is a mess. We had a woods fire last night and I got in around 12:30 am. I didn't notice the extra damage, but sometimes it's hard to see with just the headlights. I'm gonna get extra pleasure, killing this one.

I ate Armadillo in zipolite mexico in 1972 when Armadillo meat was still cheap to eat.

Sounds like it's getting personal lol.