I have beavers flooding my property. I cant kill them because they are protected, but does anyone have any ideas on how to stop them. Once again beaver is the cause of my problems.

I don't know what the laws are where you live but you probably can get a licensed nuisance trapper to live trap them and relocate them. The only thing you could do yourself is to keep ripping apart whatever they have blocking the water flow and they will move on after awhile.You might find this helpful too:
http://www.pskf.ca/publications/beavers.htm

I see you received my Canadian gift.

It doesnt work. Every night they build it back up and I have tried the pipes. The fuckers never stop. I need ideas people.

If the property is in Cali your options are limited. If no one else but you knows about them, it might be worth your while to get some traps, the old fashioned kind, to take care of the problem yourself, and then you'd need to burn or bury all the evidence. I don't think the live nuisance trappers will help you, in fact they could report it to the state. If the government finds out the state can confiscate your property in the name of protecting them.

Thiram, the only repellent known to reduce beaver damage, is applied directly to trees and shrubs. However, this method will usually work only where beaver have alternate sources of food, i.e. other trees they can cut for food. No license or permit is required to purchase or use this product.

If you can't get a trapper to live catch them and nothing else works set a trap with a drown line or shoot the fuckers.

They eat rat poison?? Could a pet Rotty take care of them?

Get a larger animal and release it nearby. One that hunts beavers. Like maybe a wolf. Or a Jaguar. Or maybe something that makes wolf/jaguar noises will drive it away. Or wolf piss, I've seen that at some stores. Or maybe something that generates the calls made by large predatory birds. No wait, get a large snake that will hunt in the water, like an Anaconda. Then, later get a mongoose to hunt/kill the Anaconda to get rid of it.

Get yourself a nice air rifle and find a vantage point and shoot them. Not a Daisy or Crossman but one like these . No noise and deadly. Where in Malibu do you have beavers?

^^^ I had no idea it was possible to make a gay looking gun.

Yeah, these airguns are sometimes made to look toyish so they aren't mistaken for real firearms.

But Jeff will need a rifle to get the beaver- a pistol is too short range. I had a beaver problem here. Every morning there would be a dozen trees cut down lying in the water. I figured out the bastard was most active at dusk and I sniped him out a 3rd floor bedroom window with a .22 There was a huge "explosion" in the water at impact and the beaver went under. Two days later I found the bastard where he'd crawled out to die.

That pistol will never be mistaken for a real gun. It looks like something from Acme Corp. that would backfire on the Wile E. Coyote while shooting at RoadRunner. But I can see how it makes sense to make it look like it isn't a real gun.

I think a funny animal trap could be made based on something I witnessed a while back. A squirrel went inside our birdhouse when the momma bird was away. It ate all the baby birds, then got stuck in the opening of the birdhouse because its own gluttony made it so fat it would no longer fit through the door. There it died. So basically, you'd want a box with a bunch of food in it and a doorway just large enough for the hungry animal to make it inside. After it gorges, it would get to be too fat to leave and would die of dehydration, I guess.

Akitas were specifically bred in Japan to hunt large game, so I don't think beavers would be too much of a problem. Plus, they're great family dogs. Extremely loyal and intelligent.

Here's a tidbit about the legendary Akita, Hachiko:

"In 1924, Hidesabur Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo, took in Hachiko as a pet. During his owner's life, Hachiko greeted him at the end of each day at the nearby Shibuya Station. The pair continued their daily routine until May 1925, when Professor Ueno did not return. The professor had suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage and died, never returning to the train station where Hachiko was waiting. Every day for the next nine years the golden brown Akita waited at Shibuya station.

The permanent fixture at the train station that was Hachiko attracted the attention of other commuters. Many of the people who frequented the Shibuya train station had seen Hachiko and Professor Ueno together each day. They brought Hachiko treats and food to nourish him during his wait.

This continued for nine years with Hachiko appearing precisely when the train was due at the station."

That's fucking insane.

^^^ I heard that story when I was a kid. Dogs > people.

If I could, I'd keep a dog in the house and a woman in the kennel. Mostly because a good dog will shaddap when you tell it to, woman, not so much.

this^.

see if you can get to a hunting supplies store (or feed store) and buy some real or synthetic fox urine. squeeze some of the stuff onto cotton balls and place these around your property. Guaranteed to scare off raccoons, etc. Wear gloves while dispensing.

No, they eat wood. Also a dog won't work because beavers are only out a night and they really don't like getting out of the water. Fuckers. The area they have flooded is now over grown with reeds, which they eat. They have dug canals threw all the reeds about a foot deep and all that water is now spreading. Over the last two years, the wetland has doubled. Today I put in two more beaver pipes and we will see what happens. I just want the fucking water level down so my land doesnt turn into a lake.

I don't live in socal anymore. I'm now in central Cali. When I bought the house I kinda thought the fact we had beavers was kinda cool. The creek has fish, all kinds of birds, turtles, lots of wildlife. Now I'm willing to kill everything just to get these fucking beavers.

Is this the suspect?

Try moth balls. Works for mice. Spread em around where the beaver at. They last a long time, even outside. Do they live in a hole in the ground, like a wood chuck? If so, and they sleep all day, use a smoke bomb to suffocate them while they sleep. Plug the escape hole, Light the bomb, throw it in, and close up the entrance. No stink.

If that don't work, and you can't shoot em, I suggest you put Pam Peaks head on a pike in your yard. Call it a Scare Whore.

You do need to drain their marsh before the Corp of Engineers finds it and delineates it as a wetland. Once that happens, you are fucked and it's as if the land never belonged to you. (But you will still pay property taxes on it).

If you can find their den or if any of the tunnels they are using are sealed you can drive a four wheeler or any gasoline engine nearby and run a piece of metal dryer vent hose or any heat resistant hose from the exhaust to the hole and just leave the machine running. I've rid my yard of moles with a lawnmower doing this. As you know, carbon monoxide is the silent killer.

JM's motto?

Paperchase you are tiresome sometimes... I've given Jeff two or three valid ways to kill the bastards without calling attention to himself. You can't set off explosives and not attract attention. If it was here, I might buy a 6 dollar explosive target and set it on top of the den and shoot it from a distance just to see what happens but that would be for my entertainment, really.

The best way is to scout out the den and gas them. Second best for Jeff is sniping them with an airgun.

Thanks bornyo and everyone. I put two beaver pipes in the damn a few days ago and so far it's working. The water level is down but I think I need to put in a few more. Do you think a 22 or one of those air guns would work better on the fuckers? Keep in mind, they are big, about 50 pounds. I may try the traps because I know were the fuckers paths are.

Living out in the country is a mother fucker. I only hated people before, now I hate everything that moves. I really would like to nuke all 5 acres.

If you see their slides or paths, the trap is your best bet. Set it and forget it. (But don't forget to check it- they can chew through metal hav-a-hart traps). Air rifle or .22 will work but require more work.

Beaver talk on XPT, shocking!

When I was guerrilla farming in the 90s I had good success using red devil lye to kill off small animals that were eating my plants. I spread it around on the ground around holes or obvious paths away from my plants. I guess they licked it off their feet and died. I'm not sure if it would work on a beaver though and it would be a hazard if you have any pets like dogs or cats.

OK, about the whole mole thing...

I think I am infested by miniature ninja moles. At first I thought the holes around the edge of the yard (where the gardens and flowering plants are located) were made by cicadas. There never seemed to be connected tunnels and they seemed a bit small for full grown moles. Then two things happened. First, I noticed at least two of the neighbor cats hanging out in yard staring intently at the plants almost every night. Then, I noticed a long (but still tiny in diameter) tunnel in the lawn almost as it was being made or directly afterward. ... and FINALLY! I found a dead mole
outside the garage one morning.

Anyway, still can't find the "nest" and any pipe bigger than a drinking straw isn't going to work since the end of a garden hose is too big. Second, there are hundreds of holes and most are old and unused. Can't find anything at the local garden center either. Oh well.

Any other suggestions?

Take a small gardening shovel and open the top of the next tunnel you find just enough to get a vacuum hose or whatever into it. Cobble up adaptors as necessary to get the other end on your mower exhaust and pump away. The CO will flow through the tunnels. So does propane from a grill tank, and the propane is more deadly because it's heavier than air. Do not be tempted to ignite it. You could wind up like someone I know on another forum/email list who blew his porch off his house trying to gas and blow out some gophers in his yard.

Based on your size description you more likely have shrews.

My dog is quite adept at ferreting out moles. Luckily I never had much of a garden for him to destroy in his efforts.

Actually, it is rather. It's been less frequent lately and whole volumes of crap have been written by BI antagonists.

The problem with killing them is..more will just move in. The ones that are there just didn't fall out of the sky, and there's more where they came from. So if you are going to kill/trap them remember it will be an ongoing problem.

Here's a page that has some pretty decent info. Good luck.