I'm probably going to offend some people here (sorry Mac), but I just gotta say - I THINK BEAVERS ARE ANNOYING !!!! *whew* Yesterday, we headed over to the new pad to check things out. After scoping out the house, we headed over the hill and through the woods to ... a disgusting moat and a beaver dam? Ugh. Our nice LITTLE beautiful *kid friendly* stream had been turned into a big, nasty, stagnant DEEP *kid hazard* of a beaver paradise.
They built this:
and our stream went from THIS:
to THIS:
Yes, that is me wearing argyle socks and polka-dot rubber boots. LOL
While the kids had a lot of fun trying to break this thing apart, I seriously do not know what to do about these pests! The dam is so thick and everything is soooo backed up. To make matters worse, I think they also have a couple smaller dams down stream. I read somewhere that to get rid of the beaver dam, you need to get rid of the beaver. Is that true? How the heck do you get rid of a beaver?
Between dodging the flying mud glops, steadying teetering kids, and scanning for ticked off beavers to jump out and bite us, it was an eventful afternoon. The kids actually got some water flowing over the edge as you can see above, but I'm confident it was probably repaired shortly after we left. (fuzzy jerks)
More to come...
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