[Shop-talk] My equivalent of a nuclear meltdown.....

[Aric]

Could be.  Unfortunately I can't remember where I found the regulation, but
it's definitely the case here (just outside Philadelphia, PA).  Reason I
know this is that my wife and I spent several weeks disagreeing as to how to
handle the gophers living under our porch and finding the regulation is what
settled the matter (and made my life much easier).

-aric.


> I wonder if some places are exactly the opposite.  On an 
> episode of "Dirty Jobs" they were catching various animals 
> that were going under peoples' houses.  Every one of them 
> they basically took across the street and let go, but they 
> did try to patch the holes under the house where the animals 
> were getting in.  IIRC this was somewhere in California, 
> which sounds about right for them.
> 
> 
> > If you care about such things you may want to look into what your 
> > local laws are regarding catch&release.  Around here it's very much 
> > illegal to do so with skunks/gophers/opossums/etc as 
> they're rabies vectors.