I have been out chasing it around the pond a bit. I have learned that Coypu do not like leaf blowers. It is a fairly humane way to move the critter around. It swam back to the pond side near the river and under the bank overhang. It seemed practiced and I have marked the bank where it went under. It sat there nose poking out for a while. It was sniffing the leaf blower. We had prolonged eye to eye contact.
I will check the bank for burrow entrance digging there…later.
In an ideal world the coypu will pop back into the river over night and not return. That is the win from my perspective.
I could try to stake it or batter it. But that is not humane nor to my taste. The French have suggested that we eat it.
We could call the hunters and they might shoot it.
I’ll stick the trail camera out later to see what it does.
I know its preferred hiding places now and how to flush it out with the leaf blower. So I can check if it is there tomorrow.
I don’t want to scare it shitless when it is cornered in the pond and by the electric fence. I just wish it would go away of its own accord. I have no plans to kill it….
I don’t want to bash its brains out…
I don’t want it eating our lotus shoots.
I don’t want to get bitten by those teeth…
Hmnn…
Dreamyoga 