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Posted: 7/15/2005 7:12:27 AM EDT

Got another one this morning. 3 in 3 days.

I hope I am least thinning out the numbers. While clearing this in March I found a nest and sent 4 babies swimming and have trapped at least 8-10 this year. Been a record year for me.

Posted: 7/15/2005 7:15:49 AM EDT

[#1]

I don't like to kill them so I usually get them in a live trap and take them to Chehalis and drop them off. Much more humane.

Posted: 7/15/2005 8:45:20 AM EDT

[#2]

You been letting Brown Dog get some?

Posted: 7/15/2005 8:54:45 AM EDT

[#3]

Im not having the issue with them this year...

Posted: 7/15/2005 9:00:35 AM EDT

[#4]

My dad is having a heck of a time trying to stop the moles at his place. They are terrible this year.

Posted: 7/15/2005 9:06:07 AM EDT

[#5]

I pour gas (some times mix in some oil) down the fresh holes and lite them up and then cover with cans or buckets. They seem to go away very fast.

Posted: 7/15/2005 9:09:02 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
I pour gas (some times mix in some oil) down the fresh holes and lite them up and then cover with cans or buckets. They seem to go away very fast.

ROAD FLARES WORK WONDERS AS WELL!!!!

Posted: 7/15/2005 9:10:39 AM EDT

[#7]

I had read for years that traps were the only real sucessful way to get the moles, and I used them for several years sucessfully.

Then when I moved, a new neighbor said that she had gotten over a dozen in the last two months by sticking a garden hose down a hole uphill from the digging mole. They pop up out of the hole and she wacks them on the head with a shove. Problem solved. I tried it and it worked for me too.

What method are you using for getting the fury little guys?

Posted: 7/15/2005 9:14:12 AM EDT

[#8]

Nope.

Nothing more rewarding than lifting the bucket to see the trap sprung and pulling one out.

The rest of you just move them to other places.

Posted: 7/15/2005 9:19:24 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:

What method are you using for getting the fury little guys?

Tannerite?

Posted: 7/15/2005 10:02:52 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Quoted:

What method are you using for getting the fury little guys?

Tannerite?

That was my first thought, too...

Posted: 7/15/2005 10:05:22 AM EDT

[#11]

Posted: 7/15/2005 10:30:15 AM EDT

[#12]

THose gopher gas bombs you can get at Home Depot seem to work quite well, but I'll try the water hose trick as well.

Posted: 7/15/2005 11:34:25 AM EDT

[#13]

Traps have always been the most stisfying for me. The trouble is I have so many moles and only 6 traps that I can't keep up. SOOOOOooooo? Cenex carries "Mole Patrol" looks like tan colored rabbit pellets with an anticogulant as in rat poison. My neighbor swears by it. I'm on my second jug and the little stinkers are still around but we'll see. Big yard. ms

Posted: 7/15/2005 11:38:29 AM EDT

[#14]

Mole, it's what's for dinner.

Posted: 7/15/2005 2:08:54 PM EDT

[#15]

I work at a golf course in Seattle. We have tons of moles and we are always trying to rid ourselves of them.

Last year we had a guy working with us that trapped 15 of them in about a month.

He was awesome. I'd sign him up for mole patrol on the duty board each day.

This year we have tons of moles, but no MoleMan.

We've only caught a few so far.

Posted: 7/15/2005 2:21:36 PM EDT

[#16]

I've tried gasing them, smoking them, and poisoning them.

I can't tell if I have that many, or if I just can't kill the ones I have.

Posted: 7/15/2005 2:34:02 PM EDT

[#17]

There is guy down here...The Mole Man that used to charge $5.

He now charges $35.

Posted: 7/15/2005 2:38:56 PM EDT

[#18]

If you have the time and patience, a shotgun works fine. I stand about 10-15' back from the hole, and wait for them to push up.....aim at the base of the dirt mound.

I seem to have won this years battle last week.... no new mounds since.

The trick is setting your coffee cup down and taking the safety off without spooking them. Stomp the mounds down, and go back in the house, check frequently through the window for fresh hills. When you see one, fill your coffee cup up and sneak out there with the shotgun....soft on the steps. Before you finish your coffee, you'll usually get some activity.

I've tried it before without the coffee, but I get skunked nearly everytime I skip that step.

Posted: 7/15/2005 2:51:20 PM EDT

[#19]

Coffee?

You can sure tell a non-native LCR

Of course he never told you what he puts in his coffee.

Posted: 7/15/2005 2:57:05 PM EDT

[#20]

There is something wrong with a man who doesn't drink coffee.

Posted: 7/15/2005 4:03:46 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
There is something wrong with a man who doesn't drink ~~coffee~~ bourbon.

Fixed.

Posted: 7/15/2005 4:06:53 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
There is something wrong with a man who doesn't drink coffee.

He drinks Latte's.

Posted: 7/15/2005 4:39:27 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
If you have the time and patience, a shotgun works fine. I stand about 10-15' back from the hole, and wait for them to push up.....aim at the base of the dirt mound.

I seem to have won this years battle last week.... no new mounds since.he
I've tried it before without the coffee, but I get skunked nearly everytime I skip that step.hr

A 22 lr works pretty good too.

The most effective thing I've seen for getting rid of moles and gophers is a momma cat. The neighbors had a momma cat that would pull a mole or gopher, bigger than she was, out of the ground every other day. Took care of the whole neighborhood. 'Course, then we were over run by kittens but they're at least cute.

Posted: 7/15/2005 7:13:00 PM EDT

[#24]

1GR, three words for ya, and I believe I'm quoteing you...

Hard

Core

Short n sweet, you know, I really do like the way you're thinking..... however....

We had a rat terrier for a bit, (you know, the dogs who chase and kill little critters?) who literally tore the living shit out of my yard looking for those g'damn moles. I swear, he's lucky I didn't have any coffee made!

He gave them hell on the pursuit, but between him and the moles, my yard looked like Mick Jaggers face underneath a magnifying glass!

Posted: 7/15/2005 7:50:47 PM EDT

[#25]

I used blackberry briars, I heard it on the Ed Hume show. You run the briars down the tunnels, 3-4 foot pieces, and I did it all around the yard, I havent had a mole in 4-5 years. He said that a mole was a bleeder and the stickers made them bleed out.

But sitting on the back porch, after splitting fire wood and sipping some Jim Beam, watching a mole pushing up, then bludgening him with a splitting maul was fun

.

DD

Posted: 7/15/2005 8:08:20 PM EDT

[#26]

MOLES! IT'S CANCER! NOOOO!

Posted: 7/15/2005 8:22:47 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
The most effective thing I've seen for getting rid of moles and gophers is a momma cat.

Now I like pussy as much as the next guy but I am telling you...A mole in trap is worth 2 in the bush.

Posted: 7/15/2005 9:53:19 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
Short n sweet, you know, I really do like the way you're thinking..... however....

We had a rat terrier for a bit, (you know, the dogs who chase and kill little critters?) who literally tore the living shit out of my yard looking for those g'damn moles. I swear, he's lucky I didn't have any coffee made!hock.gif He gave them hell on the pursuit, but between him and the moles, my yard looked like Mick Jaggers face underneath a magnifying glass!hr

That's the good thing about the cat, she didn't dig, she just sat by the hole and pounced when the mole came within reach.h=85%

Quoted:
Now I like pussy as much as the next guy but I am telling you...A mole in trap is worth 2 in the bush. hy.gif

LOL, now that's worthy of a signature quote.

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