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09-11-2007, 09:10 AM | #1 |
Blessed by Otis & Ollie Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Plainfield, Indiana
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| Moles tearing up my yard! Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get rid of the moles in my yard without putting my dogs at risk? Let's keep it realistic. I'm single so I'm not gonna be shooting them, or using those guillotine trap deals that stab them. My dad gave me 2 of them but I can't figure out how to work them. I'm guessing I need to get rid of the grubs, but my friends dog had a seizure and died after she put stuff on her yard for grubs. Just looking for some suggestions. They've got my backyard so torn up, it's like walking in sand. Help YTers. Any mole assasin's out there for hire? BTW, I don't think Otis and Oliver would kill them even if they could find them. They haven't proved to be very successful hunters.
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09-11-2007, 09:37 AM | #2 |
Peeka Boo I See You! Donating Member | My parents have gofers and they are a nuciance big time my dad bought this stuff that you put down in the hole and it's kinda like a bug bomb it goes off and goes through out the burrow and kills them.
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09-11-2007, 09:43 AM | #3 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Indiana
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| We have them too. Don't put anything in the tunnels like what they call poison peanuts...they only eat small bugs and grubs. We've tried the traps too, they don't work well, especially if the ground dries out. The only real way, we've been told, is to get rid of the grubs. I won't chance my Yorkies getting sick, so we just wait till we see a tunnel moving and bad as it sounds...pitch fork the heck out of it.
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09-11-2007, 09:45 AM | #4 |
My hairy-legged girls Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: lompoc, ca.
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| Our yard is also being destroyed by moles, but you can't bomb them like you do a gopher because they dig right at the surface and you can't find any deep holes. We can't get rid of them because we haven't found anything to do it with that won't harm the dogs. This is the time I wish mine would dig those little buggers out. I wonder if a cat would do the trick. |
09-11-2007, 09:48 AM | #5 |
Donating YT 10K Club Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Alabama
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| Our barn cats take care of our moles.... we find little headless bodies all the time |
09-11-2007, 09:52 AM | #6 |
Peeka Boo I See You! Donating Member | ewww lol... See the cats are good for something hahahaha
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09-11-2007, 09:55 AM | #7 |
Donating YT 10K Club Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Alabama
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| You are right I don't have anything against cats, I just HATE IT when they rub on your legs ----eeeewwwww yucko plucko! |
09-11-2007, 10:24 AM | #8 |
Rosi & Poli's Mom Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Washington State
Posts: 5,428
| We have the same problem here, we tried about everything
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09-11-2007, 10:47 AM | #9 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Soddy Daisy, TN
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| My husband says that you can put castor oil down the little tunnels. I am not sure if you buy the pill form or the liquid form. He says it will make them move, because they don't like it. I am not sure if they smell it or eat it.
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