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RE: pocket gophers - 4/18/2012 3:01:51 PM
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1runjuan
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ORIGINAL: Bonnie
I had never heard of pocket gophers until recently, there was an article in our local newspaper about them and the damage they do. Right away, I recognized the little critter as being what Coco had been digging and hunting in the field. He has caught 2 and downed them both before I could stop him. Bigger than a mouse, smaller than a gopher. They squeak like a mouse though from inside a dog's mouth. 
He loves them and the $$$ I am saving on dog food might just get us a trip to Akumal this year! 
I'm kidding (sorta) but please don't use poison to kill the critters. A cat, a hawk, an owl, a dog, anything that eats that poisoned critter is also going to be poisoned and its not always something you don't want in your neighborhood that gets the secondary poisoning.
thats my concern too, we have all sorts of critters around , domestic and wlid.
i prefer a method that i can physically see the little dead b--tard, you know a body count,
so to speak
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RE: pocket gophers - 4/18/2012 3:15:29 PM
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Cabin Boy
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You could resort to Alka-Seltzer and or "Pop Rocks" Candy. When they eat the grains they explode.
Do your worst if need be.
CB
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RE: pocket gophers - 6/19/2012 7:11:52 PM
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ToolJoint
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1Run,
We had a great cat that stayed out all night in the summer and layed a pile or two of guts on our front step every morning as proof he was "doing his job." Sadly I found him dead on the county road early one morning...apparently he bobbed when he should have weaved and was struck down by a vehicle. Out of respect for him, and really enjoying not having to vacuum our house every twenty minutes to get rid of the hair he left behind, we decided we would not get a replacement cat. A few weeks later I noticed suspicious mounds in our yard, then huge dirt piles and then...OUR YOUNG TREES WERE DYING! Those damn things will actually chew through the roots of young trees if they decided that's where they want a tunnel...we were being invaded! I tried the hose, tractor exhaust (diesel and gas), smoke bombs, M-80's...nothing was working. Finally I visited our weed and pest agent, and he sold me two traps that really work well. You find a fresh dirt mound, dig it out a bit with a shovel ( I know, but sometimes you have to do bad things to stop bad things from happening) place the trap wich is essentially a spring loaded pinching device designed to fit into the open tunnel, and wait a few hours. As Solo pointed out, they do not like their holes to be open so they come to the surface and start shoving dirt, and SMACK pinched! It would almost never fail, that if you resest the trap right away, they would send another soldier up to see why the first one failed to seal the entrance and POW...splash 2. My record was 6 in one tunnel in a day! We have since got another cat, and he too is a mole maurader, which is much easier and a lot less hassle, and our yard is back.
You gotta stand up and fight man....don't give in.
That is all....Good Luck.
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RE: pocket gophers - 6/20/2012 9:50:57 AM
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ToolJoint
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I found an even better website for the kind of traps that work...plus it has a variety of pictures that you will find morbidly satisfying.
Best Gopher Trap
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RE: pocket gophers - 6/20/2012 9:55:29 AM
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1runjuan
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oh my, that thing looks vicous, vicocus, vis, carp nasty.
no cats here, my siamese, hobbes, passed a while ago
and the DW says no more,
i'll see if i can get one, as my bow shooting is not that great
but fun to shoot and safe when drinking beer.lots of suds
to drink between gopher sightings.
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RE: pocket gophers - 6/20/2012 1:17:53 PM
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sandinmypants
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We've had an insurgence of pocket gophers again. This year my husband is having good luck with some kind of poisoned "gummy worm", he pokes a hole down into their run and drops it down in.
I'm not real concerned about anything else getting ahold of the poison accidentally, for one thing it's down in the ground, and dissolves pretty quickly if not eaten. If an animal should be roaming in our yard (we're outside city limits), it shouldn't be there anyway.
We do also use several different kinds of traps, but nothing seems to work as well as the poison does.
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