GOPHERS! Make them go away!

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So does anyone have any good advice on getting rid of gophers??? (preferrably without killing them)

I finally got rid of all the snails and slugs in my garden, but now the freakin' gophers are eating all of my plants!

Thanks Keely

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get a cat. preferably a bengal tiger, but if the tiger is unavailable, a standard variety housecat will do.

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So does anyone have any good advice on getting rid of gophers??? (preferrably without killing them)

I finally got rid of all the snails and slugs in my garden, but now the freakin' gophers are eating all of my plants!

Thanks Keely

I saw a guy on tv once who had modified a street cleaning vacuum truck and he simply sucked the little jokers up... didn't harm them or anything and let them go on their merry way in the wild

Never go to a DZ strip show.

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Get a dog. If you don't want to kill them...get an old dog
My dog loves to chase them right out of our yard - he's the best !

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Hunting the little critters down would be my first choice but since you said without killing them, try this scroll down to the bottom of the page.

Never look down on someone, unless they are going down on you.

[quade 4]

There's really no easy way to get rid of them unless you kill them.

Sorry.

Best way I ever heard of killing them was a garden hose hooked up to the tail pipe of a car. Shove the hose as far down one of the holes as you can and start the engine. Let it run for awhile and you're done.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

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How ever you choose to solve the problem, watch "Caddyshack" afterwards, you'll feel better about it.

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So does anyone have any good advice on getting rid of gophers??? (preferrably without killing them)

I finally got rid of all the snails and slugs in my garden, but now the freakin' gophers are eating all of my plants!

Thanks Keely

I don't know how to get rid of gophers, but how did you manage to get rid of the snails and slugs in your yard? Did you use slugbait? I hate slugs, I don't have snails. Now that I don't have a dog anymore, I can use slugbait!

J

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Put moth balls down the hole. I have been told that works. Since you don't want to kill them, otherwise I've got dozzens of lethal ways.

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I saw a guy on tv once who had modified a street cleaning vacuum truck and he simply sucked the little jokers up... didn't harm them or anything and let them go on their merry way in the wild

Hey I saw that
I would suggest the live traps for catch and release. They lure the gopher into a tarp that they cannot get out of until you relocate them to your enemies houseI'm not sure how effective they are because I use the sure fire method of killing them...Dead

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I don't know how to get rid of em without killing em.


frankly, I wish gophers would die at our dz. last week i landed with my foot in one of their holes... nearly broke it

but if you do decide to kill em, just pour some bleach down the hole, then some ammonia down after that, and cap the hole. instant gopher death.

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I saw a guy on tv once who had modified a street cleaning vacuum truck and he simply sucked the little jokers up... didn't harm them or anything and let them go on their merry way in the wild

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I don't know how to get rid of gophers, but how did you manage to get rid of the snails and slugs in your yard? Did you use slugbait? I hate slugs, I don't have snails. Now that I don't have a dog anymore, I can use slugbait!

SLUGGO

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Didn't you see Caddie Shack? Just give up now and spare yourself from all those problems!

"Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance,
others mean and rueful of the western dream"

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Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions. I will try some of the gentler ways, and if that doesn't work then I will kill the little bastards (though I don't think I'll use quade's method because quade is an evil scary man ). I don't like to kill things, but with gardening sometimes there doesn't seem to be much choice (weeds, ants, slugs & snails, etc.)... Gardening is such a violent hobby!

Oh, and I do have cats but they are indoor-only kitties. And I would get a dog, but somehow I think it would destroy my garden at least as much as the gophers do.

And I have been thinking about "Caddyshack" ever since the gophers started giving me trouble. Maybe I should go rent it for inspiration.
Or does anyone know where I can rent one of those high-powered vacuum thingies???

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Didn't you see Caddie Shack? Just give up now and spare yourself from all those problems!

But the little fart-knockers ate all my beautiful poppies!

Hmm, maybe some explosives would be a good idea!

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I will have to look for Sluggo bait. I have used other brands and found Deadline works well. With all of our rain, it too has to be re-applied often, but if it saves my flowers, it's worth it! The picture of your poppy is beautiful. I have an occasional Mole that will tunnel through my yard. I haven't found anything to get rid of them, we just try to get them to 'move along' to the neighbors yard!

Jan

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I have something that might be fun to try. Friend of mine just aquired a fairly interesting peice of hardware. It's a rifle, but like nothing most of us have ever seen. It's chambered for the .44 magnum or special, a handgun cartridge. The reason for the is the .44 that it is subsonic. That's important because the length of the barrel in a sound suppressor. It's quieter than anything I've ever heard. All you hear is a tiny click and a pfft.

Might be overkill on gophers, but hey, they ate your beautiful poppies!

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Watch caddyshack

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Evil and scary? Me?

I think CO posioning is a heck of a lot more humain than being a kitty chew toy.

quade -
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Evil and scary? Me?

I think CO posioning is a heck of a lot more humain than being a kitty chew toy.

yeah its supposedly like going to sleep. I prefer my method of Chlorine poisoning though.... its heavier than air so it will stay down there for a while, to finish the job.

MB 3528, RB 1182

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So does anyone have any good advice on getting rid of gophers??? (preferrably without killing them)

I finally got rid of all the snails and slugs in my garden, but now the freakin' gophers are eating all of my plants! [

Pour a mixture of bleach and ammonia down their holes.

It won't kill them if they see fit to run like hell.

It will, however, kill you if you breathe the vapors. Use of a surplus gas mask in good condition is advised.

How to stay nonlethal? They use rubber bullets for crowd control, but I'm not sure if you can find any for a .220 Swift.


Blue skies,

Winsor

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Hey gophers ain't so bad, it's those damn' Badgers ya got to get rid of.....

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Didn't you see Caddie Shack?

Is this Caddy Shack II?


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Just borrow a friend's dog for the weekend. My sister's Syberian Husky killed a possum in my yard awhile back.. the stench of its blood was all over the yard till i could get it cleaned up. But, the smell must still be there to some degree because i havn't seen ANY little critters in my yard since.

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