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Mole retribution day..........
William81
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The little buggars have had their way with my yard all winter....today hooked up the 45 gallon roller to the JD and rolled the whole yard.....That usually shuts most of them down.... Tomorrow, I will check the yard and as needed head out with my old trusty Ithaca if I see any dirt moving....
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They're building a Wal-Mart in my yard. I've got clay mounds. I had an idea. Take half bricks, lay them on the mounds and run over them with my truck. I haven't done it yet. The yard has been too wet.
Caddy shack comes to mind
Explosives and complete destruction
Try the propane and blow to heck 👹
I hate my neighbors cat, but he is a mole killing machine so I tolerate him.
I’ve been going to write a book on mole hunting. Have used everything from traps, poison grubs, fusees even used a bayonet couple times, used a 12 gauge for years but now use a 410. The trick is to lead them when their tunneling, about an inch ahead of main body. Neighbor and I have a running bet every year on who gets the most. Shooting the mounds is a waste of time unless you know the direction their pushing the dirt up from. Yes sir we take are mole hunting around here pretty seriously. Lol.
Martha has killed one that I know of.....hopefully she will become more adept at it !!!
Always used the back side of a spade and smacked the uprising mound and stuns them till dug out.
Y'all need my dog, Daisy the beagle. She loves to kill moles.
My neighbor's terrier loves to dig them up.....but she sure tears things up...
😂😂
My cats are mole getters and they don't dig after them.
I have not seen a mole or gopher mound in several years. mole, mice and rats were thick when I first got the cats and I live in the deep woods. Not a chipmunk within 1/4 mile of the house either.
Some fat cats are just Garfields and not good mousers. Cats need to be hungry and slim to be good at hunting, kinda like people.
Gopher heaven. Place over hole, run engine and the exhaust finds ‘em and kills ‘em!
A comfortable chair and a 22 with a suppressor and just wait for the dirt to move
Moles tear up my yard every year. I lucked up one afternoon when I saw a tunnel in the flower bed. I stomped on it to collapse the tunnel. Within 5 minutes I see the tunnel coming alive. Got my shovel and dug up the little...thing. I promptly dispatched it, I was thrilled. This year I have another one and I am trying one of those spring traps. The same trap I have used for 3 years without success.
Because moles spend most of their time underground, where oxygen levels are lower than on the surface, a mole's blood will absorb carbon monoxide even more readily than human blood. This should be a quick kill.
I have a lot of mole activity in my yard. They are abundant in the woods but come out into the 5 acre yard on a regular basis. One year I hooked a piece of flex conduit to my diesel tractor exhaust and stuck the other end in the mole hole and let the tractor run for about 20 minutes. The next day I could see where the tunnel was about 8' longer. 😡
Joe
Some sort of terrier will do the trick, yard might suffer a bit though.
Terrier is "go to ground".
our cats will kill them then show them off by leaving on the back door area . they do not eat them just kill thats fine they do torture ? play with the mice then eat them the moles must taste terrible but I trust the cats I do not want to check myself
My daughter has a white Siberian Huskie that loves to dig up moles and kill them. She leaves them on the back porch as an offering for her next meal.
The only problem is that their backyard looks like a battle zone with bomb craters all over the place. 😯
Joe
We had a Cairn Terrier.
Sometimes had a short mole-sized trench in the backyard, but no moles😁
Daisy the Beagle tortures 'em like a cat playing with a mouse. I have tried to get them away from the dog, but no good, when I get near, she grabs up the little rodent and runs 30 feet away. I just want to put the little mite out of its misery.
Daisy will torture a mole for 30 minutes. Moles don't bother me and they are, or were, commonplace up here. We used to have a little terrier he too was just murder on the moles.