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| HemetGardener |
Posted - Feb 07 2013 : 6:05:28 PM
Does anyone know how to get rid of gophers? I hate to trap him and "dispose" of him.
Thanks in advance,
Terri |
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| HemetGardener |
Posted - Feb 12 2013 : 7:39:03 PM
Good News!!
Thank you for all your suggestions for getting rid of gophers. Mine seems to be gone and I believe it is due to feeding him Oleander leaves which he loved but are poison.
Yay, I can start planning where to plant carrots without worrying about pulling up stubs.
Terri
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| HemetGardener |
Posted - Feb 11 2013 : 08:22:31 AM
Hi Deborah,
ALL my neighbors are characters. I have an 89-year-old who calls me and wants me to come visit. She is a former bank manager. There is another lady who takes her husband every day to the casino up the road so he can play for a couple hours. My neighbor Hazel owns the first mobile home put in this park in 1971. She was thrilled to find out I was born in Iowa like she was.
It is also really refreshing to see couples who have been married for years and still love each other and do things together. That is rare in CA.
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| HemetGardener |
Posted - Feb 09 2013 : 11:42:03 AM
Thanks for the encouragement Laura. Gotta do what I gotta do.
Terri |
| crittergranny |
Posted - Feb 08 2013 : 7:52:16 PM
I know its not fun to have to dispatch them. Those gopher traps that go in the hole work real well. It wont make it linger or suffer. They are just sooo destructive and they multiply like crazy. Sometimes we just have to, I'm sorry you are being bothered by them.
Laura
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| HemetGardener |
Posted - Feb 08 2013 : 4:45:40 PM
Thanks Laura.
I have two cats and they were out in the garden with me the day I saw the gopher. They just walked right by him. I said, "Get the bug, get the bug" which usually works but no interest at all. UGH.
I guess I have to use the trap.
Sorry little guy.
Terri |
| crittergranny |
Posted - Feb 08 2013 : 3:08:27 PM
I once tried to catch a gopher for 2 years and finally did after one day it chewed yet another bottom off of one of my big hollyhocks. I pulled what was left up and cleaned out the hole and put the trap in the hole then on top of that the juicy chewed up still wet bottom of the holly hock and I finally got him! It was huge. I wanted to stuff him as a trophy paperweight but hubby already gave him to the cat. I have a cat that is a yellow fluffball and she will wait for days with her head in the hole and she finally gets them too. But my cats won't eat them like they do the mice. I guess they don't taste so good.
Laura
Horse poor in the boonies.
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| Emily Anna |
Posted - Feb 08 2013 : 10:13:16 AM
Lol! That is tooo funny!
Emily |
| HemetGardener |
Posted - Feb 08 2013 : 10:05:39 AM
Emily and CJ,
My neighbor Marilyn Monroe says she has everything Marilyn Monroe had, it's just in different places.
Terri |
| ceejay48 |
Posted - Feb 08 2013 : 08:08:09 AM
Emily, I'm glad you asked that question. I had the same image in my mind . . (giggle).
My kitty, Skye, was our gopher control officer . . . now that she is gone we'll have to come up with some other strategy.
CJ
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| Emily Anna |
Posted - Feb 08 2013 : 07:26:12 AM
You have a neighbor named Marilyn Monroe?? Does she look like Marilyn Monroe? Because now all I'm picturing is her in one of her slinky dresses and heels out in the yard chasing gophers. :)
Emily |
| HemetGardener |
Posted - Feb 07 2013 : 7:48:58 PM
Tina,
Thank you for the advice. I live in a mobile home park so I think the manager has traps. A neighbor lady named Marilyn Monroe told me there is not a gopher that she cannot catch. We'll see about that.
I will keep you posted and it is nice to meet another CA Farmgirl. I have actually been to Quartz Hill when I had a friend who lived there in the 1980's.
Thanks again,
Terri |
| oldbittyhen |
Posted - Feb 07 2013 : 7:38:32 PM
trap with a havaheart trap, and re-locate him if you can't bare to dispose of him, other wise use a spring prong trap, and dump him in the trash, if you have one, you have more...
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