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BannaOj
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This just came across my Cardigan Corgi listserv. It's too good not to repost. Someone posted to the list about a gopher problem. Here's the response:

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Subject: Moles

I've found one mole, it might even have been a vole, in my backyard. Sam
and Ginger happened to be right there and Sam pounced and killed it. Then
he did a victory lap around the back yard with Ginger trying to steal the
mole from him. We narrowly averted a mole tug of war.

While not an advisable and practical means of mole elimination, this one
will give you all a chuckle.

Several years ago a friend in the Seattle area had terrible mole problems in
her yard. Her husband, being a "more power" kind of guy took matters into
his own hands. He backed his truck onto the lawn, took the hose from the
shop vac, taped it onto the exhaust pipe and then stuck the other end down
the nearest mole hole. He started up the truck and, well, you get the idea.
Of course, my friend looks out her kitchen window to see exhaust rising
from all the mole holes in her yard. Their neighbors talked about that one
for years. By the way, yes, the moles were eliminated.

Good luck with the mole elimination. Consider using all those excavated
areas for flower beds [Smile]

Dina
Sam & Ginger


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TMedina
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Wow, that's one way to gopher broke.

On an unrelated note, my buddy adopted a stray rat terrier - if you know rat terriers, you know they've been bred as hunting dogs and go absolutely ballistic at the sight of rats, squirrels and so on.

Apparently my buddy didn't appreciate this and turned her loose in the backyard on an unsuspecting squirrel.

Now he calls her "Shampoo".

-Trevor

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BannaOj
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lol, Steve just shuddered at your story Trevor, considering he had a college roommate who was addicted to Ranma 1/2, and frequenly had 24 hour a day Ranma marathons.

(That is if Shampoo was actually a Ranma reference)

AJ

The roommate had the entire US Ranma collection, individually, then in addition, the boxed sets, and nearly everything that could possibly be pirated from Japan.

[ September 24, 2004, 11:52 PM: Message edited by: BannaOj ]

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Actually, the new nickname came from the fact she managed to devour the head and shoulders of the poor squirrel.

Now he believes me when I say she's a hunting dog. She gets so excited by squirrels, he had to go buy the 110 pound test flexi-leash because she snapped the one suggested for her weight class in half.

-Trevor

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We have also been visualizing the Caddyshack Gopher, in a gasmask and WWI doughboy hat, doing the "I'm all right!" dance.

AJ

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Oh my, another person on my corgi listserv, had her husband do the exact same thing, and she corroborated that it dispatches the vermin sucessfully.

AJ

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Do they fill the gopher holes up afterwards?

Otherwise, I'd imagine the smell would become pretty foul at some point.

-Trevor

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maybe it just makes them leave

or they could be deep enough that the decay doesn't matter much

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