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Anyone really know how to get rid of gophers????????

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Anyone really know how to get rid of gophers????????

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We "had" this beautiful front yard, no grass, stones, and a rock river, with all kinds of cactus, flowering sage, a huge agave, et. We have lost the agave, the little b..guy ate up all the inside, I sure hope he had a hangover! Now he is working on our australian bottle tree, a beautiful tree it was, now it is very stressed Have tried trapping, putting bubblegum down the holes, even poured a bottle of ammonia and then bleach, thought I got him, but he popped up after a few days. Sounds cruel, I don't like killing anything, but he is destroying all the plants > My neighbor said that he and a friend of his, when living in Montana, tried to get rid of a gopher by putting propane down the hole and lighting a match "Caddy Shack" I guess was more true to life then I realized
Anyway, this is a serious question, if any of you have any ideas, or have had the problem yourselves and know the answer
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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
probably
Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
So...the ideal thing to do, import taipans..whatever they are....then we'd probably be overrun by the taipanese ...no natural predators here for them


...there ya have it...Jafo saves the day again


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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Actually, the real answer is have Jafo design and build a house for you...no civilized Gopher will go near it.......
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I just looked up TAipan, and it's a snake, tried to copy and paste pic here but didn't work. No thanks have enough rattlers, etc.
Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Um.....the Aussie Inland Taipan is the deadliest snake on the planet...a single venom yield [milk] will get you on average 46 mls of venom....enough to make 4600 kilos of humans into ex-parrots.

That would add up to a fair sprinkling of dead gophers....

Bigger 'pest' issue in Oz is the one or two foxes currently in Tassie.....people are praying they do not/have not bred.

Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

And he's not all that small.....growing to between 2 and 3 metres....

Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks for the pic, how did that work for you, Jafo?
I take it fox are not native?
Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Neither foxes nor rabbits are native....they're vermin.

T o pst a pic, right click it and choose properties...copy/paste url into the text window you get when you click on the 'picture' icon at right....just below the smilies...

Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top
pst


.....what's a "pst"????



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Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Good...for a minute I thought it might be new type of Oz vermin...
Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top
http://www.rodenator.com/

Won't get more fun than that!!
Reply #41 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I better let my neighbor see that add! Caddy Shack 2
Reply #42 from WinCustomize Forums Top
How about a .22 caliber rifle and/or a stick of dynamite?
Reply #43 from WinCustomize Forums Top
bullets and TNT against a Gopher?
Reply #44 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yep. I'm nuts. But gophers are fun targets. Squirels too.
Reply #45 from WinCustomize Forums Top
What's the matter with you Kona.....everybody knows you use those things for ants.......
Reply #47 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yeah I''m nuts like I said Yrag... Maybe a .45 for the gopher?
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Reply #48 from WinCustomize Forums Top
'pst' is how I feel after I've imbibed in a little too much 'pss'....