Ever seen one of these? Cute little butt, or hideous sightless face? Let me introduce you to the enemy that I have been fighting for the past year: Mr. & Mrs. @#$%! Mole. And yes, that is the hideous sightless face! I have been trying to rid my backyard of these pesky critters for the past year. At first, it was a kindly effort of packing down the mounds. Next, bringing our trusty fat cat to smell the enemy and telling him to get crackin'. When that didn't work, a blast of water from the hose. "Run along now friends. It's too wet here." All to no avail and my yard was quickly becoming a mine field. So I decided that I needed to turn to my tried and true mole eliminator, Mole Bombs! These are so cool - they look like sticks of dynamite. You light 'em and cram 'em down the hole, then quickly seal it up. The bomb explodes sending special gasses to put the moles into a gentle, yet deadly slumber....or so the package says. MY moles breathe deeply of the gasses to become Super Moles with super mole powers and super digging babies! They mock my paltry efforts to eradicate them. I set up a trap, they tunnel all around it. Stuff dog hair down the hole? They kick it all back up into a neat pile on my patio. I fear for the foundation of my house - I left a hose running into a fresh tunnel for over 30 minutes and the water did not exit, ANYWHERE??? Where are they??? Please! Please, can't someone help me?? Is there some way I can "encourage" them to go to my neighbors??? There must be some Mole experts out there!
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I think you should definitely try and pack multiple mole bombs down there much like what I did to do a combo fireworks thing on the 4th of July!
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I say you humiliate them out of your yard. Start making fun of them. Make them the butt of your jokes. Bake cookies for them with poop as the secret ingredient or put makeup on their faces when they are sleeping.
Too bad you don't have a big boa constrictor you could send down the hole!
Hey Auntie,
There is a little device called a Mole Batier. It has a trigger on top with a small box where you place poison pellets, and then a long spike with a hole in the bottom. You push the spike into the mole tunnels and pull the trigger on the handle and it releases the poison pellets into the mole tunnel.
It's sold at most home improvment and hardware stores.
I imagine the smell after a week or so must be heavenly....
Mole Baiter! Sounds dastardly - and just what the doctor ordered!! Only thing, will it be okay to use with the dogs and cat around? I'll make sure and check! Thanks for the tip!!!
If the Mole Baiter doesn't work, I'm going over to Busty St. Clair's house and borrow her Boa Contrictor! Good idea Reva!
This has nothing to with your post, it's an article from MSNBC about Canine fatalities after ingesting Xylitol:
Dog owners warned against sugar-free items
Commonly used artificial sweetener can cause canine liver failure
NEW YORK - Keep those sugarless treats out of Fido’s reach. Veterinarians warned Friday that a commonly used sweetener might cause liver failure in dogs, and perhaps even kill them.
Their report in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association appears to strengthen the suspected link between the sugar substitute xylitol, thought to make dogs sick, and possible liver failure.
Xylitol, a naturally occurring product, is found in many sugar-free chewing gums, candies, baked goods and toothpastes.
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Researchers Sharon Gwaltney-Brant and Eric Dunayer with staff at a poison unit of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Urbana, Ill., gathered information on eight dogs treated between 2003 and 2005 after eating products containing xylitol.
Each dog became ill, and five died or had to be put down because of liver failure, possibly from ingesting xylitol.
One dog who had to be euthanized had eaten four large, chocolate-frosted muffins containing about 1 pound of xylitol.
“People don’t think sugar-free gum can kill their dog. I didn’t before I got into this. But this is something people should be aware of,” Gwaltney-Brant, who co-authored the study with Dunayer, said in a statement.
Gwaltney-Brant said for dogs, ingesting even a small amount of xylitol can trigger significant insulin release, which drops their blood sugar and can be fatal.
“A 22-pound dog who consumes one gram (0.03 ounces) of xylitol should be treated,” she said, adding that further studies were needed to definitely establish a cause-and-effect relationship.
lynnea
Thanks Lynnea. You guys can all feel free to post stuff that's important for us to know!
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