OT: Moles (was Re: OT: Springtime in New York)

[Bob Stockler]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 05:45:17PM -0500, CDAY wrote:
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| Other than running into the house to get a beer, I have not gone so far 
| as this man in Louisville:
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| His wife says, "he flipped it up (a shovel full of dirt in motion) and 
| there was no mole, he threw the shovel, hit the car, dented the car, ran 
| in the house, grabbed a beer, ran upstairs and locked himself in the 
| bedroom."
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| I have a two legged trap that is suposed to spear the buggers but in 
| five years I have only one kill and that is not confirmed.... They 
| purportedly can move through a run at 18" per second which means they 
| cover the 6" space between the two sets of tines in my trap in 1/3 
| second. I am sure it does not trip that fast. Thus, the underground, in 
| the run, trap is the only type to use.
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| I have read a lot of the stuff (OSU,KY,IN,LL) on the internet which 
| confirms only trapping and killing works.

I've had moles in the yard of the house I built over 30 years ago
only during one summer.  A neighbor two doors down had two "outside"
cats (their children were allergic to cats, so the cats - a mother
and son - lived in their garage, with a cat-door allowing them to
come and go as they pleased.

One morning my wife discovered a dead mole outside our kitchen door.

Other days she'd discover a dead bird or rodent there (she gave the
cats kitty treats, and they were showing their appreation.

She hated it when they left her a dead Kentucky Cardinal, but really
appreciated the dead chipmonks - they're our biggest pests (I'm afraid
that, with all the burrows they've dug here, someday our house may just
all of a sudden drop down about a foot or so - it already caused a drop
of 6" once in a walk from our front porch to our driveway).

Bob

PS - Another hazzard of chipmonk burrows is that yellow jackets usurp
     them to build their nests sometimes.  I discovered that one time
     when I was cutting grass and somehow disturbed those beasties.
     They don't like that at all, and demonstrate it forcefully.  After
     I recovered from the stings some days later I poured gasoline down
     into their nest in the chipmonk burrow and dropped a match into it.
     Problem solved!

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