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 Post subject: Moles
PostPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 11:34 am 
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Hi guys,

Have uninvited visitors last week in my lawn. Any ideas how to get rid of them without digging up and killing them?

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George Smiley was good at rooting out moles

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Yes DWD.....very drole.....mole? :lol:

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Get a cat - I know you might not agree with killing them but cats are hunters and what they do is 'natural' to them and can't be condemned - even though they don't EAT moles they will kill them. Our two hunter-cats (our other two, we have four, are far too soft to get off their @rses to hunt) clear out our garden of moles in very short shrift.

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Hi Kelly,

I only use cats to kick if in a bad mood :lol: Have plenty of foxes around tho'.

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Every time a mole hill shows, smack it down with a spade, and they run a mile. eventually.

There's normally a similar topic bar at the bottom that covers moles.

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Have just tried to decapitate the little buggers with the lawn mower :lol:

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If you got the cement vibrator and stuck down the hole for a couple of hours they won't be back

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thescruff wrote:
If you got the cement vibrator and stuck down the hole for a couple of hours they won't be back

Neither would the neighbours! :lol:

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Are the Neighbours Pests. :roll:

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Before we split up, could have used Misses vibrator :lol:

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Simon Site Manager wrote:
Before we split up, could have used Misses vibrator :lol:


But then you would have had a rabbit down the hole as well. :lol:
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I dont think there is much you can do without some digging. An old favourite is to put empty milk bottles in the hole and the noise from the wind passing over the neck of the bottle drives them away. You can get mole traps (not sure where from and if they are still legal though!)

I have seen a neighbour blasting mole hills with his shotgun but I doubt this is very effective

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Thanks for that VI, will buy a shotgun then! :lol:

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