Holey Moley Laying Down the Smack 2024-25

[Brush Ape]

Twoi Silverbacks yesrerday. Both kills those killer old spring traps. I’m auditioning the Gopher Hawk traps but not sold on ‘em yet.

Post your varmint smackfown right here.

 

[Wilhelm]

"Welcome to Costco, I love you"

???

 

[cus_deluxe]

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"Welcome to Costco, I love you"

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its from idiocracy. you gotta watch it if you havent.

 

[Wilhelm]

its from idiocracy. you gotta watch it if you havent.

I have it on DVD!

I am most likely one of the rare that like it - humanity is basically past halfway there already.

 

[bigbadbob]

 

[Wilhelm]

 

[Woodpecker]

I have it on DVD!

I am most likely one of the rare that like it - humanity is basically past halfway there already.

I don’t think that’s rare company. It has quite the cult following.

 

[Brush Ape]

Nice kill bigbadbob! That’s an interesting trap. Here’s the ones I’m using…

 

[bigbadbob]

Nice kill bigbadbob! That’s an interesting trap. Here’s the ones I’m using…View attachment 433056

How do you know where to put it??

 

[cus_deluxe]

find an active tunnel

 

[hacskaroly]

I used to have a cat that hunted gophers, we had a lot of gophers and started using the lever/spike traps in the tunnels, the ones where they would push the plate and get impaled by two sharp points. Whenever we caught a gopher, the cat was right there to happily take it and go eat it. It got to the point he figured out what was going on and after hearing the trap snap, would pull it out of the hole and eat the gopher off the trap. He finally go tired of that and would pull the trap out of the hole and sit there and wait for the gopher himself. We had to start putting a shovel blocking the hole so he could not pull the trap out. What a stinker!!

 

[Woodwackr]

We have a vole problem here, no gophers. Would traps like this work for them?
How to use? Don’t have any cats.
We are using bait boxes at the moment but would rather not. Lots of hawks and owls around so don’t want to poison their food supply.
Some sort of mechanical thing like what you show might work well.

 

[hacskaroly]

We have a vole problem here, no gophers. Would traps like this work for them?
How to use? Don’t have any cats.
We are using bait boxes at the moment but would rather not. Lots of hawks and owls around so don’t want to poison their food supply.
Some sort of mechanical thing like what you show might work well.

I think what BrushApe is using might work, basically you stick it above one of the vole's tracks and the flat plate in the middle pushes down on the hole, causing the vole to squeeze through, pushing up the plate and triggering the daggers of death.

 

[Woodwackr]

I can't find those spring traps pictured. I did find the gopher hawk traps

 

[hacskaroly]

I can't find those spring traps pictured. I did find the gopher hawk traps

I found this on Amazon, I remember seeing these:

Pro SuperCat - Gopher/Vole Trap

 

[Bill G]

Give them a drink.

If that does not work think like a gopher.

Then blow them to hell

 

[FergusonTO35]

We have moles like crazy. I don't use traps because I know my dumbazz dog would get speared through the schnozz. What I do is apply several containers of poison peanuts to the burrows. That seems to kill all of them in the yard, then all is well until a new bunch moves in and we repeat the process. Our two dogs and three cats kill every frickin' thing except moles, figures.

 

[Bill G]

My soil is so poor the moles have nothing to eat. I may have mowed for the last time tonight

 

[Wilhelm]

We have moles like crazy. I don't use traps because I know my dumbazz dog would get speared through the schnozz. What I do is apply several containers of poison peanuts to the burrows. That seems to kill all of them in the yard, then all is well until a new bunch moves in and we repeat the process. Our two dogs and three cats kill every frickin' thing except moles, figures.

At least one of my three cats will occasionally catch a mole.

My pup used to dig for them but she does no more.

 

[Bill G]

At least one of my three cats will occasionally catch a mole.

My pup used to dig for them but she does no more.

Time for re-training