dang gophers!

[Bad_Dog]

dont even get me started...


try simple things first:

~get a 5 gallon bucket and place it about 5 feet away from the gophers hole...
~fill 5 gallon bucket 3/4 way full of water...
~rip piece of cling wrap size of bucket opening...
~place cling wrap on surface of water (it'll float)...
~get some birdseed...
~pour birdseed on top of cling wrap (carefully) making sure to cover entire opening (it'll still float)...
*now take a step back... the bucket should appear to be 3/4 the way full of birdseed...*
~take a piece of wood and lean it against the 5 gallon bucket so that it creats a ramp for the gopher...
~maby put a small trail of seed going up the side of the ramp...

these materials are pretty common in the avreage household so you should be able to try it.

the gopher will be afraid of the bucket and ramp at first but will be loose its fear when it realizes its a source of food. It'll follow the trail of seed up the ramp and once it gets to the top; it'll see the seed inside the bucket and automatically assume the bucket is full of seed. Plop! it'll jump in thinking it's going to land in a gargantuain pile of food, yet in all reality it'll quickly drown in the bucket of water.

try it before you think too hard about it, while rodents are fairly intelligent, their natural instincts mask their common sense.

~Kyle

[Python14]

Hire an assasin

[BobTheCow]

I don't know if this actually works, but I remember as a little kid my parents telling me to do this...

Get a stick or two of gum, the more sugary the better. Chew it just enough to get it into a soft ball, and then leave it in/by the holes. Supposedly the buggers like the smell, and then the taste, but then kill themselves in the process of trying to swallow it or whatever. *shrugs* Your yard, this'll give you an excuse to chew some gum.

[TDonovan]

Shoot it... Once they come out of the hole, they're pretty dumb. When I went hunting for antelope I took some target practice on them.

They just sat there about 100 yards out messing around and POW.

It's more humane than making the thing choke or drown to death.

If you don't have a gun or safe place to be shooting it, use a trap. Once you hear the thing squeal/scream run out there and smash it with a big log/bat.

[CodeMA]

be creative, make it a game

get a 2x4, put long nails through it and if you can find it some long rubber tubeing, ancore non spiky end in ground twords whole... sevral feet from it so when the board flips the spiky end hits just off from the hole, put something hard there....make sure the board has a lot of snap too it, try not to impail yourself in the process... cut an apple in half, spread honey on it, ram it over center nail, take cotton string and use it to keep the board down, make sure its running over the apple, and coated with honey as well...

Big gopher eats, eats through string, gets catapulted or slammed into ground hopefully killing him instantly....

Might I suggest not experimenting with this if you have pets...


.22s work nicely as well...just cap the sucker



Human traps work too...

[coolcatpete]

be creative, make it a game

get a 2x4, put long nails through it and if you can find it some long rubber tubeing, ancore non spiky end in ground twords whole... sevral feet from it so when the board flips the spiky end hits just off from the hole, put something hard there....make sure the board has a lot of snap too it, try not to impail yourself in the process... cut an apple in half, spread honey on it, ram it over center nail, take cotton string and use it to keep the board down, make sure its running over the apple, and coated with honey as well...

Big gopher eats, eats through string, gets catapulted or slammed into ground hopefully killing him instantly....

Might I suggest not experimenting with this if you have pets...


.22s work nicely as well...just cap the sucker



Human traps work too...

This sounds fun, I may have to try a less lethal version on my dog becasue it is teeny ( a pug).
pete

[Bad_Dog]

This sounds fun, I may have to try a less lethal version on my dog becasue it is teeny ( a pug).
pete

I can see it now...

the dog slowly makes its way to the trap... sniffs... and WHAP! .... Nooo! it was supposed to be non-lethal!

[splatattack33]

i like mxracers idea rofl ...ok now are fireworks legal where you live?(not in ny . ) ok one of my many ideas is put alot of gas near the hole and down the hole and get roman candles and fire mwahhahah or just get like a stick or lots and lots of sticks of explosives(gas can also be used in this ....WARNING: may look like the Ho Chi Minh(sp?) trail after being napalmed) and just chuck em down the hole and kaploowey you may or may not get him but you will definately have alot of fun

[land hurricane]

we had a problem similar.. this is what we did:

take a 4, or 5 inch wide pvc pipe and enclose one end with wood or metal or whatever..

put the pipe into the gopher hole with the open end sticking up.

wait for the gopher to go in. if it is long enough, the gopher wont be able to crawl back up the slick siding of pvc.

wait.. i think we might of done this for moles, not gophers.. haha oh well, good luck :)

[LawnGnome7]

Hire an assasin

Just let me know when i start

[desslock]

die gopher! die!

get pie tin, place lettuce apples whatever the hell gophers eat in pie tin. Soak the gopher food with liberal amounts of anti-freeze. Let food soak in anti freeze overnight. Keep tainted food away from pets, small children and the elderly. Place tin w/poisioned food near hole, check to see if any food was eaten. The varmit will die from the posion, hopefully he will not die under ur deck and stink up ur backyard, happened to me. This trick also takes care of that annoying neighborhood cat/dog or poor kids.

[mcdkid]

Hmmm

so thats how i get rid of my alcohic grandmother.. hehe

[Slimm Jimm]

Shoot it with a .22 and wait for all his buddies to come chew on him. Simple, sick, and problem solved.

[Miscue]

http://www.kidsonwheels.net/gopher.html

[CodeMA]

I got to level 8... at 5 it starts getting tricky...

I had another idea conserning electricity...

a car battery or poweroutlit if your feeling frisky... old lamp or vacume cord with a foot or so shaved... on the end, place it in the food,or over the hole or something... fried gopher anyone?

Again, Id exersise some causion with this one... and be wry of children and pets