How To Deal With Gophers | Gopher Treatments

How To Deal With Gophers | Gopher Treatments

A variety of ideas and gadgets have been created for the elimination of pocket gophers. There are methods, involving incendiary devices, explosive gasses, chewing gum, you name it! Following is a list of the most common.

1. Strychnine laced grains

2. Smokers

3. Electronic devices to ward them off

4. Repellents

5. Devices to fill the tunnel with explosive gasses, and ignite to kill them with explosive shock waves.

6. Devices which attempt to suffocate the rodents with carbon monoxide.

7. A million home remedies, most of them being as useless as they are amusing.

Most other methods pose additional problems.

You can run a garden hose down the tunnel and flood the critters out, and possibly wash away a substantial portion of your lawns sub surface in the process, and the gopher may not even be present.

You can pump carbon monoxide down the hole from an exhaust pipe, which, granted, will kill any critter present, but the gopher may no longer be in the vicinity, or may plug the hole to block the airflow. There are several other dangers inherent to this method.

There are devices to fill the tunnel with propane, and ignite it to blow the gopher to kingdom come, and tales of gasoline used in a variety of ways, some endangering the user more than the prey.

There are tales of chewing gum, castor oil repellents, (or poisons,) and other home remedies, that may, or may not, have some validity, some of which are confused with methods used to rid the lawn of moles, which is another story entirely.

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