Omelet wrote:
> In article <7KCdnZCzPqLPhrLVnZ2dnUVZ_jydnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> none <""Mark\"@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(none)"> wrote:
>
>> Omelet wrote:
>>> In article <wj5Xj.237$mh5.107@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>> jellybean stonerfish <stonerfish@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 15 May 2008 10:11:31 -0500, Omelet wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Prairie dogs are good for long range marksman****p practice. ;-)
>>>> Also great exercisers for a dog. Fun to chase, but impossible to
catch.
>>> Hee! Might have to try that with the border collie...
>> I've never seen a groundhog or prairie dog, but we've got countless
>> gophers at my new workplace (where I'm trying to set up a small veg
>> garden). I've tried several of the more traditional baits to trap the
>> burrowing little garden-guerrillas and tomato-terrorists but to date
>> they seem to lust most after bits of greasy breaded skin from leftover
>> supermarket fried chicken, if they can get to it before the ants carry
>> it all away. I trapped six gophers in one day using two traps when I
>> switched from peanut butter or grain baits to fried chicken.
>>
>> I was given the choice to move here or become unemployed - I'm still
not
>> certain I made the right decision...
>
> Well...
>
> How are you at s**** hunting?
>
> When we lived in the foothills above the Mojave desert in Californica,
> (above Lancaster), we had a HORRIBLE time with gophers and moles.
> Cats are better than dogs at killing those, but it still was not
> enough...
>
> We used to have to take our own garbage to the local landfill. There was
> a spot in the Antelope Valley where they were using the San Andreas
> fault fissure as a landfill. <g> I'm not kidding...
>
> Anyhoo, the roads thru the desert leading to the landfills and sunset
> often had s****s laying out on the roads to stay warm while the desert
> cooled. Mostly gopher s****s, kings****s and the occasional mojave
> green. We left those (the rattles****s) alone of course!
>
> We'd stop for the beneficials and pick them up. Some would die on the
> way home as they'd already been run over by another car and you could
> not always tell they were fatally injured. <sigh>
>
> Anyway, we introduced about a dozen or more s****s into gopher holes
> over a two year period.
>
> The gopher and mole problem TOTALLY disappeared, and it put a dent in
> the local ground squirrel population too. :-)
>
> Natural predators always work better than traps and poison IME.
>
> I also kept the occasional s**** as a pet. I fed them using a baited
> repeater mouse trap...
That sounds like an excellent idea!
I'd been considering using a "Rodenator" (As seen on YouTube).
I've seen only one very small s**** since moving to Kennewick, WA.
It was coiled up on the hallway carpet, in front of a restroom at work.
I'll assume that means there are s****s outside the building as well,
since most s****s aren't civilized enough to come indoors and wait in
line to use the toilet... (grin)
Considering the size and ferocity of our gophers, I'd better choose only
large s****s. Perhaps I should read up on them first, as I know only
"Stay away from s****s with rattles".
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