Omelet wrote:
> In article <7vidnbasRu2bMa3VnZ2dnUVZ_rCtnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> none <""Mark\"@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(none)"> wrote:
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>>> 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'll have to look at that just for grins!
>
>> 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".
>
> It sure won't hurt. ;-) Trick is to introduce predators, and convince
> your neighbors not to kill them.
>
> Honestly, if you do study up on Herpetology, you will find that America
> has very few poisonous reptiles. Learn to recognize those few and the
> rest are safe.
I'll get around to it - in my own rather disorganized manner!
Update: The gophers devoured my tomato plants, the broccoli, and
unexpectedly... the pimiento pepper plant. Perhaps I should have planted
habenero!? Maybe horseradish? These gophers are out of control - A
blackbird made the sad mistake of pecking at a trap, and hopefully left
this world without suffering... And a gopher dragged its carcass, still
in the trap, halfway down a gopher hole to gnaw upon it.
Only halfway, because the trap was too wide to fit down the hole.
Mutant, carnivorous, radioactive gophers! Run! Run for your lives!
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