Having tamed the lawn - and made a promise to ourselves to keep it a reasonable length and weed free going forward - we've discovered some fairly extensive Gopher activity has been taking place while we've been distracted with all the other aspects of moving into the new house. There are little mounds of dirt scattered all over the place and you can feel areas of grass start to give way under your feet as you walk across the lawn.
I've not started having nightmares of the house sinking down into an underground Gopher den just yet but I figured that, seeing as they aren't on the Deeds and aren't paying the mortgage that they are the ones that have to go, not us.
Michelle and I discussed how best to tackle this and agreed that we should take a humane approach in the first instance and see if we can persuade them to settle elsewhere. And so it is that I have just picked up a couple of Exhart Gopher Mole Mover devices and installed them on the back lawn. I have an extra one for the front lawn also. We'll have to see how effective they are over the next couple of weeks or I'll have to head back to Home Depot and pick up the sulfur flares to drop down their holes and gas them to death.
To let them know how serious we are about this I have written them a short letter explaining our position which I have copied below for reference so that they can't say we didn't warn them.
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September 2, 2009
Dear Mr and Mrs Gopher and Family,
Please leave, or else.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation,
Best,
Craig and Michelle
Miko and Cornflake
1 comment:
If that does not work I'm sure my dad ha a few methods he could tell you about.....though they will involve firearms!!
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