Are Those Gophers Driving You Crazy?
July 14, 2010
Gophers are very resilient little animals. Recently I saw a special on the eruption of the Mt. St Helens volcano eruption. The devastation that was caused by the falling ash and rocks and hot mus turned the surrounding area into a wasteland. Trees lay flattened animals lay dead and scientists wondered how many years it would take for the area to recover. A few months following the eruption as they were walking the landscape, to their great surprise they found gophers. These burrowing animals had survived. The scientists were thrilled. However, when they inhabit your yard and raise little mounds of dirt and eat the roots off of your plantings, you are nor very happy to see them. You can use traps. You can use poison in their holes. You can use the sonic sticks. It becomes an ongoing battle.
I was reading a book on folk remedies and this one caught my attention. If you have a cat and you have a cat littler box, instead of throwing away the used litter material, find the gopher holes that are entrances to their tunnels. Pour the used litter into the hole, cover it up and the gophers that lived in that area will move out. They hate that contaminated stuff.
I am always interested to find new ways that folks cope with some age old nuisances.
Gophers are very resilient little animals. Recently I saw a special on the eruption of the Mt. St Helens volcano eruption. The devastation that was caused by the falling ash and rocks and hot mus turned the surrounding area into a wasteland. Trees lay flattened animals lay dead and scientists wondered how many years it would take for the area to recover. A few months following the eruption as they were walking the landscape, to their great surprise they found gophers. These burrowing animals had survived. The scientists were thrilled. However, when they inhabit your yard and raise little mounds of dirt and eat the roots off of your plantings, you are nor very happy to see them. You can use traps. You can use poison in their holes. You can use the sonic sticks. It becomes an ongoing battle.
I was reading a book on folk remedies and this one caught my attention. If you have a cat and you have a cat littler box, instead of throwing away the used litter material, find the gopher holes that are entrances to their tunnels. Pour the used litter into the hole, cover it up and the gophers that lived in that area will move out. They hate that contaminated stuff.
I am always interested to find new ways that folks cope with some age old nuisances.
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