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Pocket Gophers Gone Wild
Well it seems that my pocket gopher infestation (which I thought I could control) is starting to get out-of-hand. They’re wrecking my “good lawn” and have started to work on my vineyard. The home was new about a year and a half ago, and they pretty much stayed away from the newly excavated and graded areas ... until now.
I’ve tried the caster oil sprays,
Fox, bobcat, and human urine (don’t ask)
Ammonia, and Pinesol
"MoleChaser" (vibrating devices), and
Poison smoke bombs
I was thinking of tying the Poison pellets next, and if that doesn’t work, then hiring a professional to trap them.
Any other suggestions or advice?
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Our neighbor has a Jack Russell Terrier ... feisty little sh!t. He literally ate their leather sofa. He’d work a seam open, then pull all of the stuffing out the hole.
A friend of ours is in the process of having traps set. The person they hired charges $10 for each trap set and $25 for each gopher trapped. Also, have another friend who just paid sometype of exterminating company $180 to let “poison worms” loose in their gopher mounds. Sounded kind of like a gimmick to me.
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Flooding the tunnels ... gives me visions of that scene from “Caddy Shack”.
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Thanks to everyone for the info.
Last night, just for sh!ts & giggles, I stuck a hose in one of the newest holes, after 15 minutes, it was still taking water. So, I checked the water meter just to keep track. 90 minutes (and 45 cubic feet of water) later, this hole and the surrounding holes were full. Not sure where all of the water went? Seems like a lot though?
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Got home last night, had (3) fresh mounds in the flooded area. So, stuck the hose back in the hole and let it run for another 2-hours.
Woke up this morning, found another (3) fresh mounds in an area, about 100ft away from the flooded area. This is where I tried the smoke bombs. I though for a couple of days the smoke worked, since there had not been any new activity ... until now.
It seams the more I do, the more agitated, and active they become. But, unfortunately not agitated enough to just plain leave.
The “Rodenator”, got to love it, brings back even more visions of “Caddy Shack”. How’s that tune go? Something like: “Great big gobs of greasy, grimy, gopher guts...” 
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Okay, stupid question. As far as gassing them out, are exhaust gases “heavier” or “lighter” than air. Will if “flow” into the network of tunnels like water? Or must it be forced.
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Update – I’ve developed a system that seems to work quite well at dispersing the little-buggers. I use the hose to open up the tunnels, then slowly pour used cat liter into the hole, letting the water carry it down into the tunnel. One application per colony seems to be enough. Although, I’ve been giving each colony a follow-up dose 1-week later, just in case. So far, all activity has stopped in the treated areas.
I always knew that some day those darn cats would earn their keep. 
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