striped gophers irradication

[picksbigwagon]

Okay, I have a striped gopher in my garage and getting into the walls of our house. Shotgun is out of the question, what kind of poison can I use to rid my house of this vermin? I am at my wits end, I leave the garage door open and the little (man I wish I could use more colorful language here) thing won't even leave the garage.......

HELP.....I don't want to shoo it away, I want it gone

[HutchBucks]

stricnine(sp) or rat poisen

[Ufatz]

Be very careful using any poison. Remember, it is often the gift that keeps on giving!

Try just leaving the door open again, and maybe run the car at the same time.

[Big-Al]

I'd try a rat trap. Not sure what to bait it with, but I bet peanut butter would work. Here is another that I found by accident. Fill a 5 gallon bucket 3/4 full of water and store your leeches in it. Set a box or something beside it that is almost as high as the bucket. I got rid of about 15 chipmunks and a couple of gophers one spring with that method. I don't know if they are after the leeches or just thirsty, but I do know it was effective.

The rat trap may be a tad more humane.

[JEV]

When ever I get mice in the garage, the cat gets a week lockdown in there. She tends to clean up the problem in a hurry...

JEV

[picksbigwagon]

thanks guys, traps and poison, that will do the trick

[Bobb-o]

the best thing to do is mold little friends for him out of plastic explosives

[walleyeaddict]

ok osama!!

[Chris Stolp]

I believe he is referring to Caddy Shack where Bill Murry fashions a squirel out of c4. "Mister gopher, its mister squirrel. I've come for a visit, I'm not a plastic explosive or anything"

[BLACKJACK]

Goto a hardware store and get a pan leghold trap, bait it with corn or sunflower seeds or peanuts, you'll have him in a few days. Tie the trap down. If you can get one of the traps with a V in the center of the pan, wedge one kernal right in that V, you'll catch him right around the neck - end of problem. Traps are definatly better than poison if you have dogs or cats around. My lab caught her foot once in a trap but now she avoids it - poison isn't so forgiving!

[picksbigwagon]

a pan leghold trap on a cement floor? I was hoping for the old fashioned rat traps.........a lot less expensive too.....