Can you seen the hole? Not in the pot...
My front flower beds are filled with clay and I've struggled for years trying to get things to grow in them. I finally decided I'd had it and started digging out the blasted stuff and uncovered this tunnel.
A few years ago I had a gopher problem, it kind of felt like Caddyshack. No matter how much bait/poison I put out, new mounds kept appearing and my plants kept disappearing. How much poison can one rodent ingest? Apparently quite a lot, like two packages of rat poison--those little green brick things.
I looked at traps but they are vicious, and then there's the small problem of emptying the trap.
I tried gopher bait which required poking around with a long stick until I found a tunnel, digging down to the tunnel, depositing a spoonful of stuff that smelled like carrion, and then carefully covering up the hole so as not to bury the bait. I was just sure the gopher, or worse yet a bunch of rats, would appear at any moment and crawl all over me as I crouched on the ground.
I don't know which method worked but eventually new mounds quit appearing.
What are the odds of me finding a gopher carcass? Sick.
I believe I may have woken up the guys next door with my laughing at the mental image of you fighting off the hordes of rats and gophers running up the prodding stick and right up your arm, wreaking vengence upon you. You screaming and flailing your arms and rolling on the grass trying to get them off. Oh the humor....I mean humanity!
ReplyDeleteAnd I think the odds of you finding a gopher carcass, based on the luck you have had with dead animals in your yard this summer I am surprised you haven't found a dozen by now.
Seriously now, it was a fearful thing for me! My excavating's limited by how heavy my garbage can becomes after I've filled it with dirt so I haven't dug very deep yet--kind of nervous about it.
ReplyDeleteSo have you found one yet? I'm going to have to agree that the odds are pretty much against you on this one. I would love to be there when it happens. So maybe you should just set up a video camera in your yard and capture every fun "dead animal" finding moment.
ReplyDeleteNah, you won't find a carcas. I am sure the neighborhood cat took care of that for you.
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