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Help! My husband is turning into Bill Murray from CaddyShack! (aka mole control)

P: 9/14/2007 11:36:58 AM
divergrrl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,141 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 12/9/2002	We have moles.....9 to 12 new molehills a day....we'll clean 'em up and turn around and BAM 6 more! We've smoke bombed 'em Gassed em with car exhaust & a special hose attachment. Put cat pee litter down them. Flooded the holes with water To NO AVAIL! My husband is now starting to resemble Bill Murray when he's losing it in CaddyShack. I fear for his sanity. He love for his lawn is deep and this is killing him. We called a mole guy & its $30 a hole!! We have a bajillion holes a day! That's RIDICULOUS! Anyone have any mole killing/eradicating suggestions? Thanks! Divergrrl *************************** Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got.... :-P
Posted: 9/14/2007 11:36:58 AM

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P: 9/14/2007 11:44:03 AM
Lorelei Ideal Rock Total Posts: 34,212 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 4/30/2005	You can buy little windmills on sticks from garden centres ( well you can here in the UK), stick them into the holes, as the wind blows and the windmills vibrate, this is said to drive the moles away, I have seen it work actually! Also I just read putting castor oil on the mounds or holes helps drive them away, and there are things available such as ultrasonic mole repellers which helps make them feel unwelcome too! Nothing is more sacred as the bond between horse and rider...no other creature can ever become so emotionally close to a human as a horse. When a horse dies, the memory lives on because an enormous part of his owner's heart, soul, very existence dies also...but that can never be laid to rest, it is not meant to be... - Stephanie M Thorn
Posted: 9/14/2007 11:44:03 AM

P: 9/14/2007 12:13:06 PM
NYCsparkle Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,278 Last Post: 11/21/2009 Member Since: 7/23/2006	hahaha...sorry this is happening to you, but the visuals of your dh fighting the moles is hilarious. hope they leave soon.
Posted: 9/14/2007 12:13:06 PM

P: 9/14/2007 12:20:28 PM
canuk-gal Ideal Rock Total Posts: 9,195 Last Post: 11/19/2009 Member Since: 4/19/2004	Date: 9/14/2007 11:36:58 AM Author:divergrrl We have moles.....9 to 12 new molehills a day....we'll clean 'em up and turn around and BAM 6 more! We've smoke bombed 'em Gassed em with car exhaust & a special hose attachment. Put cat pee litter down them. Flooded the holes with water To NO AVAIL! My husband is now starting to resemble Bill Murray when he's losing it in CaddyShack. I fear for his sanity. He love for his lawn is deep and this is killing him. We called a mole guy & its $30 a hole!! We have a bajillion holes a day! That's RIDICULOUS! Anyone have any mole killing/eradicating suggestions? Thanks! HI: Hardscaping? cheers--Sharon "People who possess great qualities, do not need to show off".
Posted: 9/14/2007 12:20:28 PM

P: 9/14/2007 12:59:27 PM
Ellen Ideal Rock Total Posts: 22,894 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/13/2006	lol Diver, we had them a few years back, but I forget how hubby got rid of them. I'll ask. Maybe you should get him the hat? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It is also important for the State to inculcate in its subjects an aversion to any 'conspiracy theory of history' for a search for 'conspiracies' means a search for motives and an attribution of responsibility for historical misdeeds." -Murray N. Rothbard, in The Anatomy of the State John Swinton [1829-1901] Chief Editorial Writer of the New York Times (Considered "the Dean of his Profession" by his peers), when asked to toast an 'Independent Press' in a gathering at the National Press Club, circa 1880 "There is no such thing in America as an independent press unless it is in the country towns. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dare express an honest opinion. If you express it you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid... for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things.... The business of the New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and sell his country and race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same thing, his salary. You know this, and I know it and what foolery to be toasting an 'independent press.' We are tools, and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, all are the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
Posted: 9/14/2007 12:59:27 PM

P: 9/14/2007 1:32:58 PM
MC Ideal Rock Total Posts: 8,831 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 2/8/2003	My neighbor mentioned using little windmills too. Before that, she hired a mole guy and even after quoting only around $15 per hole, the total added up to either $500 or $700 (I forget which she said)!
Posted: 9/14/2007 1:32:58 PM

P: 9/14/2007 1:50:05 PM
Independent Gal Ideal Rock Total Posts: 5,471 Last Post: 1/3/2009 Member Since: 11/12/2006	I love moles! You could get (humane) traps, catch them, and send them to meeeeee. I could make a terrarium for them on the deck and snuggle them daily.
Posted: 9/14/2007 1:50:05 PM

P: 9/14/2007 2:13:30 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,760 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	We had success with mole traps. The manufacturer was Nash. It works kind of like a mouse trap, with the trigger just above the ground and a choke loop that you sink down into the tunnel. It does, however, quite effectively kill the cute little mole. ETA - Here is a link with a picture of the trap. Link **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 9/14/2007 2:13:30 PM

P: 9/14/2007 2:40:01 PM
curiopotter Ideal Rock Total Posts: 654 Last Post: 2/5/2009 Member Since: 12/28/2006	Date: 9/14/2007 2:13:30 PM Author: Fly Girl We had success with mole traps. The manufacturer was Nash. It works kind of like a mouse trap, with the trigger just above the ground and a choke loop that you sink down into the tunnel. It does, however, quite effectively kill the cute little mole. ETA - Here is a link with a picture of the trap. Link eeeeh Nooo!! I found a mole once. I found it lounging around on the boggie board in the pool.. an adorable suprise. I thought about making him some board shorts and wee little mole sunglasses so I could take a picture. Instead I set him free behind our house, and he never returned.
Posted: 9/14/2007 2:40:01 PM

P: 9/14/2007 3:20:12 PM
door knob solitaire Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,933 Last Post: 2/26/2008 Member Since: 6/27/2005	Ha! Mine too!! Yes the windmills do work! Harbor Fright has really great quality ones. If you have a chain link fence, install the windmill on the fence and the vibration will form a perimeter barrier. This will stop all others from coming in. Unfortunately our new property of acreage...is too much for the windmills. Mine is poking holes and adding moth balls, ammonia and something he found at Lowe's. Everything is just going to relocate them. The only way to rid yourself is to trap or bait with poison. I beg you not to do the later. There are too many domestic pets that can be killed. I hear the Caddy Shack theme now ...just so glad mine is not wearing plaid Bermuda's and socks with sandals!! DKS
Posted: 9/14/2007 3:20:12 PM

P: 9/14/2007 3:27:13 PM
crown1 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,373 Last Post: 11/20/2009 Member Since: 11/22/2006	i have researched this for myself in the past and it seems that traps is the only real solution. i did read that if you water your lawn frequently it does attract them so you might want to cut back on that if you do it. i got this from a university website. i have just learned to live with them. don't like it but can't fight them constantly. the next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are c.s. lewis
Posted: 9/14/2007 3:27:13 PM

P: 9/14/2007 3:43:21 PM
Linda W Ideal Rock Total Posts: 10,442 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 2/15/2006	Now I will be thinking of the Caddyshack Movie all day. Linda ******************************** "Life is what happens to you, while you are busy making other plans". John Lennon
Posted: 9/14/2007 3:43:21 PM

P: 9/14/2007 5:31:02 PM
divergrrl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,141 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 12/9/2002	Thanks everyone! I showed my dh the Bill Murray pic...he walked out of here groaning. LOL. I like the windmill idea, I hate the thought of killing them, I just want them to live somewhere else. Also, this year I took special care to water my lawn & keep it emerald green. Hmmm.....bit me in the behind I see. Indiegal...look for a package...moles comin' to ya. Divergrrl *************************** Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got.... :-P
Posted: 9/14/2007 5:31:02 PM

P: 9/14/2007 5:43:36 PM
MustangGal Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,173 Last Post: 11/20/2009 Member Since: 6/18/2004	I'll ask my hubby tonight what he uses for them, he's a Golf Course Superintendent, i.e. Bill Murray in Caddyshack...
Posted: 9/14/2007 5:43:36 PM

P: 9/14/2007 5:46:56 PM
somethingshiny Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,650 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 7/22/2007	Another thing to try would be blood powder. You can get it at TSC and other "farming" or "gardening" places. It's basically a sack of brown powder. You spread it over the lawn (you don't even see it once is it's on the grass), gardens, etc. and it drives away most herbivores. A lot of people use it around here to keep deer out of the gardens. I know it sounds gross, but it just looks like brown flour. I love that movie!! * "Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely." ~ Karen Kaiser Clark *
Posted: 9/14/2007 5:46:56 PM

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