fried1765
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It's such a PITA to run a gopher trap line - I've done it in previous years. Anybody looking at my yard now can easily tell its been a while for trapping. I just got a new batch of farm cats. I have them penned up in my tool shed until they get bigger - a couple months. The little buggers have already dispatched two field mice they found in the shed. Mice most likely attracted by the cat food and pail of water. I have three young barn cats - they are having a world of fun in the tool shed - the floor is covered with about an inch of cedar chips - they play all sorts of games with and within the chips. I'm hoping to unleash them on my resident population of field mice and pocket gophers this spring.
I've found that even the most persistent cat has a tough time catching a pocket gopher - but they sure put the fear of God in them and will actually drive them back off my lawns and into the surrounding buck brush. Just as good as a kill.
With my new year old Chocolate Lab, Olly and these barn cats - I certainly will not be using any type of poison.
Maybe get Orezok's Marines to drop by. Fire off a few rounds - down on the far end of the 80. I'm sure the ground shaking would, at least, scare the snot outta me.
How about a picture of "Olly"???