RobS
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Reminds me of Caddyshack /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Varmint encounter: Rare opportunity
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It definately ain't a mole... I know moles REAL well. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Around here, we'd call that a mouse. How big is it?
Around here, we'd call that a mouse. How big is it?
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Oh, I'm sure it's a pocket gopher. They're about 4-6" long.
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It's not a gopher or a mole, IMO /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif Looks like a mouse.
But being in CA, maybe a pocket gopher of one of the 5 varieties.
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/T/V-MA-TSPP-AD.001.html
But the ears are not right, so I still say 'mouse'.
But being in CA, maybe a pocket gopher of one of the 5 varieties.
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/T/V-MA-TSPP-AD.001.html
But the ears are not right, so I still say 'mouse'.
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Thanks for the link. I'm tending to agree with you. I have more gopher holes than grass in my lawn so I have gophers on the brain. Could be a deer mouse ... it seems to have the bluntest nose of all the mice and voles (meadow mouse).
Chuck52
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If a pocket gopher is the same as a vole, I think that may be it. I killed a similar beastie in my garden and was told it was likely a vole.
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The vole (meadow mouse) looks like what is now 'dead'. Not a pocket gopher, but similar. Another pic here.
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7439.html
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7439.html
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Reminds me of the high school days of working at McDonald's. I was working the grill and heard one of the girls at the register yell mouse and I came around the corner with the spatula in hand. One good crack and he was dead. Swept him up and threw him in the trash. Took the spatula back to the wash are for detailed sanitation and got a fresh spatula. The manager asked me if I killed a mouse with the spatula. As I was putting the burgers on the sandwiches I grinned and said yep. Her jaw dropped told me to throw the sanwiches away and go home and to take the spatula back to get it washed and sanitized. I grinned again and said I just got this one out. I think the mouse was on his way out anyway as he was moving pretty slow and our store had an excellent track record of cleanliness.
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Yep, and some people kill poor little flys and mosquitoes too. Bummer ........... /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
