Needless to say, these toothy dudes are delighting in the softer soil since the recent rain. I noticed a couple of dirt mounds in my backyard, fortunately they aren't attracted to my native plant garden and never show up there.
Ohhh I hate gophers! Almost every yard in my neighborhood has seen at least one or two mounds in their yard over the years. I've lived here for almost 17 years and just this fall we finally were attacked by those buggers. We've tried smoke bombs, those did not work, in fact the varmit pushed the bomb casing back out of the hole. My hubby is trying one of those sonic contraptions, that seems to be working for now. Good luck.
Cat pee and gophers Generally I never have problems with them because I don't need to water my garden very often, so the soil is too dry for them and their activities. Even when we do get rain, they are never in it but I see their little constructions all over the neighborhood lawns. But I did transpant two Ceanothus to my backyard and the varmits sometimes show up there and I generally don't care because my back isn't landscaped. Within a day after putting in the plants, low and behold there were gopher mounds. Arrgggg! I scooped up a few balls of cat piss from the litter box, placed one in each hole and within 24 hours they backfilled their tunnels and disappeared. Crude, cheap and nobody dies in the process.
An Unlimited Supply I somehow managed to end up with four cats, so there's always an unlimited supply of their pee! My friend sometimes comes over to my house to get some for her garden because she doesn't have any cats and that's how I learned about this unique solution. I swear, it really worked on those little toothy annoyances.
