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January 5, 2012 at 4:38 pm #601773
HelperMonkeyParticipantI am having a terrible mole problem in both the front and back yards. Have any of you had any luck in getting rid of the little buggers? My cat is indoor only, so she’s not an option. I am opposed to poisoning them. Any safe effective methods to de-moleing the yard you’d like to share? Have you tried the sonic thingies and if so do they work? Thanks in advance.
January 5, 2012 at 5:14 pm #744463
KatherineLParticipantDo coyotes eat moles? Something dug into a mole run in my yard. I don’t think it got the mole.
January 5, 2012 at 5:17 pm #744464
HelperMonkeyParticipantWell, I know I have coyotes in the hood, I can hear them from time to time. Now if I could just entice them to eat the mole snackies. :)
January 5, 2012 at 5:44 pm #744465
abstractParticipantWe had a bad mole problem a few years ago and put a sonic mole chaser in the back and front yard. We have only seen evidence of a mole once since them, and it was a very small hole. We bought them at the home depot for under $20 each.
January 5, 2012 at 8:48 pm #744466
herongrrrlParticipantIf you can outwait them, they will most likely move on in a few months. Our neighborhood moles move up and down the block and through a local park over the course of about 2 years for a complete cycle. You could think of them as a temporary, recurring inconvenience that also helps aerate your soil!
January 5, 2012 at 8:53 pm #744467
SmittyParticipantGoing to get killed for this in Portlandia, I mean Seattle, but putting a little shattered glass down the holes helps. Their blood does not clot.
January 5, 2012 at 10:02 pm #744468
todd_ParticipantI heard from someone that tallpride works, not sure if I spelled it right but you can get it at the hardware store. Good luck.
January 6, 2012 at 12:03 am #744469
elikapekaParticipantI’m with Herongrrrl – we have moles on the block that travel through. They move on after a few days or weeks and they don’t do any damage that can’t be filled in later. We just live with it.
January 6, 2012 at 12:18 am #744470
squareeyesParticipantI’ve had my house for 10 years now and this is the first year I’ve had moles. Glad to hear that they’ll eventually move on and maybe it’ll be another 10 years before they’re back.
January 6, 2012 at 12:48 am #744471
HelperMonkeyParticipantI don’t think they move on in my neighborhood. I have had them bad in the backyard the whole 3 years I’ve lived there. It’s only this winter they’ve decided to visit the front yard. I’ll try the sonic chasers, although that means pushing them into a neighbor’s yard, really.
January 6, 2012 at 1:43 am #744472
sweetflutterby41MemberNot that I condone it (although it provides some good entertainment), my dad has used anything from Coast Guard flares to a blowtorch trying to get rid of moles. The flares created an orange haze floating above the yard and the blowtorch resulted in a fireball that knocked my dad on his butt. Pretty sure the moles just taunted us after that by sticking around. LOL.
January 6, 2012 at 2:49 am #744473
2 Much WhineParticipantI tried cat urine, people urine, cat hair, dog hair, people hair, mole smoke bombs, mole traps and standing by mounds with a pitchfork. Nothing worked. Then I tore up the yard, rototilled in mole repellant (deer blood and hot peppers) and got some of those solar powered sonic spike things and my mole problem did not entirely go away but it is much better. It’s terrible for my neighbors, though, as the moles have moved from my yard to theirs. . . .
January 6, 2012 at 3:18 am #744474
miwsParticipant2MW, couldn’t you just have your elephant stick his trunk in the hole(s), trumpet with all his might, and scare ’em the hell outta there?
Mike
January 6, 2012 at 4:12 pm #744475
AdmiralRobParticipantMoles in my neighborhood don’t migrate around. They seem to stick in my yard. I tried everything – hose down the hole, spike sonar things, poison gas, trapping, everything.
It doesn’t “aerate” your yard – it destroys it. A large section of my lawn dropped a couple inches after a particularly bad mole attack.
The only thing that worked for me was the trapping. I killed them, and I’m proud to do it. There are no good moles. They are horrible pests.
I just had another mole attack recently and little time to deal with them. I used a guy from “mole wizard”. He relentlessly killed every mole. Worked great!!! I am mole free – at least for now!
January 6, 2012 at 5:19 pm #744476
goodgracesParticipantNeighbors all around us have huge mole issues. For 7 years in our house we’ve never had ’em but do have a continuous supply of dog urine on our (struggling) grass. Seems to keep ’em at bay.
January 6, 2012 at 6:37 pm #744477
SueParticipantHaven’t had the need to try it so don’t know if it works, but there’s a Mole Blaster recipe often talked about on Gardening with Ciscoe that you could try: http://www.king5.com/on-tv/gardening/Ciscoes-recipe-for-mole-blaster-125269764.html
January 6, 2012 at 9:29 pm #744478
funkietooParticipantAdopt a couple of backyard ferals/working cats from King County Regional Animal Services. They have a good program and will get you set up. The ferals will also take car of baby rats and mice.
Ferals have much better survival skills than indoor/outdoor cats, so coyote concerns are not as great. Plus, if you asked a feral cat, ‘so would you like to live in a cage for the rest or live in someone’s backyard that may or may not be near coyotes’, I think the ferals would say ‘Backyard please!’
January 6, 2012 at 10:09 pm #744479
hammerheadParticipantOMG they are just moles living there lives. (just like we live ours)
January 7, 2012 at 4:02 pm #744480
HomerParticipantOh good, once the moles are gone, then you’ll have feral cats pooping in your and your neighbors yards and stalking and killing song birds. Hey, maybe we should release some mongoose in Hawaii to take care of the rat population too………………………
January 7, 2012 at 5:27 pm #744481
JoBParticipantJanuary 8, 2012 at 12:14 am #744482
HomerParticipantJoB….us learn from history, well I’ve never heard such a preposterous idea! ;-)
January 8, 2012 at 1:20 am #744483
singularnameParticipantI’ve had moles in my yard for 10 years. They p*ss me off, like when they destroyed a section of patio brickwork, but also amuse me, like when they got under my veggie garden at just the right time and rototilled it to perfection.
Two things I’ve heard–and I haven’t even bothered to look it up because I like what I’ve heard: It’s likely you’ve only got ONE mole, that they’re incredibly territorial and don’t share space. The other thing was to throw Juicy Fruit down the holes and they’ll choke on it. Haven’t tried it, cuz again I find them more interesting than a nuisance. Good luck with that. :->
January 9, 2012 at 7:25 am #744484
DunnoParticipantGo to the Humeseeds.com web site and look for the mole formula. Works well if you follow all directions.
Sends moles packing to another yard.
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