One thing everyone would like for Christmas is a remote control gopher hole invader, a high torque low speed cylindrical vehicle with traction belts on all sides.
It would be tons of fun to photograph down hole the expression on a gopher's face.
A smaller pocket gopher model would really sell too.
Bret Cahill
Let me guess, you watched _Caddyshack_ recently? ;-)
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A noose equipped model that has the capability of dragging the rodent live out of his hole by his rear led would fetch up to $69.95. A little free publicity from PETA and you could make several hundred thousand $ before the knock offs appeared.
Bret Cahill
No. You'd be in court trying to protect a patent while Chinese knock offs appeared on every street corner (assuming what you had was the least bit profitable).
Capitalism without limits. Ain't it grand?
But then there are easier, less expensive ways, to deal with moles, gophers, voles, and the like.
Nothing this fun, however.
Bret Cahill
What would you do with a live gopher, that would still keep PETA happy?
I used to have a neighbor who live-trapped chipmunks and skunks in his yard. Then he'd release them at a park "out in the country". What he didn't realize is that, basically, all habitats are pretty much at their carrying capacity already, due to normal reproduction, competition, predation, etc. Adding yet-another critter may have salved his conscience because he didn't kill it directly, but you can be sure that it didn't live a long and peaceful life "out where it belonged".
By the same token, removing one critter from your property just adds an opening for one more of its siblings or offspring to survive. Just a never-ending trap cycle unless you do something to make your property less attractive to them in the first place.
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How do you safely trap & transport a skunk? I know someone who traps squirrels & transports them out of town, but he brings the trap in at sunset because he does *not* want to have to deal with a trapped skunk.
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Feed it some carrots and other roots and then let it go.
This isn't a pro or anti-gopher endeavor. Just some fun.
How far down a gopher hole can you get a 50 MHz signal?
Bret Cahill
The local farmers use poison bait.
My guess is not very far you are better off with a wire. Do you know what kind of power and traction you would need to pull a gopher out of a hole?
My Burmese cat simply sat at the hole and waited patiently... for hours, sometimes... then swat with the claws extended ;-) ...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
When I was a kid we had a cat that was hell on gophers. Same behavoir as your Burmese. One day he was sniffing at a gopher hole and was totally intent on whatever was coming close. He was doing that thing that cats do just before they pounce, tensing the legs alternately. I crawled up to him and was ignored. So I touched his belly lightly and he took off straight up like he was launched. It was hilarious. Eric
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As long as you get them before they run for office on a Democrat ticket. :)
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How long would it wait for a chance to slice a troll wide open? ;-)
Have you seen one of these?
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Turns out to be not as bad as it sounds. The trap cage has a ceiling that is too low for the skunk to lift its tail, so it can't spray. When releasing it, my neighbor would open the door and then get out of range until the skunk walked away.
But one time, on the way to the park with the trap and skunk in the back of his staion wagon, he took a turn a bit too fast. The trap rolled over on its side, which I imagine rather annoyed the skunk. Since the trap was wider than it was tall, once it was tipped over the occupant now had plenty of room to raise its tail. Mayhem ensued, and an exciting time was apparently had by all.
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Sounds like a bit of a risk of...
...yes, that. Supposedly, one of my late relatives, when he was a kid, heard that a skunk can't spray if you hold its tail up so that it can't press down on the ground with its back legs. He tried to test this, but gave up before reaching a conclusion.
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