It's that time of year again - me vs the gopher. They come during the winter but they're too small to catch - the tunnels they did are not wide enough for my trap. So I wait til the mounds are bigger, meaning the tunnels are bigger, and not long before I plant my veggies seedlings in the ground.
The past 2 months s/he has been focused on destroying our front lawn, to the point of collapsing the yard when we go out to stomp down the mounds. Sometime last night or this morning, they moved to the backyard, signaling that it was time to get out the trap! It's a little rusty since last season, so I cleaned it off with some steel wool and oiled it up with a little olive oil so as to not yuck it up. I think of the gophers suspect something, they bury the trap instead of trying to push it out, and pushing it out is what sets it off and kills them. I got my hand trowel, my super long screwdriver and tested each new mound in the backyard til I found that that seemed properly connected to a tunnel. Dig out that mound, get a good length down in the ground, and set my trap inside. Now it's wait, and watch.... wait n watch... Either later today or tomorrow morning, my trap should be wrapped around the neck of one sorry gopher. Then we will water down the old mounds and wait to see if new ones pop up, signifying more gophers to bait and trap. punx...
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