Bastard Moles Please help!

[MadMacMcMad]

My back garden looks like the Somme 1915. I have sodding moles mounds all over.
So can anyone offer some practical advise on how I get rid of these little gits before I apply for the shotgun licence.
I have tried traps, but am sure the little hairy B'stards carry sticks to trip them. I have tried vinegar, which worked briefly, but now they seem to like it and carry salt for extra seasoning.

My cats did catch one, but my wife felt pity for it and put it back down one of the holes I despair! I think I'll get the gun regardless.

Any advise greatfully received.
MMMcM

[Puggit]

A friend who works for Defra gave us some advice on ours.

Apparently the best method is ferrets or some kind of poisonous smoke bomb.

Certainly the ultra-sound deterrent we had did not deter

[Motown Junk]

Personally, I'd use a Aluminium baseball bat and keep hitting until I couldn't lift it anymore.....

Sorry, I thought you said "Moyles"....

[JulesV]

Move a mole hill and sink a bottle into the hole with the open end poking out. They hate the noise of the wind whistling over the top and they will vacate your garden. HTH.

[anonymous-user]

About a pound of gelegnite should do the trick i think, nicely rotorvates your garden too!

[minimax]

Motown Junk said:

Personally, I'd use a Aluminium baseball bat and keep hitting until I couldn't lift it anymore.....

Sorry, I thought you said "Moyles"....

oh without a doubt.

[jacko460c]

Bury them alive! It's the only way.

[steveo29]

poison some cat/dog food and put it down the hole.

[pies]

Open the mounds up so light gets into the tunnel they dont like this as the worms are light sensitive they might bugger off othewise gas them

[TWSTEEL]

David Cornwell wrote an excellent book on the eradication of moles. I know it was published in 1974 but I'm damned if I can remember the title.

[theaxe]

Mothballs in the tunnels is supposed to work.

[ali_kat]

2 words

jasper carrott

[steveo29]

just thought of a good one, put a load of petrol down the whole, if it doesnt burn them it will burn the O2 in the tunnels so one way or another they die.

[wobert]

I had a problem with moles a few years back, eventually caught the blighters, but they returned earlier this year.

To keep them out sprinkle male urine along your boundaries. Apparently they don't like the "smell" of testosterone, and that will keep them out, well it certainly worked. Just fill a coke bottle with a day's pee and do a watering in the evening.

[12joe340]

they hate the smell of fish so put some down the holes

[mybrainhurts]

[Wings]

Stale milk, or buy a mole trap from your local ironmongers shop.

[mgp1969]

TWSTEEL said:

David Cornwell wrote an excellent book on the eradication of moles. I know it was published in 1974 but I'm damned if I can remember the title.

boom boom!

smiley's people?

[Shaolin]

They don't like Juicyfruit apparently, break it in bits and put it down the holes.

[sleep envy]

attach hose to exhaust and stick the end down a hole

leave the car running for half hour