Getting Rid of Moles

RE: Getting Rid of Moles Post By Jim (Guest Post) (10/09/2008) Here's a solution that works. Go to your local camping store and get Calcium Carbide rocks as used in miners lamps. On a fresh run or mound open a small dole into the run. Drop in 20-30 calcium carbide rocks and cover up. Then, pour a small amount of water on the hole. Water and calcium carbide form Acetylene gas which is toxic to moles. Caution, Acetylene gas is flammable, no smoking or open flames. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Getting Rid of Moles Post By Candace (Guest Post) (07/09/2008) I've used Draino successfully. Put a tablespoon of Draino in the hole and add water. Supposedly, it burns their feet and they don't come back. It's worked successfully for me for several years, but Draino is rather expensive. Cat litter sounds like a cheaper remedy - hope it works. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Getting Rid of Moles Post By get rid of moles (Guest Post) (03/20/2008) try used cat litter, worked wonders had a bad mole problem shuffed cat litter in the hole and the mole was gone!!! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Getting Rid of Moles Post By Mary Moo (Guest Post) (02/25/2008) My golden retriever mix is a "crack" mole hunter! She lives for sniffing them out and waiting for movement. When she sees the least bit of earth move, she points, waits just a bit, and then dives right in and yanks out the mole. I think last year she got between 15 and 20 of them. I don't mind filling in her holes either - it's better than the many mole runs I walk along to flatten on a weekly basis. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Getting Rid of Moles Post By Barbara W. (Guest Post) (02/22/2008) I have 3 cats who are expert hunters. Thanks to them, I can have a pesticide-free garden, AND they don't get sick from eating a poisoned rodent. They are indoor/outdoor, but love being outside the most. Every now and then they even share one of their conquests with me and leave me a present on the doormat. It's so nasty, but better than having a ruined garden! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Getting Rid of Moles Post by susanmajp (789) | (02/22/2008) Profile | Contact We used to have a dog that would dig into the mole hole and sniff--I swear she sniffed strong enough to suck the little critters out. Once she got a really good whiff, she instinctively knew where the mole was, would go to that spot in the yard and dig. More often than not, she would catch and kill the mole. Lordy, how I miss that dog; didn't even mind filling in her holes. A couple of summers ago, we moved my compost pile, and as we were digging that great black dirt from the bottom, we uncovered a mole nest--I guess the compost pile kept them nice and warm during the winter months. We got the mother and several young babies. Unfortunately, that hasn't stopped more from migrating to our yard. I think that I'm going to try the castor oil thing. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Getting Rid of Moles Post by boonjaras (4) | (02/21/2008) Contact I had moles one summer and the way I got rid of them was putting mothballs all over the places where the holes were; I haven't had any since and it has been two(2) summers. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Getting Rid of Moles Post By Sharon (Guest Post) (02/21/2008) We tried everything we heard to get rid of moles - we even ran a hose from our car exhaust to a mole run, hoping the gas would either kill one or two of them or bring them out of the ground. The only thing it did was make our whole yard smell like exhaust fumes. After setting traps, trying the windmill thingies and trying other 'natural' things, we finally got rid of them by using a bait called Mole Patrol. We put it in a mole run, cover it up, and usually don't see any sign of the mole again. It took a couple of years of monitoring all the runs, but we finally have them under control. I think we had a total of 2 moles last year - a record low! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Getting Rid of Moles Post By Jan (Guest Post) (02/21/2008) I had a big fat mole that dug up my flower beds and lawn. I got even when I cleaned my fish pond I found he had somehow fallen in and drown. NO MORE MOLE. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Getting Rid of Moles Post by bekkicat (12) | (02/21/2008) Contact I looked up mol-tox on Google and came up with a biochemical site. Is this correct? Report Spam or Abuse RE: Getting Rid of Moles Post By Rose Mary (Guest Post) (02/21/2008) Put USED cat litter on top of each dirt mound. The mole will think its a predator and will move on to another area. An employee at a hardware store told us about this and it worked for us. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Getting Rid of Moles Post by Cyinda (768) | (02/21/2008) Profile | Contact OH-MY-GOSH! ... You don't know the pain-in-the-rear I've had to deal with THOSE NASTY CRITTERS! .... Man alive! They're torn up my WHOLE YARD! ...Especially my back yard! ... & here's the problem, if you get rid of them from YOUR yard, & your next door neighbors (on BOTH sides) don't, They WILL return to your yard again & again! OKAY, Here's what has worked for us: My next door neighbor hired a mole trapper. 2 years ago he paid $200 for the guy to come out every day over the course of a 2 week period.... I know for sure he used "no-kill" traps, but let's hope he didn't just let them out down the street! <*grin*> ... As far a for MY yard, we got an indoor/outdoor cat & the cat pooped in the soft mole dirt (that the mole had dug up to make his holes)... This got rid of the little buggers for a year... ( I guess the moles HATED the smell of cat poop!) Now they're back AGAIN! (probably from the neighbor on my other side?) ... So, I've heard one of the easiest things to do is to go to a beauty salon or barber shop & ask for some of the human hair they're swept up from the floor... You then stuff the human hair into their mole-holes, & apparently they hate the smell of humans so much, they leave... Who knows? it MIGHT work!? And it's worth a try because its free! ... (Hmmm... speaking of "human smell", I'm wondering if you could just have the males in your household pee in the mole holes?... (Maybe I, AM to think of THIS!) I've also heard that you can use one of those high frequency noise things, made to rid yards of moles... They aren't supposed to bother cats or dogs ears, but who knows, the cat can't say "this machine is driving me nuts!" can he? ... They work by driving stakes into the ground & these stakes emit a high-frequency sound... There's lots of things sold to rid yourselves of moles sold on the internet if you just Google the words " rid moles". ... But STAY AWAY from mothballs... Everyone say's they work, & I think they USED to, but these days they've reformulated Moth Balls & they don't have the same toxic ingredients in them they had 15 years ago... I've also read that the ONLY way to get mothballs to work is to take a BUNCH of them, & put them in a leaf blower & blow them DEEP into the newest mole holes. I've also read that Moth Balls are very toxic to the environment, but I don't know if this applies to the "newer" formula of moth balls, probably.... I'd especially think twice about using them if I had a water well... If you want to try Mole Pellets (from the home center), you'll also have to figure out which hole is the newest. ...I've read that Ammonia doesn't work either! ... They also say that moles eat grubs, & if you put down a grub killer like "Grub-Ex" that it will kill the grubs then the moles will leave because they have no more food... Ive also read that if you want to get rid of moles plant Castor beans. This is supposed to get rid of moles and gofers. My neighbor really liked the "Trap" thing... The mole trapper guaranteed that the moles would stay gone for a certain time period... (2 years?) But, as I said, if you have neighbors, you'll want to think about getting THEM to also get the guy to trap them in their yard too... * One more idea... Hot pepper: If you go to an Asian, Mexican or Chinese store you can usually buy HUGE bags of Crushed Red Pepper.... This might worked if just sprinkled the dry red peppers into their holes, But, an even better way: You can make a spray (a "tincture") to use in a 2 gal plant sprayer or simple hand sprayer, by covering crushed red pepper, black pepper or cayenne pepper with any form of alcohol (like denatured or rubbing alcohol, (I don't think you'd want to waste your good Vodka)... Leave The Hot Pepper in the Alcohol for several days (up to 2 weeks or so, the longer it sets, the stronger it gets)... Then strain it with a coffee filter or whatever works... Put this into a spray bottle (you can add a bit of water if you want) & spray this "Hot-Pepper Tincture" into the mole holes... This hot pepper spray also works to keep cats & dogs out of your garbage & flower beds... In fact, I'm wondering if you can just buy the "Pepper-Spray" stuff you spray on Attackers & Thieves... It may cost more, but I bet it would work if you sprayed it into their holes!? ---> Post a note here & tell us what worked for you, will you please! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Getting Rid of Moles Post By lisa in ny (Guest Post) (02/21/2008) I had moles dig right next to my "mole chaser". My husband and I had a good laugh over that one! I have found after trying many different things (I even tried the juicyfruit gum remedy). Only poison really does the trick. I use a product called mol-tox and have had pretty good results. Report Spam or Abuse Request: Getting Rid of Moles Post by Laurel_admin (500) | (02/21/2008) Contact How can I get rid of ground moles naturally? Thank you, Darlene from North Street, MI Answers: RE: Getting Rid of Moles (b)Get rid of ground moles safely with castor-oil(/b) organic mole repellents. Moles cannot digest oil-coated worms, and will seek nutrients elsewhere. You can get Scoot Mole ORGANIC repellent from Bird-X. This is their website: (b)http://www.bird-x.com/products/mole.html(/b) (07/10/2006) By Sanchez RE: Getting Rid of Moles A while back I read about someone putting dirty diapers in the holes. I know I would stay out!(07/11/2006) By Sarah RE: Getting Rid of Moles Get a cat! (07/11/2006) By RE: Getting Rid of Moles JerryBaker.com carries big pencil shaped, battery operated mole things which emit pulsing vibrations into the ground the moles cannot handle. Last year I put one in each of my gardening areas and that ended the problem of moles for me. I left them in over the winter and the batteries are still going strong. (07/11/2006) By RE: Getting Rid of Moles I have trapped moles and other varmints in a live trap.You can buy one at a local hardware store. I load it with sunflower seeds. When the trap is sprung I take it a few miles away and release the varmint. Let him bug someone else. I also have read about traps that kill moles but you have to find the run and plant the trap. Once killed you have to dispose of the animal. (07/12/2006) By Dean RE: Getting Rid of Moles While growing up we had moles. My mother bought mole bean plants. Big, tall green plants with a thick stalk. After that we never had mole problems. (07/12/2006) By ness1up2 RE: Getting Rid of Moles Would those bean plants happen to have huge six-sided leaves? I hope so! I've been told the plant we have growing is what old-timers call "Castor Bean" plants. (07/12/2006) By bekkicat RE: Getting Rid of Moles Poision isn't the answer. Instead, use P7096 Mole chaser www.tesco-shoping.com works every time. Just insert it in the ground and let it do it's thing. The moles will leave and won't return, just change the batteries every 4 months - that's it. (03/08/2007) By Paul RE: Getting Rid of Moles BE CAREFUL! Poisoning moles in some states is illegal. Check your state laws! (11/14/2007) By david RE: Getting Rid of Moles I've heard that ground cayenne pepper works well, if spread anywhere that moles have been. (11/22/2007) By maria Report Spam or Abuse