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Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 07 9:13 pm Post subject: So many moles - so little time
What shall we do? The moles are going crazy at our place and the paddocks are starting to look like sand dunes. Can you help Bodger? Or does anyone else in the area have a mole catcher they can recommend...?

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45457
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 07 9:15 pm Post subject:
trapping and trousers

LynneA

Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Posts: 4893
Location: London N21

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 07 9:16 pm Post subject:
Monty uses molehills for potting soil. Gather up as much as you can before Bodger comes down and does what Jasper Carrott should have done.....

Beckyess

Joined: 08 Jan 2006
Posts: 1076
Location: Worcestershire

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 07 9:25 pm Post subject:
I have a mole catching poodle if that helps Becky

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 07 9:27 pm Post subject:

Beckyess wrote:

I have a mole catching poodle if that helps

Becky

Cool...

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 07 6:56 am Post subject:

I can lend you a few traps MJ if that would help.

Moles are anti social little buggers and they hate each other. They only come together ( no pun intended) for a quick Nooky session for as long as it takes and then quicky depart never to meet again.

What it means is that moles are solitary creatures for most of the year and will fight if they actually meet up with another mole.
The person who has thirty or fourty mole hills on their lawn might think that they have millions of moles, when for the reasons that I have just laid out, they will infact have just the one.

MJ. You can make a rough guestemate as to how many moles you have in your paddocks by counting how many distinct patches of mole hills you have. Some of these seperate patches can cover a considerable area.
At some time in the future, it might be worth doing an article on how to trap moles.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 07 7:15 am Post subject:

Beckyess wrote:

I have a mole catching poodle if that helps

Becky

A moodle?

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 07 7:29 am Post subject:

Nick Howe wrote:

Beckyess wrote:

I have a mole catching poodle if that helps

Becky

A moodle?

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 07 7:32 am Post subject:

bodger wrote:

MJ. You can make a rough guestemate as to how many moles you have in your paddocks by counting how many distinct patches of mole hills you have. Some of these seperate patches can cover a considerable area.

Will do Bodger - we're out in the paddocks this morning (just about to go) to round up the yearling sheep and check them over. So I'll have a look then. Back to you later...

hedgewitch

Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Posts: 5834
Location: Daft wench GHQ

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 07 11:03 am Post subject:
Could you maybe point your terrier in their general direction?

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 07 11:06 am Post subject:
She's been gone a long time. Do you think the moles have got her?

hedgewitch

Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Posts: 5834
Location: Daft wench GHQ

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 07 11:25 am Post subject:

judith wrote:

She's been gone a long time. Do you think the moles have got her?

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M-J? Nah -- the moles are about to be made an offer they can't refuse, I reckon...

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 07 2:52 pm Post subject:

hedgewitch wrote:

M-J? Nah -- the moles are about to be made an offer they can't refuse, I reckon...

Yup...

Well - wishful thinking at least. Sorry for delay - no, I wasn't wrestling with the moles...although I have secured an eviction order from the local County Court

We've got 3 paddocks - one small one and two larger ones, which added up come to about 5 acres in total. Jack (aged 12) was sent up the scaffolding to the top of the house with binoculars to have a look and he estimates: small paddock has 40, the two larger paddocks have around 30-ish and 50-ish apiece. They do all seem to be quite close together - but in those 3 distinct places.

So - Bodger, Slayer of Moles, whaddya reckon?

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45457
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 07 2:58 pm Post subject:

Nick Howe wrote:

Beckyess wrote:

I have a mole catching poodle if that helps

Becky

A moodle?

we know another thread like this children

nice one mate

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45457
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 07 2:59 pm Post subject:
flooding ? or is that too harsh

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