Mystery of mole trapping

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

Mate of mine - not him. Another one - liked to try what ever he could. Reckoned fox was fukking rank. But mole? Said it was the most disgusting thing he'd ever put in his mouth. Like god had invented moles not to be eaten by any fukking thing.

Shrews interest me. When I was a youngster, I was for ever finding shrews dead on paths through places. Worked out nothing ever ate them either.

Don't shrews eat a lot of worms too?

[Nicepix 5,650]

An old colleague of mine used to freeze all the moles he caught and take them to  local raptor rescue sanctuary. And I've lost loads of traps to foxes and found a few that have been dug up and the mole has been half eaten,

[bunnyboiler 1,054]

1 hour ago, Nicepix said:

An old colleague of mine used to freeze all the moles he caught and take them to  local raptor rescue sanctuary. And I've lost loads of traps to foxes and found a few that have been dug up and the mole has been half eaten,

Yeah couldn’t stomach a full one

[OldPhil 5,812]

5 hours ago, Ken's Deputy said:

Mate of mine - not him. Another one - liked to try what ever he could. Reckoned fox was fukking rank. But mole? Said it was the most disgusting thing he'd ever put in his mouth. Like god had invented moles not to be eaten by any fukking thing.

Shrews interest me. When I was a youngster, I was for ever finding shrews dead on paths through places. Worked out nothing ever ate them either.

Don't shrews eat a lot of worms too?

I kept giving a bucket load of dead moles to M. Moon's Eagle Owls in Hilsea...

They got fat real quick and put weight on to such a degree, that they fell off their perches..

 Moonie loved them old Owls....

Edited February 14, 2021 by OldPhil

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

I'm not sure birds have any sense of taste, do they? Vultures doing what they do. And do people not talk about putting red pepper powder in bird food, to keep the squirrels off it? Squirrels burn their mouths, where as birds don't care?

Or, that may be a face book thing ...

[TOMO 26,967]

i concider myself a reasnable mole trapper at one time i was running 150 mole traps a week over 3---4 golf courses.....

but i remember one little tiny front garden that had me looking like an idiot ....i had trapped 1 mole....but there was still activity...and no matter what i tried i just couldnt catch anything else ...it drove me crazy....in the end i chucked the towl in....gave the customer his money back and gave the job to another local pester.....i spoke to him sometime later and he had the same problem....which made me feel a little beter

[PLEDGEY 496]

To catch a mole you have to think like a mole.....BECOME the mole......it's the only way.

[socks 32,253]

2 hours ago, W. Katchum said:

I heard first you must remove all light  bulbs from your house for atleast a fortnight, then only eat spaghetti for the 6 days previous to your efforts, then super glue some worm juice into traps trigger an bobs your Aunty’s hamster

Fukc sake there have been some pointless and plain stupid posts on this site over the years but well done Don you take the prize for the most idiotic .... everybody knows you have to eat spaghetti for 8 days prior ..........

[OldPhil 5,812]

14 hours ago, PLEDGEY said:

To catch a mole you have to think like a mole.....BECOME the mole......it's the only way.

I agree, and of late, due in the main to a massive increase in girth, from Curries and Shiraz,..I have started to physically resemble,... a Mole

Financially, the trapping game has been a good Mistress to me, ..it's always been great craic ..

 

Edited February 22, 2021 by OldPhil

[hutch6 550]

1.) Find tunnel.

2.) Dig hole.

3.) Put trap in hole.

4.) Say three hail Mary's and fours our father's backwards out of the left side of your mouth missing out every alternate word whilst winking your right eye and turning your left forefinger in your right ear hole..

5.) Take dead mole out of trap.

 

Why the struggle?

[hutch6 550]

The worst attempt I have ever encountered for getting shut of moles was for a customer that stated "I am calling you as a last resort", so you just know they've been on the deep dark web.

Turn up to find a garden riddled with hills and those repellent things which are an absolute joke but at the same time I wish I'd have invented them as I'd be living the dream on a tropical island by now.

So we get talking and I point out how crap the repellent things are and he starts reeling off what research he'd done and what he'd tried - garlic bulbs, washing up powered, empty milk bottles in the hills (WTF?) etc etc and then he came out with "and so finally I pi55ed in a bucket for ten days, left it for three weeks and poured it down the tunnel".

"Which tunnel did you pour it down?"
"Why do you think you'll find a dead mole in it?"
"No, I don't want to dig in your stale pi55!!"

Some folk will believe anything at all.

[Nicepix 5,650]

I have a customer who read something about flooding the tunnels to get rid of moles. Come the time he needed to empty the swimming pool he put the hosepipe in the nearest mole tunnel. He didn't get rid of any moles, but he lost three square metres of garden that washed off the bottom edge where it drops off into woodland.