Hey, but you made me think . . . i wonder if i could stick a hose down one of their tunnels and water blast them out? i would have to be prepared to seal up all the entry areas immediately after that. But it might get them out of there.
Oh good, the stuff i used was Tomcat block baits, which contain Bromadiolone. This is also what we used under our house last winter when we had a terribly destructive herd of rats living there. We tossed a bunch of the bars and packets down, heard activity for one more night, and then nothing...
i had no activity for a couple days, then went out yesterday morning and found two more huge holes. i could kick myself repeatedly for not putting that playhouse on a paver foundation. That mistake in the first place is now costing me a ton of work, and then more down the line when i have to...
Oh, i'm sorry shelleyd2008, that must have been terrible to find.
i meant to throw poison down the recently dug hole earlier, but just got to it now. i pulled the paver off the top and the hole was even bigger. They had clearly been working on burrowing out from under that paver. So i...
i don't think they are gopher holes. New ones keep appearing and only into that pen. And it doesn't make sense. All they have to do is go out the other side and climb up the pen. i haven't secured the top yet with hardware cloth as i'm still working on the pvc roofing. There is just aviary...
i know we have big rats outside, that's a given. But only having problems in one pen. We have a playhouse coop there, which i had wanted to have placed on a foundation of pavers. My shed mover dude insisted it's better to set it on posts, so air circulation can get underneath. Well, guess...