Gerbils and moles in garden. Help please!

[rubytox]

How do I discourage gerbils and moles to visit my garden without killing them?

My dogs are digging up the garden trying to find the little bugger.

 

[azbob]

Didn't know gerbils existed in the wild.

If you're CT I'm sure there will be a lot of guys that can help you with the gerbil problem.

 

[rubytox]

Didn't know gerbils existed in the wild.

If you're CT I'm sure there will be a lot of guys that can help you with the gerbil problem.

I am in CT. We have the Western Cape Gerbil, a cute looking mouse type rodent.

Someone said I must put dog poop in the tunnel. This does not help because they simply dig another tunnel to avoid the dog poop.

 

[Fudzy]

Are you sure it's not a spiny mouse?

 

[HavocXphere]

Post pics of said garden.

 

[Jings]

Pics or gerbils and moles too, please.

 

[Fudzy]

I've heard of a method where you put an empty 2l bottle upside down on a dowel rod which is stuck into the mole hills works. They use vibrations and sound to navigate and the sound coming off the dowel rod when the wind hits the 2l coke bottle is a deterrence.

 

[Fudzy]

http://answerit.news24.com/Question/Question.aspx?QuestionID=78723

 

[Fudzy]

I wouldn't suggest poisoning them.

A) Your dogs might get sick

B) Birds of prey WILL get sick.

 

[Fudzy]

If you're CT I'm sure there will be a lot of guys that can help you with the gerbil problem.

Ha ha, the section this thread was posted in had me wondering what 'garden' we were talking about

 

[rubytox]

Don't know about spiny mouse.
Our newsletter often refer to the Gerbils and how we should not kill them but rather discourage them to come into our gardens, especially when you have cats or dogs.
Our cat once caught a gerbil. I think he planned to eat it in the cupboard because that's where I found it ... alive and well.

In the last few weeks the dogs have dug up my entire bed of Agapanthus. They're not going to stop until they find and kill the poor thing.

Someone suggested that I find the start or end point of the tunnel, stick a hosepipe in and drown it. It seems cruel. I also don't want to use poison because my dogs and cats may eat it.

Burrows:

Gerbils make homes under the ground called burrows. Just like almost any other rodent there are rooms for sleeping and eating. The entrance to the burrow is round and is made a certain way so wind can't get in. Sometimes gerbils will build their burrows right next to each other and form a colony. Since gerbils are most active during the night they mostly stay in their burrow eating and sleeping.

 

[rubytox]

http://answerit.news24.com/Question/Question.aspx?QuestionID=78723

Thanks. I am not in favor of using poison or drowning them.

Bloody dogs. I don't know how they find the smell (underground) but they will dig up the entire tunnel and all for nothing.

 

[rubytox]

I've heard of a method where you put an empty 2l bottle upside down on a dowel rod which is stuck into the mole hills works. They use vibrations and sound to navigate and the sound coming off the dowel rod when the wind hits the 2l coke bottle is a deterrence.

Okay, this sounds reasonable. The next problem is to keep them out of the garden.

 

[azbob]

Ha ha, the section this thread was posted in had me wondering what 'garden' we were talking about

[video=youtube;YReBPVVg7Pc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YReBPVVg7Pc&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/video]

 

[Fudzy]

[video=youtube;YReBPVVg7Pc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YReBPVVg7Pc&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/video]

Family Guy ^5

 

[rubytox]

Oh FFS, would someone please move it to the right thread?

 

[ponder]

 

[Jings]

Have gerbils and moles left yet?

 

[GhostSixFour]

Take a largeish caliber handgun, wait by the hole at night, aim, dispense lead poisoning.

 

[STS]

Take a largeish caliber handgun, wait by the hole at night, aim, dispense lead poisoning.

I was going to say contact Dizilizard