On 9/22/2011 3:52 PM, jamesgangnc wrote:
On Sep 22, 2:51 pm, Hell wrote:
On 9/22/2011 12:21 PM, Frank wrote:





On 9/22/2011 10:08 AM, bob wrote:
I have mole mounts in my lawn. Unfortunately, our state bans lethal
traps for moles.

I have tried mole poison, mole smoke bomb and neither worked.

Has anyone tried passing electric current into the soil strong
enough to
annoy the mole so it would leave?

Been a long time since I've had moles but I last used a poison with a
phosphide in it. See such poisons are still around, maybe your
hardware store will have.

http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/hi...er-bait-zinc-p...

Can't imagine a state inspector checking for mole traps.

No, but your neighbors can and will report you after their kid or a
neighborhood pet ends up suffering a mishap with your trap. Sorry,
I've heard way too many grisly stories coming about from inexperienced
people (read:homeowners) using traps and poisons. Too often, they end
up injuring or killing something unanticipated, sometimes in a very
disturbing manner.

Heard first hand from the idiots who admitted to doing it: a woman
spreading strychnine in her vegetable garden to kill the birds and
critters; a guy who took a shot at a squirrel in his yard, but missed,
and blew apart a bird feeder two homes over; another woman who used
leg-hold traps in her garden and complained about the noise and the
damaged caused by the crying raccoon who went around and round in
circles, trying get away from the trap and flattening everything
within its path. And she complained that she couldn't figure out how
to get her trap back from the pain-crazed raccoon, either.

Assholes, all of them. Glad they didn't live in my neighborhood.- Hide quoted text -

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I've used that zinc phospate successfully. It's criticized a bit but
I carefully place it in the burrows and cover them back up to help
prevent other animals from getting at it.

Its "phosphide" and as I suspected, when ingested, it generates
phosphine which is a highly poisonous gas but it does it in the stomach
of the rodent and a dog or kid would have to dig up the poison and
consume it and these things are formulated so it tastes good to rodents
but not other animals or people.

Us ignorant homeowners have been using these things safely for years but
today's current mentality is not to trust us and allow access only to
professionals.