Garden moles

[bluehound]

It's the same word but with a hyphen over the first "e".......créosote

[hedgehog]

I like you also have a problem with the moles. Have read it up on the internet,and established, they have to be rid of,whatever you decide to chuck down the holes,will only move them around. Other moles will also use the same run made by others. Scaring them off works in England,cause your neighbours garden is nearby,but here slightly different.
\all you will do is move them from one area to another,still on your own ground.
Look up http://www.pesthelp.co.uk they have a range of products available,from the kind to the murdering bits and bobs.

I have just ordered a pair of (kind) tube mole catchers. you find their run,place the tube into it,cover from the light,and wait for them to run into the tube,but unable to get out. Once caught you can smash them over the head,or take them on a taxi ride for a couple of miles, St Hermine area sound so good.

I am told these little creatures can bite and scratch. (domestic animals will not go near them,due to the smell.

On the web page is a french telephone number 02 33 60 93 03 the lady is english and very helpfull

Good Hunting

[JJ CALE]

I like you also have a problem with the moles. Have read it up on the internet,and established, they have to be rid of,whatever you decide to chuck down the holes,will only move them around. Other moles will also use the same run made by others. Scaring them off works in England,cause your neighbours garden is nearby,but here slightly different.
\all you will do is move them from one area to another,still on your own ground.
Look up http://www.pesthelp.co.uk they have a range of products available,from the kind to the murdering bits and bobs.

I have just ordered a pair of (kind) tube mole catchers. you find their run,place the tube into it,cover from the light,and wait for them to run into the tube,but unable to get out. Once caught you can smash them over the head,or take them on a taxi ride for a couple of miles, St Hermine area sound so good.

I am told these little creatures can bite and scratch. (domestic animals will not go near them,due to the smell.

On the web page is a french telephone number 02 33 60 93 03 the lady is english and very helpfull

Good Hunting

Many thanks for the info (you too BH). Hedgehog, you obviously don't feel threatened by Pesthelp products?! I really have me doubts as to the long term effectiveness of the gear on offer. As mentioned, the young Turk of a pest controller sorted the prob with his pellets, but they (the moles) soon returned en masse. We're surrounded on a couple of sides by woods and the pesky varmits just tunnel on in from there, no matter what we try to do to get rid of 'em. I reckon I'd need a shed load of traps, tubes, or whatever, which ain't gonna be cheap and may not have a lasting effect.
Maybe I'll just concrete the estate and see if that sorts them out.

JJ Cale.

[woofa1]

Have you tried the small explosives? THey really do work. It would appear that it is the shock wave/percussion that gets the little dears as there is not a mark on them after the banger goes off. Before I get all the animal rights peope on my back, this was a last resort as we have tried all the scarers etc. It is far more humane than the fumigators (which dont work) and traps (how would you like to be relocated miles away from home). We only use the petards in the garden. leaving the fields to the moles. In places our garden is downright dangerous with subsidence from the moles making a stroll round the garden a hazardous pleasure. We were amazed how many moles live (or used to )under the turf - our record is 6 moles in one week despite the local mole catcher stating that it was probably just one pair causing all the problems.

[Walter]

Woof-woof - nothing wrong in combining vermin and death in the same sentence. If a nuisance (as how one decides that "wildlife" is classified as vermin), then eradicate.

[lesaires]

If you contact your Mairie they will put you in touch with someone who will solve the problem for you. You pay a contract for about 15 euro per year and they come out as often as necessary. I can't tell you it's humane but it's quick.

[Brownie]

don't the locals eat them,they devour most things with two eyes and a bum.mole pate could be the new craze

[bluehound]

don't the locals eat them,they devour most things with two eyes and a bum.mole pate could be the new craze

Thanks Brownie......Your post really brought a smile to my face....I think it was the "and a bum" that did it.....They already make pate out of the "giant rat" ragadon...So why not moles!!!!!!

I think the price of €15 a year is a bit wrong......More likely €15 per mole......;-)

[Walter]

"don't the locals eat them,they devour most things with two eyes and a bum.mole pate could be the new craze" Was the second m, after mole, supposed to be an h? In which case it sounds like a normal delicacy for some ;)

[lesaires]

I think the price of €15 a year is a bit wrong......More likely €15 per mole......;-)[/quote]

Loved the bum comment! My source is not always reliable but she is French and has recently signed one of these contracts, and yes, she paid 15 euro for which she gets an unrestricted number of visits for the next year. Apparantly it's because moles are considered to be a nuisance and they want to keep the population down.

[Brownie]

,ive not got a single mole here, only rats, ragondin, mice, fleas, tics & guinea worm !
Hope it helps

Keef[/quote]
keef i didn't realise you looked after bob geldofs kids.i'd forgotten their names.

[spartacus]

Peaces & Porkscratching I think.
Update: rats nearly all wasted, ragondin next haha !

Keef