Moles!

"Oren" wrote

Oren and I live in the same town. It must work, because I haven't ever seen a mole here in Las Vegas. Oren must have some potent stuff, there.

Steve ;-)

They absolutely do not like coyote urine, besides the compacted soil and desert rock I cannot even get through :-/

Last mole work for me was back east where they lived.

-- Oren

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Cats hunt them because they're there.

I guess they were born knowing that. Some other predator might be on the most lethal list. What hunts a mole for food?

-- Oren

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Terriers and cats. :-)

They left that part for you!

Sure did.

How do you cook a kidney?

Boil the piss out of it!

-- Oren

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I was thinking something a little more wild and violent. A predator that thrives on a mole, say as a main / partial diet..

-- Oren

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I think all cats have a "chase reflex" and knowing this may save your life. For example, assume you cross paths with a cougar while out hiking. If you run, you might as well cover yourself with jelly because you're toast!

Not saying the mountain lion won't put the hurt on you if you stand still, but your chance of survival is zero (or closely adjacent), for sure, if you run.

Cats, however, CAN temper their chase with the knowledge that the chaseable thing is bigger than they are. Cats don't chase cars (unlike some dogs we know). What this means is that you can sometimes bluff a cougar by opening your coat or shirt - to make yourself look bigger - and growling in a menacing fashion. 'Course this doesn't mean diddly to a bobcat, they'll bite you just for the hell of it. That's just what bobcats do.

Then, too, there are cats that are just too lazy to be bothered with chasing anything...

Consider Towser. During her 23-year tenure at the Glenturrent distillery in Scotland she caught 28,989 mice (plus an occasional rat or rabbit). That's better than three mice per day!

Had I been Towser's supervisor, I'd have gotten her a helper!

SNIPS

Any of the small / medium N. American wild cats, e.g. cougar, mountain lion, bobcat etc., depending what its called in your area.

Coyote, fox. Weasel, stuff like that.

Doubt that any self respecting raptor (small hawk, owl, etc. ) would deign to get dirty digging for one.

Basically the natural predators are all species being pushed out of the ever growing suburbias, so that the mole populations explode as the predators are forced out.

That would be dogs and cats. Coyotes, terriers, cats loves them moles.

If you get chased by a cougar count yourself among the few. They're all over the place where I live (relatively speaking of course) and I've only seen one while backpacking and it hightailed it out of there before I got a second look. Of course after 4 days in the woods I probably smelled so bad it ran away to avoid the stench!

But otherwise yeah, puff yourself up, wave your arms, yell, and if it ain't backing down - fight it. Run and you will get mauled. Disregard if this is a grizzly bear - draw your gun or you'll die.

We use Tasmanian Devils here.

SNIPS

Wiki has an article on moles at:

Wiki is always a crapshoot. You get what you pay for.

In N. America, it's the foxes and Bobcats.

Damn. While getting a bobcat to get the moles would be undeniably entertaining, at some point, I would be writing you all asking how to remove the bobcat. Maybe not a workable idea.

Dogs are great. I have a dog. The only problem is, he's a pug, and unless the mole is asleep on a donut, the pug wouldn't be a threat.

Donna

You may have reduced the new problem to one that has already been solved (the mathematicians technique).

Now, do moles like donuts?

"Oren" wrote I once had two cats, they caught and ate rabbits, except the kidney. Always left it on the patio; noting but a kidney there.

OHhhhhhhhh! Is THAT what the mystery meat is that I always find by the back door! Kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it. I thought it was a gall bladder or soemthing.

Thanks Oren

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