Hang on here a cotton picking minute! I never got told about a garden full of Gopher holes???? Nor the Black Widows in the shed either come to that :-))) In any case a Gopher in the UK is a Go-fer, a minion that goes fer this and goes to fetch that. The snake in question would be a common grass snake in the UK.

I didn't know you had vision problems. Gophers make a mound about a foot in diameter of nice fresh soil.I have a farmer field close by and I was wondering why he hadn't planted anything as most of the time he is turning out a cutting of alfalfa once a month. After about a week I found he had Gopher holes all over the place. It seems he is attempting to reduce the Gopher population before putting the field back in crop.
By the way, one reason my mom had for eliminating the Gophers is we think one chewed through an underground power line. We are not sure because I was able to bypass the problem but one day I might dig up the break to find out.

Black Widows are pretty common in the west and while they won't kill you, their bite is best avoided.

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Hang on here a cotton picking minute! I never got told about a garden full of Gopher holes???? Nor the Black Widows in the shed either come to that :-))) In any case a Gopher in the UK is a Go-fer, a minion that goes fer this and goes to fetch that. The snake in question would be a common grass snake in the UK.

I didn't know you had vision problems. Gophers make a mound about a foot in diameter of nice fresh soil.I have a farmer field close by and I was wondering why he hadn't planted anything as most of the time he is turning out a cutting of alfalfa once a month. After about a week I found he had Gopher holes all over the place. It seems he is attempting to reduce the Gopher population before putting the field back in crop.
By the way, one reason my mom had for eliminating the Gophers is we think one chewed through an underground power line. We are not sure because I was able to bypass the problem but one day I might dig up the break to find out.

Black Widows are pretty common in the west and while they won't kill you, their bite is best avoided.

No gophers here, being the soil is caliche, without water, the soil gets as hard as concrete, with water the soil is soft, though not everything will grow here, at least not without help.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Up here there are two words for gophers,
'Trouble, and coyote food....'



Vic my friend one of the first dates I had with
LSM was to cook up my families famous spaghetti
dish called "Greenwood Delight." I am certain it
was one of the reasons I was able to fool her into
marrying me. People are right when they say women
just love men who cook. It is one of the ways I
could impress ladies who otherwise may have looked
past me in the old days....

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Up here there are two words for gophers,
'Trouble, and coyote food....'



Vic my friend one of the first dates I had with
LSM was to cook up my families famous spaghetti
dish called "Greenwood Delight." I am certain it
was one of the reasons I was able to fool her into
marrying me. People are right when they say women
just love men who cook. It is one of the ways I
could impress ladies who otherwise may have looked
past me in the old days....

I don't think Mary is interested in Marrying anyone.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

The gophers were doing a job on my mom's neatly trimmed lawn and some of the bushes were being worked on as well. Last weekend we found a dead gopher and I believe anything that size that can move dirt the way they did would be a real handful for a cat. Unless you have a monster cat, I wouldn't blame your cat for not catching gophers.

My sister was adopted by a stray cat she calls Puddy. Puddy has rid Andrea's yard of gophers, moles, snakes and a wide variety of birds, including in one instance a very large woodpecker. He is a normal sized cat, but he is the busiest little kitty hunter that I have ever seen.

Our former neighbor, Andy, also had a cat who successfully hunted gophers. That cat rid Andy's yard of gophers and had moved on to hunting mine, which really did not bother me a bit, provided that his kills ended up on Andy's porch and not mine. Unfortunately for me, Andy retired from his job and he and the cat moved away. It did not take the gophers long to re-populate the area.

Perhaps the gophers we have in California are smaller than Arizona gophers? They are certainly impressive earth movers, but the gophers we have do not seem to be a match for cats. I believe the reproductive strategy of California pocket gophers involves making baby gophers early and often so that the population is not significantly affected by cats, hawks, traps or the futile strings of curses I direct their way.


Pocket Gopher

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Mebbe Angela needs to contact Bill Murray....
I'll bet he'd like another shot at them gophers.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Mebbe Angela needs to contact Bill Murray....
I'll bet he'd like another shot at them gophers.

I Think Bill Murray is Lost in Translation:)

I don't think Mary is interested in Marrying anyone.

No one said you have to marry some body to be nice to them. I was
just making a point about cooking for other people, they like it!

:):)

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Gophers look like rats?

Sort of. Unless you mean the Go Go Gophers, in which case they sort of look like.... my first wife.

The Army way of dealing with the Go-Phers..

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Gophers look like rats?

Gophers have strong bulky legs and a more tubular body designed for tunneling. They can push their way through a hundred feet of hard dirt in a very short period of time. They are natures ultimate tunneling machine.

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Gophers look like rats?

Gophers have strong bulky legs and a more tubular body designed for tunneling. They can push their way through a hundred feet of hard dirt in a very short period of time. They are natures ultimate tunneling machine.

Yep, unlike this thing, a Tunnel Boring Machine..

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

The gophers were doing a job on my mom's neatly trimmed lawn and some of the bushes were being worked on as well. Last weekend we found a dead gopher and I believe anything that size that can move dirt the way they did would be a real handful for a cat. Unless you have a monster cat, I wouldn't blame your cat for not catching gophers.

My sister was adopted by a stray cat she calls Puddy. Puddy has rid Andrea's yard of gophers, moles, snakes and a wide variety of birds, including in one instance a very large woodpecker. He is a normal sized cat, but he is the busiest little kitty hunter that I have ever seen.

Our former neighbor, Andy, also had a cat who successfully hunted gophers. That cat rid Andy's yard of gophers and had moved on to hunting mine, which really did not bother me a bit, provided that his kills ended up on Andy's porch and not mine. Unfortunately for me, Andy retired from his job and he and the cat moved away. It did not take the gophers long to re-populate the area.

Perhaps the gophers we have in California are smaller than Arizona gophers? They are certainly impressive earth movers, but the gophers we have do not seem to be a match for cats. I believe the reproductive strategy of California pocket gophers involves making baby gophers early and often so that the population is not significantly affected by cats, hawks, traps or the futile strings of curses I direct their way.


Pocket Gopher

I am not sure what it is. The dead gopher we found was about 6 inches long and the neighborhood has quite and infestation that should give a cat plenty to learn with. There are neighborhood cats running around but they might be overfeed or lazy, Our cats always received all the dry food they wanted but if they wanted something fresh, they had to catch it. There was a neighborhood coyote and my mom had about a 10 pound owl that winters in her tree but I don't think either as been around for a year or more. The gophers are something new as the house was constructed about 1970 and this is the first time gophers have become a problem. On the other hand the rabbits have moved in as well but they are easer to keep away from things you want.
Almost forgot, there is a Gopher Snake in the neighborhood as well.

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AZ http://desertwildlifeservices.com/gopher.htm
CA http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7433.html
mole http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn74115.html

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‘Defeat is not an option’.

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Member of the People Encouraging Niceness In Society club.

The god, SET is watching you..

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Fryja is looking back!

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Aha Celttotth. Now I understand:)
Freya or Fröja (Icelandic Freyja, ancient eastern norse Frøyja) is a fertility goddess in Norse mythology, valkyrians leaders, Vanir's most important goddess and therefore also the name Vanadis. She is the daughter of Njord, and the sister of Frej, Freyr also called Frö.

Great! Janne what is your spelling of this word?
I was very tempted to spell the word with out any
vowels in it. ie: Fryjh....

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