And speaking of “Mole Woes”, Sweeney’s is hosting their sixth annual “I Hate Moles Because…” contest. If you have a tragic tale that will make the judges say, “Holey moley!”, then click here to submit your story for a chance to win one of three cash prizes or a gift basket. You can be as creative as you like, from writing a poem to filming a video. First prize will take home $500, with $250 and $100 prizes for two runners-up and 7 Sweeney’s Gift Baskets for honorable mention entries. I actually love moles – just not in my driveway! – so I don’t have a story to share, but if you do send it in to Sweeney’s and feel free to let me know in the comments! 😀
I don’t have mole problems here but boy oh boy, did they bother me up north!
I have never even seen a mole…I’m guessing that they don’t live in Miami…
Well, I thought they were talking about body moles lol. I do have one of those to tell, I hate my mole. So anywho, yeah moles I have a few stories with my kitties 🙂
We don’t have moles but we have groundhogs that we just can’t get rid of. This contest sounds like a good outlet thought for those struggling to get rid of moles.
we don’t have moles but we are infested with woodchucks! LOL 🙂 I could tell some tales of my hubby’s woodchuck huntin’ 🙂
We don’t get a lot of animals here- just the FUN stuff, like rattlesnakes, scorpions & black widows! *shudder*
Ugh, yea, we’re in denial about our mole problem. 🙁
HA! What a funny contest. We have gophers no moles. (Thank goodness, they are kind of creepy looking.)
I entered your contest, see it’s over, but never saw my entry when I check this. Is there another area that it showed up? Just wanted to make sure that it did go thru. Thanks,.
Hi Cin,
Here is the contact info for Sweeney’s if you’re still having trouble with your contest entry: http://www.wrsweeney.com/contact.php
I hope that helps! Good luck!
Moles, Voles, Psychedelic Tripping and Disco Dancing: Not a Love Story!
Definition: Little yard destroying creatures that in a perfect I would like to banish from the earth.
Ok, I will admit in pictures they’re cute little fellers that I would never think of harming and as a child I loved to run around the yard and stomp down all the mole tunnels, it was a fun activity and it probably kept me busy for hours and out of my moms hair. But today, I loathe them and in my ongoing battle against the evil creatures I have learned a few things.
First and most importantly you must know the difference between a mole and a vole, to be exact the prairie vole. The mole is a carnivore, they like to eat grubs, earthworms and adult insects. The moles happy and just as destructive cousin the vole, well he’s a vegetarian and likes to snack on grass roots and is in his most happy place when he finds the all you eat buffet, better known as a garden. Equally as destructive, the two will in a lot of cases share tunnels in an effort to maximize their foraging time or better put destroying your yard.
At the first sight of mole activity my husband had me call TruGreen, a service which we happily pay for every month to keep our yard green and weed free. We have the package which allows for services calls and grub treatment at no additional cost to us. So a few days later our friendly service technician came out to inspect the yard and told me “I see no sign of grubs in your yard, the moles are after earthworms.” Ok, I was a little confused considering we hadn’t had any rain in weeks but at the time none the wiser I asked if there was something we could do about our earthworm problem, answer… NO. So the weeks progressed and everyday more mole tunnels, pretty much looks like a mine field at this point, ugh.
We were told by several friends to use rat poison but with being dog parents we wanted to try another approach first…. The sonar method, hahahaha. I think it was more like disco music to my yard destroying friends and they were pretty much out there “getting their groove thing on” all night. So we broke down and allowed our lawn service company to plant the rat bait. For a few days no new activity, yay! We thought for sure we had won the battle but think again humans. The combination of the sonar contraption and the rat poison has propelled them into a full blown psychedelic soul party trance. Tripping on rat poison and feverishly digging tunnels in every direction.
So now that we have an entire neighborhood of moles and I’m pretty sure prairie voles as well taking up residency in our backyard, dancing to disco music and getting high on rat poison all night, I called TruGreen back and asked them to send out a technician to treat our yard for grubs. I very clearly in simple english said please do not have the technician knock on the door to tell me we don’t have grubs, I’m telling you, we have grubs and I just want the entire yard treated. Fingers crossed he should be here tomorrow. In addition to TruGreen I’m having our lawn service company apply a granular application which they recommended, safe for pets. Maybe the two topical grub treatments will be a success? I can only pray.
But wait, here’s the best part, the killing of the grubs, great for sending the moles to look elsewhere for dinner but the voles are vegetarians remember? Can this get any more difficult? So with a little research I found that the voles happen to think that peanut butter is bombdigity, I promise it’s going to be the bombdigity of some sort after I mix it with powdered rat poison and strategically place it around the yard on nice little saucers for their dining pleasure.
No dogs or other family pets will be harmed in the process.
The hopefully deadly outcome of this story coming your way soon…..