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Old 09-04-2023, 10:54 AM
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My Springer hunting dog loves them voles, hunts and eats them like candy. Voles are favorite food of pine marten.
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Old 09-04-2023, 02:52 PM
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My Springer hunting dog loves them voles, hunts and eats them like candy. Voles are favorite food of pine marten.
My spaniel doesn’t care, I guess he is fed too good, lol! But marten… where do I get one? I would offer him a long term tenancy free of charge!
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Old 09-04-2023, 04:00 PM
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I noticed over the last month these holes along my side walk well I finally trapped one and there voles what is the best way to get rid of them.
Least weasels.
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Old 09-06-2023, 02:44 PM
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The destroyer sulphur bomb worked for me. Finding the damned holes is the hard part.
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Old 09-06-2023, 03:03 PM
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The destroyer sulphur bomb worked for me. Finding the damned holes is the hard part.
The holes seem like they collapse in.

Mine are not going away anytime soon.

Next week I start cutting the grass super low.
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Old 09-06-2023, 03:28 PM
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We had voles for the first time in our garden. Unfortunately we have a low electric fence to keep the cats and dogs out so they had free run of the garden till I noticed the holes.
All good now though, dug the garden last week and killed some voles in the process. Fence is also down now so the dogs should dig out any i didn't get.
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Old 09-06-2023, 04:08 PM
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In addition to cutting the lawn very low in fall, I also stopped applying fall fertilizer several years ago. Both measures have made my lawn less of a winter food source for voles.
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Old 09-06-2023, 05:36 PM
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A Gardner told me that if you pee in a cup, then pour the pee in the hole, they will evacuate and not return.

Have not tried it yet...
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Old 09-07-2023, 07:21 AM
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A Gardner told me that if you pee in a cup, then pour the pee in the hole, they will evacuate and not return.

Have not tried it yet...
Can't you just skip the cup?
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