My friend has voles in his lawn and garden, and lately they have been eating
the roots and killing some of his garden plants and shrubs--the latest
victims have been some spinach plants and a blueberry bush. Is there a
non-chemical way to get rid of them? They are digging into his garden and
shrub beds from the nearby lawn.

Thanks in advance,

Jean in VA

--
"If you are going through hell, keep going."

Winston Churchill

A cat. Plant some catnip, if necessary.

"Jean S. Barto" wrote in message
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My friend has voles in his lawn and garden, and lately they have been
eating
the roots and killing some of his garden plants and shrubs--the latest
victims have been some spinach plants and a blueberry bush. Is there a
non-chemical way to get rid of them? They are digging into his garden and
shrub beds from the nearby lawn.

Thanks in advance,

Jean in VA

Buy a bunch of mouse traps, bait the traps with peanut better, and place
them in the area with the voles. I took care of a bunch of voles that were
chewing holes in my squash that way.

John

Read this website:

http://www.mole-med-inc.com/


On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 22:12:09 -0400, "Jean S. Barto" wrote:

My friend has voles in his lawn and garden, and lately they have been eating
the roots and killing some of his garden plants and shrubs--the latest
victims have been some spinach plants and a blueberry bush. Is there a
non-chemical way to get rid of them? They are digging into his garden and
shrub beds from the nearby lawn.

Thanks in advance,

Jean in VA

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 22:12:09 -0400, "Jean S. Barto"
wrote:

My friend has voles in his lawn and garden, and lately they have been eating
the roots and killing some of his garden plants and shrubs--the latest
victims have been some spinach plants and a blueberry bush. Is there a
non-chemical way to get rid of them? They are digging into his garden and
shrub beds from the nearby lawn.


Meow, meow!

Ms. Katycat, Vole Hunter Extraordinaire

Hello, The person wants to get rid of Voles, not Moles. Not the same thing.
Eileen

animaux wrote:

Read this website:

http://www.mole-med-inc.com/

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 22:12:09 -0400, "Jean S. Barto" wrote:

My friend has voles in his lawn and garden, and lately they have been eating
the roots and killing some of his garden plants and shrubs--the latest
victims have been some spinach plants and a blueberry bush. Is there a
non-chemical way to get rid of them? They are digging into his garden and
shrub beds from the nearby lawn.

Thanks in advance,

Jean in VA

In article ,
says...
Hello, The person wants to get rid of Voles, not Moles. Not the same thing.
Eileen


Hello, hello. A number of repellant type products not
only advertise for the moles, but voles, ground
squirrels, rabbits.
--



Lar. (to e-mail, get rid of the BUGS!!

My cats are doing a marvelous job. I find at least one dead, chewed up vole
in my house (usually dropped precisely on a "pathway") daily. Yuk. You
know what's really gross? Stepping on them with bare feet. EWWWWWWWW!

"Eileen Gregory" wrote in message
...
Hello, The person wants to get rid of Voles, not Moles. Not the same
thing.
Eileen

animaux wrote:

Read this website:

http://www.mole-med-inc.com/

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 22:12:09 -0400, "Jean S. Barto"
wrote:

My friend has voles in his lawn and garden, and lately they have been
eating
the roots and killing some of his garden plants and shrubs--the latest
victims have been some spinach plants and a blueberry bush. Is there a
non-chemical way to get rid of them? They are digging into his garden
and
shrub beds from the nearby lawn.

Thanks in advance,

Jean in VA

Praise your cats. They are bringing the voles for you to eat. The cats love you,
so they are bringing you food. To a cat, that's the highest compliment possible.

Jan

In article , "Betsy" -0 wrote:

My cats are doing a marvelous job. I find at least one dead, chewed up vole
in my house (usually dropped precisely on a "pathway") daily. Yuk. You
know what's really gross? Stepping on them with bare feet. EWWWWWWWW!

"Eileen Gregory" wrote in message
...
Hello, The person wants to get rid of Voles, not Moles. Not the same
thing.
Eileen

animaux wrote:

Read this website:

http://www.mole-med-inc.com/

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 22:12:09 -0400, "Jean S. Barto"
wrote:

My friend has voles in his lawn and garden, and lately they have been
eating
the roots and killing some of his garden plants and shrubs--the latest
victims have been some spinach plants and a blueberry bush. Is there a
non-chemical way to get rid of them? They are digging into his garden
and
shrub beds from the nearby lawn.

Thanks in advance,

Jean in VA

You can borrow my cat.... (it is getting rather creepy... he has been
putting his kill on a flat rock in the yard... it is beginning to look like
a sacrifice ritual)...
dkat
"Jean S. Barto" wrote in message
news:18bFa.2464$C3.1438@lakeread01...
My friend has voles in his lawn and garden, and lately they have been
eating
the roots and killing some of his garden plants and shrubs--the latest
victims have been some spinach plants and a blueberry bush. Is there a
non-chemical way to get rid of them? They are digging into his garden and
shrub beds from the nearby lawn.

Thanks in advance,

Jean in VA

--
"If you are going through hell, keep going."

Winston Churchill

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 23:10:34 -0400, Betsy wrote:

My cats are doing a marvelous job. I find at least one dead, chewed up
vole in my house (usually dropped precisely on a "pathway") daily. Yuk.
You know what's really gross? Stepping on them with bare feet.
EWWWWWWWW!


As a practical matter a cat can't or won't exterminate all of the little
critters. My cat kills a rodent a day and everyday there is a new rodent
for him to catch. He doesn't even have to range very far, he gets them all
in area that's maybe a few hundred square feet large. Rodents reproduce in
huge numbers, if they didn't they would have become extinct millions of
years ago. Domestic cats alone must kill billions of
mice/moles/chipmunks/shrews/voles a year, and none of those creatures is
on the endangered species list.

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:52:41 -0400, "B. Joshua Rosen"
wrote:


As a practical matter a cat can't or won't exterminate all of the little
critters. My cat kills a rodent a day and everyday there is a new rodent
for him to catch. He doesn't even have to range very far, he gets them all
in area that's maybe a few hundred square feet large. Rodents reproduce in
huge numbers, if they didn't they would have become extinct millions of
years ago. Domestic cats alone must kill billions of
mice/moles/chipmunks/shrews/voles a year, and none of those creatures is
on the endangered species list.

I think, though, that a cat can keep their numbers down in
your immediate area, to the point that they're not much of a
problem.

At least, we've not found them to be a problem yet. We know
they're here because our cat leaves a dead vole, or mole, or
mouse on the front porch almost every day, except in winter.

Pat

Encourage snakes and weasels.

Farmer John

"Jean S. Barto" wrote in message
news:18bFa.2464$C3.1438@lakeread01...
My friend has voles in his lawn and garden, and lately they have been
eating
the roots and killing some of his garden plants and shrubs--the latest
victims have been some spinach plants and a blueberry bush. Is there a
non-chemical way to get rid of them? They are digging into his garden and
shrub beds from the nearby lawn.

Thanks in advance,

Jean in VA

--
"If you are going through hell, keep going."

Winston Churchill

In article , "Fudge"
wrote:

Encourage snakes and weasels.

Farmer John

I keep getting filthy spams about making snakes & weasels bigger.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

LOL. How to get bigger melons, too.

--
-- pelirojaroja


"paghat" wrote in message
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In article , "Fudge"
wrote:

Encourage snakes and weasels.

Farmer John

I keep getting filthy spams about making snakes & weasels bigger.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/