In the state of WA trapping or laying traps is illegal. Barring trapping, I’m tried every reasonable option known to myself to rid a yard of gophers and/or voles.

Cyanide derived gases (3 types), ditch flame torch, couple of types of pellets, ultrasonic devices (2), small electrical currents, dog urine, cat urine, wolf/cat/dog hair, dog poo, white paste that was to look like grubs, stuffing a dead, ripe, road-kill squirrel down the mounds, plate compactor over the yard�?still they dig & come back up. The final straw was setting M80 charges around the perimeter holes. Impressed the neighbours, raised my red-neck, yee-haw score to an all-time high with them & apparently spurned on the gophers/voles to throw up a couple more mounds. 

The dogs I do believe have adopted them. 

I’m asking for aid here…there’s a septic tank & a couple of ground water lines that I do have to consider in any offer of informative disposal. I did go talk to the sheriff’s office about using a rifle/pistol to hunt them. The yard is still “county�?side of the laws. Otherwise, I’m sure I’d have to farm them or have “humane�?ways to terminate them. Gawd, this point I’m even willing to IV Kevorkian them if I could catch the freaking varmints.

The sheriff’s deputy on staff wasn’t keen to have me go all “Rambo�?on them. Dep’t of Wildlife said I didn’t have to get a permit to shoot them. Yeah, I checked.  Heck, you could even tell me how to hunt them. I’m 3 months from taking a week off of work to set-up a blind, spot light them & begin systematic poaching of them.      

So, WAMAW family, any suggestions regarding dispatching these creatures? 

& YES! They have to go!!! They’ve dug tunnels under a concrete patio that’s started to sink, eaten all tulips and other flowering bulbs over the last 2 yrs, outwitted the wolf next door, and now have made the lawn hazardous to walk on due to tunnels collapsing (yes, I do use a lawn roller & fill dirt but I‘d really not like this as a hobby).

Anyone?