Zoe – you’re ruining a great visual gag! Dad sticks the hose down the hole, turns on the water and the whole yard erupts with water spouts coming out of other holes! (Then Hammie says, “Cool!” over the potential mud bath…)
It doesn’t work. The gopher just moves out of range and digs new holes. Instead, pour cinnamon down all the openings, which they won’t want to smell nor step on, and eventually they’ll back out of your yard into your neighbors. I’m sure mine were grateful. It worked.
Three of our cats caught all the gophers when we moved in a few years ago. they would stick a foreleg down the hole, wiggle a paw, and pull one up like they had caught a fish. They were so proud of their work. And we paid them with extra salmon at dinner. Such good girls.
Templo S.U.D. about 2 years ago
Got a better idea, Zoe, of how to get rid of the gopher?
Cornelius Noodleman about 2 years ago
Caddyshack anyone?
retrocool about 2 years ago
let the brat scream. drown the gopher ! ( apologies to the 2 that answered my first comment. I don’t like to leave misspellings )
David Huie Green AmericaIsGreatItHasUs about 2 years ago
Wanda’s far smarter than we are. Now where’s that mud I was just about to sling?
boydpercy Premium Member about 2 years ago
The next time Hammie needs to pee outside, let him down gopher hole!
capricorn9th about 2 years ago
I am with Zoe. Just trap them and release them in the wild. No need to murder them.
einarbt about 2 years ago
Another word for lobbyist? None seem to pass the gocomics censors. Ah well.
iggyman about 2 years ago
Tell Zoe you just wanted to give them a bath!
Blu Bunny about 2 years ago
Hammie can sit on and gas them..
hex about 2 years ago
The steamed gopher, suggested yesterday, still seems like the best idea to me.
mfrasca about 2 years ago
The Carl Spackler approach.
Twelve Badgers in a Suit Premium Member about 2 years ago
Seriously, why do people hate gophers so much? They seem nice.
gopher gofer about 2 years ago
the gopher lobby is indeed very influential… ☺
oakie817 about 2 years ago
oh i’d keep him and start feeding him…new pet….“i will name him George and i will hug him and squeeze him and….”
dv1093 about 2 years ago
Gopher Bomb. It looks like a stick of dynamite. It’s cool, and it works.
Huckleberry Hiroshima about 2 years ago
Absurdity abounds these days. Disconnect and do your duty.
Daltongang Premium Member about 2 years ago
I see a live trap in Darryls future.
jrankin1959 about 2 years ago
Zoe – you’re ruining a great visual gag! Dad sticks the hose down the hole, turns on the water and the whole yard erupts with water spouts coming out of other holes! (Then Hammie says, “Cool!” over the potential mud bath…)
BeniHanna6 Premium Member about 2 years ago
Take the poor litt’le girl inside and do what you have to do.
GKBOWOOD Premium Member about 2 years ago
My relatives up in Alberta would shoot them!
Hamunaptrasecret2002 about 2 years ago
Im with you!
198.23.5.11 about 2 years ago
Try smoke grenades.
suelou about 2 years ago
…. as well as the pro baby bird lobby …. seriously, you can wait a till fall when the birds are done nesting to cut down a tree!
The Quiet One about 2 years ago
Smart move Wanda.
Scott S about 2 years ago
I’m alright!
Don’t nobody worry ’bout me!
You got to gimme a fight!
Why don’t you just let me be?
CoffeeBob Premium Member about 2 years ago
Just wait until after bedtime, then go out and soak the yard.
amaryllis2 Premium Member about 2 years ago
It doesn’t work. The gopher just moves out of range and digs new holes. Instead, pour cinnamon down all the openings, which they won’t want to smell nor step on, and eventually they’ll back out of your yard into your neighbors. I’m sure mine were grateful. It worked.
kab2rb about 2 years ago
Dad you should do that when Zoe is not around.
joe.altmaier about 2 years ago
…Or make her dig out the mound and fill in the tunnel by hand. 10 minutes later she’ll be fetching the hose.
edeloriea14 about 2 years ago
Drowning gophers is inhumane.
Teto85 Premium Member about 2 years ago
Three of our cats caught all the gophers when we moved in a few years ago. they would stick a foreleg down the hole, wiggle a paw, and pull one up like they had caught a fish. They were so proud of their work. And we paid them with extra salmon at dinner. Such good girls.
KageKat about 2 years ago
What is the best way to clear out gophers?
ToneeRhianRose about 2 years ago
Haha! XD
ahcaracuC almost 2 years ago
Why is Darryl’s head squashed?
riff raff almost 2 years ago
why would he say that in front of her though