Dog House Blog, Dirty Digging!

Moles take over the garden after the worst Summer this decade.

First we had the invasion of the slugs and snails, quickly followed by the assault of the moths and now British gardeners are bracing themselves for more trouble down at the allotment. After the wettest summer in a century it is the turn of the moles. A surge in the hard working diggers is threatening to destroy thousands of lawns up and down the country. Golf courses, parks and farmers' fields are being ravaged, according to experts.  The summer rain has created perfect breeding conditions and males have found they could easily dig tunnels to find mates with the ground being so soft. Holy Moley we are overrun with vermin and it is dis-mole how much damage they can do. They are right pain in the grass! Legendary remedies for getting rid of moles include blowing wind down their tunnels, pouring paraffin into their burrows and even doing special dances on the turf above their heads to drive them away.  How do you stop moles digging up your garden? Hide the spades or why not try a Mole-otov cocktail?

A family of moles had been hibernating all winter. One beautiful spring morning, they woke up. The father mole stuck his head out of the hole and looked around. "Mother Mole!" He called back down the hole. "Come up here! I smell honey, fresh made honey!" The mother mole ran up and squeezed in next to him. "That's not honey, that's maple syrup! I smell maple syrup!" The baby mole, still down in the hole, was sulking. "I can't smell anything down here but mol-asses!"

Do you have critters that terrorize your territories?