P3 International P7901 Molechaser

Last year I bought a new house, and it came with some furry friends in the backyard. After a few frustrating months of trying various smelly things, flooding their holes, and some of the other non-poisonous methods, I decided to give a sonic device a shot. This was the one I actually tried. In fact, I put two of them in my backyard.

For the first four or five months I thought that they were doing a great job. They they seemed to stop working. They were still making that annoying sound every minute, but every few mornings I would find another mound in the yard.

Suddenly it occured to me why. Over the winter, few birds visited the feeders, and very little seed was scattered. Now the seed was being scattered, and the furry scavangers were back.

What finally helped in my case was to remove the turf under the feeders, put some poison pellets down, cover it up with landscaping faberic and lava rock. (I didn't want my dog or cat accidently getting at the poison.) I stompped-down a couple more mounds over the next two weeks (they didn't break through the fabric), and then it stopped. They either moved back to whichever neighbor was providing them with better, less poisonous, easier to get to food, or they died.

I can't believe I put up with that constant, stupid buzzing from the sonic mole chasers for as long as I did. My backyard is peaceful again.

I've heard some people swear these things worked. And for the first few months I would have believed them. The concept is correct: You want to make your yard uninviting. But frankly, I think the sound bothered me as much as them, and once the food source came back, they tollerated the noise just as many humans tollerate jobs they hate. If you want to eat, an annoying noise eventually becomes a minor thing.