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Who made those fine dirt piles? Please Help!
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Posted by wliu57 90630 (My Page) on Fri, Oct 30, 09 at 23:47
| Hi, all:
Recently I found that one or two piles of the fine dirt in my backyard here or there. And these dirt piles are getting more and more. I have no idea who did those-field rats?
We have no cats and dogs in house, but our neighbor's cat does come every day.
Please educate me what did that and how can I control them.
Thanks a lot!
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Follow-Up Postings:
RE: Who made those fine dirt piles? Please Help!
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| Piles of soil come from somewhere, a hole usually, so where did yours come from? Did something dig down, or was the soil pushed up? |
RE: Who made those fine dirt piles? Please Help!
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| Thanks-kimmsr! I guess the the soil is from the original place. However, I really don't know whether the soil is by some animals (rats?) dig down or pushed up. When I checked the soil piles, I could not find the holes. Please help....... How can I get rid of them? Thanks! Wei |
RE: Who made those fine dirt piles? Please Help!
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| Try putting some water down around the piles to see if a hole opens up. Gophers? Moles? Ants? Children? Something is making them. Posting pictures of the piles might help. We are not mind readers or Gods but sometimes can be considered as miracle workers. We need more than a little vague info though. |
RE: Who made those fine dirt piles? Please Help!
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| wei, can you submit a picture or two of the offending piles? Oftentimes, such issues can be identified with the help of images. |
RE: Who made those fine dirt piles? Please Help!
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| Thanks-all. I've already destroyed the soil piles, so I can't provide the pics showing the true situations for you all. Now there is no new one come out. I ask the home depot people and they said fine soil piles are made by gophers. I bought a bottle Gopher Killer and put some under the soil. I did not find any dead gopher in my backyard. If there is new soil pile created, i will take some pics. The soil piles are very natural, it is almost impossible made by kids. No children visited my backyard at any time recently. Again, thank you all very much! Wei |
RE: Who made those fine dirt piles? Please Help!
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| Purchasing a poison and putting it into your environment without knowing what you are poisoning is a waste of your money and is bad for your environment. You need to know just what it is you are trying to control before spending money on some control and especially before applying it. |
RE: Who made those fine dirt piles? Please Help!
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| Besides you used the term "fine dirt". Gophers and moles make mounds of clumpy dirt rather than fine particles. With a better discription perhaps a identification could have been made and you would not have wasted your money. height of mound, size how far accross, was there a dip in the center of the mounds etc You may have destroyed the mounds but whatever made them are still there. |
RE: Who made those fine dirt piles? -Pictures
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| Thanks all! Today I took some pics. Pic 1.
 This one (actuelly there were two here, one left, one right) is some 1.5 feet long and ~4-5 inches high.
Pic 2.
This is smaller, and lower and the mables on the top were mixed by me. Pic 3.
There were three of them here. there was on against the wall and there were two in front of the bricks. After watering one can not see the "fine" dirt any more. Pic 4.
 My description was not that correct. Look at this one, the soil pile are Not that fine. However, in general they were evenly size and much smaller than those. First, I saw the three by the wall (Pic 3, 4). Then I saw on on the middle of the yard (No pic,destroiyed). Most recently I saw the the two (pic 1, 2). What, who made those? Thanks a lot! Wei |
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