Re: RC: RE: Re: Re: gophers

[Lynn Kinsky <lkinsky@silcom.com>]

>Hi Marlene
>I wonder what the statistics are on broken legs from gopher holes.
>Gophers have been around for a very long time and they seem to seek out
>my pastures no matter where we have lived. My friend and breeder once
>laughed at me when I was worried about the holes and pointed out horses
>are smart and have three other legs to catch their balance on--- I know
>the one broken leg I had (Halynov's) was a freak accident totally
>unrelated to gophers. Has ANYONE on ridecamp had a horse break his leg
>in a gopher hole? There are 1000 members here I understand. It would be
>interesting to know just how real this danger is.
>Bette (who kind of likes their cutsy little faces but also has wrestled
>with the best way to eliminate them--- BTW those sonic sound things
>don't work :-) Just moves them down a few feet!)

>Bette Lamore


A neighbor girl wound up in the hospital with a broken pelvis when she was
running her horse down their dirt driveway and the horse broke through a
gopher tunnel and fell head over heels.  Horse was OK.

(I have little sympathy for gophers since they cost me many garden plants.
And BTW the chewing gum idea is no less painful and cruel than the Maccabee
prong traps or my one cat's method of starting his dinner from the back of
the gopher without waiting until the front end is dead (I don't even look
anymore . . .the front end is usually quite angry)).



Lynn Kinsky (Santa Ynez, CA)
http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky