60-Day Guarantee for Gopher and Mole Service
Rodent Guys gopher service Lake Elsinore service protects your home from the extensive damage from gophers and moles. Our residential treatment for gophers utilizes no poisons and is safe for kids, pets like dogs and cats and other wildlife. We use unique and safe approaches for gopher control Lake Elsinore with the longest guarantee of any company we are aware of.
Gopher Mound
The typical method for gopher service Lake Elsinore, CA residential and commercial gopher removal is a combination of traps and gas injection. We do not use the normal poisonous bait which is strychnine or gopher bait similar to rat poison. We have found their effectiveness is low and the danger to your pets and other animals along with predatory birds is high.
This is why our gopher service Lake Elsinore begins by trapping in the gopher tunnels near recent gopher activity on your Lake Elsinore yard. The traps are placed inside the gopher’s tunnel with small flags showing their positions. Rodent Guys typically will let the gopher traps sit for 1-7 days varying on schedule, weather and the technician’s recommendation.
When we come to pick-up the traps the dead gophers will be removed out of the tunnels which is the 1st phase of our gopher service Lake Elsinore. We will then use our carbon monoxide machines to inject carbon monoxide gas into the gopher burrow taking care of any other gophers in the tunnel including any young in the burrow. Using two types of techniques such as these gives great gopher control allowing us to give the longest guarantee.
Why do you not use gopher poison]?
Serveral poison baits are sold for controlling gophers in Lake Elsinore, Ca but few of them have good effectiveness. This includes the professional strength of gopher bait available to us, a licensed pest control company, is limited in its effectiveness. Strychnine is known to be only 50-60% effective as a standalone method of gopher control. Our experience with these poisons is a little higher than that but still not high enough.
Not only does gopher bait not having good control for gopher extermination it is also very dangerous to pets and wildlife not to mention children. Sometimes gophers will eject poison out of their burrows if they do not intend to eat it (this happens commonly). When the gopher bait is pushed above ground it is now in reach for anyone (children, dogs, cats and other wildlife) to eat the lethal bait on your Lake Elsinore property. Strychnine has no antidote and kills in around 30 minutes.
The other way for exposure to the poison is if a dog digs into the burrow going after the gopher and digs down to the poison. Don’t let companies trick you, the main tunnels are not several feet down in Lake Elsinore. The tunnels on your lawn are 2-8″ down and easy to excavate since the tunneling removed a lot of the dirt already.
The other common way for your pet or wildlife to get poisoned by gopher bait is by eating a dead or dying gopher that ate the poison. The lethal bait is still in the gopher’s stomach and when your dog eats the gopher he is also eating the gopher bait. If you have dogs it is highly recommended to not use gopher poiosn and don’t let a pest control company serving Lake Elsinore try to tell you it is safe – it is not.
What is the reason for traps?
Here at Rodent Guys we have played with many techniques for gopher eradication for our customers over the years in Lake Elsinore. The main reasons to use trapping as a primary method of gopher pest control is it works very well and is child safe. No doubt about when you remove a gopher that you have removed the problem.
What is the purpose of carbon monoxide?
We know people want their gopher infestation fixed right away. When we follow our trapping program up with a carbon monoxide treatment we have now used a totally separate method utilizing a different technology to help ensure the highest chances of full gopher extermination in Lake Elsinore.
The carbon monoxide fills the gopher burrow system with an unlivable environment which only requires them to breath as a method of control. The whole system which is connected by tunneling is filled with this lethal gas in around 30 seconds and will exterminate gophers within the tunnels including young in the nest. Once the machines are switched off the gas quickly dissipates from the gopher tunnels. People and pets above ground are unaffected by the gasses down in the tunnel. Our machines are registered and approved by EPA and State of California regulations for everyone’s safety for use in Lake Elsinore, Ca.
What is your guarantee for gopher control Lake Elsinore?
Rodent Guys has the best guarantee of any company we have seen for Lake Elsinore. Our standard guarantee is 60 days. This means during your guarantee period if you see any holes you call us back at no charge to your address and we will re-treat the area.
Do you have regular monthly?
We perform regular maintenance for residential and commercial properties in Lake Elsinore. This is usaully done monthly which consists of Rodent Guys coming to your property one-time each month walking the entire property and treating the gopher mounds.
If activity is spotted in between appointments we can be called out to take care of the activity so you don’t have to wait until your next service. This will minimize the damage they do and keeps you in Lake Elsinore at its best. We will either do an extra visit or do the next service early depending how soon your following service is set.
Call us up – there is not cost for a call. We would be happy to go over your pet friendly gopher removal options and quote prices on the telephone. No time like the present – call us now.