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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Or get a dachshund. One mole decided to try our back yard as a possible territory. Our male dachshund is a hunter, and it was like a personal affront to him. He was butt deep in a hole and covered in dirt before we had a chance to stop him. He was doing more damage to the yard than the mole. The mole went elsewhere, and the neighbors got to deal with the moles.

Reuben did get a bunny two nights ago. He killed it with a lot of head shaking. We had to put Reuben in the bed of the El Camino to keep him corralled and I put down some of his favorite treats. He thought about it, and finally dropped the bunny, and went for the treats. I grabbed the dead bunny and we buried it in the compost pile to be worm food.

When our wiener was younger he wanted to kill, kill, kill, but at 10.5#, he had a hard time. I did catch him with a bunny cornered in our porch once with a small tuft of fur in his mouth. And he used to chase squirrels, but never caught any.

Many years ago, we had an outside cat. We lived in Japan and had moles around. The cat would frequently bring rats and birds home as gifts. We found him with a mole cornered once, but the mole, despite it's size, was holding its own, maybe because of the noise that it was making. If we'd left the cat with it for a while, I suspect he'd have killed it eventually.