Beginner Gardening: Killed me a gopher!!!!!!whoo-hooo!!!, 1 by cici77

cici77 wrote:
hi nada, thanx.. lol.. i have chased a few other gophers since that first one.. again with my big spade shovel! three to be exact.. and all of them with their heads out of their holes pulling my flowies down with their grimey little claws.., one was pulling down chunks of my daylily, he was so involved with what he was doing, that i had time to go in the other direction to get my weapon, tip toe around one of the gardens and get about 3 ft from the flower eater, he stopped, looked me right in the eye for a second of "face-off".. then i went charging with my gopher war cry...stabbing the ground over and over with my weapong of choice!!!! i managed to even kill one of my little ground covers near-bye, but it sacrificed itself for the cause... i dont know if i killed the heathen or not, but that garden area was gopher-free for a few weeks.. the other time was similar to that time but, i had to throw one of my cats at him because my shovel, i knew ,would not go thru the hard dirt he had his ugly rat-like head stiking out of.. the gopher stuck his head back in the hole and the cat stayed there on gaurd till he popped back up and WHAM! the cat gottem!!! the cat was heavely rewarded that day!!! (: this last gopher hunt story was one of the most rewarding i have had the pleasure in doing.. i was sitting in my chair inside the house... when all of a sudden i hear one of maamaa kitties babies crying outside.. as if it were in a cat fight... while 'Sweets' my other "maama" kittie is at the window growling.. i jump up and look out the window.. i dont see anything.. so i let the growling cat out to go after whatever was hurting the baby... she runs over to where the kittie was... i look back out the window and here is what i see, i see mama kittie laying under the swing, and all four kitties in a half circle around her... and in the middle of this circle is a big fat GOPHER sitting up on its hind legs with one clawed paw (is that what u call gopher hands?) out infront of itself like a defending cat, swinging at the kitties that come too close.. now here comes 'Sweets' (the growling cat i let out to protect the babies) she sees whats going on and lays down by mama kittie.. this must have been a training session for the babies , i assume 'mama' caught the gopher and dropped it for her kitties to kill.. well anytime one would get brave enough to attack the gopher, the gopher would strike back and the kittie would scream.. when-ever the gopher would try to make a run for it mama would very smoothly whack it back to the circle of kitties.. well hubby hears me say , "IT'S A FRICKEN GOPHER!!!!" so he heads out to shoot it with his .22, he's out the front door in a flash , barely giving me enough time to yell at him to STOOOOPPPPPP!!!!! (remembering how i distracted the 'Valentino' before and he lost intrest of the gopher that HE brought to my garden) well it was too late., all the kitties looked over at my hubby and off the gopher went, into one of my gardens.. i swore some very un-lady like words about or i should say to the gopher, and went to get my weapon, all the while muttering under my breath... by the time i get over to the garden two of the kitties found him again.. but he was hiding under one of my glass look-alike lids to a garden art piece i have, and again he was almost hissing at the kitties thru this "glass" (more like plastic) .. i grin! i flip the lid out of his protection, with the spade just above him, he then turns his hissing and claws up at me.. my grin turns to a smile and down the shovel goes.. but i miss him (hey, i never said i was a great aim!) he then gets madder swatting at my shovel, all it took was my war cry and down the shovel went again with all its might, across the neck of the gopher.. OFF WITH HIS HEAD!!!!!!!! as soon as i pulled the spade up three kitties pounced the two parts of the gopher.. i then sang my victory song, "Ding dong, the gophers dead , the gophers dead... ding dong the ugly gophers deeeaaad.. as i skipped my way back into my house to come back to reading the posts on daves garden! (: so with those two war storys i end it with a pic of one of my very good hunters 'Valentino' doing what he does best... looking for gophers...(: (yes that IS half his body in a gopher hole!) lol


This message was edited Jul 19, 2004 3:57 PM