Gopher Removal Santa Monica

 Santa Monica gopher removal and Extermination Services

60-Day Guarantee for Gopher and Mole Extermination

Rodent Guys gopher control service for Santa Monica gopher removal protects landscaping from the vast damage caused from gophers. Rodent Guys residential treatment for gophers has no poisons and is safe for kids, dogs, cats and other animals. Our approach for gopher control with the longest guarantee of any company we are aware of servicing Santa Monica, CA.

Our normal approach for residential gopher removal in Santa Monica and commercial gopher removal in Santa Monica is a combination of trapping and gas injection. We do not use the normal poison bait which is strychnine or gopher bait similar to that of rat poisonous bait. We have concluded their effectiveness is low and the danger to your pets and other animals along with predatory birds is elevated.

Instead Rodent Guys Santa Monica gopher removal begins with setting traps in the gopher tunnels near most recent evidence on your yard. The traps are inserted down into the gopher’s tunnel using markers marking their positions. Rodent Guys typically will let the trap sets sit for one to seven days varying on schedule, weather and the technician’s recommendation.

When we arrive to pick-up the traps the dead gophers will be removed out of the tunnels which is the 1st phase of our Santa Monica gopher removal. We will then use our carbon monoxide machines to inject carbon monoxide gas into the gopher burrow taking care of any more gophers in the tunnel including any offspring in the nest. Utilizing two separate techniques such as these gives fantastic gopher control in Santa Monica allowing Rodent Guys to offer the longest guarantee.

Why not not use poison for gopher removal in Santa Monica?

While many poisons are sold for controlling gophers but few of them work effectively as a sole control. This includes the professional version of gopher poison sold to to us, a licensed pest control company, is limited in its effectiveness. Strychnine is known to be merely 50-60% effective as a standalone method of gopher control for your Santa Monica property. We have seen with these poisons slightly better than that but still not up to our standards.

Besides gopher bait not having good control it is also extremely dangerous to pets and wildlife as well as a child for your Santa Monica gopher removal project. Sometimes gophers will force poison from their burrows when they do not intend to eat it (this is common). When the gopher bait is pushed above ground it is now available for anyone (child, pet, other animals) to eat the lethal poison. Poisons such as strychnine have no antidote and kill in roughly 30 minutes.

The other way for exposure to the poison is if a dog digs into the burrow going after the gopher and eats the lethal bait. Don’t let companies lie to you, the main tunnels are not several feet down. The tunnels on your Santa Monica landscape are two to eight inches below and easy to excavate since the tunneling removed quite a bit of the soil already.

The last way for your pet or wildlife to be poisoned by gopher poison is by eating a dead or dying gopher that consumed the poison. The lethal bait is still in the gopher’s stomach and when your pet eats the gopher he is also eating the gopher bait. If you own dogs it is highly recommended to not use gopher poison and don’t allow a pest control company serving Santa Monica, CA tell you it is safe – it is not.

What is the reason for traps?

Here at Rodent Guys we have played with many ways for gopher control in the past few years. In Santa Monica, the main reasons to use trapping as a primary method of gopher pest removal is it works very well and is wildlife safe. There is no doubt when you pull out a gopher that you have removed the problem.

Why use carbon monoxide?

We know Santa Monica people want their gopher infestation solved right away. Since we follow our trapping up with a carbon monoxide treatment we have now used a totally separate technique utilizing a different technology to help ensure the highest chances of full gopher extermination.

The carbon monoxide floods the gopher burrow system with an unlivable environment which only requires them to breath as a method of control. The entire system which is connected by tunneling is filled with this deadly gas in about 30 seconds and will exterminate gophers within the tunnels including babies in the burrow. Once the machines are turned off the gas quickly dissipates from the gopher tunnels of your Santa Monica property. People and pets above ground are unaffected by the exhaust down in the tunnel. Our devices are registered and approved by EPA and State of California laws for everyone’s safety.

What is the Guarantee?

Rodent Guys has the best guarantee of any company we have seen serving Santa Monica. Our standard guarantee is 60 days. This means during your guarantee period if you see any activity you can call us back with no cost to your property and we will re-treat the area.

What about monthly service?

We offer regular service for residential and commercial properties in Santa Monica. This is usually performed on a monthly basis which consists of Rodent Guys coming to your property once per month walking the entire property and treating the gopher activity.

If gopher activity is seen in between calls we can be called out to take care of the activity so you don’t have to wait until your next visit. This will minimize the damage gophers do and keeps your landscape at its best. We will either do an extra service or perform the next visit early depending how soon your next Santa Monica service is scheduled.

Call us up – there is not cost for a call. We would be pleased to go over your pet safe gopher removal options and quote prices right over the phone for your Santa Monica property. No time like the present – call us now.

Take the time now to call us Rodent Guys for you Santa Monica gopher removal project at 909-599-4711.