SWIMMING POOLS VS GOPHERS
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If you own a swimming pool, you know the high costs of maintaining it. From the electricity to operate it, to the products used to keep it clean and sparking, the bills can be costly.
Now, if you have a gopher that has found it's way into your yard - it's main objective is to locate a nice area to create a den, mate and start having babies. Your pool is going to be the first place it will want to go. The second choice; under the bathtub.
A gopher can easily go underneath a swimming pool. It likes to den under the seats, Jacuzzi, and along the walls as well. Those with plants along their pools, will find their plants dying off or disappearing. This is due to the gopher pulling them underground and into the den. This also means she is pregnant.
The gophers will locate the pools by feeling the vibration from the pool equipment. Since gophers follow walls and fences, it's easy for the gophers to move from the wall "highway" to the pool pipes in only a few feet of soil.
Following the pipes, the gopher will quickly find a cool quiet wall or ceiling, and being to move large amounts of dirt. This dirt isn't always kicked out near the pool, depending on the depth of the den. The deeper the pool, the further away the dirt mounds.
For those with palm trees around the pool, you will notice the branches are hanging and turning brown. In time, as the urine content rises in the soil, the tree will die.
If you don't know if you have a gopher or not, ask for an inspection. If you know you have a gopher, never wait to have us come out and immediately kill them. The gestation is too short at 13 days and with 17 days from birth to maturity, these rodents are extreme breeding machines.
If you allow your gopher problem to continue, you can expect for your pool walls to fail. Cracking around the filters, lights and pipes are the first signs. Larger cracks are usually found near diving boards and the edges, where gophers like to enter and store food.
Contact us today and schedule an appointment for trapping or an inspection. We give a written guarantee of ridding you of your gopher problem.
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