The two minute hack that could save your garden: Minnesota man demonstrates his novel way of catching a gopher with a water jug
- Nate Dolan was tired of gophers digging holes in his backyard
- He fills a five gallon water jug half way and places it over the gopher's hole
- The water flushes out the gopher and it comes running into the jug
- The whole demonstration took just two quick minutes
A Minnesota man recorded a quick and easy way to catch pocket gophers using just a water jug.
Nate Dolan came up with the innovative idea because he was tired of gophers digging holes in his backyard and creating mounds of dirt.
Video shows Nate filling a five gallon jug halfway with water and placing it over the mound.
The water flushes out the small rodent and it comes running through the opening of the jug.
A Minnesota man came up with a creative way to catch a gopher using a water jug. He starts with filling the five gallon jug half way
Nate Dolan was tired of pocket gophers digging holes in his backyard with their paddle-shape teeth
The entire video is only two minutes from the time Nate fills the jug, walks to his backyard and catches the rodent.
He has his dog Max along with him for the demonstration who helps locate the hole.
At one point he tells the camera that he has to keep the dog from running ahead and scaring the gopher away or worse, making it his snack.
Pocket gophers are rodents who are notorious for digging.
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They have large paddle-shaped front teeth just for digging through soil and small sensitive tails that allow them to back up in their dark tunnels.
The rodents can be a gardener's nightmare when they leave mounds of dirt that mark the entrance and exit to their burrows.
It's unclear what Nate did with the gopher once it was caught.
But it's certain that wherever the rodent goes, it'll be far away from Nate's yard.
Nate Dolan's Step-by-Step Guide to Catching Gophers
1. Pick up a five-gallon water jug and fill it with a hose halfway
2. Find the gopher's hole, recognizable by a mound of dirt. Nate uses his dog to track it down
3. Place the mouth of the water jug over the gopher's hole letting water run into it
4. The water will flush out the gopher and it will come running into the jug
5. Then safely remove the gopher from your yard
Nate put the jug over the hole and let it fill the gopher's burrow, making the rodent come up and into the jug
The whole video was only two minutes from the time Nate filled the jug, walked to his backyard and caught the pocket gopher
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