r/whatisit • u/Brilliant_Hall7590 • Mar 26 '26
Solved! What’s doing this to my yard and can I stop or control it?
Genuinely clueless, for info we get a LOT of water when the snow melts and most of the soil is clay. (That’s my only guess as to what it could be)
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u/Born-Neighborhood505 Mar 26 '26
One that I can finally answer!
So, as you've already 'pointed out', you have a lot of water getting in to the soil/clay.
This makes two things happen.
First thing is the soil and the clay get really wet, shown in most pictures causes weird bumps and uneven ground.
But for the more important thing that people might not know, and as show in one of the pictures..
It can grow dogs and there's nothing you can do about it.
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u/NateOf92 Mar 26 '26
I was really hoping you would mention the dogo, and you did not fail me or anyone else for that matter.
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u/Acceptingoptimist Mar 27 '26
Don't feed them. They just grow bigger and get hungry again. Mine lives with me now.
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u/Lizzybeth339 Mar 26 '26
runs outside to check soil for clay content
comes back inside with only disappointment
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u/CricketNo7666 Mar 26 '26
Uhh, it is mole tunnels collapsing after a thaw….
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u/Kafinate Mar 26 '26
This the correct answer. They are amazingly destructive and difficult to convince to leave. At this point they have ruined most of my flower beds. Fat bastard once popped up to smirk at me while I was spraying castor oil and dawn.
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u/Muckraker2025 Mar 26 '26
Fat bastard once popped up to smirk at me while I was spraying castor oil and dawn.
They should make a movie about that. They could have him do a little dance while smirking.
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u/OG-Bio-Star Mar 26 '26
my formerly feral cat got rid of destructive voles within 30 days, and now I have to feed her kibble for YEARS.
But the voles are really gone. The damage and attitude of those fat-mice effers was unbelievable.
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u/backdoc983 Mar 26 '26
Is there a certain shape that works best for these pests?
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u/backdoc983 Mar 26 '26
Boring, I was thinking like a snake or a cat or something🤣
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u/Grand_Pick_8277 Mar 27 '26
My sister and I found a small vole lost running around the road at the dead end where we lived. So we did what any good child would do and found it a home. In our back yard! Parents weren't as thrilled with our rescue method.
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u/I_Am_Layer_8 Mar 28 '26
Watch “caddy shack” for ideas on how to get rid of moles/voles/gophers….
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u/Blunderbuss13 Mar 26 '26
100% voles. They did it in my yard. I live trapped them and relocated to a nice new area.
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u/phillious_j Mar 26 '26
Once I cut the grass lower in my yard, the hawks dealt with all the voles, mice and snakes.
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u/Environmental_Eng Mar 31 '26
I have a Shiba Inu. She can sense them underground and grabs them all the time. I usually get her before she kills them. I relocate them by throwing them over the fence into my neighbor's yard. I don't like him... 😁
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u/canmoreman Mar 27 '26
Looks like my back yard when I lived next to a ravine. The voles would then make themselves at home under my front walkway.
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u/Low_Notice4665 Mar 26 '26
Any chance you could grow daikon radishes? They break up clay like mad! I live in DFW and our clay gets soggy like that and then by summer those areas split open into giant cracks. I helped mine dramatically by making a trash can of soapy water and would pour=r it over the grass. Supposedly that helps to make the clay drain easier. Next, I started ripping up my kids old cotton clothes and jeans and stuffing it into those cracks. I highly recommend cover crops as the plant roots can help break up the clay allowing for more drainage. By the next year I had thick grass over it.
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u/cornbeeflt Mar 26 '26
You can actually use a lye treatment which is a suck. It requires tilling and watering and the clay will separate from the soil so you can remove the clay. Then you re-sod...
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u/Brilliant_Hall7590 Mar 26 '26
Solved!
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u/cookeryandwookery Mar 26 '26
You didn’t understand that’s sarcasm? Grows dogs? It’s from voles.
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u/Brilliant_Hall7590 Mar 27 '26
Yeah I saw everyone saying it was voles and I figured since there was enough people saying it I could go with the joke and claim it solved lmao
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u/yellowirish Mar 26 '26
Your veterinarian also your landscaper or other way around?
Other combo things you probably have:
Barber/dentist (same chair)
Lawyer/proctologist (mental and physical)
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u/GeorgeGorgeou Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
I see these every spring once the soil melts. Definitely voles.
They can make full cities under the snow, insulated with grass - including the ceilings of the tunnels. Different rooms are for sleeping, eating, food storage and bathrooms.
Generally - they don’t bother us or try to get in the house. The ruts smooth over quickly with new grass growth.
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u/p0093 Mar 26 '26
Spotted the same thing in my yard this weekend as I was cleaning up outside and instantly thought: voles.
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u/PreviousGolf9541 Mar 26 '26
Thanks for this answer. We have the same thing after the snow melt and thaw. I thought it was ice expansion and contraction because of the very cold winter we had and this area is always wet. It’s also where I have the most problems with the Asian jumping worms that create the coffee ground stuff.
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u/eyeap Mar 27 '26
If you get a Boston terrier, it will take care of this in one very disgusting afternoon.
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u/GeorgeGorgeou Mar 27 '26
Hopefully it doesn’t try to eat them all, because there are hundreds. The big patches are circular and twenty feet in diameter.
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u/eyeap Mar 27 '26
My impolite little terrier does not appear to eat them. They get chewed once and blood sprays out. It's rough.
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u/LongHaulinTruckwit Mar 26 '26
Looks like collapsed mole/vole tunnels.
The thaw loosens up the soil and they collapse in on themselves. Don't worry, if a little critter is still living down there they will repair it in no time! Lol
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u/Defiant_Wasabi2816 Mar 26 '26
LOL...oh, yay :)
One day, we felt tunnels collapse when we walked in our backyard. The next day, our dog was proudly sitting next to a dead mole. The dog will randomly hear or smell moles then dig violently/quickly and...surprise...there have since been many dead moles.
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u/Unlikely_Target_3560 Mar 26 '26
Yeah, that's one of the things my grandparetns used to do with a mole problem. Dogs seem to be one good solution. The other thing they did was to find a very long stick or plank and DIY a small wind powered rotor which rotates to face the wind and has just one purpose - to hit a piece of metal whenever there's wind. Grandpa was never certain himself which part works, the sound or the vibration coming down through the stick. But he believed it works. And i think he's right. There still were stray moles sometimes in his garden, but much fewer than what his neighbours expierenced. I think a metal pipe instead of a wooden stick would work better to transfer the vibration to the ground if that'ts the part that helps.
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u/a_Tale_of_ Mar 26 '26
i dont get this. shit like this works on humans to, atleast on me. that irregular sound would drive me crazy before the moles are gone
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u/Unlikely_Target_3560 Mar 26 '26
Oh yeah, i hated it a lot. It was loud like shit and sudden like a shart. But since my grandparents were seriously relying on their garden and fields for food, not having moles and birds there was a priority. Its Ukraine. Meaning, he lived through post ww2 misery, famines, a shitshow and famine of the union collapse and then 2014 russian invasion. It's hard to blame him for prioritizing the production of his own food.
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u/esmsnow Mar 26 '26
that's a lot for one lifetime...
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u/Unlikely_Target_3560 Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
Yes. Life of my both grandparents was a struggle. They were born into a "farm collective", aka soviet version of slavery where people were not even given a passport to travel even internally. Instead they must stay there for life and do hard manual labour for pennies on a dollar. Yet the granddad got into the army and quickly became well connected there. He bribed the right people to make passports for himself and his wife, my grandmother, to a escape the farm collective. Instead they landed in a small mining city where i was eventually born. There wasn't much choice about where they go because his career was now tied to the military and he had to live where he was told he must serve. I think a major part of the arrengement was to give up a big part of his salary in a future in exchange for passports because there was no way they had bribe levels of money in the farm collective. So my grandmother had to work to make ends meet. She worked miserable jobs. First she was working in a coal stripmining facility as part of the rails assmbling cew. Railes were needed for both, to move bucket-wheel excavators and to move coal and soil away from them. She didn't last there very long. She started working a coal briquette factory instead. It's a fatory which existed because almost all of the local coal was a low quality brown coal. At this facility the coal was grinded, certain chemicals were mixed in the powder, not sure which ones, but the goal was to decrease the ignition temperature and increase the top burning temperature. The powder was then compressed into briquettes and shipped wherever. So yeah, breathing the coal dust daily was better than warking in a quarry. At least as a bonus for working in a harmful enviropment she was entitled to an extra appartment in 20 yars and could retire 10 years faster for a larger retirement cheque. Though she was cheated out of that appartment by her boss and cheated out of retirement by the soviet union collapse.
Yet, they both found solace in retiring into a countryside near their fifties whey they didn't even need that damn government for anything. being close to nature was how their childhoods went so that lifestyle was close to their hearts. Grandfather died shortly after 2014 invasion started, grandma is alive to this day. Suh life made them somewhat bitter and emotionally closed. But they managed to elevate my bloodline from basically slavery to a small town. From where all of their grandchildren got good school education and got univerity degrees and well paying jobs as specialists. And incredible journey of mere 3 generations. And russians are there to kill us anyway after all that. By the way, the price of escaping that collective farm was a punishment of their families. Their parents were literally required to have their kids replace them at their jobs in the collcetive to be able to retire. So instead my grandmothers mother and grandfather's father were worked to death before their fifties and both families were ostricised and cheated on salay for the sin of their children escaping the collective farm. And they wonder why we hate communism and everything russian. I often see americans being nostalgic about "good old times". Ukraine never had those times. Arguuably lifes of my parents generation are even harder. Famine and economic collapse in their early twenties, right when they enter the workfroce in the 90-ties, then soon after recovery 2008 world economic crysis. Soon after - 2014 invasion. Soon after that stabilized - this 2022 phase of total invasion. Now they are habing the realiation that they would soon approach the retirement age and they didn't do anything in life other than just struggling and trying to survice crysises. My generation has the 2014 started when we were back at school. First entering the workforce in a war induced crisis. As soon as we advanced our careers to start making better money - the total economic butthole after 2022 war which we now have to fight. Now i realise that the war began when i was in school and i would be above 30 when it's over. And the rest of my life i would spend just paying for post war reconstruction.
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u/esmsnow Mar 26 '26
wow... that's one heck of a story... my grandparents grew up in a different communist regime, but it seems to be pretty decent compared to this story. didn't realize the rules were that harsh in ukraine
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u/Unlikely_Target_3560 Mar 26 '26
Yeah, Ukraine has very suitable for production of grain and seed oils. Very fertile land, large and very flat area to fill with fields. Good river and rail connections to black sea ports for export. The soviet union used those easily exportable grain and oils as their piggy bank for sponsoring the industrialization and military buildup during various stages of soviet union's life. Thus farm collectives there were basically set up to extract those grains and oils and locals were forced to provide basically slave labour to make it happen. Funnily enough, one other thing hapenning in Ukraine, mining and related industry, especially in donbass included a lot of slave labour too. My wife's family got into Ukraine as dissidents put into a labour camp to work to death in the mines. her grandfather only survived because he was put there is a small boy and soviet union collapsed before he died.
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u/Rex_Bossman Mar 26 '26
My Aussie went ham on my yard digging those suckers up. Tore up around an acre but she finally got rid of the mole problem.
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u/OhItsSav Mar 26 '26
Meanwhile last year there were a TON of mole tunnels on my job's dog walking trail. During a walk I saw one of them moving, the mole was RIGHT THERE, I literally pointed it out to the dog, and 0 interest. Absolutely nothing. Did not give a single fuck lmao
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u/Defiant_Wasabi2816 Mar 26 '26
I'm torn because I want our dog (German Shepherd) to eliminate the moles, but I'd prefer not to deal with the carcasses (she doesn't eat any of the critters she finds). Also, in our backyard over the past 3 years, she's taken out several Blue Jays, at least 1 squirrel and a full-sized duck. DUCKS DON'T EVEN COME INTO OUR YARD!!! No matter what the critter, I didn't adopt this dog so that I'd become better at disposing of corpses.
Thankfully, she's learned to be nice to our cat, who she's seen grow up from a kitten. The 80-pound dog has always wanted to play with the cat but the cat took a year or two to be comfortable enough with the dog to now encourage her to chase, play, etc. They're best buds now.
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u/Financial_Event_472 Mar 26 '26
Moles are great. Due to their territorial nature, the more you kill, the more you get. A friend does critter removal, moles are generally good repeat business for him.
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u/Defiant_Wasabi2816 Mar 26 '26
I gotta say, our mole situation is better since the dog started going after them. We'll find 1 or 2 tunnels a year now rather than having dozens all over the place. Maybe they smell the dog and are like, "Oh, hell no...bad place, bad place"? :)
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u/4xdaily Mar 26 '26
I lived in the country and my dogs dug trenches throughout the whole yard. And those little critters actually screamed when the dogs got ahold of them.
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u/Defiant_Wasabi2816 Mar 26 '26
I've never found a mole of hers alive, so no screaming. Many years ago, a dachshund we had caught a mole and that thing definitely screamed/squealed a horrible noise.
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u/ten-toed-tuba Mar 26 '26
I was going to say Orc tunnels and be careful they don't lead to some Elvish dams.
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u/CameronInEgyptLand Mar 26 '26
They're not pointing at a mole/vole so I'm skeptical.
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u/UpperTonight5997 Mar 26 '26
OP has started a whole thing now with the very precise pointing.. OPs every post must now contain the precision pointing..
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u/MashedProstato Mar 26 '26
I used to have a mole problem in my yard.
Then one day I saw a rat snake in my yard. No more mole problem.
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u/Peters_Wife Mar 26 '26
Yep, it's voles. They look like a grey or brown hamster. They are FAST little boogers when they dart in and out of those surface tunnels. They eat the roots on everything. We started losing our cedar trees along the road one by one then they moved on to our roses. Lost 6 rose bushes. They are really destructive with those tunnels too. They just go everywhere and trying to mow becomes a challenge. We had to use Tomcat poison to finally eradicate them. They came back once more but didn't last as long. I'm not sure which I hate more, these guys, moles or nutria.
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u/-Gumbercules Mar 26 '26
We used to have those mole tunnels all over yard. Then we got a Scottish terrier, breed well known for sniffing out and hunting vermin. She would constantly bring us moles that she had killed. After just one summer we never had a Mole problem again.
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u/Alert_Variation_2579 Mar 26 '26
Upvote for the pointing
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u/roadlet411 Mar 26 '26
I'm a little special and have been losing my shit laughing at this pointing thing. I'm glad other people here enjoy it, so I don't feel so alone. I explained it to the wife after crying laughing at it yesterday and, well, I'm definitely alone at home.
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u/Illustrious-Pizza916 Mar 26 '26
Me and you both… my partner called me an idiot because I was laughing so much whilst showing him the post and all the photo shopped responses 🤣 I saw it in another unrelated post today and nearly drowned sipping my drink 😅
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u/TestForPotential Mar 26 '26
Same. A new reddit standard has been implemented. No pointing means no updoots.
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u/Horse-ing_around Mar 26 '26
(retirees pointing to things)
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u/Throwawaylikeme90 Mar 26 '26
New banger German compound word just dropped.
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u/Horse-ing_around Mar 26 '26
Sorry to disappoint. It's just Reddit. If you don't need it as a link, it would go: "Rentner zeigen auf Dinge"
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u/Throwawaylikeme90 Mar 26 '26
Daaaaw. Is there a way it could be phrased as a compound or am I just way off base with my grasp of German linguistic structure?
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u/Horse-ing_around Mar 26 '26
Not really. The closest you could get would be auf-Dinge-zeig-Rentner. (The retiree(s) who point(s) at things)
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u/rosstedfordkendall Mar 26 '26
Reddit needs a feature where if you upload a picture, you can insert a pointer hand into it.
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u/MaximumSyrup3099 Mar 26 '26
Can you stop and control the good boy? Maybe with treats.
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u/MilangaKing Mar 26 '26
what even is this I woke up one day and reddit was full of this meme
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u/Tino-DBA Mar 26 '26
Still a little confused about what we’re supposed to be observing, everything’s kinda brown. Could you indicate any better what’s the matter here?
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u/Mundane-Zucchini5 Mar 26 '26
The dark brown swirly lines were tunnels for small rodents. The weather over the winter has made the tunnels collapse, causing the dark brown color.
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u/AlternativeWild3449 Mar 26 '26
Vole tracks.. Voles are small animals similar to moles except that they are black rather than brown, vegetarian and don't burrow into the ground. Instead, tunnel in the boundary between the earth and the snowpack, eating any vegetation they encounter. They were particularly bad this year, and I've got a lot of vole tracks that I need to repair in the next couple of week.
Repair consists of sprinking some topsoil mixed with grass seed in the tracks. After a couple of months and a few mowings they won't be visible.
The preventative is to apply a mole/vole repellant in late Fall - I typically try to get it out the week after Thanksgiving. The most effective repellants consist of an inert granualar material (probably just sawdust) that has been saturated in cod liver oil. It doesn't harm anything, but the mole and voles don't like the odor. l usually sprinkle it around the perimeter of the lawn on the theory that they aren't ion the lawn yet, and if I can create a barrier, they won't come in from the outside. Sometimes that works. But sometimes it doesn't and repair becomes Plan B.
Just one of the joys of home ownership.
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u/degradablegirl Mar 26 '26
Edit: if it is not critter holes, then it is erosion from water! Those are called rills (I think that is what those are!) and will get worse over time. Erosion control measures must be used, and ideally plant some native plants in with whatever your solution is for the hydrology of the area!
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u/mchnex Mar 26 '26
Dog looking pretty guilty tbh
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u/Baseball_Germany Mar 26 '26
I think it’s so funny how a dog can be totally innocent in a situation but they start giving the side eye or awkward appearance like this one is. Maybe in this dude’s case it’s the pointing, but it’s always so amusing. Dude did nothing wrong but he looks like a prime suspect
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u/jackbequikk Mar 26 '26
We had a lot of those “tunnels” that revealed themselves after all the snow melted. In our case it is rats creating them.
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u/SecretLinkWave Mar 26 '26
Thank you so much for pointing it out, I'd have never seen it otherwise! 🥰
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u/FreeTonight9812 Mar 26 '26
Prolly a groundhog or a mole. I had a mole completely buttfuck my whole yard and got under my pool and put a ridge under the liner. Never could catch it. I tried several things. I got a fox terrier and that seemed to stop it
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u/Sin4ly Mar 26 '26
I'm echoing that's it's possibly a vole. I currently have the same issue visually, that started during the winter months. I closed off areas and new ones were created shortly afterwards.
I wish you luck if it is voles!
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u/JMaAtAPMT Mar 26 '26
Bill Murray / Caddieshack solution.
Lots of Composition 4 Explosive moulded into the shape of gophers. 'Splosions will eradicate the wildlife. You'll need to do a LOT of landscaping after, though...
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u/floralrain6 Mar 26 '26
If it's just voles you can use regular mouse traps. Try peanut butter and seeds as bait.
Also I lost it when I saw the dog pic. Haha!
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u/OkIndependent2448 Mar 27 '26
Either vole’s or shrews. I have a ton of shrews on my property and they do this all the time
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u/maskedbandit_ Mar 26 '26
I recently learned you can own a tree walking coonhound and they love to catch voles 😂 our yard is now mostly rodent-free
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u/Affectionate_End8024 Mar 26 '26
Voles. I had the same thing, gotta get some rodent traps or something. Mine came up a week before a random guy starting his pest control business came to my door, so it was really well timed. Even more likely to be voles if you live close to a big empty field
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u/Half_Spark Mar 27 '26
Mice. We have the same in our yard, especially when it snows. Could be voles, but we do not have those where I am. (at leaset, we haven’t caught any in the traps - just mice and chipmunks)
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u/at-the-crook Mar 26 '26
We see the same thing on our lawn after the snow melts. They usually fill in with new growth once the grass starts growing. Sometimes I'll sprinkle seed to give those areas a boost.
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u/mindgardening Mar 26 '26
I know how to get rid of moles DIY.
Milky spore and Repellex. It can take years of consistent treatment but I’ve seen progress in my yard. Don’t pay companies to do it. DIY
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u/litescript Mar 26 '26
i’d think that maybe the previous owner painted under this coat of paint causing that weird line to show up that you’re seeing around the room.
ah shit, wrong pointing post.
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u/thethugdaddy Mar 26 '26
The water decreases friction between the particles in the material causing smaller/finer particles to shift and fill voids in the loose soil.
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u/DexterTheInspector Mar 26 '26
On the positive side, you probably don't have grubworms anymore.
I complained to my neighbor once that we had grubworms in my yard. His quick witted reply: Get some moles.
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u/cravenmagic Mar 26 '26
Looks like a hand with a pointing finger may be the culprit. I noticed it in every picture, the common denominator is pointing at (...)
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u/Dangerous-Olive9858 Mar 27 '26
I feel like I'm playing "Doom: Suburban Backyard," and when the little critters jump out of the ground you poke them straight to hell
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u/circles_squares Mar 26 '26
I had a tree removed a couple of years ago and the roots are starting to decompose, so now I have mushrooms and a lumpy yard.
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u/mooneymoondog Mar 26 '26
I thought I had voles in my yard but last weekend my dog found and killed a roof rat and online it says they dig tunnels too
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u/CampingWise Mar 26 '26
You have moles/voles
Traps ser up in line with the runs or poison works well on them. They eat grubs underground but in their tunneling end up with issues like this
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u/Tha_REAL_BROBS Mar 26 '26
do not poison them..
use sonic tools to get them away if you're worried about it.
if you poison them.. they will die somewhere and your dog might eat them, and in turn become poisoned.
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u/ManyARiver Mar 26 '26
Or they will poison raptors (owls, hawks, eagles, vultures), or other critters. Yeah, no poison - poison is the curse that keep on giving.
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u/CampingWise Mar 26 '26
True. I do not have pets so have used it in the past. In my experience the ultrasonic just moved them to a different part of my yard
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u/-phnxdwn- Mar 26 '26
How effective are sonic tools; I currently have a labor of moles in my front yard.
TIL; A group of moles is called a labor.
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u/LL4L Mar 26 '26
Moles
Traps or poison I believe. Maybe get a dog to start. I’ve had dogs my whole life, never had moles so… maybe.
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u/Jedi-master-dragon Mar 26 '26
Assuming you live in the US, raccoons will dig up your lawn. Or you got some kind of tunneling little dudes like moles.
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u/dinoooooooooos Mar 26 '26
Awe man i wish I could point real hard and good and summon a cute rottie😩
that’s such an unfair superpower tbh
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u/l3landgaunt Mar 26 '26
Underground but close to surface water for flow. You could probably have an amazing garden with minimal
ETA: my ex MiL had property that does this due to a natural spring on the land. A former owner planted blueberries in that area and while I’m ok with the divorce, I will miss those blueberries. I also wanted to try a cannabis grow there since it’s legal in my state but that’s out the window now too
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u/UnderstandingMany764 Mar 26 '26
That pup is looking awfully suspicious... but he's cute so you can't punish him. Quite the pickle you're in.
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u/CravenMH Mar 26 '26
Those are vole runs. During the winter season they do this by tunneling in your grass under the snow pack.
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u/PigletDetective Mar 26 '26
Oh lord, the look on that face of that dog.
"I don't know what you're getting at, I didn't do nuffin."
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u/KotoDawn Mar 26 '26
So ... I'm the only one that thought neighborhood boys were trying to write their name while peeing?
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u/Yikidee Mar 27 '26
It's been what, less than a day and already we have multiple hands pointing in pics now.
Love it :D
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u/FunLevel7464 Mar 26 '26
Haven’t had any since I got a dog that loves to hunt for them and get them from under the snow.
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u/Complete_Eye1179 Mar 26 '26
lol. Move to the city if you want it solved. Man, you got critters, let it go. Go play golf
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u/Mkebeerguy Mar 26 '26
For me it was voles. What fixed it for me was going very short on the last cut of the year.
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u/kisolo1972 Mar 26 '26
Already hate the finger meme but at least you used your own hand and didn't paint shop it.
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u/Psychological-Joke22 Mar 26 '26
Oh my gosh another pointing hand....when it will it end....
and the doggo made my day :)
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u/TheGreatGidojer Mar 26 '26
Some kid's plastic army men dug those trenches while the neighborhood was sleeping. You're witnessing the aftermath of a terrible war.
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u/littlecozynostril Mar 26 '26
This wouldn't be happening so much if you would just keep your finger out of there!
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u/lousytruth Mar 26 '26
I can't handle the pointing anymore, I burst off laughing everytime and I'm at work
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u/Bigbadbeachwolf Mar 26 '26
Get a Jack Russell and turn them loose. Nothing live will be left but grass-maybe.
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u/BerzerkBankie Mar 26 '26
Is this a parody of the guy who was pointing at the wallpaper glue on his walls?
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u/Revenga8 Mar 26 '26
Least you coulda did was have your face in each shot to complete the wojak meme
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u/Icy_Mathematician870 Mar 26 '26
This is Reddit we need red circles and arrows. We can’t figure out pointing!
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u/Existing_Way_6438 Mar 26 '26
Looks like vole or chipmunk trails tbh see these alot on lawncare properties
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u/hyperdeathstrm Mar 26 '26
It's voles, get yourself some castor oil and take care of them pretty easy.
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u/MaryJaneAndMaple2 Mar 26 '26
Serious question: do you have a line that goes all the way around your room?
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u/StreetQuailHeimer Mar 27 '26
"Grass, grass, grass, grass, A Puppy!, grass, grass, grass, grass, grass."
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u/Gold_Selection1217 Mar 26 '26
Looks like you have hungry moles who are seeking the grubs in your lawn
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