Below the grass, it's a system. I read it.
A gopher doesn't live in the mound. It lives in a main run a few inches down, and the mounds are just where it dumped the dirt. Find the run, and the whole yard clears from one spot.
Probe
I walk the yard with a steel probe and find the main run by feel. Not the mound, the highway underneath it.
Set
Traps go into the run, below ground, flagged so you know exactly where each one is. Nothing on the surface, nothing a dog can reach.
Check
I come back, check, reset. Most yards take two or three visits. I don't leave until the runs stay quiet.
Clear
I knock down the mounds and pack the runs so the next gopher in from the greenspace thinks twice.
No catch, no charge.
That's the whole guarantee. If I can't catch it, you don't pay for it. It's been the rule since the first yard and it isn't changing.
Why not just poison them?
Because you'd never know if it worked, and the owl that eats the gopher eats the poison too. Portland has a lot of owls. I'd like to keep it that way.
- PoisonRisky for dogs, cats, kids, hawks, and owls. No way to confirm a result.
- GasGophers plug the tunnel in seconds. You've gassed a hole.
- Sonic spikesAnnoy you. Gopher does not care.
- FloodingGives it a bath.
- TrappingThe only method where you actually know the animal is gone. Because I show you.
Pricing, written down.
Yard inspection
Gopher, mole, vole, or something else. I'll tell you what you've got and what it'll take.
- Waived if you book trapping
- Honest answer, even if it isn't my job
Gopher or mole trapping
- Standard residential lot
- Up to three return visits included
- Extra visit $40, only if needed
- No catch, no charge
Monthly maintenance
For yards that back onto greenspace, HOAs, horse properties, and anyone who never wants to see a mound again.
- One visit a month, unlimited traps
- HOA and acreage quoted on site
Cash, check, and all major cards. Mound cleanup and tunnel collapse is a $60 add-on after clearing.
"People started calling me the Gopher Goddess after I cleared a yard three companies had given up on. The name stuck, so I put it on the truck."
I learned to read a tunnel the hard way, on a property where the gophers were winning. Years later I'm still doing it by hand, because it works and because most people would rather not crawl around their yard with a steel rod. I would.
I'm a one woman operation. I answer my own phone, set my own traps, and check my own work. No app, no chatbot, no call center. When you call, you get me.
- If I can't catch it, you don't pay for it.
- No poison. Ever. I like dogs and owls more than I like gophers.
- I'll tell you the truth, even if it's "that's not a gopher problem."
- I show up when I say I will.
From the yards.
Two gophers out of the backyard in four days after a year of mounds. Worth every penny.
Deb R., BeavertonShe was right, it was moles not gophers. The lawn is flat for the first time since we moved in.
Mike and Carol, TigardOur HOA spent two seasons on poison that did nothing. Switched to her maintenance plan. Haven't seen a mound in months.
Linda S., Lake OswegoBackyard arcade.
Three little games. Two of them will teach you something about your own yard. One is just for fun.
Find the run
This is your yard, cut open. Each mound on top sits at the end of a feeder tunnel that drops down and joins one main run. The gopher lives in the run.
Tap the dirt to probe it. Hollow means you found the run, and a trap goes in. Set two traps in the run, one facing each way, before you run out of probes.
Whack-a-Gopher
Thirty seconds. Bonk anything that digs: gophers, moles, and the quick little voles. Don't bonk the owl, she's on our side. Don't bonk the neighbor's dog, that's a lawsuit.
Hits in a row build a multiplier. A wrong bonk resets it and costs you three points.
Gopher, mole, or vole?
A yard flashes up. You decide what's digging before the bar runs out. It gets faster, the light changes, it rains (it's Portland), and voles show up once you've proven yourself.
Gopher: fan shaped mound, plugged hole off to one side.
Mole: round volcano, raised ridges in the grass.
Vole: no mound at all, just narrow runways chewed through the lawn.
Book a yard visit
Fastest is a call or text. I answer when I'm not elbow deep in a tunnel, and I call back the same day when I am.
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