{"id":1445,"date":"2025-12-15T10:45:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeblog\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2025-12-11T10:58:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:58:04","slug":"how-i-get-rid-of-rodent-holes-for-free-forever-with-barely-any-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeblog\/uncategorized\/how-i-get-rid-of-rodent-holes-for-free-forever-with-barely-any-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"How I get rid of rodent holes for free, forever, with barely any effort."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you don&#8217;t want rattlesnakes on the property, you need to control food, shelter, and access. That can be a challenge with the varieity of rodents living nearby. But, there&#8217;s a lot you can do to permanently remove rodent burrow networks WITHOUT paying for it, using traps, or poison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How I get rid of rodent holes for free, forever, with barely any effort\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cbz84MGz3jk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I do at my own property to keep rodents and rattlesnakes away from my office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Step 1: Use a garden hose to flood the hole. Use low pressure, maybe just a quarter turn, to avoid collapsing the entrance of the burrow<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Step 2: Let it fill slowly from the bottom up. When it fills, let it settle, then repeat as necessary until water it is entirely full.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Step 3: Kick in (or use a shovel) the entrance. That&#8217;s it!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>By doing this, anything living in there is forced to leave. Not only that, but the entire network, including all those dry, warm spaces where rodents were using, are destroyed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t want rattlesnakes on the property, you need to control food, shelter, and access. That can be a challenge with the varieity of rodents living nearby. But, there&#8217;s a lot you can do to permanently remove rodent burrow networks WITHOUT paying for it, using traps, or poison. Here&#8217;s what I do at my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1],"tags":[144,6,108],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-keep-snakes-away","category-uncategorized","tag-avoid-rodents","tag-rattlesnake","tag-rodents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}