gopher catcher

thank you all for your advice on gophers. we didn't even know they existed out here....only ever seen tiny prairie dogs. but my research indicated the holes in our yard were made by a gopher. we had bought those bomb/poison gas thingys but hadn't used them yet. then yesterday afternoon, porter and i went out to play in the sprinklers (because is was 95 degrees!) and not only were there 2 new holes...but there was this tiny cute little gopher hiding behind one of our bushes! i didn't realize that from a distance it would look so much like a mouse. so, i couldn't just leave it....maybe i could do something! it ran into a small hole under the bush. i got the hose. it had one of those nozzles on it that shoots water hard. i couldn't get the nozzle off, so i just shot the water into the hole. the guy came back out. i think not only was he waterlogged, but i think the water had beat him up pretty badly. he could hardly walk. i just got a bucket and scooped him up. i couldn't bear to actually do away with him. so he sat in a bucket in the heat all afternoon. when daryl got home, he drowned him and disposed of him for me. i learned online that unless it's mating season, gophers usually are solitary in their tunnel systems. so, hopefully we have taken care of the problem. daryl went ahead and put one of the gas bombs into one of the holes last night just in case. so we will see. but i am feeling mighty proud that i caught a gopher!