Does anyone know a natural way to get rid of voles? That doesn’t involve a cat, an owl, or a coyote?
March 10th, 2010 | 
Author: My daughters back yard is full of voles and so are her neighbours.
She doesn’t want to buy a cat and doesn’t want to use chemicals. Any suggestions?
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There isn’t a way to get rid of them. There’s nothing you can put out there to discourage them from being on your property. They are very adaptable, and the only way to get rid of them is to deplete the population. There are snap traps (cheap) or “Have-a-heart” traps (expensive), inwhich you can catch, and release somewhere else.
Voles can be removed from a yard using
1. extermination – poison baits (rodenticides) and traps. For poison baits you can either use c-Don or Rodex.
2. repellants – for repellants try shake-well
3. garden fencing – Wire mesh garden fencing can be wrapped around the base of a young tree in winter to keep voles from gnawing at its bark
4. havahart wire traps
Once you have effectively removed the voles from your garden it is important to practice integrated pest management to prevent your garden from repeated infestation of voles.
A vole pest problem is most likely to arise in yards where voles have abundant amounts of vegetation and debris to hide under and build their nests. If you keep your garden weeded, avoid planting dense ground covers such as creeping junipers, and keep your lawn mowed, you’re less likely to have to worry about voles in the first place. You have to be particularly careful about applying mulch too close to trees and shrubs. During winter keep snow cleared away from shrubs and young trees. You can also protect young trees by wrapping the lower trunk with wire mesh.
If my back yard was full of voles I would do anything to get rid of them! They are dirty little disease carrying rodents!
I do get some voles in my yard and I use the rat bait to kill them. I put the bait into a coffee can with a secure lid, cut a small hole in the lid and then lay it out for those nasty voles to feast upon. It is safe to use this method around animals since the lids are secure.
Suggest to her all of the diseases that rodents carry!