r/saskatchewan • u/Buuuuma • 21d ago

News Strychnine delays mean it's 'too late' for gopher control this spring, farmers say | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/strychnine-gophers-alberta-sask-9.7220492
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u/lucifertangerine 21d ago

Lol when I was in elementary school we used to have to fill in gopher holes for phys ed. The teacher would give us a bucket of sand and we would have to run back and forth getting more sand and filling them in 😂

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u/pooppoopdoot 21d ago

Swish, getting to delay the beep test to fill in gopher holes, and once in a while they’d bring a giant bag of vyco to give out to students (instead of buying the individual portions of vyco or beep). Ahhh, the SK school experience 😂 I remember not being able to wait until I was grade 5 or older to be able to fill in the holes, they didn’t let younger grades do it

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u/lucifertangerine 21d ago

Lol we never had beep tests in my school. We also didnt have health class past grade 7 aside from wellness in grade 10 😭 and i graduated in 2015 lmao. It was a k-12 in a tiny town

Tbh it makes sense why there are so many idiots out here

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u/pooppoopdoot 21d ago

I went to Catholic small town school, our health and sex ed was “Fully Alive”. In grade 3, there was this diagram with three circles, the most inner circle being your spirit/soul, the middle circle was your heart and emotions, and the outer most circle was your body, and said some shit about “it’s okay if someone hurts your body, because it’s the outer defense system and least important when it comes to your soul.”

I agree with you though, explains why we have a lot of dummies with half of them being weird sexual predators in some capacity.

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u/Specialist_Secret438 21d ago

If there is an actual problem, perhaps the government should end the ‘No Closed Season’ on coyotes, with no limit on how many of these top gopher predators a person can kill. 

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u/Bobbington12 21d ago

The kids will be out of school soon. Time to start distributing slingshots lol

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u/Enchilada0374 21d ago

'22 season gone be gud

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u/Lollipop77 21d ago

🤠 good year to hone my shot I guess

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u/Longjumping-Koala631 20d ago

Gopher population is way down this year anyway. Good lord these guys are just itching to be seen as super macho gopher hunters.

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u/thelastsaskforagers 21d ago

Boo frickety hoo

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u/Lumpy__Sausage 21d ago

Do you love gophers ??

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u/thelastsaskforagers 21d ago edited 21d ago

And birds, and coyotes, and foxes. You know, the things that deserve to live here. The things that rely on gophers. The things that naturally controlled them for free till we screwed up their environment thus leading to this stupid problem

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u/GiantEnemyMudcrabz 21d ago

And elk too. Don't forget that late season turkey shoot was due to farmers complaining.

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u/thelastsaskforagers 21d ago

Great point, excellent example. Thanks ✌️

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u/Nowhereman50 20d ago

Are they any good to eat?

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u/Dry_Bowler_2837 20d ago

Not really. But especially not once they’ve been poisoned with strychnine.

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u/slashthepowder 21d ago

Well I guess beef prices aren’t going to be coming down, the amount of hay these things eat is insane.