Is there a humane way to get rid of moles?

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I suddenly have a lot of molehills across my lawn. We live fairly rurally.
I’ve only ever seen photos of moles but hate the idea of killing them. Is there anything I can do? Play loud music at them or similar?

It’s just one mole and will move on once it’s eaten all the bugs. Drop a bit of white spirit down its holes one side of the lawn and put a thumper down. With any luck you can herd it away.

My dad used to stick loads of mole windmills in his garden. I think they may have worked, but he also had three cats so it’s hard to say.

you can buy things that beep. you stick a couple in the ground and the moles dont like the sound. I've tried other things but these are the only things i've been successful with. It might take a few weeks though.

We had one a few weeks ago, and it made an unholy mess of our garden before moving next door to create chaos there as well. Big mistake on the part of the mole, moving into a garden with a dog...

I have a dog. The best cure I know for moles is to dig down in one of the molehills until you hit the actual tunnel and drop some dog poo into it. Mole comes along, smells predator and takes itself elsewhere.

This is a copy paste from a mole-post I wrote on Mumsnet last year.

"My father made mole-disturbances to get rid of moles.
One was a sturdy pinwheel in the ground, to make vibrations and disturb the moles to make them leave.
The other was that he hung bottles from trees with strings on a certain height. Then he put sticks in the ground under the bottles and put the sticks in the bottles (so from the top it was: tree - string - bottle - stick - ground). When the wind blew it moved the bottle, and created a vibration in the ground from the stick. This was also to disturb the moles. I am sorry I can't explain it better!
It worked pretty well, there were less moles, I think. And a least the pinwheel looked pretty nice!"

I see someone has already suggested the pinwheel/windmill-thing.

Good luck!

I was coming on to say tie a bit of cotton around it and it will die and drop off but don’t do that to the moles in your lawn. That’s the opposite of humane.

Thank you so much for your helpful suggestions. Will any old paper windmill do or do they have to one mole - specific? And do I stick them in the molehills? Gosh, DH will think I’ve gone nuts!

Have a read of this…

https://www.ladymolecatcher.co.uk/mole-control/

She says the the windmills don’t work so I suspect my father’s cats did.

The soil from mole hills is lovely for sewing and bulb planting, so you chuckle some daffodil bulbs in them! The moles do all the hard work!

Could chuck....no idea how that corrected to chuckle!

I shoved mothballs into the molehills on my lawn. Seemed to work well.