I doubt there is anything that would work and be safe too.

 

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I've never tried it, and I don't have any cats......but FYI and FWIW


Basic ingredient is castor oil. Raw Castor bean is poisonous(ricin), and since it looks like a regular bean, it can be dangerous--although us older generation grew up on regular doses of Castor oil(the processing of the bean deactivates the poison) which was used as a last resort-----when you can't figure out what he has, give him some Castor oil...…..I vaguely remember it as nasty and bitter stuff at the time. So, any self-respecting vole or mole would naturally avoid it...…..so would a cat

Another "cure" is to spray your area with milky spore, in the early springtime. It will kill the beetle grubs living in the soil, which is why you have the moles and voles in the first place, since they consider the grubs as delicacies.

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I give them a work out with my rototiller . if they are destroying the crop till deep and often . I doubt it hits them but time spent re-digging the tunnel is time not spent eating my plants .after a while they just move on to better living conditions .

 

Moles only eat live grubs and worms. No poison would be effective without poisoning the entire ground enough where it would rub off on them, because they don't eat dirt either.. They don't eat beans, and they don't eat fake gummy worms. They don't eat any plants, they cut through the roots in their search for edible, live grubs and worms.

My personal experience is that it's easier to move your garden.

 

My personal experience is that it's easier to move your garden.

Pretty hard when the little beasts are tearing up your entire yard or you have only a small area with which to work.

Milky spore takes a couple years to be effective. And it doesn't affect worms or some other species of grubs (there are differing opinions on effectiveness in treating June Bugs and Green June Beetles).

Mole traps, solar "mole chasers", castor bean plants, etc work for some people but not others. My best remedy was a dog. Neighbors dog, but kept our yard free of moles for several years. He has gotten lazy though and we now have a mole problem again.

Voles are a different story. They are similar to mice and can be trapped like mice but you have to be careful to keep birds and other animals out of the snap traps. Peanut butter works very well as bait. Chances are you will catch a number of shrews with snap traps also. I set a trap baited with peanut butter under an overturned flower pot near one of their tunnels. Ended up catching 8 shrews before I got a pair of voles.

 

Voles definitely do eat vegetation.
When they were the worst here, I had deep straw mulch.
The snakes have moved in and seem to keep them in check. So I vote to make life easy for snakes even though they personally creep me out.