What is the best way to rid my property of voles?

Question

Voles are similar to the mouse with the exception of the tail. They dig holes throughout the yard and feed off of vegetation and fruit.

Answer 1

1. Some cats, and some dog breeds, will patiently hunt them.

2. Nanook of the North technique. If you see a burrow where a vole is pushing dirt out of, sit with a sharp trowel. When you see the dirt being pushed out, stab behind the dirt.

3. Get some castor beans and smear them with peanut butter. Take a stick and poke it down into the burrows, and put a couple of the castor beans into the hole. Do that in lots of places where there are burrows. A vole which eats a castor bean will get sick, and may come out. If you see a sick vole aboveground, clobber it.

I've killed pocket gophers with these techniques. Should work for voles too.

Answer 2

This worked for me.
First I flushed out the holes with water 2 or 3 times then right after the last flush while the hole was still full, I poured about a 1/4 cup of diesel fuel into the hole. As the water receded down the hole it coated the side with the oil. No more Voles.

Answer 3

I had a good cat solve that problem for me once.