We have 3 kinds of gophers, but the pocket gophers are the only ones that are a nusiance and they don't come out during the day. I;ve only seen one alive, that was about midnight, crossing my yard when i got home from fishing. Looked like a drunk overgrown mouse with long claws. I'm lucky enough to have a yellow lab who takes great pride in killing anything smaller than him and he's pretty much got them out of the yard. Used to have a real bad problem but not anymore.
If my dog had a trophy room, he'd have muskrat, possum, coon, pocket gopher, squirrel, pheasant, mouse, rabbit, cat, blackbird, largemouth bass (ok they were winter killed but he still brought them to the yard) and deer (fawn).
