I actually caught a mole in my yard yesterday. I told my wife that I was going to keep it as a pet, and that I had went to the pet shop and bought a tiny collar, and the smallest dog chain I could find. I then went on to tell her I had staked it out in the backyard, and you could pull it out of the ground by the chain when ever you wanted to visit him. She got all excited and couldn't wait for me to show it to her, so I had to tell her I was lying about keeping it as a pet. She asked me what had happened to the mole, and I told her I drove it out to the country and released it. A happy ending for all... 
Damn, now I have another one out there...!!! Grrr...!!!
Probably the same one....you have homing moles.
Don't have moles down here we got gophers. Just put a big rattlesnake down the hole and gone is the mole family. My current nuisance is a damn armadillo plowing up the yard and the only way to rid them is a bullet but these goofy bastards around me would have the swat team out here if I did. One next door still has an Omaha Hope sticker on his car.
God, snakes scare the hell out of me. I actually immediately freeze when ever I see one. Once I had talked my wife into going into the woods at a state park to do some wild life photography. We were walking down this trail, when my wife stopped and said, "oh look, someone lost their bracelate." And she started reaching down to pick it up. It was a copperhead, with just a portion of it's body exposed in the leaves. I grabbed her arm, swung her around and said, "I don't like this place...!!!" And took her back to the car. I've kept my mouth shut about it and have never told her, otherwise she would never step foot in the woods again. It still scares me to think about it... ugh..!
