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Hole in Soil Appearing

KatstezKatstez Posts: 19
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Hi, can someone please help. We have a border which recently keeps having a deep hole appear. It shows the roots of the flowers next to it. I fill it in but within a week or so it reappears in the same spot. Any idea what it could be please. Thank you. 
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  • punkdocpunkdoc Sheffield, Derbyshire border.Posts: 8,546
    Some sort of burrowing animal, too large for vole or mouse.
    Did they tear it out with talons of steel
    And give you a shot, so that you wouldn't feel?
    And washed it away as if it wasn't real?
  • YviestevieYviestevie Kingswinford, West MidlandsPosts: 5,671
    Don't like to say anything but it's sort of rat sized.
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • KatstezKatstez Posts: 19
    The border has been there for ages and never had it before. There isn’t any signs of rats and nothing around to suggest that they would make a habitat. No food etc.  The hole may be deceiving in the photo. It is about 2.5-3 inch hole. Thankyou for replies. 
  • pansyfacepansyface PEAK DISTRICT DerbyshirePosts: 17,499
    Something that burrows.

    So long s it’s not digging up your plants I’d just let it get on with life.

    Got a cat? A cat will sit for hours at a hole like that just waiting to catch whoever is down there.
    Apophthegm -  a big word for a small thought.
  • chirpy999chirpy999 Posts: 18
    I had a similar thing happen, filled the hole but it soon reappeared. Rang the local council pest control dept he said it was a rat. He baited the hole and returned in about a week and told me he had got a rat and a baby . Lived here about 15 years at the time first time anything like it had happened. Not had a problem since.
  • BrexiteerBrexiteer Birmingham Posts: 955
    Are you in the country?  If so it's field mice. My friend has the identical situation 
  • BrexiteerBrexiteer Birmingham Posts: 955
    Katrina.sterry said:
    Hi, can someone please help. We have a border which recently keeps having a deep hole appear. It shows the roots of the flowers next to it. I fill it in but within a week or so it reappears in the same spot. Any idea what it could be please. Thank you. 
    Field mice my guess
  • KatstezKatstez Posts: 19
    I live in a town with no fields close. I thought the hole was too small for a rat but maybe people are right. Thank you 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Central Norfolk UKPosts: 64,574
    Pretty sure that’s a rat hole ... the shape of the ‘spoil’ dug out of the hole is typical of rats. I would contact a professional to deal with it. 
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  • madpenguinmadpenguin Isle of WightPosts: 2,143
    Does the hole go anywhere,a tunnel perhaps or is it simply a hole?
    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
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