My family used to live a large farm house.  We never had any animals, but the land was wide open.

The year before we moved out, we got a sudden invasion of burrowing rodents.  I didn't mind them but they drove mother crazy.  They would dig holes in the lawn.

So, mother determined to get rid of them.  First, she tried traps.  This did not work.  The rodents somehow found a wayy to get the food and escape too.

Then, she tried to flood their holes with the hose.  This seemed to work for awhile.  Then, they just built more holes.

Finally, she went ballistic.  She bought a huge supply of fireworks.  Suddenly, my mother had become Bill Murray, from "Caddy Shack".  She would be outside in the dead of night, lighting explosives and throwing them down the holes.  If we hadn't move the next year, I think she would have just planted TNT and blown our house sky-high.