Farmer finds a way to tame runaway rodent

The rodent, commonly, called Pocket Gophers

The Pocket Gopher, is a burrowing rodent that is mistakenly called a mole locally. It had been a headache for John Lang’at of Kaptumooto village, Narok County, for a long time.

Until recently, the subsistence farmer had been staring at losses caused by the rodent, which lives in underground tunnels and cut roots of crops on Lang’at’s five-acre piece of land.
“This animal was a nuisance to me and a hindrance to my progress,” he says. The rodent, commonly called a Pocket Gopher, digs tunnels underneath the ground where it lives, breeds and even stores its food.