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If you go with the gasoline down the hole route, be careful. My Dad and Uncle one time decided to kill a rattlesnake that way, out near Wichita Falls, back in the late 50's. This was literally in my Uncle's back yard. The snake had gone down a ground squirrel hole, they poured gasoline down the hole - expecting that the fumes would run the snake back out where they could kill it. The rattler didn't come out so they poured more and more gasoline down the hole, eventually pouring quite a bit down it, at least 3 gallons maybe more. Still no snake. So they lit it off thinking to burn it in the hole, (note that adult beverages MAY have been involved).
There was an immense explosion a few feet away from them and dirt, burning gasoline, and several dead rattlesnakes rained down on them. The ground squirrel hole led to a dug out burrow, which had been full of rattlesnakes that were killed by the large quantity of gasoline poured down onto them, said gasoline and fumes exploding like a bomb - leaving quite a nice crater and two shaken humans.
Dad and Uncle didn't do that again.
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‘‘Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.’’ ~ Mahatma Ghandi, "Gandhi, An Autobiography", page 446
‘‘The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.’’ ~ Patrick Henry
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