Outdoor Animal Control - Humane Gopher Removal?

I'm pretty sure that a gopher has moved into the yard at my new house. There isn't a big hill and the little piles of dirt sort of look like the googled-up pictures, but I haven't found any real holes and just soft spots under the mud.

Whatever it is, it showed-up and started digging sometime around last weekend and I'm pretty sure that every day, there's a new little pile of dirt in a relatively concentrated area.

My local hardware has several poisons, havahart traps, sound-emitting things from Exhart and a castor oil mixture from Repellex. I could easily relocate the thing, if someone thought a trap would work and if one of the repellents would get it out of the yard and maybe to the farm field out back, I'd really appreciate it.

So, does anyone have any experience with getting rid of what I assume is one gopher and does anyone have an idea of what does or doesn't work?

Thanks in Advance

A gopher will generally have at least one good sized hole on a slope to avoid water run-off. Yours doesn't quite sound like what I typically see, but then again, there are different types of gophers.

To trap it, you will need to know what to use for bait. While you are contemplating it's removal, set out several test spots with various baits to see if one or the other is preferred. If any of your hunting friends have one of those motion sensing cameras, I've seen some pictures from them and they are neat.

Using repellents I always feel, is a temporary solution as the critter/s can simply move back again. Of course each year a new generation will have to go out looking for their own territory, so knowing what repels them isn't a bad idea.

GL
Bud