About BTMR

The objectives of BTMR are:

To promote, improve and advance the skills of the Traditional British molecatcher, for the benefit of the public and agriculture.
To ensure the advancement of molecatchers and to provide training for people who wish to acquire those skills.
To promote Traditional Molecatching through the press and media, and to provide a base 24/7 which separates the professional molecatcher from other pest control operators.
To provide a network of molecatchers throughout the British Isles. In local areas where they can concentrate on smaller more compact areas.

Membership of BTMR is available both to individual molecatchers and to companies where the major part of their income is earned through mole catching. Membership is open also to part time mole catchers and to individuals whose primary income might be earned through traditional rural crafts such as Dry Stone Walling, or hedge laying, etc., but who might also offer allied services as competent molecatchers alongside those separate disciplines, and to all individuals who have received a BTMR Training Certificate.

Membership is not available to general Pest Control Companies who use poisons (i.e. gas) or where mole catching represents only a small part of the overall business activities. BTMR reserves the right to refuse any application for membership.

Mole catcher of yesteryear
The role of the molecatcher in the British countryside goes back hundreds of years. Alas like all traditional skills they have slowly been in decline. But hopefully with the emergence of the BTMR things will start to improve. The BTMR website intends to be the definitive site for British Molecatchers.

Click here to go to BTMR's main web site.

With the withdrawal of Strychnine for mole control the demand for the Traditional Molecatcher has risen and will rise in the future. Many of the pest control companies are abandoning mole control work because trapping is too time consuming for them, and gassing is not totally effective, and can only be used in certain locations, and weather conditions. Not so with the Traditional Molecatcher, these individuals are not fazed by many of the jobs put before them. They are experts at mole catching and are aware of all the associated problems.

Mole catcher at work Members are permitted to display the BTMR logo on their vehicles (badge issued with Membership cards), and are able to use the BTMR logo on their letter head and any other promotional material.

Enquiries and work requests received by BTMR will only be passed on to fully accredited members of BTMR.