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  • From: <kgbenson@mindspring.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Raccoons
  • Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 12:20:59 -0400

> They mix Fly Bait
> with regular coke.
> 4Tablespoons of fly bait ( Name either
> Golden Harvest or Golden Marlin)
> or something. Comes in a 1 pint can I believe
> it is a powder.
> He said Tractor supply had it and it was fly
> bait.
> Puts it in small saucers near where the
> problem is.
> In the morning he goes out around the
> yard and buries them where they
> lay. He is getting tired of digging. Apparently
> they do not get far. They
> must like sweet Coke. The person he got it from
> said that the first night he
> found 11 raccoons. He said his cats run loose
> and they are still alright.
> Don't know if it bothers other things or if it
> works.

Cats are quite obligate carnovores and really do not ahve a sweet tooth.
Canines and other omnivores are entirely a different story. In addition, this
person is using a pesticide in a manner incosnsistant with the products
lableing. This is dangerous and illegal. The reason the lable reads like it
does is not only to kill the intended pest, but to make the application safe
to other animals, domestic and wild, and those two footed things . . . .

Keith




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