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  • From: Thomas Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>
  • To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Raccoons
  • Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:28:14 -0400 (EDT)

Hi,

People get desperate when they cannot find solutions. Doesn't make it
right, it is just how things work.

Tom

--
Southwest Ontario
Canada Hardiness Zone 6a
(similar to US zone 5)

On Sat, 31 Aug 2002 kgbenson@mindspring.com wrote:

> > 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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