How Deep to Prevent Raccoon/Critters?
sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
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Comments (38)Mz, I agree with Luvs..a trap is a very good idea. Perhaps there's a wildlife sanctuary in your area that would be willing to take them ? In regards to antifreeze.. it's my understanding that the component that had the most detrimental effect on animals has been removed.. the makers claim your pets ( thereby incl non-pet animals ) can safely drink the stuff. There's also another solution that may be a little bit more viable for you. It sounds disgusting.. but most sporting goods stores carry a lot of varieties of bottled animal urine ( I know..ewwww ). Perhaps you could spray or pour it around your property line it would help deter the little pests from coming into your yard. My ex was an avid hunter... so I know all about this stuff...lol. Maybe if the little bandits smelled a "predator" in the area they would leave for parts unknown.Seems like I actually saw bottled bobcat or mountain lion urine in one of the hunting catalogs he used to get. At any rate... good luck and hopefully you'll find something that will work. Susan...See MoreHow do I prevent spider mites on rosemary?
Comments (4)LMBO...prevent them, not in my world. They take something down every year-usually mums like this year-almost my tagetes lucida. I think the best thing is spraying them with water every so often. Spray during the day or morning when the plant will have time to dry so they don't turn around and get powdery mildew. People say that spider mites don't like humidity so that's why spraying helps...but they grow fine in FL which is the most humid place I've ever lived-sheesh, towels mold in the closets. This may have been luck, but I was treating some other plants for powdery mildew the other day and my marjoram had spider mites so I hit it with the same baking soda/oil/ivory dish soap solution I was using for the PM. Now the spider mites are totally gone, and I had been trying to fight them with just water. I don't know if I stumbled on something but it seemed to work better than pure water and it is the P.M. cure so maybe that would be a good idea for rosemary, I know that this mixture is fine for rosemary. You know your area best Heathen1 but her in Tx I had spider mites within the last few weeks. Here it hasn't been consistently cold enough, but they are better than during the deep summer. Oh, watch how hard you spray, I broke 1/2 a mum plant by spraying too hard. And get that rosemary outside, it will love you for it, Heathen is right....See Morehow 2 tell if critter is rabid
Comments (5)The biggest problem with raccoons is distemper. At least that what my vet here in Central MI tells me. I have four outdoor kennels on 10 mostly wooded acres and at least once a year one of the dogs gets a hold of a raccoon, my vet says there hasn't been a rabid coon in MI in 30+ years, but they are lousy with distemper. A coon sick with distemper will come out in the daytime too and act drunk--stumbling around, dragging a leg or something etc. So I'm forever worried that one of the dogs will get distemper even with being vaccinated but so far 15+ years, it hasn't happened. We don't see alot of daytime coons, but they do come out to the bird feeders in the morning and late in the day so as long as it acted ok I wouldn't be too concerned. Reba...See MoreRaccoon Information, please
Comments (18)I would love to have little wild critters in our back yard, unfortunately we live in the city. So imagine my surprise when a raccoon was on our back porch one summer night! Only saw him once, no idea where he came from or went to. Then we had a possum! I always have dry cat food out for the stray cats & found out that possums love it! I was so excited! He hung around until last February then I think one of the stray cats was getting too nasty to deal with. I named him Pete. I had a little shelter set up on our back porch for the strays & used a covered litter box as a house (was never used as a litter box) We had a pillow & some towels in it. One really cold, rainy night I went out to check to see if any cats were out there & to my surprise guess who was in the little house, Pete the possum! Too funny. I still look for him, but it has been almost a year now. I just hope he(or she) found a mate & is living someplace safe! Possums are good at eating all that stuff we don't like, slugs, rats, mice etc....See Moresultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
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