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Re: I wanted wildlife, but....

Yeeks!!!  Doreen, you're scaring me to death... Our deck is great--over 1200
sqft and we just refinished it!  I don' wanna give it up...  As far as the
roaches--fortunately most of them stay outside (unlike our last house) and the
lizards, skinks, and geckos take good care of them, it seems.  But the vermin
have gotta go...

Doreen Howard wrote:

> I commiserate with you Jane.  It's the deck that's the problem.  We had one
> too, and rats moved in and colonized.  After a year or so of this, they even
> were crawling up the window screens at night.  We tried poisons and baits,
> to no avail.  They were eating all the seedlings I was starting flats on the
> deck at night, and then advanced to the garden.  It was awful.  We even got
> a fogger and fogged some horrible stuff under the deck.  One or two rats
> would die, but more came to replace them.  You and I live in a hot, humid
> climate where critters like that thrive.  They are the survivors, and we are
> the newcomers.  Our final solution was expensive, but worth it.  We pulled
> out the deck last Feb. and laid a flagstone patio in its place.  Haven't
> have a rat since!!!  Of course, when my husband yanked away the last of the
> planking, rats ran out in every directions.  Some were huge.  One charged,
> and my husband shot him with snake shot.  It was horrible!  BTW, if you have
> rats under the deck, you also have mice and millions of roaches, I
> guarantee.  An entomologist told me that roaches colonize with rodents.
> Happy thought, isn't it!
> Good luck in your battle.
> Doreen Howard
> Zone 9b, 50 miles south of Hot, Humid Houston
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