Cockroaches

[mimitabby]

move

I left roaches behind in NJ. They are disgusting, dirty and persistent. THe only things worst than them are bedbugs.


I love Seattle!!


ps if you keep cats you probably will never have a problem with mice either. I never have

[Tuckervill]

My husband got some stuff from a guy he knows. It's a solid, like Oak described. Smear it on stuff, and then leave the house for a day (especially the animals). Dead cockroaches everywhere. I made him do it while the boy and I were out of town.

No more roaches.

Karen

[Melalvai]

I am not going to try to take apart the dishwasher. Call me chicken.

Thanks for the suggestions. I will let you know as the battle progresses. If I suddenly stop posting you'll know the roaches won.

We have 2 cats, one is a great mouser although she prefers baby bunnies, of which there are plenty. She's getting older and doesn't see or hear as well, but she can still catch a baby bunny. She is very generous, and often leaves half the bunny for us. On our doorstep. Always with the stomach prominantly displayed.

And yet a few years ago we did have a mouse problem, in the attic. Of course, we don't let her go in the attic, no matter how she pleads. We put out traps and poison and the mice disappeared eventually. Now that the field across the street is being developed, we will have fewer mice, and baby bunnies, and deer. Instead we will have college students. Of all vermin, college student infestations are the worst.

[Grog]

Instead we will have college students. Of all vermin, college student infestations are the worst.

Hmmmm...

I'm sure you could come up with something more charitable, considering the number of college students on this board.

[Zen]

Hmmmm...

I'm sure you could come up with something more charitable, considering the number of college students on this board.

I don't know...and I'm sure she's thinking (like me) along the lines of Animal House college students.

[Melalvai]

I'm sure you could come up with something more charitable, considering the number of college students on this board.

Oops, was I tactless and offensive again?
Some of my best friends are college students. Until very recently, I was one myself. I am married to a college student. Nonetheless...
Animal House indeed.

[mimitabby]

my mother wrote a poem:


The cockroach is an ancient soul
She must be old as Eden. (no offense to our Eden!)
She doesn't fight, or ever bite
Just feedin' and a breedin'.

She keeps her furry legs so clean
Her sable shell so gleaming.
Then why does her appearance cause
Disgust and even screaming?

She leaves no stains or holes behind
Her appetite's petite.
Then why do we begrudge her
The minutiae she'll eat?

She really needs a friendly press
Of this there is no doubt.
Why is there not a P R firm
Who'd bring it all about?

[Eden]

nice poem

but I think the nasty bit about roaches is that they (like mice and rats) are incontinent.... so everywhere they walk around in your house they spread roach feces -ick!

anyway I though hippies were the ultimate houshold pest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrMcw...eature=related

(there's some weird stuff cut in with this, but its the only clip I could seem to find online)

[Grog]

Oops, was I tactless and offensive again?
Some of my best friends are college students. Until very recently, I was one myself. I am married to a college student. Nonetheless...
Animal House indeed.

Don't worry about it.