Those Lovable Critters!

May 2
18:04

2006

Martin R Meyer

Martin R Meyer

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Why are mandated holding ponds in communities and industral parks affecting the surrounding wild life and properties? How can these changes affect you, your health and your property? What can you do help the situation? Here are a few observations.

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Since many local,Those Lovable Critters! Articles county, and state governments have mandated that much of the new commercial and residential construction projects include run-off and holding ponds in the building plans, the number of Canadian Geese and other critters that use these new sources of water have radically increased. This would seem to be a roaring success for the environment and the natural order of things.

However, with each new construction project, the amount of wild or wooded areas for these lovely furry critters to nest continues to shrink, creating a critter housing shortage. Add to this the new and prolific food sources known as restaurant dumpsters and the much more common but not nearly as fruitful residential trash containers and you have a critter housing shortage of nearly epidemic proportions.

Yes! Well fed, prodigious and prolific chipmunks, squirrels, raccoons, opossums and other nesting animals with no where in the natural world to live are increasing at an alarming rate. What ever will happen to these lovely furry critters?How convenient it is that many of the new and not so new buildings and houses in the same areas as the new construction offer many comfortable nesting sites in attics, sheds and crawl spaces.

How wonderful it is to have a warm and clean place to stay for the winter and raise a litter or two. However, this apparently utopian synergy is not quite all that it might seem. The much bigger critters, (people) who live in the other parts of these wonderful nesting sites don't seem to want to share.

Oh Darn, what can be done? What will become of all these lovely homeless critter families? What government agency can be called into action to propose new laws, ordinances, building codes, and the all-important health and critter services rules to fix this critical shortage of critter housing? Why will the animal welfare, fish and wildlife and the all-powerful PETA not take decisive action to fix this growing housing shortage?

Fear not homeowners they are! Try to get a government official at any level to do something…anything…about the hundreds and some time thousands of government protected Canadian Geese fouling our parks and parking lots.

Remember, when you walk in their droppings you get it on your shoes and inside your car and ultimatly inside your workplace and home where your children are crawling around on the same floor where you are walking.

The number of houses invaded by furry nesting critters has exploded. It can cost hundreds of dollars to have just one nest of raccoons or squirrels removed from your house. And then of course the toilet habits of these critters are not even close to being as good as that of a poorly trained puppy.

Removing these potentially dangerious critters and their highly contaminated nesting material from an attic or crawl space then closing the entries with hardware cloth will stop the noise but not the smell. (Here comes the commercial) After your critter remover guy has finished bagging the nesting material, hand him an unmarked sprayer with a 20 or 30 to 1 solution of OdorXit. Tell him to thoroughly spray the entire area where the nest was and anywhere else where the critters traveled from the opening to the nest. He will complain and tell you that nothing will kill the odor. You will just have to wait until nature takes its course. Don't listen! You already know it worked on the pet problems you had, it will work on this too.

Visit us at http://www.odorxit.com or call 1877-odorxit for more information on critter nests.