i highly doubt flies are afraid of wet money..
Carol · Jun. 9, 2011
it is bad enough that... i have to live with a ton of homeless, leaking, pooping, crippled, spoiled, demanding, sick, and freaking expensive wrecked animals who used to belong to other people.
but hey...i can deal with that.
and it is bad enough that i have to deal constantly with wanting, needing, demanding, desperate people who think saints rescue is the answer to their getting rid of their wet pet dreams.
and i can deal with that too.
and it is bad enough that at midnight last night i was abruptly brought out of my sleep by a mini war zone happening out in the cat run..those three brazen raccoons were back hanging from the wire and having a snack. sweetie took it upon herself to tell them to get the hell out of saints (and the cats food bowl!)..they didn't listen to her til i showed up and then they just looked at me calmly and crawled up on the roof.
so i guess i can sort of deal with midnight cat food buglars too.
but honestly... some things are just too much..some things cross the crazy line...like tammy's new voodoo magic that are SUPPOSED to discourage flies. i am simple and practical...buy a giant fly zapper and nuke the little beasts and then hang a ton of sticky fly paper to catch the ones who miss the nuking machine.
so far in the last couple of weeks, tammy has tried to out do me in keeping flies out of saints.....first milk jugs filled with water and fly killing crap appeared and are hanging from the walls (and not one of them has a single dead fly in them by the way!) and then some weird turbo nuclear fly sucker thing that traps and dehydrates the flies in a blue light wind tunnel showed up on the medical room counter..which currently after a week is holding a whopping FOUR dead flies....and finally the best one of all (which is putting me right over the edge...)
zip lock sandwich bags filled with water and pennies are now hanging overtop of our heads. she has got three set up in the doorways..i told her she might as well hang some garlic too to keep any wandering vampires away....the place is starting to look like the funny farm with all of the fly paranoia paraphanalia hanging around in my face.
lets take a vote here...are water filled bladders of pennies all that effective in keeping us fly free or are folks just going to think we are crazy???
come on folks..be honest..tell us what you think...
cuz i have enough crazy around here as it is and i don't need to add to my lunacy legend with tammy's sandwich bags full of water and pennies hanging from our ceilings.
please HELP me..tammy is on a(n) (unsuccessful in my humble opinion) fly catching roll!
http://www.spalding-labs.com/
Their fly predators work wonders! Not sure if you can get them in Canada (as I live in Upstate NY). I worked for an animal shelter for quite a while, and the manager (who had a hobby goat farm, and used the fly predators) had the shelter start using them. Its a tiny bit late to start now I believe, but next summer you guys should look into it! Good luck! And for the record, I have seen the penny thing before :)