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Old 09-21-2011, 06:30 PM
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Default Wonder if it will work
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Originally Posted by mrfixit View Post
......Just as a FYI........IF you pour or spray a little household non-sudsy AMMONIA around the bags ON YOUR CONCRETE the "critters" simply will NOT mess with your garbage. Has worked for me for over 50 years...have NEVER had my garbage "torn-up" by the hungry varmints....( EXCEPT for the ONE-time I ran out of ammonia )
I'm not in the villages yet, but I hate to leave the trash at the curb overnight because of those ugly rats. We store our trash in plastic cans with lids and every garbage day before I leave for work I grab the bags and toss them out to the curb.

Its pretty dark when I leave for work..... and one day when I opened the lid to grab the trash I heard a THUMP. Sure enough - there was a rat on the bag and it fell to the bottom of the can. It ate a hole in the lid to get to the chicken bones.

Thank God I grabbed the bag instead of the rat. Now - I just toss the can to the curb.

I wonder of the ammonia thing would work if you sprayed the outside of the can?
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