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Old 04-18-2014, 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Uptown Girl View Post
Yep, Florida, like many other states has 'roof rats'.
We also have snakes and a variety of raptors that love to eat 'em.

If we had a problem with 'rattus rattus' here in The Villages, we would know it.
We ALL put our garbage out, AT NIGHT, at the end of our driveways twice a week.

All 100 Thousand of us.

Our garbage is NOT in sealed cans, it is in plastic bags which are laid on the concrete.
Actually, we place ours BENEATH the canopy of our largest palm, a Sylvester.

A PERFECT smorgasbord for any roof rats hiding on any of our TV properties,
waiting for the cover of night to run down from our palm trees and
eat….wouldn't you think?

Here's a poll…. how many of us are having our garbage regularly eaten????

It's not happenin' at our house.
I agree completely! Rats would tear the daylights out of plastic bagged garbage if they smelled some food inside. Anyway, you don't have to be a "purist" having all palms or absolutely no palms. I mixed my Sylvesters and European palms with lorapetulums, toubichinas, ligustrums, hollies, crepe mrytles, perennials and ferns in large shrub borders on my corner lot. I think it all goes well together. Palms make me feel good. I think I am on permanent holiday. I often sit out in my adirondack chair reading the Sunday paper enjoying a cup of coffee under the shade of my palms...Heaven!