Was it raccoonfeces that carries a particular disease or was it another animal like a bat?
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Man, can't believe you sayfeces standing alone without it getting changed to an ####.
I wonder is animal defecated waste material would work?
Edited 5/9/2009 2:06 pm ET by rez
http://icwdm.org/wildlife/bat/batguano.asp
this what ya meant?
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Yep, that's it. Thanks.
Raccoon can be treated just like any other animal then?
I think raccoon #### can carry a parasite which can cause blindness or worse. A recent news story warned parents "not to let their kids eat raccoon ####" (gee that kinda ruins a fun time ?).
Dogs and cats may carry Toxoplasmosis on their coats, and by petting them you can transfer the eggs your hands, then to your eyes. Causes blindness if not treated quickly. Dust in chicken and turkey houses may carry it also. So can under cooked meat.
I lost some of the peripheral vision in my right eye from it. Nasty stuff...
That why your against dogs in the house?
I don't allow anybody in the house that can lick their own junk and drink outta the terlit...
I don't allow anybody in the house that can lick their own junk
I can, but choose not to. Can I come in?http://www.quittintime.com/ View Image
Only if you bring the beer...and wipe yer paws....
That's rough.
Isn't toxoplasmosis the reason why you are supposed to keep kitty litter trays and babies apart?
That and other parasites carried by pets that have close contact with humans. Kids may also be affected by Toxo/histoplasmosis through mothers milk, and may be infected at the time of birth by mothers fecal matter carrying the eggs.
It's a nasty disease that should make people think twice about letting animals inhabit their homes...
Histoplasmosis is exceedingly common in the Ohio River valley and for the most part is a benign illness that most people get who live there and pass it off as the flu or a cold. Only once in awhile is it disseminated and cause a problem.You can even play a smart trick on them by telling them where they grew up by looking at their chest x-ray or KUB because of the typical calcifications.
My lung heart doc did exactly that .
Only missed a bit because I grew up in Cleveland area.
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
don't know about raccoons ... I'm still avoiding any facts about squirrels ....
spent the last coupla weeks doing soffit repair on a house with a squirrel infestation
set up ladder ... insert prybar ... turn head and look away ... and pull!
then choke and cough as we're now covered in 100 yr old house soot and squirrel nest material ... some of which ... I'd assume ... to be ... uh ... pellets?
yeach.
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Youre doin my kind of work now instead of somebodies kitchen.
I always throw in as much dirt as I can thru out the year to remind me not to complain when I'm doing those kitchens!
Got this siding job as everyone else they called, all siding companies, had no clue how to fix the soffits and overhangs ... one guy said it scared him!
I told them .... I don't scare easy ...
they asked how I was gonna fix it ... I said we'd all know for sure after I got up there and tore it apart! But said it's in the bid ... so I'd better find a way that's fairly fast!
I did. (opened up the box gutter overhangs from below, didn't disturb the now not leaking gutters ... and rebuilt it surgically from the inside out, top down. All sealed up looks real nice ... )
still ain't scared ...
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Just had 5 15yard dumpsters taken out of this house. Minimum of 1 foot of trash covering every area of the floor in the house. Not done yet.
That was pretty much just the garage and one car size workshop that had 3 to 4 foot high trash stacked in there.
Three sofas, bunch of chairs fridge and stove, all smashed down tight with a backhoe. I'm thinking two more dumpsters before it's done.
Shoulda seen the size of the racoon turds. That was one big boy. Glad the owner volunteered to take care of that.
Poor guy who owned the house had a mental problem and just couldn't throw anything away. Sad.
Yeah, my dad had a secretary like that. She could dress to the nines, and did impeccable work, but her home was a literal garbage pit.Finally she developed more serious psychoses and my dad had to help get her into some sort of "facility".
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith
it's always a shame to see big raccoon turds get thrown out like that ....
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
yep, museum quality they were.
Maybe it was from all the foamboard they'd been munching on.
Or maybe they just had a system shock that propelled an oversized out when they did a chew on the live wiring.
I knew it was live when I cracked the fridge door a hair to take a peek. Curiousity ya know. The little light went on in there.
Could see a piled on blackened box of leftover Chinese carryout try to cascade out the door before I was able to get it shut.
Duck taped the doors shut and dragged it out to where the backhoe lifted it to it's coffin and fitted it well with the bucket.
chickaboom chickaboom, don't ya just love it
nope IMERC, this place I want no part of
that may be sad but there had to have been some good stuff in there...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
well, I lied. Remember this shed?
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Moved a carpet and underneath was a slew of nice paquet flooring squares.
The adhesive was nonexistant and I got to thinking about adding some windows and turning the dome shed into a cottage that could use a floor.
be floored
certainly do....
so where's the windows and beer frige...
skip the carpet..... eaier to clean up without it...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
I meant the sad house deal I'm renovating had the carpet with the parquet under it.
Decided to salvage the squares for the shed.
but there's no mention of the beer fridge....
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
raccoons ...
here ay go!
http://icwdm.org/diseases/raccoonroundworm.asp Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Damn!
I don't know about doing all this now.
be second guessing.
but rez...
the list just keeps getting longer...
the good the bad and the ugly....
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
Rez is this your property or a job site?If you don't want to do it, call a wildlife management company in your area. State fish and game might be of help with this.It is spendy can't remember exactly but I think total bill was 480.00, 200.00 or so was clean up. He charged by the raccoon for eradication. We had 5 or 7.I never checked but he said in our state relocation is not allowed. I called a volunteer group for advice they did not call back for several days so I called Dave. After a bit the volunteer group called back and got irate with me that I called in someone to trap and exterminate, cute little raccoons and all that. Have them live in your attic then is what I felt like telling her.Dave also said they have good memories if you relocate them they can find their way back.Wallyo
"Dave also said they have good memories if you relocate them they can find their way back."
blindfold'em ;0)
I'm not flippin' you off.........just counting cubits
Big project of which raccoon f-e-c-e-s
is only a little part.
be a bit part
racoon.... nope...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
I think it was bear . . . . in the woods
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MANY Studies have shown.....
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"After the laws of Physics, everything else is opinion" -Neil deGrasse Tyson
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If Pasta and Antipasta meet is it the end of the Universe???
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according to statistical analysis, "for some time now, bears apparently have been going to the bathroom in the woods."
yeah, but has anyone ever heard them ?.
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.Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
Hanta virus....as in rodents?
I'm not flippin' you off.........just counting cubits
Rez
Good question we had raccoons in the attic of a rental, hired a wild life control expert to get rid of them. Aside form the possibility of rabies, ticks fleas, I was told by him that the #### can contain intestinal worm eggs. He also said the eggs can be viable to hatch for a period of up to 5 years. So even if you are dealing with old #### you must take precautions in removal. Correct mask, disposable suits, gloves, bleach etc. as precautions so as not to inhale or digestion the eggs yourself.
One thing is raccoons tend to use a community latrine there may be several latrines but it makes things a bit easier to deal with.
Wallyo
They all do. Raccoons are known for carrying some sort of intestinal parasite, I believe. Bats, a lung fungus and, of course, rabies. And humans are probably the worst of all.
cute little bunnies too. Landscapers with their leaf blowers getting disease via respatory system.
I don't think I'm going too far out on a limb when I say it's a pretty solid rule to keep all species' turds away from your face.
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>>>I don't think I'm going too far out on a limb when I say it's a pretty solid rule to keep all species' turds away from your face.>>>Great. NOW you tell me.
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deer mouse...
hauntivirus...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I takes no chances so i always tastetest what pellets i sees to identify the species..
This is the only surefire way to really find out!!!.
Rather surprized no one mentioned this method already!!!
I tell my boy that all the time ...
so far he's smart enough to not fall for it.
just last night a coupla the kids were looking at an ant that made it's say into the karate school and under the seats ... all the boys were gathered around looking at it ...
I asked one "what kinda any is it?"
he said "I dunno" ..
so I told him to taste it to find out.
again ... no such luck.
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
I think a little dirt and poop is good for you, builds up your defense, One time a whole bunch of us drank from a stream and everybody got super sick sept me, I think there was a rotting elk upstream, But i had built up my immune system by drinking from puddles and old flower pots and muddy lakes!!!!!
that's the theory I try to follow ...
I grew up tearing down plaster/lath ceilings in row houses a stones throw from the mill. Generation after generation of E European families living on top of each other there ... 100+ yr old buildings ... plus all the mill polution.
Figured by age 12 I had the lungs of a 40 yr old coal miner. Had to have eaten at least a pound of black plague laden dust ...
and for the most part ... I don't get sick. Never had the flu , am usually the last to catch any other bug that's going around .... of everyone else is down for 2 to 3 weeks it'll be one solid week before I'm back to 99%.
Figure all my homegrown toxins kill what ever else tries to attack their host!
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
It's the yeast sediment at the bottom of the beer bottle that gives you strength!
after 6 or 8 it certainly feels like it!
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Hey Chebordinek, what dat ?....You are always welcome at Quittintime
new Jeopardy category....................."Guess the Species by the ####"
.................I'll take Taste, Smell or Feel for $500.00........................
I'm not flippin' you off.........just counting cubits
oh, man........................now they block out f-e-c-e-s......what kind of shid is this?
I'm not flippin' you off.........just counting cubits
I say poop or poopie
I say poop or poopie
Say it again. I like it when you talk dirty.http://www.quittintime.com/ View Image
The Grizzly poo tastes like pepper spray...AitchKay
And has little bells in it.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith
I like to take people for a walk in the woods at my place in North Carolina. I'll see some deer pellets and call them Carolina Smart Berries....."here have one." The response..."this tastes like s###""Yeah, see you're smarter already"
I think the coons are a lot more dangerous than their droppings.
it's pigeons.... can be deadly
The raccoon roundworm parasite is Baylisascaris procyonis. Roundworms produce thousands of eggs because of the low likelyhood of any one of them finding the next host to infect. In a human, the eggs do not develop beyond the larval stage. The problem is they wander through the tissues of this host they are not adapted to. The further problem is they like neural tissues and especially in young children can cause severe neurological problems. A fecal fragment the size of an M&M candy can contain 40,000 eggs.
Proper removal, for the #### of just about any species, (if you have the space / access), is to saturate it with a mixture of one part chlorox, or other 5% hypochlorite bleach, 8 parts water, and a teaspoon of dish washing soap. Which is a cup of bleach, and two gallons of water, just the right amount to fill a small pressure sprayer. The resulting solution is about 750 to 800 part per million of available chlorine. Water systems are "shocked", to sanitize them, at 50 parts per million.
You need to let it set for five to ten minutes so the bleach can kill things, then clean it up wearing rubber gloves, respirator, and eye protection. Use good practices to remove the safety gear.
I know this will kill the viruses, bacteria, molds, and fungus. Round worm, or tape worm eggs might be resistant, but 800-ppm will probably destroy them also.
If you do a web search for "cdc hantavirus" you will get some hits to instructions on how to clean up mouse nests. The safety precautions for that apply.