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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The good part is they're insectivores, and love to eat bugs. But the barking would be an issue, and NYC isn't exactly gecko climate.
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True, that. And yes--I had a friend that lives on the island one over from Guadeloupe--can never remember the damn name--and she has a gecko for this very purpose, wild-ass bug control. While most of her neighbors hear that horrid "cockroach slither" at night--she doesn't. She feels that the barking is a small price to pay. We have to have professional pest control here, for termites. Constantly. And ladies and gents, lemme tell you--ain't cheap. Thousands per year. {sigh}
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The Victor Quick Kill traps look like a decent option. The glue traps are what the exterminator under contract to my building supplies. (And are preferable to the old style mouse traps, where the challenge is cocking them and placing them without trapping a finger. The mice often prove adept at getting the bait without setting off the trap, too.).
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Yes. When we were building the house in Wyoming, those small field mice (unlike NY mice by a factor of 50% and then some) would try to smuggle their relatives across the border nightly. Major hassle. As nobody was living there full-time, a cat was not an option. Traps were the only option while someone was there, and it's true that they are remarkable at figuring out how to get the bait, and NOT get caught.
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While I suppose they'd work, glue traps aren't what I'd use to control snakes. I'd hire a pro.
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I don't actually believe that there is any type of prophylactic snake-exterminating that can be done, and when you live where we do, getting a pro to come out and dispose of a snake you've caught...well, it's beyond "pricey." You can, if you have time, etc., free a snake from a glueboard with oil, which is what I'd do. Otherwise, she'd throw the poor creature into her TRASH bin (the outdoor one that the trash contractor picks up), and let him SIT there, stuck to the glue board, for, what, weeks? While the snake--which can live remarkably long sans sustenance--would suffer? No, no...horrid.
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(A former co-worker once worked in a pet store. He talked about the fact that they sold rabbits, and he'd sometimes come in in the morning to discover he had less than when he locked up the previous night. He finally realized he knew what had become of the python that had gone walkabout some time previously. It had found a hole in the wall to slither into, emerging when it wanted a meal. He was able to locate the hole and retrieve the snake, and place it in a tank it couldn't get out of this time...  )
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Dennis
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Oh, dear. I had a King snake that escaped from his terrarium, when I was a teen. My dad had a THING about snakes, and I'm not sure he spoke to me for months. We never did find him, mind you...although, this was another very rural home, that had garter snakes a plenty (they'd get into the house all the time. I was the designated garter snake catcher and releaser), mice everywhere (cats thought that they were in Kitty Heaven), etc. It's true that we did see a remarkable decrease in the mouse population for a year or so while he must have grown into his more-adult size and shape, and then he seemed to move on. Eventually, my Dad started speaking to me again.
Hitch