Home Fumigation

[alessia55]

In August we will have the inside of our house fumigated. Our cats will be boarded, and my puppy will stay at a friend's house or at a hotel with us. It will take 2-3 days before we can enter the house again. The tough question is... what to do with my snakes...???

I can put them in tubs for the weekend and take heat mats, thermostat, etc, with me. But I can't move their cages. They are HEAVY. Even between my dad and I we struggle to just lift it off the table. And we would have no where to put them outside the house.

Assuming they fumigate my house with the cages indoors, would they be OK if I thoroughly clean them before putting them back in? What do you guys suggest I do? What precautions can I take? I can try and bag the cages to try and protect them from the fumigation. Any ideas?

[Gungirl]

I would empty the cages ( take out sub-straight, hides ) and just leave them be. When you get home clean them and rinse them well. I would think that would be fine.

[infernalis]

i would empty the cages ( take out sub-straight, hides ) and just leave them be. When you get home clean them and rinse them well. I would think that would be fine.


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[BarelyBreathing]

What Kat said. Also, take masking tape and seal the doors and any air vents to prevent fumes from seeping in.

[Snakefood]

shrink wrap em!! LOL, or just do what everyone else said!! as long as they are rinsed really well, they should be fine!!

[jennuhkins]

yea i was thinking that she should cover them really well with shrink wrap or something of that sort but idea already has been said lol

[alessia55]

How can I shrink wrap the cages?

[Snakefood]

well I`m no expert but I think you just wrap them in shrink wrap and that seals to itself.

anyone with experience out there to give input??

[jaleely]

I think a good clean to an emptied out tank would be sufficient, after : ) I've heard (but would def clean just to be safe of course) that a lot of that fumigation stuff dissipates and hardly leaves a residue.

[MrBD1980]

Although it may be a bit laborious I imagine that if they were wrapped in cling film to seal them that would be a sure fire method...

[LISA127]

why is the house being fumigated?

[snake man12]

For bugs or mites or fleas it could be any number of pests

[Jay]

Go buy a couple hundred feet of cellophane and just wrap it up over and over again.

[KORBIN5895]

She can't wrap it if she can't lift it. Don't you have boaphiles? Why are these so heavy?

[Gungirl]

Don't waste your time wrapping them up or trying to tape them shut and seal them. Just wash them REALLY well when you get home and leave it be. Wrapping them and taping them will just make more work for you. No matter how you "seal" them you will still have to clean them super well due to not knowing if any or how much chemicals got into them.

[alessia55]

Ok I'm just going to leave them be then. Thanks guys!

[LISA127]

For bugs or mites or fleas it could be any number of pests

My point is, fumigation is not safe for anyone whether human or animal. I wouldn't do it lightly for any reason. Personally, the only situation I would fumigate my house for would be bed bugs or cockroaches. Other than that, it's not necessary and there are other methods of control.

[Pareeeee]

My point is, fumigation is not safe for anyone whether human or animal. I wouldn't do it lightly for any reason. Personally, the only situation I would fumigate my house for would be bed bugs or cockroaches. Other than that, it's not necessary and there are other methods of control.

Agreed.

Anyway, what I would do if I had no access to shrink-wrap I would cut big green-garbage bags into giant sheets and tape them down to each other so fewer fumes would get into the tank = easier cleaning. Also remove all decorations etc out of the tanks. I dunno, maybe that wouldn't work.

[alessia55]

My point is, fumigation is not safe for anyone whether human or animal. I wouldn't do it lightly for any reason. Personally, the only situation I would fumigate my house for would be bed bugs or cockroaches. Other than that, it's not necessary and there are other methods of control.

We have cockroaches and bees. We've tried everything else in the past 6 months.

[jaleely]

What gungirl said. Shrinkwrapping would not only just make more work for you, and i know you'd clean it out after no matter what, but i would think it would make it worse, since the shrink wrap is not vent proof, it would perhaps trap more chemicals inside it that would take longer to dissipate.

You can bleach it, vinegar it, then spray it with f10, and go from there. : )

[alessia55]

So the bee guy came today. We have a huge hive in part of the roof above one room. There are approximately 20,000 bees.
About 3,000 of them have come down and gathered on a window... The bee guy took this photo for me

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/548035_3551443500372_844132716_n.jpg

[alessia55]

Unfortunately he can't relocate them (and the queen bee has died), so he will be exterminating all of them :(

[alessia55]

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/534597_3551752228090_1809374791_n.jpg

[lady_bug87]

O my goodness I would have a nervous breakdown

[jaleely]

Okay...that is...horrible...*lol*
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