Grannyknot
Well-Known Member
My neighbor pays some ungodly sum of money every year to a pest control company to come and spray outside their house for mosquitos. We live in an old neighborhood, houses are anywhere between 70-100 feet apart. Normally, they do it with backpack sprayers that have a little hand pump and wand attachment. They also do a termite treatment around the perimeter of their house on occasion. I've often wondered about the runoff of the termite treatment into our small vegetable garden, which lies downhill from their house, but just chocked that up to my stupidity of putting the garden there. But today's events really made me question the legalities of what happened.
Apparently their pest control company has upgraded and now uses a tank which attaches to a backpack leaf blower, and can blow a fog of mosquito spray a good 20 feet. Two men were spraying up into the trees near there house and wandered over to a small grove of trees between our houses and sprayed them for a good 30 seconds. Our dog happened to be tied up to our side of one of the trees, and most definately got fogged.
So not only do I have to question what this does to our dog healthwise, but we also have a 2 year old that plays over there, and my wife is pregnant.
I'm wondering if anyone has ever heard of a city ordinance that relates to pest control. I looked through the city website but really couldn't find anything.
Thanks.
Apparently their pest control company has upgraded and now uses a tank which attaches to a backpack leaf blower, and can blow a fog of mosquito spray a good 20 feet. Two men were spraying up into the trees near there house and wandered over to a small grove of trees between our houses and sprayed them for a good 30 seconds. Our dog happened to be tied up to our side of one of the trees, and most definately got fogged.
So not only do I have to question what this does to our dog healthwise, but we also have a 2 year old that plays over there, and my wife is pregnant.
I'm wondering if anyone has ever heard of a city ordinance that relates to pest control. I looked through the city website but really couldn't find anything.
Thanks.