REALLY Gross(Caution)
 I waited till the next day and it was still there so I asked Randy to go over and see if she wants him to dispose of it. We be nice neighbors. She was grateful because she doesn't like to pick up dead animals. So we both watched as he put it in a "plastic" garbage bag. Now what? The garbage was just picked up that morning and the city dump was closed for the day. I told dh to put it by the side of the house and as I was off the next day I would take it to the dump. Dh put it by the side of the driveway(I can still smell it). I went out this morning to put it in a bucket to take to the dump. It, the plastic bag was covered with lice. There had to be millions, and thats just the ones I could see(getting a little itchy?) I went back in to get bug spray. There wasn't a lot in the can but I emptied it and then went and bought some more. With a stick(really long stick) I picked up the portion of the bag that was laying on the driveway and guess what...millions more. Good thing I went and bought more spray. I went through most of that can. Waited for a while for the lice to die, went and got another plastic bag and put this one lining a five gallon bucket and sprayed that and put on plastic gloves and put the other bag inside that and tied it tight. Threw it into the back of my SUV and broke all speed limits getting to the dump(about three miles away), asked the attendant where to dump dead bodies(he chuckled), hauled it back out and threw bucket and all into the dumpster. I'm still itchy. |
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| Lice or maggots? Blow fly will hit a dead animal within minutes and begin egg laying. Gestation is very brief before the maggot appear. Personally I would have dug a hole and buried the creature. Have done that on the road right of way when cats or other small animals have been killed. Doesn't have to be six feet down, just enought to discourage other animals from digging it up. Waiting a full week for trash pickup with a dead animal is just too yucky to contemplate. |
| ewwww! that is really nasty. Good thing none of the dogs got in it - that would have been the trouble/worry at my house!  |
| You're right Susan, it was maggots. I used the wrong word. Dawn, it was in the front of the house where the dogs couldn't get it. |
I was telling Todd about it, and he laughed about the part where do the dead bodies go? -  I bet that really really was smelling in this heat...... |
If you are in an area with animal control, they will come and take the body.....goes to the same place, the dump. As for the maggots on the driveway.......the birds in your area mourn the lost meal. If you had chickens you could have scooped the maggot up with a shovel and taken them to the birds. Oh, the funny sound chickens make when an extra special treat is given them  So are still entitled to the itchies afterward. |
| Eeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. I would have to call hubby home to take care of the maggots too. Tim actually refers to himself as Marlin Perkins in our house and I am Jim, standing safely on the sidelines (or in the house) in our many reenactments of Mutual of Omahas Wild Kingdom throughout the years. |
| I found a dead bird covered in maggots in the driveway yesterday, too! I just double bagged him and tossed him in the trash but your problem is a bit bigger. |
| Ewwwwww yuk, yuk, yuk!! You are VERY good neighbours, I wont pick up dead things either. Kind of silly!!! I spent 8 hours a week for two years dissecting cadavers when I studied but they were preserved no maggots or gross slimey stuff. |
Mim wrote: I spent 8 hours a week for two years dissecting cadavers when I studied but they were preserved ...those college frat boys do drink a lot...but calling them cadavers? |
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