Oh my Dear God!!!

I turned the lights off, for the first time in quite a while just to nap/sleep whitout lights. It has been so long, I am so tired. Just to sleep in dark is sublime. Roaches everywhere in my cats food when I turned the lights back on, the lights will never go off again.
Big nasty ones, poor kitty she was eating and they were hiding under her after I came in to kill!!! She has no instinct to kill tese ones, and I am glad, disease ridden things
It is all out war now, nuclear weapons, gimme. Thermonuclear war, oh wait, those little s can survive that.

Wow - this made me think - what would I have done in NY if I had cats then?

I found this: http://www.grist.org/article/roaches/

OK - after reading further, I think the boric acid should definitely NOT be used. But here's a NYC-something thread on the subject: http://community.livejournal.com/new...s/3846650.html

This makes sense - blocking up the cracks and areas where pipes come in and such...something maybe you can work on for a couple of hours each weekend or something?

I would be moving.

Originally Posted by Trouts mom

I would be moving.

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Not an option.
I have moved the cat food from by the fridge, a hiding spot for them to scurry away too fast for me to stomp and them get a feast, to near my window, which is by my bed, this makes me nervous, but they have not found it... yet.
Blocking the cracks in the pipes, LOL LOL, I would have better luck with world peace!
So I live with them, I hate them, And I would really like to sleep with the lights off. Circidain rythem,(SP)what is that? I have no sleep pattern anymore, it is bad. I have no night and day to guide me. My light are always on, non stop. There are Four lights!!! (or is it 5?) Sorry, a brief Trek break from sanity.

Originally Posted by Trouts mom

I would be moving.

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So would I......that's for sure..I am lucky, I have never actually seen a cockroach outside of tv, a book or the giant ones they have on display at Science North.

i've heard this mentioned many times on the internet: Diatomaceous earth for roach killing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatoma...h#Pest_control

But 2 things I need to say:

1. I've never used it

2. I don't know if it's safe around cats and other mammals

If you are in a building with other apartments, there's nothing you can do unless you move. If anybody in the building leaves food out, roaches infest the building.

When I was young I lived in a place that had roaches in Austin, ugh, it was pretty bad. They would scatter when I turned on the light in the bathroom. But I loved the apartment 'cause I was putting myself through school and working and it was my first apartment by myself. No crazy roommates. No human roommates.

Hang in there, until you can move.

Originally Posted by c1atsite

i've heard this mentioned many times on the internet: Diatomaceous earth for roach killing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatoma...h#Pest_control

But 2 things I need to say:

1. I've never used it

2. I don't know if it's safe around cats and other mammals

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Its safe as long as you get food grade. I put it out for my chickens to dust bathe in.

Years ago my husband and I moved into a rental that had them. We used a combination of borax, roach hotels and a gel squeezed into cracks and such. It took a little while but we got rid of the nasty things.

Eek! I haven't seen any in our new house, but my in-laws had them in their house (not infested though, just one or two here and there). I opened the cabinet to get a plate once, and there was a roach sitting on it, ugh. Nero played with one to the death once flinging it all over and stomping on it. Rob and I also had one crawl on us in our sleep when we lived there - he grabbed it and flung it across the room while staying in bed, but I certainly couldn't sleep after that. We tried the Borax stuff but moved out shortly after anyway!

You could try not leaving your cat's food out at all times. But, then again, I still don't think that I could sleep knowing that roaches were there.

Get the Combat or better yet "Max Force" gel. Squeeze it out onto cardboard squares and slide them under the fridge and stove, etc. Squeeze a line along the tops of the door frames, etc---anywhere your cat can't access. This will attract them, they will die and when the roaches feed on the carcasses of their comrades they will die, and the cycle continues. Roach gel is the gift that keeps on giving!

Good luck.

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Get the Combat or better yet "Max Force" gel. Squeeze it out onto cardboard squares and slide them under the fridge and stove, etc. Squeeze a line along the tops of the door frames, etc---anywhere your cat can't access. This will attract them, they will die and when the roaches feed on the carcasses of their comrades they will die, and the cycle continues. Roach gel is the gift that keeps on giving!

Good luck.

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Great idea. I was going to suggest getting that sticky paper that will trap them when they crawl on it, and placing that under the fridge and under the kitchen sink, and other dark places where they might be hiding during the day. But roach gel sounds better.

I couldn't stand not doing anything. I would have to do something even if it wasn't totally effective.

watch over your food kitty always... clean daily her bowls...

If you refuse to move then you should at least invest in a sleeping mask if you haven't already. It will make sleeping with the lights on so much easier.


There is always another option. I'm still wondering why you haven't attempted to take your landlord to court.

Originally Posted by Trouts mom

I would be moving.

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Me too!! I am scared to death of roaches!!!!!!!

Our roaches are all outside.
Here though they go by the much less fear inspiring name of Palmetto bug or water bug.
But they are still Periplaneta americana, the American cockroach.
They are huge and can fly, and extremely fast.
I caught one once thinking great, a free food source for my tarantula, but she won't touch them.
When I tend bar here in the summer, we have to do a 'roach patrol' every evening before we open , sweeping out the dead and dying bugs so as not to freak out customers.
I have no clue why they run inside to die.

I don't understand why you can't move?

It is unsuitable living conditions, and needs to be reported to the landlord tribunal asap.

There is no effin way I would live in that.

Originally Posted by Trouts mom

I don't understand why you can't move?

It is unsuitable living conditions, and needs to be reported to the landlord tribunal asap.

There is no effin way I would live in that.

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I cant move because I dont have the money to do so
I found the nest, at least in my place today, under my fridge, It has scared me, for good reason. I knew they were under there, moving the fridge and doing so is hard icky work, I did it today scared of all heck of the bugs. About 50 roaches scampered from everywhere, I was armed with spray to get them, a mix of soad that stbp them, but that was beyond just bad as bad can be.

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I was armed with spray to get them, a mix of soad that stbp them, but that was beyond just bad as bad can be.

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yeah, sounds bad. did you have a heavy shoe to squash them? you can squash them while screaming "die! die! die!"

If there was a nest, there are likely egg casings all over--within the components of the fridge and other appliances as well. I will again suggest getting some Combat or Max Force gelbait and putting blobs of that on some cardboard and sliding those under the appliances, inside cabinets, on door facings etc. That will kill the babies that will be hatching.

A $7-14 tube of bait lasts a long time, and may actually enable you to sleep with the lights off in a few weeks.