en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/698158 Comments by Trish http://www.trishparr.com/what-animal-eats-impatiens-only/#IDComment858303219 Hi Dib, just checked to see if you'd have opossum in El Cerrito, United States, and yes you do. If you watch around three o'clock AM, you're sure to see the little critter eating your impatiens. Yup, it's an opossum alright, and Oakland critter control will help you get rid of them, just call 1-800-CRITTER. Thank you for commenting. Hope they'll catch that nasty, little critter before all your blossoms are gone. Sat, 26 Jul 2014 20:00:09 +0000 http://www.trishparr.com/what-animal-eats-impatiens-only/#IDComment858303219 http://www.trishparr.com/nuggets-memorial/#IDComment854751011 Thank YOU Brigitte, you are an angel yourself. You were so very helpful in calming me when he took his turn for the worse, and because you shared info with me, he had a calmer caregiver. I shall be eternally grateful to you {{{HUGS}}} Thu, 17 Jul 2014 03:11:40 +0000 http://www.trishparr.com/nuggets-memorial/#IDComment854751011 http://www.trishparr.com/nuggets-memorial/#IDComment854429189 Nugget cared for you a LOT Karen, of that I know. Thank YOU for being there for us BOTH {{{HUGS!}}} Wed, 16 Jul 2014 03:27:10 +0000 http://www.trishparr.com/nuggets-memorial/#IDComment854429189 http://www.trishparr.com/nuggets-memorial/#IDComment854428828 {{{HUGS!}}} Thank YOU Karen. I look forward to the day I will hold him in my arms once again, and give him a big hug like I used to. Wed, 16 Jul 2014 03:25:25 +0000 http://www.trishparr.com/nuggets-memorial/#IDComment854428828 http://www.trishparr.com/nuggets-memorial/#IDComment854428621 I bet you will see a little of Rascal in ever Shih Tzu from now on Monte. With me, it will always be my little man Nugget. Wed, 16 Jul 2014 03:24:31 +0000 http://www.trishparr.com/nuggets-memorial/#IDComment854428621 http://www.trishparr.com/nuggets-memorial/#IDComment854427991 Well said, Thank YOU Shaun. Wed, 16 Jul 2014 03:21:38 +0000 http://www.trishparr.com/nuggets-memorial/#IDComment854427991 http://www.trishparr.com/my-crystal-palace-22-dec-2013/#IDComment854055229 Luck you Mohammed. Nice to have neighbours who care about their property. I'm as fortunate as you are. My neighbours came to my back yard in the spring and cleaned up all the branches. I only had to clean up the smaller broken branches that easily fit into paper bags along with the leaves that accumulated over the autumn. My garage roof suffered 3 holes and they too were fixed in the spring for only $300, so I consider my self VERY fortunate. I have yet to fix up the damages done to my fence, but that too will get done soon. Thank YOU for dropping by and commenting Mohammed, hope you'll stop in regularly. Mon, 14 Jul 2014 21:28:07 +0000 http://www.trishparr.com/my-crystal-palace-22-dec-2013/#IDComment854055229 http://www.trishparr.com/3-spices-claim-to-help-you-lose-weight/#IDComment854054356 Hi Maria, I use cinnamon on my breakfast cereal, but PLEASE review the warning I posted above before using cinnamon on a regular basis, I STILL have yet to start taking cumin, however, I'm sure Dr. Oz's website offers a few suggestions for usage, and the fennel seed I eat straight up as a breath freshener :-). Mon, 14 Jul 2014 21:23:58 +0000 http://www.trishparr.com/3-spices-claim-to-help-you-lose-weight/#IDComment854054356 http://www.trishparr.com/what-animal-eats-impatiens-only/#IDComment840521157 Hi Annette, if you ever find a potion to keep these critters away from your garden PLEASE, come back here and share with all of us here? So far, I can find no way of even capturing them outside Douglas Allen’s method... and his method I'm to fearful of using for fear a cat... or worse, my little Chihuahua-mix, being trapped in that nasty rat trap. Mon, 9 Jun 2014 00:40:08 +0000 http://www.trishparr.com/what-animal-eats-impatiens-only/#IDComment840521157 http://www.trishparr.com/what-animal-eats-impatiens-only/#IDComment838455637 Hi mar, some local vendors are calling it a blight, but I still believe it is the work of opossums, as I explained to Pen yesterday (comment above). I quit planting impatiens last year yet had opossums ruin some of my perennial blossoms when they found no impatiens to eat. This spring, I lost about 4" of new growth of a beautiful poppy that had survived the nasty winter we finished experiencing this April. New growth has NOT come back since, and yes, that too I am blaming on opossums as NOTHING touched my gardens before the population boom seen in opossums here in the GTA. Coyotes are even trespassing into our city parks during daylight hours looking for food. One was spotted at 1:30PM on the first of June. Coyote love to eat opossums! Tue, 3 Jun 2014 16:29:26 +0000 http://www.trishparr.com/what-animal-eats-impatiens-only/#IDComment838455637 http://www.trishparr.com/3-spices-claim-to-help-you-lose-weight/#IDComment837795101 Eating right really works wonders, doesn't it A. Anwen? Thank YOU for commenting! Sun, 1 Jun 2014 18:16:39 +0000 http://www.trishparr.com/3-spices-claim-to-help-you-lose-weight/#IDComment837795101 http://www.trishparr.com/my-crystal-palace-22-dec-2013/#IDComment837793584 Thank you for dropping by and commenting Bec. It was scary to witness, and pricy to recover from. Luckily, it has cost me only about $4,200 out-of-pocket (so far) to repair damages done. Other property owner's suffered much worse than I did. Sun, 1 Jun 2014 18:10:12 +0000 http://www.trishparr.com/my-crystal-palace-22-dec-2013/#IDComment837793584 http://www.trishparr.com/what-animal-eats-impatiens-only/#IDComment837792551 If it makes you feel any better (though it wouldn't me), many professional gardeners are warning us NOT to plant impatiens this year due to a blight ...though my money is STILL on the opossum eating them. Many city dwellers are totally unaware of the recent population-boom of the opossums within the GTA. We've even got a resident coyote in Centennial Park on Ritson Road North in Oshawa now. After having been spotted in this park by a friend yesterday, I've just learned that he's been around since last year ...AND there was an incident with him last year, go figure. Sun, 1 Jun 2014 18:05:47 +0000 http://www.trishparr.com/what-animal-eats-impatiens-only/#IDComment837792551 http://www.trishparr.com/what-animal-eats-impatiens-only/#IDComment837788278 I hear ya' Jason, and those pesky little vermin love other flowers too. One ate a beautiful poppy that was springing out of the ground with new shoots after such a nasty winter. I'm STILL waiting to see it return with new shoots. Then I plan to put a cage type of apparatus around it to see if opossum are STILL attracted to it. If so, it too will have to go :-( Raccoons do NOT eat flowers opossum do. I'm so upset with this vermin that I've been tempted to try Douglas Allen's idea... though still reluctant to try in case any other animal got trapped. Sun, 1 Jun 2014 17:48:32 +0000 http://www.trishparr.com/what-animal-eats-impatiens-only/#IDComment837788278 http://www.trishparr.com/are-you-poisoning-your-pet/#IDComment830238822 You're very welcome Richard! Wed, 14 May 2014 13:43:11 +0000 http://www.trishparr.com/are-you-poisoning-your-pet/#IDComment830238822 http://www.trishparr.com/about/#IDComment830237905 True, SH logo design! Wed, 14 May 2014 13:39:54 +0000 http://www.trishparr.com/about/#IDComment830237905 http://www.trishparr.com/is-ontarios-hydro-services-ripping-you-off/#IDComment820293116 It certainly makes one wonder, doesn't it Norm. The government's lack of care in cleaning this mess up is not very comforting either. Thank you for expressing your opinion. Mucho' appreciated! Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:12:05 +0000 http://www.trishparr.com/is-ontarios-hydro-services-ripping-you-off/#IDComment820293116 http://www.trishparr.com/revolution-the-truth-why-you-should-not-use-this-on-your-dog/#IDComment814294716 You're very welcome Christopher. I shared this in hope of preventing another pet suffering from the toxins in this and similar products. Sat, 5 Apr 2014 15:12:02 +0000 http://www.trishparr.com/revolution-the-truth-why-you-should-not-use-this-on-your-dog/#IDComment814294716 http://www.trishparr.com/is-ontarios-hydro-services-ripping-you-off/#IDComment814291926 Hi Arlene, Get the meter changed NOW; Do NOT wait! Your hydro provider should be able to tell you what your cost will be. I think it was only $85 for Oshawa, but that price may differ between hydro providers. If you wait, your costs will definitely be amplified and you will be stuck, like me, trying to prove the metering of your usage as faulty. Save yourself a MAJOR fight for reimbursement of unfair charges and get the meter changed now. Have you downloaded my free spreadsheet and entered ALL of your information from all your past hydro bills so you can see for yourself, how high your provider claims your usage is? If not, do yourself a favour and do that a.s.a.p. Sat, 5 Apr 2014 15:00:36 +0000 http://www.trishparr.com/is-ontarios-hydro-services-ripping-you-off/#IDComment814291926 http://www.trishparr.com/two-ingredient-gluten-free-pancakes/#IDComment797730723 Thanks Brigitte, and it's better to know I am GMO intolerant than be made believe I have a gluten intolerance, as many doctors are STILL claiming their patients are. Sun, 23 Feb 2014 23:22:46 +0000 http://www.trishparr.com/two-ingredient-gluten-free-pancakes/#IDComment797730723