Dear Editor:
Re: Raccoons not a city issue, Letters to the editor, Burnaby NOW, Oct. 15.
There was a letter to the editor that recommended mothballs in the garden as a deterrent to raccoons. This is an absolutely wrong recommendation.
Several years ago, a neighbour came rushing to my house and asked me to take her dog to the vets. He had become suddenly violently ill. I carefully lifted the dog into my car and rushed to the vet. Then I returned to her backyard and checked around. An earlier renter had put mothballs around the perimeter of the backyard.
Unfortunately, the dog died a very painful death. Mothballs are poisonous and should never be used.
Norma Vachet, Burnaby
