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"Alan" wrote:

Hi,

Hope someone can help.

I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a
location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem
letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about
disease.

Decomposing naturally means, maggots will invade and then eventually
hatch into flies. You will be inundated with both.

Roland