Help. Racoons at my garbage as I leave it outside for pick up tomorrow. Anything

[applegrove]

I can do to stop the critters? I chased them away once already.

[valerief]

1. Call a cop and have him tase them. nt

[applegrove]

2. LOL!

[valerief]

4. Might as well put those tasers to good use instead of them zapping old ladies and kids. nt

[Kaleva]

3. Put the garbage out tomorrow.

[Hawkeye-X]

5. Speaking of garbages - I had to haul a grapevine and a old bush

to the curb - it is a lot of work, and of course, it's cut down for kindling for anyone who wants to swing by and get 'em.

Hawkeye-X

[realisticphish]

6. yeah...

not much you can do, aside from waking up super early to put it out then.

Raccoons are good at getting around pretty much any barrier

[emilyg]

7. Put some cat or dog

food out for it. It will leave your garbage alone.

[MilesColtrane]

8. My aunt had a midnight marauder in her trash recently so she had her son...

set a trap.

The result?

"Herzog" a young albino raccoon who was looking for noms in the wrong places.






Whitey Herzog was sent to an animal rehab center where he'll be among about 30 other coons who are living the high life, not having to worry about their next meal.

[The Midway Rebel]

9. Far out! Looks like an opossum at first glance.

I have seen albino skunks and squirrels but never have seen albino racoons.

[kimi]

10. Wow

Herzog is pretty cool. I have never seen an albino raccoon.

I used to feed the baby raccoons around here, thought that they were cute little critters and felt sorry for them, especially the one who'd lost a leg in some freak accident. He was a nasty little devil. Then they all grew up to be a bunch of gangster raccoons, came around nightly, banging on the back door, howling for their food, and they weren't so cute anymore. They started to turn over the trash cans, no matter how much food I gave them, and terrorized the feral cats I feed, and just caused a huge mess. Well, I learned my lesson.

I don't feed em anymore. And they don't come around anymore. Don't know what ever happened to 3 Legs, I figure that nature took care of him. There's a fine line between taking care of nature and nature taking care of itself.

[pitohui]

24. that is too cute

i don't know the legalities but if it was legal i might have been tempted to keep "hertzog" as a pet

that's just super cute...i've seen part albinos but never pure ones before didn't know they occurred in the wild

[ThomasQED]

27. What's wrong with him?

[MilesColtrane]

32. Nothing as far as I know.

Once at the rehab center he will be tested for rabies, parvo, and raccoon roundworm. (Baylisascaris procyonis...I looked it up.)

[ThomasQED]

33. Then I'm confused...

why would he be taken to a rehab center if he's OK?

Is there a law that if you trap a wild animal you have to turn it over?

[MilesColtrane]

37. He's actually lucky because he is young and was captured where he was.

If the state Wildlife Resources Agency had trapped him, they may have euthanized him.

I suppose she could have released him, but besides being a nuisance, raccoons have been known to attack cats, which she has. And, the version of roundworm they carry is particularly nasty and quite often fatal to humans.

Also, an albino nocturnal animal doesn't have much in the way of natural defenses against predators. He probably wouldn't have lasted very long in the wild.

[applegrove]

30. Herzog is very pretty.

[Skittles]

11. I know cats don't like mothballs - wonder if it's the same with raccoons

[Rosie1223]

15. Yes, I use moth balls to keep the coons out of my potted plants

Unfortunately though, the flower fragrance is not strong enough and my front porch smells like moth balls!

[Skittles]

17. yes, that IS the downside

alas, I have a cat who INVITES his raccoon friends to play - argh

[Phentex]

12. Have your neighbor put your garbage out...

or put your garbage out in the morning.

[HopeHoops]

13. Melinda's XXXX Special Reserve Habanero Sauce

You don't want to use much (wouldn't take much), it would be a waste of the finest hot sauce on the planet.

That will keep the damn things away, and if any of them are dumb enough to sample it they'll be bathing more than their food for a few days.

[zabet]

14. Tape pics of

Palin to the garbage....the critters will run for their lives. :rofl:

[raccoon]

16. You could leave out meals for them at the same time. nt

[tourivers83]

18. Racoons and cats and snakes, oh my.

Someone told us that if we have raccoons around we won’t have to worry so much about snakes. We have a lot of rattlesnakes and copperheads in this part of the world. So we feed the raccoons every night and we have not seen any snakes. We do have a cat that moved in and made his home in the crawlspace under the kitchen. We feed him as well and he seems to get along fine with the raccoons.

:hi: :loveya:

[pitohui]

25. well give me the snakes any day

snakes don't carry illnesses i can catch and to be honest i have never seen a wild rattlesnake in my yard in the 'burbs

copperheads yah but copperheads are so passive they don't do us anything

raccoons have done me plenty, starting with killing my chickens...and killing well...one bad year they killed EVERYONE'S hobby chickens and other small outdoor pets that i knew...

that has never happened w. copperheads, i know in theory they're poison but in reality they can't be arsed

(i live in louisiana, may be diff in other states, for example, no one in my state has EVER been killed by an alligator but it's a frequent occurrence in florida and i'm not sure why)

[tourivers83]

35. We also have coyotes in this area.

My girlfriend and I are sorry about your chickens but we are both frightened of snakes. We have had them get in the house on two occasions. No one lives here but the two of us and although they were just blacksnakes we had to call the sheriff’s department to come and get them out both times. We have a small television in the kitchen and believe it or not we have actually witnessed raccoons setting outside the kitchen window and watching it.

[elleng]

19. Shotgun???

:rofl:

[Curmudgeoness]

20. Spray ammonia in the garbage bags. They will leave it alone.

Do you have it just in bags, or in a can? Are you allowed to use cans? We have containers here and I have no problems, but used to have to just put out bags, and the ammonia works great.

[rug]

21. Put a cat in the garbage can.

[Curmudgeoness]

22. LOL. Just do not get caught on video! nt

[hedgehog]

29. I was going to say to put a possum in the can!

[pitohui]

23. in my humble experience there's NADA you can do

except put out the trash in the morning, most (but not ALL) raccoons are nocturnal

don't do anything to encourage them, don't feed them, don't tell 'em they're cute, don't put your outdoor dog/cat food where a raccoon can take a cut, just don't do it, otherwise you're truly effed because raccoons 1) have a memory and 2) apparently create draglines to check out spots where they've had "wins" in the past

a dedicated raccoon can make your life hell if you're not allowed to shoot him

"i chased them away once already" that's cute, i wish i was back in the day where i thought "i chased them away once already" would give a raccoon a clue

wait...THEM? you have a tribe/family, you're already fucked

you just have to wait and put the trash outside at the last possible moment in the morning, which i hope for your sake occurs in the daylight

and never leave food out, never, and if you see a warbler nest (which is "food" to a raccoon) you might even consider putting a "baffle" on it so the raccoon won't come back to steal the eggs/babies next year...

raccoons are attractive and physically handsome but they eat birds, gardens, garbage, dog food, etc and just cause a lot of problems so it's my theory i NEVER encourage them to hang at my place

a friend used to feed raccoons, and then the raccoons got so bold they knocked on her door! IN DAYTIME! i was there several times to witness it myself

my friend moved because otherwise she would get no peace

[RandomThoughts]

26. And don't think of people as raccoons.

[msanthrope]

28. Moth flakes--not moth balls, work very well. So do bricks on top of the lids. n/t

[pitohui]

31. my raccoon is way bigger than your raccoon

bricks on tops of lids, it is to laugh, sad to say, in my area, that was disproved by me personally in or about circa 92 :-) and i don't mean 2192 or 2092, i mean 1992 when us dinosaurs ruled the earth!!!

[Renew Deal]

34. You should post this in the Guns forum

Just for laughs.

[guitar man]

36. Wanna borrow my dog?

She would take care of them for you :evilgrin:

[Kaleva]

38. Cover your garbage with your scat.

Many animals in the wild do this to deter others from eating their food. Another option is to spray the garbage with your urine (do this outside and not in the home). This marks the garbage as being your territory and may or may not ward off the raccoons.

While the above methods may or may not work, it will surely gain you a visit from someone who has the authority to restrict your freedom. Another possible benny is one of your neighbors may capture the moment on video and post it on Youtube thus making you famous.

Note: I've worked long today. Ache like hell and am feeling quite silly.

[Inchworm]

40. I wouldn't go with the scat

I'd be real quick to piss all around the area though :D

:rofl:

[applegrove]

41. LOL. My sister moved to an island cottage that had a bear on it. So i looked up black bears and

low and behold they are terrified of grizzly bear scat. So I told my sister to pull into the Toronto Zoo on her way to the cottage and get some Polar Bear Scat! LOL!

[tammywammy]

39. My mom used this when she had a raccoon problem, Shake Away

It worked, the raccoon was getting in her garage through the cat door on the garage door. Anywho, we sprinkled this on the ground outside the garage door and they would stay away.

http://www.critter-repellent.com/raccoon/how-to-get-rid-of-raccoons.php



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[applegrove]

42. That looks promising. Thanks.

[LawnKorn]

43. Take 'em out