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TQM

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For who knows what reasons (maybe it's my body odour), racoons have, for several years now, decided to use the walkway beside my house (between the wall of the house and our fence (about 30 inches here) as a washroom.

Landmines are left - sometimes as many as 6 piles a night.

Now racoon shit is potentially dangerous - rancoon roundworm can be a killer.

I've tried everything under the sun - hot sauce; moth balls; hot pepper powder; critter ridder; ammonia; bleach; and more recently chicken wire.

I previously had a guy trap 12 racoons (and he caught one skunk too - a good reason to not do it yourself) and found the problem persisted the very next night. (It's illegal to remove the animal more than 1 km from where it was caught, but this guy was breaking the law, and spray painting them with some red paint so that I'd know they weren't the same ones coming back - he took them away from the Don Valley system where I live and deposited them in the Rouge Valley system where maybe you live).

Short of staying up all night for a month with a shot gun, I haven't found any solutions. They don't get to my garbage. They do get to the apples in the apple tree on the property next to mine. But even when apples aren't in season, they crap on my walkway.

I finally came up with a fool proof solution - I bought a board of insulation at Home Depot - made of styrofoam I guess - 8ft long, 1/2 inch thick - and I bought 1500 approx. 1 inch nails. I spent a couple of hours forcing the nails through the board, all about a half inch a part.

There's no way to walk on the board and not step on nails. And there's no way to jump over it or around it.

Put the board down Wednesday night. Thursday morning, there were 5 piles - 3 of them directly on the board, in the middle area. These fuckers can walk on nails.

I don't know how racoons can walk on nails. I can't imagine it feels good. But not only can they walk on nails, obviously they went out of their way to walk on nails - they clearly wanted to send me a message - they did it deliberately.

This amazes me.
 
I am glad that I live in the country. There I can deal with the racoon problem the english way.
 
"(It's illegal to remove the animal more than 1 km from where it was caught"

is there a lake or other body of water within 1Km (just wondering)
 
ROFL Good story TQM You have my sympathy, even if that didn't prevent me from having a good laugh at your expense. I thought you had it solved when you put the nails in the styrofoam. Can you put down a layer of aluminum foil and wire it up to an electrical current? Kind of like the electrified fence that cattle farmers use. Or I guess you could just string a wire across the width of the space, not high enough that they can crawl under, but high enough so that they are going to put their paws on it to try to climb over, then....ZAPP. They jump about 10 feet in the air and then high tail it out of there. You'll be staying up all night just for the pure joy of watching the spectacle.
 
They like apples. Have you considered leaving them apples laced with something bitter like mustard seed? They will likely look for better territory.
 
TQM said:
but this guy was breaking the law, and spray painting them with some red paint so that I'd know they weren't the same ones coming back - he took them away from the Don Valley system where I live and deposited them in the Rouge Valley system where maybe you live).



Wow!
That explains why I have been invaded with constipated racoons covered in red paint.

I thought they had started wearing war paint as they congregated for a major nocturnal assault.:confused:


(If it is that much of a problem, get (or borrow) a dog. After a while, they will migrate to a new outhouse.)
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I have a similar problem at my place.

https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=165621

I relocted them a couple times and they came back. Once I decided to shoot the fuckers with my crossbow they haven`t been back. I layed out a tarp on my kitchen floor like my Sicilian brotheren and waited. It`s been over a week and they haven`t come in??? I`m quite pleased because I wasn`t really looking forward to digging holes and doing the clean-up.

Place your shot gun beside the couch for a couple nights while watching T.V., who knows maybe they`ll get the hint lol.
 
Suspend a weighted sheet of wood above the one with the nails in it, then install a trip device so this one crashed down on the little fuckers when they are making their deposit on the nails...messy but effective. There's always a way to build a better mousetrap.
 
Neverenuff$ said:
"(It's illegal to remove the animal more than 1 km from where it was caught"

is there a lake or other body of water within 1Km (just wondering)
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Go to Lake Ontario

Just build a make shift raft and put the racoons on it....And then just shove the raft towards the direction of the US.....
 
Manji said:
Go to Lake Ontario

Just build a make shift raft and put the racoons on it....And then just shove the raft towards the direction of the US.....
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or take them swimming with a brick...
 
Try this...........................

.......................Squireels have been using my 6 fruit trees as a fruit salad bar for the last 5 years. They take a bite out of the fruit and then go to the next one.
I place mouse traps with a peanut tied to it. Place the trap inside an plastic ice cream container and tie the trap to the container then tie the container to the tree. The squirells have set the traps off many time and got smakked in the face. So far this year I have not had any chewed up fruit.
Maybe if the raccoons got smakked in the face they will think twice next time they want to use your property as a latrine.:D
 
I rather like raccoons, they are in our forest and always come up to be fed. They provide a lot of amusement watching their antics.

We are lucky I suppose in that we have never had any damage.
 
Have you ever tried a motion sensor and really intense lights. I have not tried it but I have read it is effective.
 
Imagine filthy rats that grow to be the size of bear cubs. Raccoons! Or as I like to call them -- "filthy woodland bastards!"
 
Haven't tried the sprinkler

yet, largely out of fear that one bleary eyed morning I'm going to go out there and get zapped.

I've tried bright lights; scarecrow;

it's not like I want to harm the critters. But it's getting to the point where killing them is starting to appeal.
 
Yes. I rolled

up the chicken wire, after having bought 4 rolls of the stuff. I even tried to block off the side of the house with it, but they just pushed it away.
 
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