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The major thing people are forgetting is that they make great target Practice for hunting season.

Oooo... small woodland creature invasion.

We live in a apartment in the edge of a suburb
and we have not seen a racoon outside, but we have seen a deer and rabbits.

Ok ... 1 year and few month later , raccoons are back again... This time they are living in my attic by tearing through the air vent duct.
I dont want to pay for another $1600 to remove them , so we were determined to drive them out ourselves.

We know it used to travel via climbing trees and branches onto the roof , now we cut it. But it still is able to travel around.
We sprayed their nest with some bleach hoping it would help but no...

Turned out the 3 feet high insulation foam in the attic was their major base... they even created tunnels within the foam ... wow like hamsters.
Then 10 mins before i typed here i heard some clawing sounds... yes its climbing my HOUSE WALL , spiderman seriously?

Need tip badly , what do raccoons hate? No guns no flame thrower etc etc , something realistic.

LunaHound wrote:Ok ... 1 year and few month later , raccoons are back again... This time they are living in my attic by tearing through the air vent duct.
I dont want to pay for another $1600 to remove them , so we were determined to drive them out ourselves.

We know it used to travel via climbing trees and branches onto the roof , now we cut it. But it still is able to travel around.
We sprayed their nest with some bleach hoping it would help but no...

Turned out the 3 feet high insulation foam in the attic was their major base... they even created tunnels within the foam ... wow like hamsters.
Then 10 mins before i typed here i heard some clawing sounds... yes its climbing my HOUSE WALL , spiderman seriously?

Need tip badly , what do raccoons hate? No guns no flame thrower etc etc , something realistic.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!

I mean... seriously. It's one of those 'we told you but you just wouldn't listen' situations, isn't it?

Poison them, if you're game to chuck food into the roof cavity. That's about all you can do without running a serious risk of contracting rabies. Block off their entry with wire mesh for as long as it takes. They will gore and rip the absolute gak out of you, even if you don't cop a disease. If they rip it off, use something better. Otherwise you're just going to have to pay for the CoonMan.

THIS IS WHAT YOU HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO.

What's so unrealistic about poppin em with a .22? I did it yesterday! haha

JohnHwangDD wrote:I haven't caught one alive yet - I use snap traps, so usually, they're dead.

But if I do, I'll probably just get out my trusty shovel and have at it...

Beware the assasin master, for he is far too smart to get caught in any man-thing trap.

If it's any consolation, I'm having a similar problem with a colony of rather large (and devilishly clever) Rats in the attic. I put poison down, they don't eat the poison. I put traps down, they don't go in the traps. Hell, I get a gun, they run and hide. Short of blowing the house up, I too am at my wits end.

A bowl of concrete and flour, next to a bowl of water. 'Nuff said.

Arctik_Firangi wrote:A bowl of concrete and flour, next to a bowl of water. 'Nuff said.

You fear the Goannas TOO?!?

You've lost me.

Arctik_Firangi wrote:You've lost me.

Sorry, private joke, our dogs got into a scrap with a pair of goanna's. Mating season or something. It was bloody messy, and they rolled around in a ripped up parcel of flour. We chucked water over them to try to seperate the whole thing. Nothing like watching Two Jack Russels take on Two Goannas covered in flour. Wierd.

Lolwut?

And the best I've had in my garden was a savage Fox that got completely twatted over by my cat. In fairness my cat is very big, and has been known to outstare an Alsation, but it was pretty tense stuff when the fox got its jaws round the cats neck. Cat won by the by, with an underhand attack to the fox's genitals.


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Doesn't compare to a mountain lion though!

Oh. Ok. Rats eat flour. Mix concrete with the flour. Give them a dish of water alongside it and you get... Hey Presto! Impacted Bowel! Dead Rats!

I think an attack Raccoon would be just dandy. Like a squig, but furry and kewl.

Get some ammonia, cotton balls and some cans of coke (or your favourite)

Drink the soda, put the cotton swabs in the empty can, fill the can as much as you can with ammonia. Grenade toss them into the attic.

Use lots of them, the ammonia is bad for you so be careful, it should drive any rodents etc from the attic. The fumes are released for a long time from the cotton. Close up their entry hole with heavy gauge wire net or thick boards. Otherwise they'll chew through again.

My fiance is a hippie, so I wouldn't be able to shoot it. So you have to in my stead. Aim small, miss small.

Or put some meat soaked in rat poison up there.

Remember kids, violence solves everything!

Anung Un Rama wrote:
Who is the c00n?

edited because of some weird swearing word I've never heard of.

I am not suprised the sensor gets c00n, it is a direct substitute word for n1gg3r.

Uh... It's a racial slur, but it translates to 'thief', not 'that word you really shouldn't try to evade the language filter with'. Not directly at least.

It's also a popular brand of Australian cheese.
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However, Bega is far superior...



Holy crap, the language filter even stops images!

Go to a store that sells lawn equipment and stuff like that and buy some Hav-a-heart traps. They capture the beast alive and then you can carry them into the woods and turn them loose. Or throw it into a pond and retrieve the trap in about 5 minutes... It's an alternative.

We are such meanies on Dakka aren't we?

Violence 1st? Hels yeah!!

VikingScott wrote:We are such meanies on Dakka aren't we?

Violence 1st? Hels yeah!!

Is it mean? I think it's mean to tear up someone's attic, or to kill their chickens.

Vengeance!

Im trying to not kill the raccoons even with poison , i dont want it to die and rot somewhere in the attic ( or any of the tunnels it build )
And i cant be sure where the babies are either , if the parent die im sure the babies will too , i just cant kill them like that.

Either way we finally figured out how smart the raccoons are , we couldnt believe it until we saw it.
It was on my upstairs window sil so i threw a hanger at it and it quickly moved out of sight. Then my cousin that was watching from downstairs saw it climb the branches
( which we thought all were cut down ). To our amazement we looked at the tree branches... The raccoon took 4 thin branches and bent it into a slit into our roof.
Yes , they built a bridge that wasnt there before. How can they be so smart?

Monster Rain wrote:Go to a store that sells lawn equipment and stuff like that and buy some Hav-a-heart traps. They capture the beast alive and then you can carry them into the woods and turn them loose. Or throw it into a pond and retrieve the trap in about 5 minutes... It's an alternative.

Sadly,given the behavior of the animals described in the thread,if you just release them nearby,they will come back. If they just sit on your front porch and look at you,then they are used to being around people and don't see them as a threat. If you're going to trap and release them,make sure you take them a LONG ways away before you set them loose. The best thing to use to trap is oddly enough a shiny object. Raccoons find almost anything shiny practically irresistable. Put something in the traps like sheets of tinfoil and they will be compelled to investigate it. Then,once you have them trapped,either dump them way out in the country or kill them.

If you live in a rural enough area, just shoot the raccoons. I'd reccomend a .306, just to make sure. A .22 should do fine; I used to use one on ground hogs.

We've got either raccoons or skunks living near our house. We generally toss food scraps into the backyard to decompose, but something has started taking them. Just last night they took some jojos and two chicken breasts. At night I can hear them running on the roof.

You could try putting out antifreeze. Antifreeze tastes sweet to animals, so they drink it, and then it causes renal failure. It's why if you have pets and have a leaking radiator, you need to wash it away.

ghosty wrote:Lolwut?

And the best I've had in my garden was a savage Fox that got completely twatted over by my cat. In fairness my cat is very big, and has been known to outstare an Alsation, but it was pretty tense stuff when the fox got its jaws round the cats neck. Cat won by the by, with an underhand attack to the fox's genitals.


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Doesn't compare to a mountain lion though!

I've seen something similar when I saw a cat chase down a fox who was trying to escape the feline, then again I've seen black bears, deer and coyotes along my street before, you can't travel for thirty minutes in Kamloops without seeing mother

nature.