The Raccoon

[Yooper]

You should have eaten it, too. They're delicious!!!!!!!

Raccoons are greasy and disgusting to eat. (Phulease, don't ask me how I know that!)

 

[jft245]

I don't know if this works, but a friend told me if you want to keep racoons away from the trash, soak a cloth or towel in ammonia and drape it over the trash bag or can.

 

[m1thousand]

Ok so tell us about your neighbours ....

She's about 60 years old and her father lives with her.

I don't know if this works, but a friend told me if you want to keep racoons away from the trash, soak a cloth or towel in ammonia and drape it over the trash bag or can.

There are various things you can use. It's just what you decide to use. I don't have ammonia but I have cinnamon which I read repels them

 

[m1thousand]

I was on my Ipad earlier and couldnt copy the text to paste into here

Repellants

Ammonia: Put a bowl of ammonia in your fireplace to keep raccoons out of the chimney. (Install a cap on the chimney once the raccoons are gone.) Tie rags into balls and soak them in ammonia. Put these wherever the raccoons are living. Re-soak the balls as necessary.

Spices: Sprinkle potent spices around your yard. Cinnamon, ground black pepper and ground dried hot pepper are some possibilities. These irritate raccoons' sense of smell, encouraging them to move to a more hospitable location [source: Fischer].

Peppers: Make a raccoon-repellant spray by boiling two quarts (about two liters) of water with a tablespoon of cayenne pepper, several hot peppers and an onion for 20 minutes. Strain the liquid and spray it around your house, yard, plants and trash cans. You'll need to reapply this spray every two to three days and after it rains [source: Fischer].

Sprinklers and lights: Repel raccoons with motion-activated sprinklers or lights [source: OWREN].

Sound: Try repelling raccoons with a loud radio, as long as your home is not in earshot of other neighbors .

http://home.howstuffworks.com/how-to-make-homemade-raccoon-repellant.htm

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Recipe 1

Make a solution by mixing a small bottle of hot sauce, such as Tabasco, with a gallon of water. Add one teaspoon of mild dishwashing liquid to ensure that the solution adheres to plants, shrubs and other surfaces. Pour the solution into a spray bottle and spray on and around trees, shrubs and other plants. You can also spray around garbage cans and other areas where raccoons frequent. If you water your garden or its rains during the night, you will need to reapply the spray.

Recipe 2

Take one tablespoon of cayenne pepper, one jalapeno pepper (chopped) and one yellow onion (chopped). Boil these ingredients in two quarts of water for about 20 minutes. Let the solution cool and then strain using cheesecloth. Pour the solution into a spray bottle and spray the areas where you want to keep raccoons at bay. Reapply this homemade raccoon repellent every three to five days to ensure continuous protection.

Recipe 2

Vinegar works as an excellent raccoon repellent because these pests do not like its taste. Douse your garbage can with vinegar and place a few discarded foodstuffs, such as corn cobs, in vinegar and strategically place them around the garbage can. Raccoons will take a taste of the vinegar-soaked foodstuff and get turned off by the taste.

http://www.raccoonremovalhamilton.ca/blog/effective-homemade-raccoon-repellent-recipes/


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They are treating it is if it was their pet

 

[MTLDude]

Raccoon are overly cute!

BUT

If you start to feed them(which, as best I can see, the OP is not doing! ) you enter yourself in a VERY binding contract... when you stop feeding them they can become aggressive...

 

[m1thousand]

MTLdude
I was leaving my garbage on a shelf - ill take a photo in the morning - that made it easy for raccoons to get at. I plead negligence but I didn't feed them.
Some may say I did 'feed them' by leaving the garbage out but that wasnt my intent.

Since no one lives across from me, I'm going to leave my garbage over there.

 

[m1thousand]

Here is where I have always put my garbage and I have had racoons come after it before.

Im going to put my garbage over in the corner behind the un occupied apartment

I once was sitting on the floor with the door open. A raccoon walked by the door and looked in

 

[gsdx]

Im going to put my garbage over in the corner behind the un occupied apartment

You don't give them enough credit. You need a metal garbage can with a lid handle that you have to pull up in order to open it. Raccoons are extremely intelligent, extremely dexterous, and extremely agile. They know where free food is and they will keep coming back as long as you feed them with your trash.

 

[The Fly]

You don't give them enough credit. You need a metal garbage can with a lid handle that you have to pull up in order to open it. Raccoons are extremely intelligent, extremely dexterous, and extremely agile. They know where free food is and they will keep coming back as long as you feed them with your trash.

Exactly. Raccoons are a scurge!!! A couple years ago one of them untied some macrame plant hangers I had. They got some nimble little fingers. They are also dangerous to any pets you may have.

 

[JPGhost]

Reminds me of this commercial

I like them, so cute. Unless they ever ruining my next gig of gardening career, I just love them entirely

 

[m1thousand]

Im going to get a chain and padlock for the garbage to place on top of the lid so the lid cant be opened.

I can buy chain as well as the clay pot for my neighbor at hardware store.

 

[frankfrank]

Raccoons are greasy and disgusting to eat. (Phulease, don't ask me how I know that!)

It must depend on how it's fixed - neither time did I "get" the greasiness feeling from it.

They are also dangerous to any pets you may have.

Except for M1thousand's cat.

 

[m1thousand]

Exactly Frank.

I just talked to her. she had been drinking and she said to not worry about it and she didn't know if anything was broken even though they react on the video. I showed her the video but with outdoor noise it was hard to hear them on the video. She wasnt worried about it bt I said let me know if you find anything broken.

 

[ibill1]

Please discontinue all reference to eating Racoon, it is making me quite ill!

 

[sixthson]

But I occasionally hear screeches in the night.

Many a summer night we have been awakened to the screeching sounds. It sounds like bloody murder, but we don't know if it is the raccoons or the possoms. We suspect they are not really fighting, but just disagreeing with each other or competing for food. Also, I thinking mating is a noisy time. I love the night sounds....

 

[sixthson]

Weren't Uncle Jed and Jethro always talking about going coon hunting at night with their old blood hound? But Ellie Mae was plumb agin it. Granny made some delicious coon stew, I hear. Or was it possom?

 

[pat grimshaw]

I know an insomniac who insists that possums are at their most active in the last hour of full darkness before dawn.

 

[gsdx]

Many a summer night we have been awakened to the screeching sounds. It sounds like bloody murder, but we don't know if it is the raccoons or the possoms. We suspect they are not really fighting, but just disagreeing with each other or competing for food. Also, I thinking mating is a noisy time. I love the night sounds....

For a few years, I lived in a converted attic space on the third floor of a rooming house. Raccoons lived on the other side of the knee wall of my room. They would climb the fire escape, climb a post to the railing, along the railing to the downspout, up the downspout to the eaves trough, along the trough to a particular spot where they would hang down from the trough and swing up into a hole in the soffit, and then along the outside of the knee wall to their 'home'.

They used to wake me up frequently with their 'arguments' and their mating on the other side of the drywall. It took weeks for an exterminator to live-trap them all and move them far north of the city. As soon as they were gone, the soffit was suitably patched and life returned to normal.

Raccoons are not quiet neighbours.

 

[gsdx]

Weren't Uncle Jed and Jethro always talking about going coon hunting at night with their old blood hound? But Ellie Mae was plumb agin it. Granny made some delicious coon stew, I hear. Or was it possom?

They used to go coon hunting, but possum was Granny's favourite stewing and roasting meat. I seem to remember her making a mean possum pie, too.

 

[Alistair]

When I was growing up a raccoon killed my grandfather's husky. The raccoon ripped its guts open. The dog crawled all the way home. He lived on a Christmas tree farm at the time