Got Raccoons?

Motion detector water sprinklers worked for a friend trying to protect his grapes. 

Another friend sodded his back yard and the next morning he would wake up and all the sod was rolled back up. He thought he was going crazy but after the third night he decided to sleep on his porch and caught the raccoons rolling it up to get at the grubs. BB gun took care of that.

They are psychopathic 7 year children with razor fingers so be careful out there. 

Havahart trap. The secret is to tie your bait to the inside top of the cage. I always had great success with leftover fried chicken. Make sure you secure the bait above the trip plate.

Havahart traps as noted above do work well. (I dont think raccoons arre heavy enough to trip a land mine ).  I have coons, possums and a chill armadillo that walk the foundation at night. 

Ideally, you might be able to trap a racoon named Daniel.  He could at least finish off the other male raccoons. 

Folklore has it that he drew first and shot.

>>>leftover fried chicken<<<

No sucha' thing.

I have had lots of raccoon issues over the years and they are fearless.   Don't know how to stop them.  You can yell, throw things, etc. and they just stare at you.  Never tried traps but my brother's dog killed one that was causing problems at his place.

Havaharts work great, and especially when baited with peanut butter, but then you need to transport a cage full of angry raccoon. That's where things get interesting.

Corgis or aussies will sort them out. And a pellet gun.

havaharts are decent too. You just throw the full trap into the pond.

Greg used to catch them in havaharts but said you had to drive them across the river (Willamette Coast Fork) to let them out. Apparently they didn't find their way back across the river, or so he thought. There would usually be a break between herds of them.

Today I learned that there's a variety of names for a group of raccoons: brace, committee, gaze, nursery, smack, and troop.

best thread in a while...

we got them too and try to stay friendly :-)

It's pin-drop quiet at night where I live. I like listening to the owls and foxes call to one another and the raccoons chatter. 

In my experience, it's the groundhogs and squirrels that do the most damage.

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I've heard them called "trash pandas."

Yeah Trash Pandas are what my daughter calls them also

as a kid a neighbor took one in as a pet, she went out of town and I was to feed it. Her place was destroyed when I went in there. The little bastard was hiding in the silverware drawer.

our last place had a ton. we had a small fountain they would use it as a hot tub. the fig tree didn't help...

so far zero seen in a year on the other side of town. odd.

lived in this house deep in the woods, which was brand new when we moved in for 21 years..haven't seen a single raccoon for almost 20 years...first spring we had a pet door and 3 of those fuckers were on the deck and poking at the pet door...i turned off the lights and stood there with a broom and when one eventually tried to get in, i hit it like a croquet ball square in the face...knocked it ass over teakettle...NEVER have we seen another raccoon anywhere on the property since...

A while back, we lived on a rural street outside Healdsburg, 4 or 5 houses from the Russian River.  One really hot summer evening we took a neighborhood stroll, leaving the front door wide open.  When we returned, the house was dark, and I could hear something inside.  It sounded like someone washing pots and pans in the kitchen sink.  I stepped in, and could just make out a raccoon on the kitchen counter.  Seeing me, he wanted OUT!  Unfortunately, his only way out was through the doorway behind me.  He tried going out the open living room windows to my right, but they had screens.  I stepped to my left, and he made it past me, and flew out the door.  It all happened really fast, but it was pretty exciting!

A radical way to rid a home of raccoons.

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I have trapped them successfully, but it's illegal in CA (and a number of other states) to transport them, so I never took them to a remote area with a year round creek, no no. 

Also, they are known as "primary carriers of rabies", so exercise extreme caution (if they are super aggressive, it might be time to contact animal control).

I wear tall rubber boots, 2 pair of leather gloves and I use a claw hammer to open the cage while standing behind it (with cage facing down an embankment).

If they turn on me after release, I have the cage in one hand and the hammer in the other to help dissuade them from choosing violence.

Skunks are also an ongoing issue.  When their pungent asses wake me up in the middle of the night I go out and hit the perimeter with small bursts of bear spray, which sends them on their way.

((((out skunk the skunk)))

Biggest problem by far, though, was wood rats. I've finally removed their mounds and sealed the crawlspace and have trapped dozens.  After a major infestation in our crawl space in 2015, their numbers are finally (way) down, and the subsequent tropical rat mite infestation was also quelled mostly by using a chest sized freezer to freeze bedding and clothes in 3 day cycles (nothing else kills those bastards).

Best of luck with your critter control!

1. Invite these guys over to house-sit while you are on vacation. 

2. Leave lots of weed around. When they get the munchies tell em to help themselves to whatever they can find in the house.

3. Go on vacation.

Are you saying you have raccoons in your walls?
How does that even work?
If a raccoon can get into your wall, I'd say there are structural problems that need addressing.

Rats...