Raccoon control….I don’t want to hurt ’em. What do I do?

[andrea]

Now that’s some excellent and highly entertaining information Jeff. Thanks! :)

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[TheVelvetBulldog]

JeffSavoie: Help! Would you be willing to provide your email address directly to our awesome blog editor, TR and have her forward it to me? (She’s got my email address.) Thanks!

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[JeffSavoie]

Bulldog, I had to provide an e-mail address to sign up… I’m new here, and not familiar with this format. I don’t know how to contact TR?

Or make separated paragraphs, or italics… or SMILIES, I love smilies! :)

Being that I do what I do, I’m hesitant to post my contact info, we could always meet on neutral ground LOL!

If someone official here, knows how to, they are completely welcome to forward my e-mail address to you. ;)

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[JanS]

Jeff…go up in the menu at the top of the page, and click on “contact”…that will let you write to TR :)

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[JoB]

Jeff…

it was them or my dogs.. and when we had troubles i had two 75 pound Akita’s that weren’t getting the better end of the turf war with the raccoons…

for some reason, my 30 lb shibas back them down and keep them out of the yard with no problem.

go figure…

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[JeffSavoie]

Jan, Thank you, I will try that.

Jo, The problem the Akita’s had, was their height. The shorter dog faces the raccoons more face to face, and the ‘coons advantage of “grabbing, up underneath” is lost. And the added mobility gained by being more compact, takes away the other advantage, and puts the ‘coons and Shibas on much more equal ground… Might isn’t always right. ;)

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[JoB]

jeff.. thanks for the explanation… it makes sense.

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[flowerpetal]

Hmmm, that must be why our little Pomeranian can keep the raccoons at bay. They lurk on the other side of the fence but never seem to cross over, unlike the neighborhood kitty who knows that it can outrun our pooch.

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[Sara]

Screaming worked for me. I was reading in bed and two gigantic raccoons, must have been thirty-five pounders, got up on their hind legs and started clawing at my window screen. Scared the heck out of me. I shrieked, and they fell backward off the window, never to be seen again.

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[TrukMama]

When I lived on Alki, many moons ago, the raccoons used to get in the trash can and spread the trash around the yard. We put peppercorns and cayenne pepper in the trash. They opened the bags a couple of times, after that, I could leaves bags outside of the cans and they wouldn’t touch it.

If you need to spray it, just mixed hot sauce and cayenne with water in a spray bottle.

Worth a try!:)

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[scooby-snax]

a motion detector sprinkler works best…

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[WSratsinacage]

Some of my best friends are racoons, I’ve seen The Great Outdoors over 100 times!

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[timeslid]

TrukMama’s advice about hot sauce is a good one. I have been using cayenne pepper 90K heat units for a good portion of my animal control needs. I buy it in bulk at P.C.C. and sprinkle it liberally around the places I don’t want the critters going. The coons stopped visiting the plants in my pond and also stopped climbing the plum tree. With all this rain its an issue, but vigilance is the key. The one sure fire method is coyote urine. It comes in a spray bottle at the Outdoor Emporium on 4th ave S. Raccoons hate it, squirrels hate it and male coyotes love it. So, you may trade one problem for another – “The King the mice and the cheese”. Good Luck.

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[JoB]

turns out we have coons.. when we drove into the driveway the other night our lights caught a little family in the front yard…

but we don’t have them out back where my veggies are…

apparently medium sized dogs are a good raccoon deterrent:)

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