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Raccoons might be cute, but they’re no good for your garden: here are tips on how to remove them from your yard.
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Keep Raccoons Away from Your Crops
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AmandaCB: What article are you responding to? This one does NOT advise anyone to trap or, especially, feed raccoons. Get a grip.
On the contrary, the article is about protecting sweet corn from raccoons. The very act of growing sweet corn is potentially feeding the 'coons. In addition, one of the methods recommended in the article deal with 'coons was to plant enough for them too, in other words to feed them.
I have a racoon that comes into my yard/roof at night it loves to eat threw the garbage and eat all the baby quails and it gave my dog
pravo that almost killed him, and finding pieces of baby birds is awesome. I could just picture him ripping them apart seeing as I find legs heads and other bird parts, I need that thing gone, it doesn't help that my mother makes her own fertilizer of left over fruits and veggies hmmm at least he is eating his vitamins mahahaha no srsly what can I doo?
Trap n kill or shoot.
I've seen advertisements for garbage bags scented with mint for deterring raccoons. Any truth to that? I'm having trouble with my potted plants on my deck - the raccoons keep digging them up - and I'm wondering if planting some mint in my planters will be helpful.
what works to keep raccons out of my glower pots on deck?Moth balls? cayane pepper? Help!! They are destroying my plants.
I have raccoon with a sense of humor...I have the yellow rubber ducks for the kids in the pool. Had pool noodles until they had a party with those. They take the ducks out of the pool and place them in front of my shed. They pull rocks and shells from my planters and put in pool. I've noticed that the two pots that had no drainage, they dug into and made a mess! I have since closed two holes under the fence, but they are still coming over. I don't want to hurt them as at this point, no real damage has been done and it's become a joke each morning when we open the blinds. I live in a residential area since 94 and this is the first season we are experiencing this issue. How can I get them to visit someone else's yard!? Thanks!
Mint-X trash bags were developed to repel the Norway rat and raccoons. The active ingredients include wintergreen oil, corn mint oil, camphor oil, and eucalyptus oil. We're not sure if a raccoon would be repelled as effectively with just the fresh mint, but it is certainly worth a try! Good luck!
Sorry to say they don't work. I really have become to despise these creatures!
Hi Guys. I wanted to interject my 2 cents worth on this topic. I own a wildlife trapping & removal company in Georgia. (Not a plug more to establish expertise) I am all about home remedies for everything. I want you to consider this though if you are trying to ward off Raccoon. First & foremost there are beneficial critters and insects that the home remedies might be chasing off. You want to consider the innocent victims of the material you are using.
Also, if you ever try to catch a raccoon in a big box store animal trap and fail. Fail because of the strength of the trap or fail because trap set wrong or fail because of bait used... you have just educated that raccoon and now not only prevented yourself from catching it but also might make it harder on a professional to remove. Be wary of good intentions causing you even more effort.
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