Critter Problem
We have a raccoon that comes around at night and eats the fish from our decorative pond and knocks over all the trash cans in the area. Anyone got any suggestions for handling the critter besides firearms. We tried pepper in the cans and it didn't work.
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Get one of those live catch traps. Put a can of tuna in it. Come out the next morning and you will have a pissed off raccoon in the trap. Put it in the truck, drive out into the country. Shoot the racoon and leave it out there.
I am saying this using the assumption that you don't want to use firearms because of where you are.
If that isn't the case and you want to keep it alive. Delete the shoot it part and subsitute in letting it go. However, you may not want to be near the trap when it opens. That racoon is going to be mad!0 -
City provides traps and charges for removal. Trying to find a free deterant. 0 -
Too easy stock the pond with pirranahs 0 -
you could try the breath of death
aka blow gun with either stun darts that will dter the bugger for atleast a night or more potent bamboo skewers or broadhead darts through the neck will dismiss it with no awaking the neighbors checkout coldsteels 62.5 magnum caliber blowgun only about 45$
my kill count is 5 coons and 2 opossums0 -
They sell some .22 shorts called C.B.. They should sell them at wal-mart. In a lever action or bolt action that will cycle shorts, it is no louder than a pellet gun. If it a safe enough shot, that's what I would do. 0 -
I plan on having one of those decorative ponds soon too, and for the most part am going to depend on a couple rat terrier dogs to handle the critter problem. However, they sleep indoors, so am going to run a couple low strands of elec. fence around it to cover the night hrs.
Killing or trapping would be futile here in the middle of the forest.0 -
Our local Thrifty Supply has Hav-a-Hart catch 'em live traps for $47 (they had chinese copies for $23 but they all sold out).
Once you've got whatever critter it is in the trap, a pellet gun is adequate to dispatch it.0 -
Fishline in a radial spoke pattern above for the birds, cove with chicken wire at night, or similar. Check the humane society - if you couch it in terms of "wild momma cat needs spayin'" and not "coon" then you may be able to borrow a trap from them, and then do the 60 mile drive yourself... 0 -
Dropping it off 60 miles away is the same as starving it to death. More human to dispatch it quick and clean. Research is demonstrating that the best intentions, to make it someone elses problem, does not do a kindness to the animal. You release it, and there are now one to many animals for the carrying capacity of the habitat and something has to give. The new guy, just does not know the neighborhood and he is the one that will not make it. 0 -
Had a boss once that had a home in Florida with an in ground pool. He kept an inflated swan or goose (don't know where he bought it) tied to the pool ladder. He said it kept the raccoons away from the pool at night. 0 -
Put a fence around my pool, keeps em out. 0 -
hide behind a bush with a baseball bat, they cant run that fast and you could be on him quicker than a bear on a jar of honey 0 -
Use a raw unbroken egg in a large Havahart trap.
You may want to hose off the trap before transporting the critters because trapped animals both crap up the trap and try to dig their way out, filling said trap with mud & grass.
Put cardboard under the trap in your car trunk when you transport it.
Learn how to open the trap door from behind and slide a rod through the cage sides to keep the door open.
Jiggle the cage from the rear and Mr Coon will wobble out and run off.
I've never had one come back at me.
You can keep a pistol in the free hand if it makes you feel better.0 -
If you know any COON HUNTERS...they will come trap and deal with it themselves. They use trapped coons to train their dogs. If you decide to trap it yourself....be careful!!! Someone brought a trapped racoon to my house one time (they were going behind the house with their dogs) and that was one ferocious animal. The cage was HUGE and moving all around the truck bed with this moaning, hissing, spitting ready to kill creature inside. 0 -
lol. We used to trap/raise coon for the purpose of training hound. Yes they can be fierce, but usually, if not being dogged, they will exit the cage and seek refuge. 0 -
We had a stray cat that kept spraying on our deck/grill/hose reel so I bought one of those Havahart live traps and put cat food in it. I caught 2 coons and 1 possum before I caught that dang cat. My wife wouldn't let me dispatch it so I pulled up a lawn chair, grabbed a 12 pack and Abu Graib'd it for about 2 hours. I left it in the trap and sprayed it with the water hose while I consumed my adult beverage. About two hours later I let it go and it never came back. My wife was happy I didn't hurt it and I had one hell of a good time. 0 -
trap it and put a 22 bullet through its head in the garage. If you can't do that fill a trash can with water and drown it in there. 0 -
I shoot a blast of pepper spray in the top of my trashcan, and it has kept the critters out so far. It helps that I have a never ending free supply of the expired stuff from work. Even after the expiration date, it's still plenty potent. 0 -
I have the same problem. I ended up putting an electic fence around my pond. Havent had a problem since except for the time a skunk hit it. The pond is right outside my front door. Also you might try paintball gun. Shoot each one with different color paint so you can keep track of repeat offenders 0 -
If you catch it a trap just don't go drown it near your local 4 story office building in their pond. My company shares grounds and a pond with a Catholic church. The caretaker got caught drowning trapped racoons in the in the pond with 4 floors of people watching him. They frown on that around here. 0
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