How to get a raccoon to stop eating my garbage?

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  1. Doug, Jun 25, 2012
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    I would recommend calling your county animal control, but I don't think that will do any good.

    I came across a possum one night several weeks ago outside my house. It ran off. But several years ago I came across a baby possum and it did'nt ran from me. It acted like as if I wasn't there.
     
  2. GFH, Jun 25, 2012
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    If you have a trash bin with handles, tie a strap between them over the lid.

    Or if u wanna be reel fancy, u can buy a special one on teh internetz: Raccoon Solutions
     
  3. Gingerchris, Jun 25, 2012
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  4. TrueNomadSkies, Jun 25, 2012
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  5. Aernaroth, Jun 25, 2012
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    You could also try sprinkling cayanne pepper around your garbage can, raccoons are pretty sensitive to hot pepper, it might irritate them enough to leave your stuff alone.
     
  6. jazzbot180, Jun 25, 2012
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    How come you don't think animal control will do any good?
     
  7. Aernaroth, Jun 25, 2012
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    In many places animal control can only trap the raccoon, board up any openings in your house, and transport the beast a few miles away. They're pretty smart animals, they can find their way back.
     
  8. jazzbot180, Jun 25, 2012
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    It sleeps under my house now, great.
     
  9. s10blazed, Jun 25, 2012
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    You can rent cages/traps at a lot of places. Or buy one if you have a lot of Raccoons. Just set it near your cans with some food as bait and you'll catch them quick. Take them to another part of town and just let it go.

    Killing it in any way is just going to leave you with a worse mess to clean up.
     
  10. Onslaught24, Jun 25, 2012
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    set a perimeter around your house and garbage can. or "scare" it out with the spices Aernaroth mentioned
     
  11. Cal, Jun 25, 2012
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    He could always try using ratcoon poison. :p 
     
  12. Smashs, Jun 25, 2012
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    Wait until it breaks into your garage, then accidentally let your Husky out. Watch as the raccoon leaps onto said Husky's back, mounting her like a horse, clawing at her face. Then watch as wife's maternal instinct kicks in as she grabs the nearest shovel and takes a left handed Norman Bates swing at said raccoon, sending it flying 10-12', but not hitting the Husky.

    It never came back.
     
  13. Alucard77, Jun 25, 2012
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    Well, there are 2 ways:

    1- There is something that you can put in your garbage that turns off racoons, I know some one who uses it and it works. I just cannot remember what it was. It was a type of mint or rosemarry or something like that.

    2- You can do something a lot more messed up. You can put ammonia on your garbage. That will kill the racoons though.
     
  14. An Army of Bees, Jun 25, 2012
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    Just lock your cans.
     
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    Motion-Detecting Owl Decoy Link

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    Killed it than eat it.
     
  18. PrimusVsUnicron, Jun 25, 2012
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    hit it with a baseball bat
     
  19. transtrekkie, Jun 25, 2012
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    Rent a raccoon costume and wait. Then when it shows up, challenge it to mortal combat!
     
  20. jazzbot180, Jun 25, 2012
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    So far tonight the raccoon hasn't tipped over my garbage can or anything. It hasn't even come out, yet. I think it might've left.
     
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