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MUScoop => The Superbar => Topic started by: swoopem on August 10, 2023, 06:55:51 AM
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Any one here ever had any raccoon problems and if so how’d you get rid of them? I have a detached garage and there’s definitely one or more of those bastards living above it. This happened a year or so ago too and I called a company who came out and caught one and I got to keep the trap but I’m looking for other suggestions rather than the basic trap.
Hoping someone can help because these f*ckers are annoying. Thanks in advance
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Any one here ever had any raccoon problems and if so how’d you get rid of them? I have a detached garage and there’s definitely one or more of those bastards living above it. This happened a year or so ago too and I called a company who came out and caught one and I got to keep the trap but I’m looking for other suggestions rather than the basic trap.
Hoping someone can help because these f*ckers are annoying. Thanks in advance
My mother owned a rental house and when racoons took over the attic and she decided to try a trick someone told her about. A radio blasting hard rock was placed in the attic as racoons supposedly hate loud music. Give it a try, as it may work for you although it did not work in my mother's rental house. The racoons attacked the radio and tore it to shreds. Suspend a battery-operated radio from the ceiling so they cannot destroy it.
Caution- remember that racoons sometimes are rabid.
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Bait da suckers and toss 'em on da Weber. Known as a delicacy in some parts of da world, hey?
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Bait da suckers and toss 'em on da Weber. Known as a delicacy in some parts of da world, hey?
Yeh. Like West Virginia?
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Bait da suckers and toss 'em on da Weber. Known as a delicacy in some parts of da world, hey?
Yeh. Like West Virginia?
Or Michigan. True story: I was at dinner with several Michigan clients and asked what everyone's favorite meat is. Two of the five answered squirrel.
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Any one here ever had any raccoon problems and if so how’d you get rid of them? I have a detached garage and there’s definitely one or more of those bastards living above it. This happened a year or so ago too and I called a company who came out and caught one and I got to keep the trap but I’m looking for other suggestions rather than the basic trap.
Hoping someone can help because these f*ckers are annoying. Thanks in advance
Figure out how they are getting in, and seal it up. If one raccoon sees that spot as a den, then likely there will be others that feel the same way.
They're smart lil buggers.
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We had them before we took our wood deck in back out. We just set a trap, baited it, and caught three quickly. They’re extremely food motivated and will go after just about anything. We used the big puffy marshmallows and cat food. They really love cat food we’ve been told.
I didn’t want to kill them, so we relocated them. But you have to go out at least 10 miles or else they can find their way back closer than that.
The traps are easy to set and release them from too. I don’t know what they cost. My daughter’s boyfriend at the time had one we borrowed.
You can always call a pest company business to do all this too.
Good luck!
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Any one here ever had any raccoon problems and if so how’d you get rid of them? I have a detached garage and there’s definitely one or more of those bastards living above it. This happened a year or so ago too and I called a company who came out and caught one and I got to keep the trap but I’m looking for other suggestions rather than the basic trap.
Hoping someone can help because these f*ckers are annoying. Thanks in advance
Sorry, didn’t read your whole post before I responded.
What don’t you like about traps? They work and do so quickly.
Before trapping we tried moth balls and that didn’t work. They literally threw them out of the den. We poured ammonia down there and that only got them out temporarily.
Anything other than traps is wishful thinking to get rid of them.
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We had them before we took our wood deck in back out. We just set a trap, baited it, and caught three quickly. They’re extremely food motivated and will go after just about anything. We used the big puffy marshmallows and cat food. They really love cat food we’ve been told.
I didn’t want to kill them, so we relocated them. But you have to go out at least 10 miles or else they can find their way back closer than that.
The traps are easy to set and release them from too. I don’t know what they cost. My daughter’s boyfriend at the time had one we borrowed.
You can always call a pest company business to do all this too.
Good luck!
I’ve got a trap and went home during lunch to set it so we’ll see if there’s anything waiting when I get home. If not, hopefully in the morning.
And I agree about the marshmallows and cat food. That’s what the company used when I called them a year or 2 ago. I didn’t have any handy today so I used those mini muffins
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Sorry, didn’t read your whole post before I responded.
What don’t you like about traps? They work and do so quickly.
Before trapping we tried moth balls and that didn’t work. They literally threw them out of the den. Anything other than traps is wishful thinking to get rid of them.
It’s not that I don’t like the traps, I was just seeing if there was anything else possible. A coworker told me to spray peppermint oil in my garage. I guess it’s worth a shot
Everything I read online says trapping is the way to go
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It’s not that I don’t like the traps, I was just seeing if there was anything else possible. A coworker told me to spray peppermint oil in my garage. I guess it’s worth a shot
Everything I read online says trapping is the way to go
Yeah, all these other things are at best only temporary solutions and they’ll be back.
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Trap and cat food.
Use work gloves when moving the trap. Those little fúckers bite and scratch. Transport with a garbage bag or tarp underneath, they piss and shìt like crazy when they are trapped.
If you shoot them, go for a body shot. Their heads are as hard as concrete, more likely to get a ricochet than a kill.
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Whatever you decide to do, be careful. Raccoons look all cute when they're waddling around. Truth is, for they're size they are the nastiest, meanest varmints around. If they feel threatened they will not always retreat. Watch your fingers.
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Trap and cat food.
Use work gloves when moving the trap. Those little fúckers bite and scratch. Transport with a garbage bag or tarp underneath, they piss and shìt like crazy when they are trapped.
If you shoot them, go for a body shot. Their heads are as hard as concrete, more likely to get a ricochet than a kill.
Once caught, I plan on filling up a garbage can with water and taking them for a swim. Good call on the gloves though. Definitely need to watch my hands
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Whatever you decide to do, be careful. Raccoons look all cute when they're waddling around. Truth is, for they're size they are the nastiest, meanest varmints around. If they feel threatened they will not always retreat. Watch your fingers.
This is what I have heard also. Feral cats wait until the racoons have had their fill before going after available food. Racoons have been known to attack dogs, sometimes jumping on their backs and clawing through their necks. Not sure that gloves are enough protection.
Scent aversion has been a tactic used more in recent years. Give it a try. If peppermint does not work, another scent-maybe citrus-probably will. Available on line and at pet food stores.
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Once caught, I plan on filling up a garbage can with water and taking them for a swim. Good call on the gloves though. Definitely need to watch my hands
just shoot them then. this is cruel, even for raccoons.
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just shoot them then. this is cruel, even for raccoons.
+1
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I get that they can be a very difficult but perhaps there's a less violent solution? I know they like grapes.
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just shoot them then. this is cruel, even for raccoons.
I don’t own a gun. I’ll ask around and see if there’s a better way but to be honest, this way was recommend by a few different people.
Also, no luck on the trap I set at lunch. Hoping for a catch overnight
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I don’t own a gun. I’ll ask around and see if there’s a better way but to be honest, this way was recommend by a few different people.
Also, no luck on the trap I set at lunch. Hoping for a catch overnight
Well, even if you did it might not be a great idea to start blasting away depending on your neighbor situation. Poison bait might be better than drowning?
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True story, my sister-in-law and her husband had a "pet" raccoon that they kept in their garage. They built a screen about 2 feet high that the garage door would rest on to give the raccoon some air. One day we were getting ready to leave their house and I was waiting outside for my wife. The damn raccoon was hissing at me and scratching at the screen but I was just laughing at it. The thing backed away and the next thing I knew it was sliding down the garage door because it was open at the top. I jumped on my car and started screaming until my sister-in-law and her husband came out to save me.
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True story, my sister-in-law and her husband had a "pet" raccoon that they kept in their garage. They built a screen about 2 feet high that the garage door would rest on to give the raccoon some air. One day we were getting ready to leave their house and I was waiting outside for my wife. The damn raccoon was hissing at me and scratching at the screen but I was just laughing at it. The thing backed away and the next thing I knew it was sliding down the garage door because it was open at the top. I jumped on my car and started screaming until my sister-in-law and her husband came out to save me.
Wow!!! They can be vicious.
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I don’t own a gun. I’ll ask around and see if there’s a better way but to be honest, this way was recommend by a few different people.
Also, no luck on the trap I set at lunch. Hoping for a catch overnight
How about a microwave?
Signed Chad Alvarez
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How about a microwave?
Signed Chad Alvarez
Now that is funny :D
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Well, even if you did it might not be a great idea to start blasting away depending on your neighbor situation. Poison bait might be better than drowning?
Poison would be much crueler than drowning. At least drowning is quick. Organs shutting down in people or animals is a horrible way to go.
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Poison would be much crueler than drowning. At least drowning is quick. Organs shutting down in people or animals is a horrible way to go.
I guess I don’t know. Drowning seems worse to me but no way of knowing.
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I guess I don’t know. Drowning seems worse to me but no way of knowing.
When we had horses, a huge black snake got onto the stable and the horses freaked out Big Time. They refused to go back in, even after a quite a while. I believe this is instinctive in horses- they are very scared of snakes.
So, I got a hold of the snake with long handled pruning shears, with just enough tension to hold it, and drowned it in a garbage can of water. I had to calm the horses down and lead them into the stable, where they very nervously checked it out for the snake. I did not like having to kill the snake, but it would have returned repeatedly as all stables have mice, either from grain remnants or as a place to nest in the hay bales. It was over quickly. Maybe we should have gotten a "barn cat" from SPCA -one that will not live in a house but is very happy living in a stable and getting supplemental food if the mice supply is not adequate.
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I find it amusing that ya'll differentiate the ways of murdering a racoon (or any other rodent).
Either you're a racoon murderer or not, get over yourselves.
(I'm a "cruel" mouse murderer...but those sticky traps work best)
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I find it amusing that ya'll differentiate the ways of murdering a racoon (or any other rodent).
Either you're a racoon murderer or not, get over yourselves.
(I'm a "cruel" mouse murderer...but those sticky traps work best)
This makes zero sense to me. You don't think there is any value in reducing the animal's pre-death suffering as much as possible?
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I find it amusing that ya'll differentiate the ways of murdering a racoon (or any other rodent).
Either you're a racoon murderer or not, get over yourselves.
(I'm a "cruel" mouse murderer...but those sticky traps work best)
I stick to the classic mouse trap. I stopped using the glue traps because I got tired of carrying the whole trap outside with a mouse stuck to it and having to take a shovel to him to put out of his misery.
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This makes zero sense to me. You don't think there is any value in reducing the animal's pre-death suffering as much as possible?
Nope.
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Nope.
I am unable to get out of my own brain enough to understand how someone would reach that conclusion.
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I am unable to get out of my own brain enough to understand how someone would reach that conclusion.
Last I'll say and you can continue judging me...
When it comes to pests, I will always choose the most effective way of removal over "how does the pest feel". Perhaps this is because I live on a couple acres with hundreds of acres of public land around me.
I don't have time or patience for nuisance pests, if a "humane" murder is equally effective, sure, that's good. But in the specific instance of mouse snap traps, they have proven to be better mouse feeders than catchers - just propagating the problem. Poison and sticky traps work best. Though, with poison they're just likely die somewhere in my walls. I did just setup a tomcat tunnel with rat snap traps to take care of some ground squirrels that have been destroying my yard.
But I'm not gonna judge someone if they want to drown a racoon.
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Last I'll say and you can continue judging me...
When it comes to pests, I will always choose the most effective way of removal over "how does the pest feel".
Perhaps this is because I live on a couple acres with hundreds of acres of public land around me.
I don't have time or patience for nuisance pests, if a "humane" murder is equally effective, sure, that's good. But in the specific instance of mouse snap traps, they have proven to be better mouse feeders than catchers - just propagating the problem. Poison and sticky traps work best. Though, with poison they're just likely die somewhere in my walls. I did just setup a tomcat tunnel with rat snap traps to take care of some ground squirrels that have been destroying my yard.
But I'm not gonna judge someone if they want to drown a racoon.
Scoopers who get sent on a vacation alteady know that.
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Last I'll say and you can continue judging me...
When it comes to pests, I will always choose the most effective way of removal over "how does the pest feel". Perhaps this is because I live on a couple acres with hundreds of acres of public land around me.
I don't have time or patience for nuisance pests, if a "humane" murder is equally effective, sure, that's good. But in the specific instance of mouse snap traps, they have proven to be better mouse feeders than catchers - just propagating the problem. Poison and sticky traps work best. Though, with poison they're just likely die somewhere in my walls. I did just setup a tomcat tunnel with rat snap traps to take care of some ground squirrels that have been destroying my yard.
But I'm not gonna judge someone if they want to drown a racoon.
FW(probably little)IW, I think you're playing the other players and not the cards here. I.e., you're letting your distaste of being judged and the hypocrisy of judgmental people create false ambiguity about animal suffering and pest eradication effectiveness.
Poison fracks up the food chain and is pretty objectively the worst option. Taking price, suffering, and effectiveness together, covered traps seem (to me) a small price to pay to not have mice try to gnaw their own legs off or dehydrate to death in a glue trap. By the time you've got a live raccoon in trap, for (again to me) a small bit of inconvenience, there are better options than sticking it in a bag and drowning it.
I killed two mice with snap traps just last night. I'm not here to judge you. The worst thing for animal welfare is the way people try to convice other people to care about animal welfare.
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I find it amusing that ya'll differentiate the ways of murdering a racoon (or any other rodent).
Either you're a racoon murderer or not, get over yourselves.
(I'm a "cruel" mouse murderer...but those sticky traps work best)
What if it were a person, or a dog?
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Taking price, suffering, and effectiveness together, covered traps seem (to me) a small price to pay to not have mice try to gnaw their own legs off or dehydrate to death in a glue trap.
Earlier this year I trapped a mouse in a snap trap and my pantry floor looked like a damn crime scene. Ugh.
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Earlier this year I trapped a mouse in a snap trap and my pantry floor looked like a damn crime scene. Ugh.
Ahem, I had two traps set up and after a weekend away they were both tripped... one of them there was a ton of carnage... half eaten mouse from god knows what. I proceeded to check the other trap and as I turned on the light to the room there was one mouse on the trap and the other right next to it. Initially I felt bad for the mouse since I thought maybe he was just saying goodbye to his friend. Well that wasn't the case. He was slowly EATING HIS FRIENDS EFFING FACE OFF.
He scampered away immediately, but I got him the next day on a trap. Nature is pretty gnarly man.
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Any one here ever had any raccoon problems and if so how’d you get rid of them? I have a detached garage and there’s definitely one or more of those bastards living above it. This happened a year or so ago too and I called a company who came out and caught one and I got to keep the trap but I’m looking for other suggestions rather than the basic trap.
Hoping someone can help because these f*ckers are annoying. Thanks in advance
I tried trap, luring out w/ food, blasting music, even poking it with a rake to drive him out. In the end, the only thing that worked was a leaf blower blasted at it that made it run out. I closed up all the doors and any access point and it never came back!
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I find it amusing that ya'll differentiate the ways of murdering a racoon (or any other rodent).
Either you're a racoon murderer or not, get over yourselves.
(I'm a "cruel" mouse murderer...but those sticky traps work best)
In my defense, I did just watch GOTG 3 a couple nights ago.
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Last I'll say and you can continue judging me...
When it comes to pests, I will always choose the most effective way of removal over "how does the pest feel". Perhaps this is because I live on a couple acres with hundreds of acres of public land around me.
I don't have time or patience for nuisance pests, if a "humane" murder is equally effective, sure, that's good. But in the specific instance of mouse snap traps, they have proven to be better mouse feeders than catchers - just propagating the problem. Poison and sticky traps work best. Though, with poison they're just likely die somewhere in my walls. I did just setup a tomcat tunnel with rat snap traps to take care of some ground squirrels that have been destroying my yard.
But I'm not gonna judge someone if they want to drown a racoon.
You should judge others, since you were named after a raccoon.