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 Post subject: Raccoon advice
PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 8:41 am 
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So lots of raccoons on my street.


The other night they invaded our roof.


Inspection of property and attic shows they were gone.


So I made a spray using cayenne pepper as I read this repels them. I climbed up on my roof sprayed my upper and lower roofs sprays my soffits and eves troughs and yesterday they we climbing up and down the house.

I called a few animal control companies and they all offer humane one way doors out of house but seem to offer nothing to just keep them away.


Last night they were trying to get into a bedroom window not attic or soffit.


I know if young raccoons are in attic or something it would explain the behavior but there arent any.

So what can I do to make these guys leave?

this is them trying to enter bedroom
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LqyaO ... TVwN-AXn7E


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 Post subject: Re: Raccoon advice
PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 9:36 am 
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Blast a radio in the attic while you are out.
maybe sleep in the basement a few nights and let it go round the clock.
I suggest a Portuguese soccer station.
Maybe a few plastic owls outside, just a guess.

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 Post subject: Re: Raccoon advice
PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 1:29 pm 
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A suggestion from Hodor many yrs ago....Lawn chair, shotgun & a six pack of beer.

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 2:14 pm 
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Greenjp wrote:
A suggestion from Hodor many yrs ago....Lawn chair, shotgun & a six pack of beer.



Very very very tempting


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 Post subject: Re: Raccoon advice
PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 4:01 pm 
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I'd say Google the search terms
"poachers rabbit snare"
"animal snare"

Outdoor survival books at the library aught to show how to make em


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 5:19 pm 
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There is no such thing as a condiment offensive enough to repel these critters, rats and squirrels either. Step it up to ammonia-soaked rags in tin pie plates at strategic locations around traffic lanes, to block them off or herd them as needed. You're just trying to become their least attractive option, and move on. Be careful handling this stuff, and your neighbs will want to kill you, it's some stinky.

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 Post subject: Re: Raccoon advice
PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 5:33 pm 
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Coyote piss.

You put this around the perimeter of your property, and where you think they’d get in to the attic. The person who actually sells you the urine will give you better, exact advice.

Good luck, these fukkers can cause a lot of damage.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 10:47 pm 
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So I added moth balls to the mix of cayenne pepper and raid and noise and light and they left early yesterday, still gone now!


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PostPosted: Sun Jul 29, 2018 10:49 am 
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I inspected a home about 5 years ago in town and in the attic there was a 4 foot high nest of sticks and other debris where the base of the nest was probably 10 feet around. 2 bright lights / eyes shone from the base of this huge nest. Kind of freaky. Exit stage left. Where the hell is Billy the Exterminator when you need him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BLTHqX26xM

Other fun attic finds include -

- a huge mass of bats - probably 200, all huddled together making cute noises.
- squirrels running around.
- lots of evidence of mice.
- birds in distress freaked out when the hatch was opened.
- pot plants hanging from the trusses.
- huge wasp nests - one twice the size of a basket ball.
- a garbage pail with a ramp up to the edge that was full of dead mice :shock:

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- a garbage pail with a ramp up to the edge that was full of dead mice

No need to be shocked

that was a fairly common way to deal with the pests
in Farm Mechanics magazines in the past

I've seen a 1916 Australian Farm Mechanics magazine that
used the ramp going to a pail filled with water
mouse charges onto a hinged
wooden stick straddling the top of the pail
and half way across
mouse trips some weight and the stick drops the pest into the water below

I've also seen similar Mouse Killer Pails
in Popular Mechanics magazones from the 1930s

Farmers back then were very innovative on how to kill mice


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 Post subject: Re: Raccoon advice
PostPosted: Sun Jul 29, 2018 5:41 pm 
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Milton Dutch Day wrote:
- a garbage pail with a ramp up to the edge that was full of dead mice

No need to be shocked.


Well,,, it's not everyday that one finds a garbage pail in an attic full of dead mice :wink: :)

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 Post subject: Re: Raccoon advice
PostPosted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 7:48 am 
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So I went to check for attic damage and found what I believe is raccoon poo. Now I read that means I could of inhaled round worm. Kinda stressful


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 7:51 am 
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Trying to find a company to treat and clean attic and I can't. Should I be stressed of airborne roundworm? Bad timing we have a baby due I want the house safe


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 8:11 am 
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007 wrote:
Trying to find a company to treat and clean attic and I can't. Should I be stressed of airborne roundworm? Bad timing we have a baby due I want the house safe


A Google "attic cleaning service" search will help.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 8:33 am 
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Halton Home Inspector wrote:
007 wrote:
Trying to find a company to treat and clean attic and I can't. Should I be stressed of airborne roundworm? Bad timing we have a baby due I want the house safe


A Google "attic cleaning service" search will help.



Thank you found a few.

I wonder if I should be worried that I was up there? didnt touch it


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