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*#@** RACCOONS!! :mad

Wait, is that from a raccoon or your dog? Hope everyone is OK.
 
It was in 2015. Dog was OK, but this bite and my wife's scratches sent us to the doctor for a full round of rabies shots. One week before our honeymoon cruise that we ended up having to postpone.
 
last night trash panda showed up on my back deck to face off against my cat, I ran out with the double ended spear to scare it off.
 
They're back :cry

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A couple of years ago I had a raccoon couple living under my back yard deck (they had a few kits). I don't know if my solution was legal but it did end up working.

First, the things that didn't work:
  • Sparying the deck with water regularly to make them uncomfortable. It was fall/winter.
  • Putting down red pepper flakes all around the perimiter of the deck and between as many slats as I could.

What finally worked was pepper spray. I got a couple of the canisters with the gel based pepper spray that sprays in a nice, thin, straight stream. Just to test it, I stood about 6 feet back from my sound wall and gave a little spray. I was coughing and sneezing for a good 10-15 minutes.

When I got one between the slats it ran out from under my deck and onto the fence and started trying to get the pepper spray off. I hit him again while he was on the fence and he took off running.

Over the next week or so I caught mama raccoon on my Ring cameras moving her babies from under my deck to my roof but the sad part was every couple of days I would find a dead baby raccoon (about the size of a rat) in my back yard. Picked up and threw away about 6 of them before I didn't see anymore.

So far...knock on wood...I haven't had a re-occurrence.

YMMV....
 
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I forgot to mention...the little buggers can be cute as hell. I was hesitant at first to chase them away but the mama of my indoor cats also lives in my back yard and I didn't want her to get hurt if the raccoons got aggressive with her.
 
The pepper spray has kept them off the boat but they’ve moved to the work barge and love playing with the rope. They haven’t hissed at me but thinking pepper spray attack 2 is in the works.
 
i think you need a drone with a pepper sprayer... like crop dusting. it would probably backfire and blow the pepper everywhere you don't want it. don't listen to me
 
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With pix posted with so much affinity & cute featured,
I believe training is in order.

Surely those little hands can learn to thread fasteners, step & fetch parts, and sop up gunkholes with their fur.
Sure, later cleansing with Dawn is in order, as the love is shared, , ,
 
There are 2 that would like to be pets. Not happening! On a positive note they have stopped breaking into the boat. That said, their new trick is to knock and I’m debating if I should reward the courtesy or meet them with a baseball bat.

I hosted a short video on YouTube and got 1800 hits in 15 minutes maybe we should commoditize the little f$$let’s and start encouraging them.
 
This thread is very entertaining.

G'luck with the problem G.

They are cute little fuckers.
 
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