Help with raccoons
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William1976
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Is it equal? I thought u just needed a couple tsp per 10oz? Can't find much info on it.
tripleD
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If you want to trap them I suggest a couple of things:
1) Buy a quality trap (they will tear up a cheap cage trap)
2) Use marshmellows! Do NOT use cat food or dog food unless you don't mind catching every dog, cat, opossum, & skunk in the area. Raccoon's love marsh mellows but most other animals do not...
3) Don't touch trap with hands, wear gloves.
4) Take the raccoon at least 10 miles away (I recommend 20miles) unless you want it to come back.
5) Raccoon's normally have 2-4 young babies to take care of from March-May & sometimes even in the fall, so please remember to look at the tits of the raccoon before releasing it to make sure it isn't a nursing female. You don't want to risk having to pull dead STINKY baby raccoons out of your attic, or paying someone like me hundreds of dollars to do it for you.
6) If you do manage to catch a nursing mother in a trap keep her hydrated & in the shade & her babies (if old enough to walk) will usually come to the trap & you can catch them & haul them off with their mother. Keep in mind that raccoons normally have 3-4 babies so if only 1 or 2 babies come to the trap then you might have to hunt down the other one's.
If the babies don't come to their mother in the trap & you can't find them then you should let the mother out of the trap because the babies will starve to death if you haul her off.
The other posters gave some good advice for deterring them with predators urine & not using any meal in your holes that might attract them. You can also build a cage around your plants using hardware cloth (chicken wire is no good), but be sure to dig a 2ft deep & 1ft wide trench to put the HW cloth in or else the raccoons or other critters (skunks) will just dig it up. Raccoons are very tenacious lil critters & you might consider hiring a professional if you're in an area that has a lot of them. GL
BarnBuster
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i remm equal parts but googling "raccoon malrin death mix" has a poster using small handful to can of coke.
also this uses a little more 1/3 lb to can
http://itchyfish.com/how-to-kill-a-raccoon-without-confronting-it/
also this uses a little more 1/3 lb to can
http://itchyfish.com/how-to-kill-a-raccoon-without-confronting-it/
tripleD
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Please don't try to poison any raccoon's, it is very inhumane & not worth the risk if you get caught.
Also, if you decide to trap it/them remember that it is illegal in most states to transport them without a license due to the fact that they carry rabbies, raccoon roundworm (parasite that can be deadly in humans) & other disease, so call your local animal control to haul them off for you (for free) if you live in a municipality that offers animal control.
Also, if you decide to trap it/them remember that it is illegal in most states to transport them without a license due to the fact that they carry rabbies, raccoon roundworm (parasite that can be deadly in humans) & other disease, so call your local animal control to haul them off for you (for free) if you live in a municipality that offers animal control.
vostok
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Wire netting does wonders ..yeah that chicken fence stuff
proprietary concoctions do work but not really well
the best is what I do with rippers
capture one, .. chain him to a post and fed him once a day
after a month no rippers or pests let him go
should he follow you ...then
you have a friend for life ..lol
good luck
ps pic Man captures photo of raccoon 'riding an alligator'
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33143367
BarnBuster
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i just been watching coon vids and they are so damn cute i want one now. do you suppose i could use a leg hold trap to catch maybe a bigger boar coon and would he eat a weiner out of my hand?
he would eat the weiner out of your hand for sure. LOL grab him.... he'll fuck you up .... lol
Corso312
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I'm assuming you are using organics?
Coons, skunks and foxes used to dig up my outdoor patches when I used organics.. I switched to synthetic n they stopped.
BarnBuster
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hmmm. so maybe 2 weiners?
I've still got visible scars on both arms from playing with him, & then he'd get mad or scared & really inflict damage.hmmm. so maybe 2 weiners?
Honestly, not an animal to be taken lightly.
If Coons got as big as our bears (1400 lbs), the bears would be extinct.
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William1976
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Well not really, it's as soon as I plant seedling peat pellets in the ground, they come along and pop ever single one out. Once the plant is established they leave alone. I have tried using the native soil thinking it would smell the same....you know as a starter soil instead of the peat pellets but that didn't work either.
William1976
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I will give it a try, you know what I was thinking is to put a 45lb weight over plant from my weight bench, you know, slide it through the hole. Then once it is established a little bit slide weight off before it gets to big to. I know they are stout little creatures but idk if they could toss around a 45. What do u think?