What animal is pooping on my stuff???

DaveNay · Sep 6, 2004

( Racoons. Get your self a live trap. My dad had a live trap at his lake property. It worked great. Then dad would try to teach them to swim. To this date not one has learned how to swim in a live trap.

murph )

Isn't this an oxymoron? I know I am guilty as charged. THe live trap just makes it easier to hit them in the head with the first shot of the .22. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Dave

thcri · Sep 6, 2004

Gee Danny, don't need to get to worked up. Dad actually for the most part moved them out in the country and then let them go. There was a couple that he thought had rabbies and he did kill them. There is a lot of young children in the area and he did not want one to get hurt from a rabbied racoon. It's nice to love animals but there is a time when you have to get rid of them.

As far as animals, I feed the raccoons, I feed deer and I have a whole mess of pheasants in my back yard. In fact I even have a few skunks once in a while. I even have a dog and a cat in the house.

murph

Bob_Skurka · Sep 6, 2004

Danny, if there is any construction within a mile or two of me I am not aware of it, even if something is being built it would only be a single house. But as far as I can see there is nothing in sight but fields and woods. As for feeding the critters, I prefer not to. We have herds of deer that come in and destroy everything they can eat or rub against. I never bother the animals until they become a nusience, at which point I try to discourage them, if that doesn't work, they are dispatched in a humane way. I see no reason to trap them, it simply terrifies them and then moves them into an area that makes them a pest to someone else. Nope, if they are are problem, then I will deal with them.

So my first question is, is there a way to discourage racoons?

JerryG · Sep 6, 2004

So my first question is, is there a way to discourage racoons? 

The only thing that I know you can do is to remove any type of food stuff that might attract them. From your description, it does sound like raccoons.

Phred · Sep 6, 2004

Bob,

Maybe this site well help out.
http://www.terrierman.com/scatanswers.htm

The good news is that they don't have a screen saver you can download /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Fred

NSBound · Sep 6, 2004

So my first question is, is there a way to discourage racoons?

 

 

It IS coons - they do that to me too, in town in a neigbourhood where there are lots of big trees. They do it on my deck, right by my back door, and mostly beside my fish pond. Lots of berries - Mountain Ash berries right now /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

I treat coons and skunks alike - leave a motion-sensing light on 24-7 trained on the area where they do their thing. (In winter, I also play LOUD reggae or hip-hop music, 24-7 - neighbours don't mind in winter when all their doors and windows are closed!!) In summer, just the lights generally keeps 'em away.

Mrwurm · Sep 6, 2004

Bob, racoons leave the same black tarry mess on my deck. I don't know why they choose my deck when there are so many other places to go. I started trapping them this summer, but quickly got tired of it. I could catch two per night on my deck and there was no sign of the supply slowing down.

CountryJoe · Sep 6, 2004

( Bob if it is raccoons and you are going to live trap them be extremely careful. Raccoons can and do carry rabies. )

Not to mention they can bite like heck... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Bob_Skurka · Sep 6, 2004

Jerry, just out of curiosity, how many did you trap before you gave up? I have woods running through my property and on all the surrounding properties. I'm beginning to think that short of nuking the woods, I'm going to have to live with the poop.

Ian, I'm not really into hip-hop music, in fact, I think I'd rather invite the racoons to use my pool area as a potty training center for their offspring that have to listen to 24/7 hip-hop music!

johnday · Sep 6, 2004

Phred; Beautiful post /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif Do you know of a site with more ID's?
I think I have a pile of bear poop in my yard upnorth and would like to ID it for sure. No, I'm not into scat at all!!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif