Raccoons
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I agree with @matt247365, take away that feed station, unless it's your bait station. They are only coming because there's food for them, no need to kill them, unless you want to... Choices, choices...
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Have friends over and do a coordinated 3 -2 - shoot, like 68 Whiskey does with Norm. Even with a semi, after the first shot, they'll be gone.
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Exclude them by taking away their life with a well aimed pellet right between their eyes and leave the food for the other animals.
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In terms of non-lethal ways of discouraging raccoons, for a long time I had little luck. I have chickens, so I can't get rid of food on my property entirely. But it saddened me to be massacring the local raccoon population.
I had been looking for a way of giving the raccoons an option -- to make them think twice about coming on to my property -- some sort of "sporting chance" where if they screwed up, then I'd kill them.
I had the idea to buy a really **really insanely** bright flashlight with a focused beam. Raccoons have a tendency to look at flashlights. But if your flashlight is bright enough, it seems to do a good job of getting the raccoon to leave -- and not come back.
So far, it's worked. I shine the flashlight in their eyes, and more often than not, they don't come back.
My guess is the temporary blindness is bad-enough to give them a bad memory of my property.
I had been looking for a way of giving the raccoons an option -- to make them think twice about coming on to my property -- some sort of "sporting chance" where if they screwed up, then I'd kill them.
I had the idea to buy a really **really insanely** bright flashlight with a focused beam. Raccoons have a tendency to look at flashlights. But if your flashlight is bright enough, it seems to do a good job of getting the raccoon to leave -- and not come back.
So far, it's worked. I shine the flashlight in their eyes, and more often than not, they don't come back.
My guess is the temporary blindness is bad-enough to give them a bad memory of my property.
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.A Dog works, at least mine did and they never bothered my other yard animals, only intruders and for some reason that did not happen often.
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Yeah, dogs work pretty well. Most of the time I wouldn't notice the raccoons in our yard if it wasn't for our dog.
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I’m in between the camps. If one of them mess up my trash can or eat my goldfish then it’s dead. As long as they pass through my yard without casing damage then I’ll let it be.
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I have a koi pond do you feed them bird seeds or fish?
Lead.
Looks like you gotta get up early to catch that gaze.
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If you don’t want to kill them, do what Vetmx does and pierce their ear with a pellet. Raccoons have a better memory than a dog and might not come back after having a hole drilled through its ear.
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