I need a waterproof repellent for raccoons. I have them under my back deck and they are eating my tomatoes. Thanks for your help.

They love honey buns! Has any one tried pepper spray or pepper gas bombs?

the damage thats done to ur house by raccoons is it covered by ur home insurence?

We also had raccoons in our attic. We learned our home owners insurance covers some of the damage. Raccoons are not rodents (rodents are not covered by most insurance). They are considered a health hazard. Hope this will help others.

Hey i have a racoon problem last night they were fighting my dogs!
i am scared that they might have rabies and infect my dogs
so wat do i do? should i just call the animal control people?
or should i just blast them myself?

I’m a fur trapper. I can catch any raccoon in any house or yard anywhere and not catch your pets. However we are slandered everywhere by arrogant animal lovers and an ignorant general public. We can’t trap anything in most cities unless we are licensed and certified by the fools in government you all voted for. Of course it’s all for the publics protection we are told. My little traps that I can snap on my own hands, they say may harm your children and pets. I once caught 15 raccoons behind a farmers barn and never caught one of his 30 barn cats. Well you all think we are so cruel and inhumane, now you can deal with your stupid raccoons yourselves or pay big bucks for some company to remove the filthy beasts that I would have removed free every trapping season. Ain’t government wonderful?

I used marshmallows in the Havahart trap. I had to out smart them. But we caught 5 in a few wks.

Not much of a tip, but would like to know how to keep them out of my chicken coop. I have lost 8 chickens in the past 3 weeks. We have our fence over 6 feet tall and the coons still get in. Would appreciate any good advice other than using a trap, we have cats.

Bwast the little suckers to smithereens. Little ones grow up to be big nuisances.
I am dealing with a big a$$ coon in my duct work right now. Why if I had a gun I’d ….

WE HAVE ABOUT THREE RACCOONS STUCK IN BETWEEN ARE ROOF OF ARE PORCH
AND THE CEILING TO THE PORCH I’M NOT SURE HOW TO GET THEM OUT OF THERE THE GAME WARDEN TOLD ME TO USE A FLASHLIGHT AND A PAN WITH A
SPONGE WITH AMMONIA CLEANER AND A PORTABLE RADIO TURN THE RADIO ON A HARD ROCK STATION I SHOULD PUT THE STUFF OUT AT NIGHT SHE SAID THAT WILL GET RID OF THEM
I KNOW DANG WELL THERE NIGHT CRITTERS I’M SCARED BECAUSE I HAVE A 4 YEAR SON THAT LIKE TO PLAY ON THE FRONT PORCH AT NIGHT AND I AFAIRD HE’S GONE TO GET ATTACK SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME
THANK YOU
THE WARFIELD FAMILY IN OHIO

I have a family of racoons in between my attic floor and second floor ceiling. Now what should I do to get them OUT!! My ceiling is destroyed and it smells like a Zoo. How can I save my home without harming the things??? What do you do when you don’t have thousands of dollars to have them removed? There must be a better way of doing this. Any suggestions would be greatful.

Thanks

We bought a trap yesterday & the cat food didn’t lure her. Drats. Wish we’d checked this site first. Last night my husband got up in the attic & sure enough the babies (5) were way down in the ceiling area that he found difficult to reach. With shovel in hand & an old kitty litter container w/plastic lid, he was able to scoop up the babies & put ‘em into the container. Ended up taking them out into the countryside & let ‘em out of the container. We’ll try the peanut butter in the trap tonight unless my husband decides to take a BB gun up there & hunt down mama. She’s already digging up there @ 8 AM. A roofer looked at our eaves where mama came in & recommends getting someone out to secure down all the eaves w/a block of wood or some sort of repair work so we don’t get more of ‘em. I do recommend wearing a painter’s mask/etc. when digging in the attic. Hard to breathe between the raccoon waste & insulation. Nasty stuff.

I JUST GOT ONE IN THE HAVAHART TRAP WITH PEANUT BUTTER. THE THING TOOK OVER MY OUTSIDE/HOMELESS CAT DOGHOUSE THAT SHE LIVES IN FOR A WEEK. HE WENT FOR A RIDE AND I BELIEVE HE IS ON THE 18TH HOLE AT EISENHOWER PARK, EAST MEADOW, NY - I HOPE IS WAS WEARING THE CHECKERED PANTS I SENT WITH HIM !!!

If you are having a problem with the raccoons getting your bait from the trap without the trap going off, smear some peanut butter on the bottom part of the trap. We have had a trap set for 4 days, every day the bait is gone without trapping the animal. We then set it with the peanut butter and caught one that night.

Today, April 7, 2008, I caught raccoon #12 on my back porch. I have been catching them since late 2007. I use a Havahart cage trap because I didn’t want to harm them, but now I am so angry that the niceness stops. They have caused so much damage in my ceiling: ripping up the insulation, defecating and, when they urinate, it runs down the ceiling and down the walls onto furniture, lamps, picures and carpet. Walls now have to be repainted, carpet steam cleaned, and a large section of my beautiful cedar ceiling taken down to clean out the filth and damage inside. I hope my homeowner’s insurance will cover the damage because there is a lot of it. But until I am sure that they are out of the ceiling, though, I cannot patch the entry hole they have torn in my chimney (it is a cedar house) because that will only trap them, where they will die, then the stink will be worse. Their feces and urine have already made my living room stink. Raccoons are nasty pests, not the cute wild animals that people seem to think they are. Everytime I have caught one in the trap they hiss and growl at me, no surprise there. So far I have taken them far away to a large park to release them. But they are nasty monsters and if I can’t get the problem resolved by humane means, I will start killing them without any regrets, that’s just how angry I am at the damage they have done to my house.

The tip from Jan 31 sounds good….but what do you do with the babies left behind in the attic?

Shoot ‘em. A good Daise pump BB gun with 22 cal. pellets works great if you don’t like or can’t use a fire-arm. No hissy attitude issues dealing with a dead ‘coon, and they won’t ever come back.

WE HIRED A TRAPPER A WEEK AGO WHO PLACED THE TRAP COMPLETELY OVER THE HOLE. HE CHECKED IT FOR 5DAYS, AT A COST OF $350.00 PLUS TAX. WE CAN HEAR THE MOTHER RACCOON AND THE CUBS AT NIGHT-YET SHE NEVER CAME OUT. NOW HE TELLS US THAT SHE MUST BE GETTING IN ANOTHER WAY. SO HE HAS NOW SECURED ALL POSSIBLE ENTRIES, AND LEFT THE TRAP OVER THE HOLE. ONCE HE GETS THE MOTHER, HE’LL NEED TO CUT OUT THE DRYWALL INSIDE TO REACH/RESCUE THE CUBS-THIS TO THE TUNE OF AN ADDITIONAL 700.00. SO NOW WE WAIT! IF WE’VE LEARNED ANYTHING THROUGH ALL OF THIS-IT WOULD BE TO HAVE YOUR ROOF CHECKED ALONG WITH AIR DUCTS AND CHIMNEYS, TO MAKE SURE THE SCREENS REMAIN INTACT. IF YOU LIVE IN A WOODED AREA AS WE DO.

I’ve had a raccoon in my attic for almost a week now. Set out a large trapping gage and just threw two marshmallows into the front of the cage. Well I went up in the attic this morning and the two marshmallows were gone and the cage was still set to go off.
I went to work and found out that they probably just reached in and grabbed the marshmallow and left. Now I have wrapped three marshmallows with a nylon zip tie, and strapped the zip tie to the bottom of the cage. We’ll see whats there in the morning.

Please call wildlife experts or rescue people to come and trap. So many times they will be able to help. It is not necessary to kill or poison. They are just looking for a way to exist in this world just like we all are.