how do you get rid of a raccoon?

bikezappa

$150 for the trap $50 per raccoon is reasonable.

the poison idea is good as long as you don't kill a lot of other animals.

i tried rat poison that came packaged in 1" cubes. i put the poison and some peanut butter near the bird feeder and i screwed the poison cubes high up the tree on a wooden plateform. i did this at dusk. my cats won't climb the trees to get the food and it was screwed to the tree so it won't be spread around for others to eat. i did this three times at dusk and each morning the peanut butter and rat cube was gone.

i finally located 5 rat cubes with nails and they were also gone/eaten by the morning. i did this twice. i think i have a few raccoons. i can still hear them at night but i have changed the location of the bird feeders so the raccoons can't get at them and make a racket at night.

so far we, that is the raccoons and i, have gotten along. time will tell.

bikezappa

i tried playing some music on my outdoor speakers at low volume and it did nothing to slow the raccoon down.

amulford

sucks2beme wrote: »

When I was a kid, my dad shot one out of a tree with a 22.
It fell 50 feet to the ground and fought the dog to a stalemate
until the ol' man could get another shot into it. Don't mess with one
if you don't have to.
Pay the pro to do his business..

No ****. When I was a kid we used to coon hunt, long story. Now I wouldn't wanna f#ck with a coon dog, they are some fairly bad **** hounds. But you NEVER let your good coon hound go up on a coon alone, not if you wanted your dog...

If you can trap it, do so. No need to kill it if you don't want to. Word to the wise, they are pretty slick...If it were me, that **** would be stewin'. Especially after the gazebo incident. Yeah, cute alright....

dkg999

They make nice hats.

sucks2beme

amulford wrote: »

No ****. When I was a kid we used to coon hunt, long story. Now I wouldn't wanna f#ck with a coon dog, they are some fairly bad **** hounds. But you NEVER let your good coon hound go up on a coon alone, not if you wanted your dog...

If you can trap it, do so. No need to kill it if you don't want to. Word to the wise, they are pretty slick...If it were me, that **** would be stewin'. Especially after the gazebo incident. Yeah, cute alright....

We didn't expect the damn thing to be quite so lively after taking the nosedive out of the tree.
That dog had a bad attitude, but that racoon is about the only thing to ever stand up to him.
He was great for rounding up cattle, sheep, and hogs. And he had perfected catching and
killing snakes.
I also had to give him about 6 or 7 tomato baths. He just wouldn't stop
messing with skunks. They'd spray him, he'd kill they anyway. Yuk.

mrbigbluelight

I don't, but anyone who coon hunts will tell you: no matter how big, how bad, how experienced your coon dog is, if he gets in the water with a racoon, he's dead. The racoon will climb on his head and drown him