racoons wat keeps them away from house ?????

Question

how do u keep raccons away from the house wat really works well? n i got a very big yard does any1 know any solutions?? i want 2 get them away from house n yard

DONT want 2 kill nor hurt them have 2 dogs but not trained like that not even close

n i have cats that live outside dont want them hurt or killed

Answer 1

Stop building houses in their homes.

Answer 2

Ammonia soaked rags work pretty well, but only in places where the animlas frequent often, like holes in the roof or corners of the garden. Basically, you have to evaluate your backyard set up. You have to remove all the things the animal needs like food, water, and shelter. Do you have bird feeders, apple trees, do yuo feed your pets outside, if you do, take this food source away. Bird baths give them a great source of water. Are there holes under your shed or in your attic, these are good hiding places...close em up and you will also reduce the chances of raccoons staying in the yard. There are also many products that will deter them. Critter-Ridder is a good one, just leave it in areas where they frequent, it has a nasty smell that they dont like. Ro-PEL is another product that can be used to spray on any objects that they are chewing or eating, like garden vegetables for instance. Ammonia soaked rags (already mentioned). there are also the very inexpensive means of scaring them off. For one, you can but a cap gun at the one dollar store and use that to spook them when they are in the yard. You can throw a beach ball or tennis ball at them to spook them. Spraying with the hose works pretty well also. Be careful to never approach the animal, they can be very aggressive when cornered, and can easily beat a dog in a fight, so dont send a dog after it, you'll regret it. Also be careful about raccoon feces, it is known to contain toxoplasma parasites which can be transmitted by injection after touching the feces, use boiling water directly on the feces to kill any infectious eggs. I hope some of that info helps. Good Luck!

Answer 3

Yes call the vet and ask for a 'have a heart trap'. set it with cat food or something appealing to raccoons. Might be able to rent on at a hard ware store. Or local animal shelter. Just be careful they have little hands and are quick. The sound machine mentioned above will drive your cats and dogs insane. Save your money.

Answer 4

The Sharper Image makes a device that produces a high pitched sound (higher than our ears can detect), which keeps small rodents to racoons away from your home.

Answer 5

Ammonia -- you can buy it in the cleaning section of your local *mart. Put it in a squirt bottle and squirt the areas they frequent -- your porch, the trash area ...... They don't like the smell of it and will stop coming around after smelling this odor a few times.

Answer 6

GET A LAWN & GARDEN SPRAYER, FILL IT WITH DEISEL FUEL AND SPRAY IT ALL THE WAY AROUND THE EDGE OF YOUR YARD/ LAND. JUST BE SURE NOT TO SPRAY IT ON ANY OF YOUR FLOWERS. WHERE EVER YOU SPRAY IT, THE PLANTS, WEEDS, GRASS OR FLOWERS WILL DIE. IT WILL KEEP ALL KINDS OF CRITTERS AND INSECTS AWAY AND IS A LOT CHEAPER THAN THE CHEMICAL SPRAYS!

Answer 7

Shotguns.

Answer 8

Set live traps and then release them into the wild somewhere else.

Answer 9

A homonym is a word that is spelled and pronounced the same as another but with a different meaning – such as mean (verb – to intend) and mean (noun & adjective – average) – such words are both homophones and homographs. See OED and Chambers

Some sources state that homonym meanings must be unrelated (rather than just different), or that the words must have a different origin. Thus read (present tense) and read (past tense) would not be homonyms, whereas mean (unkind), mean (intend), and mean (average) would be.

Heteronyms (also sometimes called heterophones) are words that are spelled the same but have different pronunciations and meanings (in other words, they are homographs which differ in pronunciation or, technically, homographs which are not homophones). For example, the homographs desert (abandon) and desert (arid region) are heteronyms (pronounced differently), but mean (intend) and mean (average) are not (Ie. they are pronounced the same, or are homonyms).

Capitonyms are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings when capitalised (and may or may not have different pronunciations) – for example, polish (to make shiny) and Polish (from Poland).

In derivation, homonym means "same name", homophone means "same sound", homograph means "same writing", heteronym (somewhat confusingly) means "different name", and heterophone means "different sound".

Significant variant interpretations include:

#Chambers 21st Century Dictionary [1] defines a homonym as "a word with the same sound and spelling as another, but with a different meaning" (italics added). Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary [2] also says that a homonym is "one of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning" (italics added), but appears to also give homonym as a synonym for either homophone or homograph.
#Cambridge Dictionary of American English [3] defines homonym as "a word that is spelled the same as another word but that does not have the same meaning" (the same as what above is called a homograph).
#The entry for homonym in The Encyclopaedia Britannica (14th Edition) states that homographs are "words spelt but not sounded alike", and homophones are "words alike only in sound [i.e. not alike in spelling]" (italics and comment added).
The Encarta dictionary [4] defines heteronym as "each of two or more words that are spelled the same, but differ in meaning and often in pronunciation" (italics added). The "Fun with Words" website [5] says that a heteronym is "One of two (or more) words that have the same spelling, but different meaning, and sometimes different pronunciation too" (in other words, what is called a homograph above).
Homonym has a specialised meaning in scientific nomenclature, see See also below. Homograph is sometimes used in typography as a synonym for homoglyph, and heteronym has a specialised meaning in poetry – see Heteronym (literature).

Further examples:-
A further example of a homonym which is both a homophone and a homograph is fluke. Fluke can mean-

A fish, and a flatworm.
The end parts of an anchor.
The fins on a whale's tail.
A stroke of luck.
All four are separate lexemes with separate etymologies, but share the one form, fluke. Similarly, a river bank, a savings bank, and a bank of switches share only a common spelling and pronunciation, but not meaning.

The first homophones that one learns in English are probably the homophones to, too, and two, but the sentence "Too much to do in two days" would confuse no one. (Note, however, when read with a natural rhythm in many dialects, to has a schwa and is not homophonous with too or two.)

There, their, and they're are familar examples, as are lead (the metal) and led (the verb past participle).
Moped (the motorized bicycle) and moped (the past tense of mope) are examples of homographs; they are not homophones, because they are pronounced differently.
In some accents, various sounds have merged in that they are no longer distinctive, and thus words that differ only by those sounds in an accent that maintains the distinction (a minimal pair) are homophonous in the accent with the merger. Some examples from English are:-

pin and pen in many southern American accents.
merry, marry, and Mary in many western American accents.
The pairs do, due and forward, foreword are homophonous in most American accents but not in most British accents.
The pairs talk, torque, and court, caught are distinguished in rhotic accents such as Scottish English and most dialects of American English, but are homophones in many non-rhotic accents such as British Received Pronunciation.
Homophones are sometimes used in message encryption to increase the difficulty in cracking the decryption code. In this case the clear text is altered prior to being encrypted and the decrypting party substitutes the homophones for their true meaning after decrypting the message

Many puns rely on homophones for their humor.

Homograph disambiguation is critically important in speech synthesis, natural language processing and other fields. See also polysemy for a closely related idea.

Quote:-
His death, which happen'd in his berth,
At forty-odd befell:
They went and told the sexton, and
The sexton toll'd the bell
Thomas Hood, "Faithless Sally Brown"

hope this helps!

Answer 10

get a dog