What is the best way to get rid of raccoons?

Answer 1

Use a live trap. There are commercially available materials (Raccoon lure or baits) which can be used to avoid trapping local cats. These baits have a fruit base (often cherry).

Keep lids on garbage cans and use mothballs within closed areas to help drive then away from other food sources so that the trap will be more effective.

In urban areas where trapping may not be legal, contact any professional "Pest Management" company or animal control department and have them deal with the problem.

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Answer 2

This can be a legal question as well. Depending on where you live depends on what you can do. In my state it is illegal to shoot them or move them to another place. The best bet if your state has similar laws, is to contact a local "Problem Animal Control Agent". They usually charge a small fee, but the fee is smaller than if you are caught trapping them or moving them.

The problem in the end rests with the area you live. Something attracted those raccoons there, so you may have a never ending problem. I know that is not the news you wanted, but more than likely if you remove them, it will become home to another raccoon or another problem animal.

If you can target why they like your area, you may have a better chance at attacking the problem. If your garbage is outside, bring it inside for example. You may need to have this family of raccoons removed and then deal with the issue of why they were there in the first place.

Good luck!

Answer 3

As long as there's a food source they will be very persistent. Keep your garbage in the garage and pet food in the house at night. Gardens, fruit trees and grubs in your lawn will also attract them. Alot of things people use as repellents don't work because raccoons will tolerate alot to get to food. I've heard that predator urine (coyote or wolf) combined with playing a cd with these animals yips and howls out the window at night has kept raccoons away. If they're nesting somewhere like under your porch put a radio down there and play loud music all day and throw some moth balls under there. That should be enough to evict them.

Answer 4

It is really hard in the county to get rid of local animal species. Sometimes you can get versions from nature stores of fox, coyote etc. urine that you sprinkle around to ward them off. My only concern is that those smells would also freak out the horses. Other option is to feed the raccoons but away from the horses. If they have an easier food source they will leave the ones they are accessing now, alone.

Answer 5

Raccoons can carry Baylisascaris roundworm, distemper, and rabies. Of the approximately 8,000 documented animal rabies cases in the United States, raccoons constitute approximately 50%
Treatment:

While worming can rid the intestine of adult Balisascaris, there is no treatment that has been shown to alleviate illness caused by migrating larvae.

Careful decontamination procedures need to be performed after contact with animal feces. Baylisascaris eggs can enter the digestive tract of a person who, for instance, removes dung from his property and then eats without thoroughly washing his hands.

Baylisascaris are highly resistant to decontamination procedures because of their dense cell walls and sticky surface. They can survive hot or freezing weather and certain chemicals, remaining viable for several years. Rats are a known vector, and rat droppings may deposit the eggs into the carpets and interiors of homes.

Bleach can prevent the eggs from sticking, but will not ensure destruction. According to Parasitism in Companion Animals by Olympic Veterinary Hospital, hand washing is an important countermeasure against ingestion, and decontamination of other surfaces is accomplished by thoroughly flaming with a propane torch or treating with lye. According to Bolek, other forms of high heat such as boiling water or steam will accomplish the same result. Children are more likely to be infected than adults because of their tendency to perform geophagia (eating dirt).

Answer 6

Mothballs And Raccoons

Answer 7

Raccoon Repellent Moth Balls

Answer 8

Purchase a female pig about 2 years old. Tie it in your yard on a long chain attached to a solid anchor in the ground. It will keep all the raccoons away for several hundred yards.

Answer 9

Get a really ugly chihuahua to pose as a ugly raccoon.

If not, just make sure that there is no trash which the raccoons can gain access to, or food for that matter.

If they aren't bothering you, then don't shoo them out of their habital. Call pest control or some zoo if you really need to get them out.

Answer 10

Raccoons are intelligent. Very intelligent. Set them up with a way to waste all of their time by way of diversion and frivolity.
Then make them read "The Screwtape Letters", and watch what happens.

Answer 11

A .22 short works, and the neighbors will hardly notice... go for a head-shot, to minimize pain & suffering.

Or, if you're not into dealing death ... you can buy a simple cage-like trap ... search online, you'll see. But, you'll then have to re-locate the animal, making sure not to let it bite you, in the process.