On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:15:11 -0700 (PDT), Hypatia Nachshon
wrote:

On Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 7:28:23 AM UTC-7, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
On 10/25/2015 11:36 AM, Hypatia Nachshon wrote:
Dog leaving smallish black doodoo in same area for years.
Dunno how he/she/it gets in.


If it's black, odds are it's raccoon scat. But if you're quite sure
that it is a dog, contact your local animal control and see if they'll
loan you a Haveahart trap. Trap the dog, then call animal control.

I wish!!! Years ago our local animal shelter stopped lending humane traps.
To buy one is very expensive, so I will have to do as some suggested: block access. At the moment, there is space enough under the driveway gate for a
small critter to squeeze through. No other way for an animal to gain access.
So I will fill in the space by nailing up chicken wire and monitor if the doo-doo don't do no mo'.

I don't know how in the past huge raccoons got in; they did terrorize us by
coming in the cat door and ***ing up his food dish and water fountain. (I suppose most gardeners know that raccoons have no salivary glands? so they have to wash their food in water? At least that's what I was told...)


The humane trap from NorthernTool.com is better than the Hav-a-Heart,
it's far easier to set, it's much easier to bait, critters can't
escape before the door snaps shut, and it's very reasonably priced. I
have two Hav-A-Heart traps, an old model and a new model, neither
worked well so I tried this and it works flawlessly:
http://www.northerntool.com/shop/too...2254_200622254
It's a two trap set, one for smaller critters like squirrels, but I've
yet to try that one. The large one has caught huge possums,
hedgehogs, racoons even a monster skunk (a disaster), but I was able
to release it from a distance with an 18' pruning saw pole from
Fiskar. But mustly I trap feral cats so I can bring them to the Vet
to be fixed and have shots, than I release them here and care for
them... they keep more than forty acres totally free of rodents of all
kinds; moles, voles, mice, squirrels, chipmonks and whatever... so
they more than earn their keep, plus they require very little cat food
as mostly they eat what they catch, some won't eat any cat food. I
supply shelter (heated houses in winter), and water, (heated bowls in
winter). The skunk sprayed my deck and it was two months before the
stink was gone... don't let anyone tell you about remedies, I tried
them all, nothing works but time. Skunks are still around, feral cats
will chase most racoons away but no critter messes with skunks. I
don't concern myself with critter doodoo here, I consider it free
fertilzer. Plus there are no stray dogs here, a loose dog wouldn't
last 24 hours... feral cats survive very well in the wild but dogs
have no survival skills.