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11-06-2014, 05:18 PM
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Raccoons!
On 6/11/2014 1:50 AM, Fran Farmer wrote:
On 11/06/2014 10:38 AM, Higgs Boson wrote: On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 5:20:02 PM UTC-7, Frank wrote: On 6/10/2014 7:27 PM, wrote: BooHoo, Last year was the first year for my peach tree to bear fruit and it did, many, many peaches. This year there would have been even more, but in one night (it seems) they were all gone. My neighbor claims it is raccoons, but I can't be sure. We have a plum tree on the other side of the house that has always been left alone. What can we do? We had raccoons under the deck one year and played rap music (!), and put rags soaked in ammonia under there and they left, but that won't work with this tree. Or would it? TIA, Julie Get the largest Hav-a-hart trap and bait with peanut butter. You can catch and release or kill raccoons or groundhogs We just got done -- I hope! -- with another raccoon episode. He/she/it usedt to come in the cat door, scarfed cat's food; messed his water dish. That's when I was told that raccoons don't have salivary glands (???) and have to wash their food? It took dim me a while to grok (dated) what was happening. Our local shelter used to let us check out cages to catch critters; I once caught a whole possum family over a week's time. Now they don't even RENT cages; "We don't pick up live animals" some wording like that. La-di-dah! Can't afford a commercial cage, so had to do the obvious AGAIN. Block up the cat door and let cat enter/exit via bedroom window. Last time I was too stupid to provide steps, so cat ruined wallpaper scratching his way up. Good luck on your raccoon problem! Does your community have an animal shelter that might help? (Thinking: Wish I still had my son's old .22) Now Higgs, what sort of good patriotic old boy are you that you don't even have a .22 in your house? I could lend you one but you're a bit too far away and it'd probably result in me losing my Gun Licence if I did such a thing anyway....... Higgs posts to ask how to flush his toilet  But, that is besides the point. Maybe where he lives rabies is not endemic but it is here. Cat door, to me is a dumb idea. He's not the first to come down in the morning to find a raccoon eating cat food in his house. Hav-a-hart type trap is not hard or expensive to make yourself. I made one with a chicken wire frame and a sliding door tripped by bait wire in the back of the trap. Got a real Hav-a-hart when I caught a skunk in my home made trap and had trouble getting rid of it. |
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