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Dead Raccoon Trapped Under Deck -- What to Do?
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Hope someone can help. I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about disease. I can see it through the cracks in the deck and can pour liquid or powder (maybe) on the carcass. Any suggestions as to what I can do would be greatly appreciated as I am trying to avoid tearing apart the deck. Thanks. Alan |
"Alan" wrote in message I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about disease. I can see it through the cracks in the deck and can pour liquid or powder (maybe) on the carcass. Lime. Can you get it through the cracks? I'd also be concerned that it will attract mice or rats or other nasty feeders. |
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"Alan" wrote: Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about disease. Decomposing naturally means, maggots will invade and then eventually hatch into flies. You will be inundated with both. Roland |
I can get powder down there probably. Where does one tyically to go to buy
lime? "Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message . .. "Alan" wrote in message I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about disease. I can see it through the cracks in the deck and can pour liquid or powder (maybe) on the carcass. Lime. Can you get it through the cracks? I'd also be concerned that it will attract mice or rats or other nasty feeders. |
"Alan" wrote in message ... Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about disease. I can see it through the cracks in the deck and can pour liquid or powder (maybe) on the carcass. Any suggestions as to what I can do would be greatly appreciated as I am trying to avoid tearing apart the deck. Thanks. Alan Pop a couple of decking boards up, reach down and pull that sucker out. Get him quick while he still has rigormortis. Once he bloats, you risk pulling a limb off or popping him open and releasing thousands of maggots. Good luck. |
Problem is the way the deck was constructed, I can't pop up any boards and
get to him. Stupid design, but my only option is to either dismantle a huge section of deck or cut into it. Alan "Oscar_Lives" wrote in message news:Rj7re.44844$_o.32911@attbi_s71... "Alan" wrote in message ... Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about disease. I can see it through the cracks in the deck and can pour liquid or powder (maybe) on the carcass. Any suggestions as to what I can do would be greatly appreciated as I am trying to avoid tearing apart the deck. Thanks. Alan Pop a couple of decking boards up, reach down and pull that sucker out. Get him quick while he still has rigormortis. Once he bloats, you risk pulling a limb off or popping him open and releasing thousands of maggots. Good luck. |
"Alan" wrote I can get powder down there probably. Where does one tyically to go to buy lime? In the produce section of your local grocer. Usually next to the lemons..... |
Dr. Hardcrab wrote:
"Alan" wrote I can get powder down there probably. Where does one tyically to go to buy lime? In the produce section of your local grocer. Usually next to the lemons..... Man, you sure cover all the news groups. g Dan..........from ASC! |
Dan on 6/13/05 5:31 AM wrote:
Dr. Hardcrab wrote: "Alan" wrote I can get powder down there probably. Where does one tyically to go to buy lime? In the produce section of your local grocer. Usually next to the lemons..... Man, you sure cover all the news groups. g Dan..........from ASC! You do too! -- bmickey9 Enjoy'em yourself or pass'em along. |
"Alan" wrote in message ... Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about disease. I can see it through the cracks in the deck and can pour liquid or powder (maybe) on the carcass. Any suggestions as to what I can do would be greatly appreciated as I am trying to avoid tearing apart the deck. Thanks. Alan Couple of thougts come to mind. 1. I would assume rigimortis has set in so moving the body as a whole shouldn't be a problem. Is there a way to get rope around the animal and drag it out from underneath the deck. I would take a long pole and attach rope to the end of it which would allow you to hook and drag the animal out. 2. If access is truly an issue from underneath, and it was my deck, (I have a deck made of IPE using the ipe-clips hidden mounting system so gaining access under the deck would be a similarly tough problem), I would cut out one or two (depending on the size of the animal) joist width (16" wide) section(s) of decking directly above the raccoon so that you can get it out of there. I would find where the joists are and mark the lines along the center of the joists. Cut out the section(s) of decking to gain access to the raccoon. I would use my Fein Multimaster as it has a saw attachment that allows straight forward cuts with a very thin kerf so that the decking could easily be screwed back in place using the Trimstar screws. Depending on how you cut the decking out, you might have to put in a replacement section of decking. Also, depending on how your deck was built, you could use nails or regular decking screws. While it would break the clean look of the deck, I would much rather have that than the smell, disease, and infestation of rodents and other animals that will naturally come. This would also allow you to properly treat the area where the raccoon has been as I am sure it has been there a while. Remember to seal all access point to the underside of the deck so this doesn't happen in the future. Hope these ideas help. David P.S. I plan to redesign the way my deck is sealed off when I complete the steps to make every effort to prevent something like this from happening in the future... Thanks as it was not something I had put much thought into. |
I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a
location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about How did the racoon get in, then? There's obviously a racoon-sized hole somewhere. Stick a wire-noose through that hole, and poke/drag it over to the corpse with a stick and/or hooks down through the cracks. Failing that, grab a shovel and dig a tunnel. |
"bmickey9" wrote in message ... Dan on 6/13/05 5:31 AM wrote: Dr. Hardcrab wrote: "Alan" wrote I can get powder down there probably. Where does one tyically to go to buy lime? In the produce section of your local grocer. Usually next to the lemons..... Man, you sure cover all the news groups. g Dan..........from ASC! You do too! -- bmickey9 Getting kinda crowded in here.... Sandy K. |
Sandy K. wrote:
"bmickey9" wrote in message ... Dan on 6/13/05 5:31 AM wrote: Dr. Hardcrab wrote: "Alan" wrote I can get powder down there probably. Where does one tyically to go to buy lime? In the produce section of your local grocer. Usually next to the lemons..... Man, you sure cover all the news groups. g Dan..........from ASC! You do too! -- bmickey9 Getting kinda crowded in here.... Sandy K. Anyone have a cigar?? ;-) Dan |
Alan wrote:
Hope someone can help. I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about disease. I can see it through the cracks in the deck and can pour liquid or powder (maybe) on the carcass. Any suggestions as to what I can do would be greatly appreciated as I am trying to avoid tearing apart the deck. Suggestion #1: Call your county animal control gang. They should either come on and solve your problem OR give you instructions for a DIY solution. Suggestion #2: Call a pest removal service. Dick |
"Dan" wrote in message news:qlire.3590$1q5.2158@trnddc02... Sandy K. wrote: "bmickey9" wrote in message ... Dan on 6/13/05 5:31 AM wrote: Dr. Hardcrab wrote: "Alan" wrote I can get powder down there probably. Where does one tyically to go to buy lime? In the produce section of your local grocer. Usually next to the lemons..... Man, you sure cover all the news groups. g Dan..........from ASC! You do too! -- bmickey9 Getting kinda crowded in here.... Sandy K. Anyone have a cigar?? ;-) in my Grey Poupon voice "Butt of course!!!" ;-] The Other Dan |
"I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in
a location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart." Pics? |
"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message
. .. Lime. The mafia (which does not really exist) swears by lime. |
How did the damned thing get in there? Here's an idea: Get thee to a fishing
tackle shop. Get a spool of the heaviest monofilament line they've got, and either a very heavy lure with large treble hooks, or have them help you rig treble hooks with an inline trolling sinker. Start fishing. "Alan" wrote in message ... Problem is the way the deck was constructed, I can't pop up any boards and get to him. Stupid design, but my only option is to either dismantle a huge section of deck or cut into it. Alan "Oscar_Lives" wrote in message news:Rj7re.44844$_o.32911@attbi_s71... "Alan" wrote in message ... Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about disease. I can see it through the cracks in the deck and can pour liquid or powder (maybe) on the carcass. Any suggestions as to what I can do would be greatly appreciated as I am trying to avoid tearing apart the deck. Thanks. Alan Pop a couple of decking boards up, reach down and pull that sucker out. Get him quick while he still has rigormortis. Once he bloats, you risk pulling a limb off or popping him open and releasing thousands of maggots. Good luck. |
Does it know where you live? Call around to some real hardware stores and
see if one of them has a snow rake. That's a shovel sort of an affair with VERY long aluminum snap-together poles. Rig up something with a snare, or some large fish hooks. Weren't you ever a girl scout??? |
I had something dead under my decking.
It must have been a possum. It stunk pretty bad. I happened to have several large quart bottles of Listerine. I dumped them were it seemed to smell worst and where the dogs thought it was. Smelled like a dentist's office for several days and then it went away. Doug Kanter wrote: Does it know where you live? Call around to some real hardware stores and see if one of them has a snow rake. That's a shovel sort of an affair with VERY long aluminum snap-together poles. Rig up something with a snare, or some large fish hooks. Weren't you ever a girl scout??? |
Sounds like opening up the deck is not an option.
Start with the lime and after that has had a day or two to work, dump some dirt or sand on the whole mess to bury it and then forget about it. Seal up any access so that it can't happen again. Option 2: get it real wet and go on vacation for 3 weeks. "Alan" wrote in message ... Problem is the way the deck was constructed, I can't pop up any boards and get to him. Stupid design, but my only option is to either dismantle a huge section of deck or cut into it. Alan "Oscar_Lives" wrote in message news:Rj7re.44844$_o.32911@attbi_s71... "Alan" wrote in message ... Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about disease. I can see it through the cracks in the deck and can pour liquid or powder (maybe) on the carcass. Any suggestions as to what I can do would be greatly appreciated as I am trying to avoid tearing apart the deck. Thanks. Alan Pop a couple of decking boards up, reach down and pull that sucker out. Get him quick while he still has rigormortis. Once he bloats, you risk pulling a limb off or popping him open and releasing thousands of maggots. Good luck. |
"Art Todesco" wrote in message . .. I had something dead under my decking. It must have been a possum. It stunk pretty bad. I happened to have several large quart bottles of Listerine. I dumped them were it seemed to smell worst and where the dogs thought it was. Smelled like a dentist's office for several days and then it went away. yick. G You wouldn't really want to kill the bacteria if you intended to let it rot. Lovely topic..... |
"Alan" wrote in message ... Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about disease. I can see it through the cracks in the deck and can pour liquid or powder (maybe) on the carcass. Any suggestions as to what I can do would be greatly appreciated as I am trying to avoid tearing apart the deck. Thanks. Alan I have a question. Did you poison the raccoon and it died in its home? I have a family of raccoons living under my deck, was thinking about poisoning, but worried they will die under the deck. Interesting dilemma. |
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Years ago when we would go coon hunting and the coon went in a ground
hog hole and died we would take a length of barbed wire and bend a crank on the end. We wuld put the other end down the whole and crank the wire. The Barbs would wrap up in the fur and we could pull the coon out. That was when coons wew worth $5 and $5 was worth $5. It worked everytime. Mel & Donnie down in Bluebird Valley In the middle of beautiful down town Yountsville. Managers of the water works. |
I presume that the deck is at or near ground level.
Can you stick something stiff down between the boards and move it to a place where you can reach it? Piano wire is very stiff in the larger sizes. Even a piece of lattice or one of those driveway reflector posts. Now that I'v had my say, I am new to the group searching for an answer to my sod delema. I'll continue my search. Thanks. "Alan" wrote in message ... Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about disease. I can see it through the cracks in the deck and can pour liquid or powder (maybe) on the carcass. Any suggestions as to what I can do would be greatly appreciated as I am trying to avoid tearing apart the deck. Thanks. Alan |
"Frank Rosenbaum" wrote in message ... I presume that the deck is at or near ground level. Can you stick something stiff down between the boards and move it to a place where you can reach it? Piano wire is very stiff in the larger sizes. Even a piece of lattice or one of those driveway reflector posts. Now that I'v had my say, I am new to the group searching for an answer to my sod delema. I'll continue my search. Thanks. "Alan" wrote in message ... Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about disease. I can see it through the cracks in the deck and can pour liquid or powder (maybe) on the carcass. Any suggestions as to what I can do would be greatly appreciated as I am trying to avoid tearing apart the deck. Thanks. Alan Taking up a couple of deck boards (especially if they are screwed down) is not difficult. |
"Alan" wrote in message
... Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about disease. I can see it through the cracks in the deck and can pour liquid or powder (maybe) on the carcass. Any suggestions as to what I can do would be greatly appreciated as I am trying to avoid tearing apart the deck. Thanks. Alan I have a tool that is handy for such tasks. I took the 10' fiberglass pole from a bicycle flag, removed the flag, and hose clamped a hook made of some brass rod (approx 1/8") to the end. Allows me to reach into lots of places. -- Rich Greenberg Marietta, GA, USA richgr atsign panix.com + 1 770 321 6507 Eastern time. N6LRT I speak for myself & my dogs only. VM'er since CP-67 Canines:Val, Red & Shasta (RIP),Red, husky Owner:Chinook-L Atlanta Siberian Husky Rescue. www.panix.com/~richgr/ Asst Owner:Sibernet-L |
Drive around town until you find a guy standing on the street asking for
money. Tell him to get in, you have a job for him to do. Get him to do it, then feed him lunch. "Frank Rosenbaum" wrote in message ... I presume that the deck is at or near ground level. Can you stick something stiff down between the boards and move it to a place where you can reach it? Piano wire is very stiff in the larger sizes. Even a piece of lattice or one of those driveway reflector posts. Now that I'v had my say, I am new to the group searching for an answer to my sod delema. I'll continue my search. Thanks. "Alan" wrote in message ... Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about disease. I can see it through the cracks in the deck and can pour liquid or powder (maybe) on the carcass. Any suggestions as to what I can do would be greatly appreciated as I am trying to avoid tearing apart the deck. Thanks. Alan |
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:50:42 -0400, "Frank Rosenbaum"
wrote: Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about disease. Personally I don't think it will cause disease. Depressing topic but someone on the news pointed out that the dead bodies from Katrina wouldn't cause disease even if they weren't buried quickly. It is people or animals who die from communicable diseases that are a health risk. Of course maybe you don't know what killed the raccoon. But soon the bugs and flies will find it and eat it. When they are done, they'll leave. What part of the country are you in and how long has it been there? I can see it through the cracks in the deck and can pour liquid or powder (maybe) on the carcass. The traditional substance is lime. a powder, white, I think. It's used iirc when people are afraid of contagion and there are too many bodies to bury them right away. Maybe I'm thinking of cases when cattle die. It speeds decomposition iiuc. I think you can buy it at garden stores, where it is sold to change the pH of soil iirc. Sure, don't people spread it on lawns for that reason? Any suggestions as to what I can do would be greatly appreciated as I am trying to avoid tearing apart the deck. Thanks. Alan Remove NOPSAM to email me. Please let me know if you have posted also. |
Better let him eat the lunch first.
"Tellmeaboutit" wrote in message news:KkY2f.10021$y_1.7215@edtnps89... Drive around town until you find a guy standing on the street asking for money. Tell him to get in, you have a job for him to do. Get him to do it, then feed him lunch. "Frank Rosenbaum" wrote in message ... I presume that the deck is at or near ground level. Can you stick something stiff down between the boards and move it to a place where you can reach it? Piano wire is very stiff in the larger sizes. Even a piece of lattice or one of those driveway reflector posts. Now that I'v had my say, I am new to the group searching for an answer to my sod delema. I'll continue my search. Thanks. "Alan" wrote in message ... Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about disease. I can see it through the cracks in the deck and can pour liquid or powder (maybe) on the carcass. Any suggestions as to what I can do would be greatly appreciated as I am trying to avoid tearing apart the deck. Thanks. Alan |
Personally, I would just leave it to decompose. The worst of the stench
should be gone in a couple of weeks. I wouldn't touch it--it may have died of rabies. "Rich Greenberg" wrote in message ... "Alan" wrote in message ... Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about disease. I can see it through the cracks in the deck and can pour liquid or powder (maybe) on the carcass. Any suggestions as to what I can do would be greatly appreciated as I am trying to avoid tearing apart the deck. Thanks. Alan I have a tool that is handy for such tasks. I took the 10' fiberglass pole from a bicycle flag, removed the flag, and hose clamped a hook made of some brass rod (approx 1/8") to the end. Allows me to reach into lots of places. -- Rich Greenberg Marietta, GA, USA richgr atsign panix.com + 1 770 321 6507 Eastern time. N6LRT I speak for myself & my dogs only. VM'er since CP-67 Canines:Val, Red & Shasta (RIP),Red, husky Owner:Chinook-L Atlanta Siberian Husky Rescue. www.panix.com/~richgr/ Asst Owner:Sibernet-L |
Dead Raccoon Trapped Under Deck -- What to Do?
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:47:55 -0400, mm
wrote: Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about disease. Personally I don't think it will cause disease. Depressing topic but someone on the news pointed out that the dead bodies from Katrina wouldn't cause disease even if they weren't buried quickly. To reply to my own post, it was after the tsunami in the far east that I heard some scientist on the radio say this. Then I heard someone repeat it after Katrina, that people killed by other than communicable disease are not a health hazard (for quite a while?) Remove NOPSAM to email me. Please let me know if you have posted also. |
Dead Raccoon Trapped Under Deck -- What to Do?
can you not just remove one or two boards to get to it?
"mm" wrote in message ... On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:47:55 -0400, mm wrote: Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a dead raccoon trapped under my deck. Problem is that it is in a location I can't reach unless I tear the deck apart. I have no problem letting it decompose naturally but the stench is bad and I am worried about disease. Personally I don't think it will cause disease. Depressing topic but someone on the news pointed out that the dead bodies from Katrina wouldn't cause disease even if they weren't buried quickly. To reply to my own post, it was after the tsunami in the far east that I heard some scientist on the radio say this. Then I heard someone repeat it after Katrina, that people killed by other than communicable disease are not a health hazard (for quite a while?) Remove NOPSAM to email me. Please let me know if you have posted also. |
Dead Raccoon Trapped Under Deck -- What to Do?
To reply to my own post, it was after the tsunami in the far east that I heard some scientist on the radio say this. Then I heard someone repeat it after Katrina, that people killed by other than communicable disease are not a health hazard (for quite a while?) No more so than any other rotting carcass, no. They are, however demoralizing, so it's best to get them removed from the vicinity of the emotionally traumatized as quickly as possible. And the longer you wait, the more gross and disgusting the process is going to be. |
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