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Raccoons! How do I get rid of em?

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In Connecticut :| only private companies git rid of pests like this. It cost my neighbor $550 to pay a licensed expert to capture a raccoon AND a beaver. We live in a very urban area. This was the family owned company recommended by Terminix Pest Control ... they would have charged $750. Eastern states ... I swear ... :\

The raccoon tore apart their cage twice. He told me that was the 1st time that ever happened. I can attest that animal was very mean & nasty. The beaver was a WTF. We are not really near water.
 
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Had a family of them inhabit my attic a few years back. What worked for us was to call a professional pest (nuisance animal) company. The company bought out a few humane traps baited with marshmallows. The racoons absolutely LOVE marshmallows. The traps were checked for the next few days and eventually a momma and three kits were trapped and removed by the company. The whole deal was $35. I'm not a bleeding heart type but, I must say that it was a pretty good feeling that nothing had to die.

Good luck.
 
I had one trapped in my trash this morning. We have a problem with coons and possums.

The city is supposed to deliver traps hopefully. They pick them up when they are full too. 🙂
 
PsiStar said:
In Connecticut :| only private companies git rid of pests like this. It cost my neighbor $550 to pay a licensed expert to capture a raccoon AND a beaver. We live in a very urban area. This was the family owned company recommended by Terminix Pest Control ... they would have charged $750. Eastern states ... I swear ... :\

The raccoon tore apart their cage twice. He told me that was the 1st time that ever happened. I can attest that animal was very mean & nasty. The beaver was a WTF. We are not really near water.
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LOL at people who are willing to pay $550 to get rid of a raccoon & beaver. A live trap is under $50. "OMG, But it's against the law!" No one is going to care. And in case they might care, just don't tell anyone.
 
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LOL at people who are willing to pay $550 to get rid of a raccoon & beaver. A live trap is under $50. "OMG, But it's against the law!" No one is going to care. And in case they might care, just don't tell anyone.
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Yeah, sometimes it's better to keep your trap shut... couldn't resist! :awe:
 
You can trap them, call an exterminator, or shoot them with a .22

a pellet gun or airsoft gun will definitely not work.

If you poison them they will die under the house, the last thing you want.
 
DrPizza said:
LOL at people who are willing to pay $550 to get rid of a raccoon & beaver. A live trap is under $50. "OMG, But it's against the law!" No one is going to care. And in case they might care, just don't tell anyone.
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This area is *not* your daddy's farm in the Midwest. This house is the family's "country" house ... escape from the Manhattan apartment. Little different priorities.
 
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This area is *not* your daddy's farm in the Midwest. This house is the family's "country" house ... escape from the Manhattan apartment. Little different priorities.
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Friggin idiots if they pay that kind of money to have someone trap a raccoon for them. If you agree that $550 is a fair price for trapping a raccoon, you're a fool too. Not sure what you mean by "daddy's farm" - if you think I'm one of the teeny-boppers on the forums, you've got the wrong guy. I have my own farm, and my farm solution isn't to set out a trap. The farm solution involves a gun, ammunition, and a large bang. Else, letting my dogs rip it to shreds.
 
Hav-a-hart.

Around here, 22LR to appease the neighbors. If the neighbors aren't home...22-250.

Wildlife management is SO much easier here.
 
if you just remove all food they will go away. at my house i have a steady stream of racoons who come to eat the cat food i put out and wash their paws in the water dish. if i dont put food out the water stays clean
 
neighbor whacked one with a shovel yesterday but it escaped us and weaseled back under the deck. Nothing in or out for the past 12 hours. I expect a stench by mid-week.
 
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Friggin idiots if they pay that kind of money to have someone trap a raccoon for them. If you agree that $550 is a fair price for trapping a raccoon, you're a fool too. Not sure what you mean by "daddy's farm" - if you think I'm one of the teeny-boppers on the forums, you've got the wrong guy. I have my own farm, and my farm solution isn't to set out a trap. The farm solution involves a gun, ammunition, and a large bang. Else, letting my dogs rip it to shreds.
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$550 is cheap in the midst of multi-million dollar homes. I guessed you live on a farm as I used to. My nearest neighbor was a couple of miles away. Life was simpler & everything scales up. The farm house I grew up in was lucky to be worth $20K & the cost of a bullet is whatever that is; multiply both by 100 and you just pay some dude to come & catch 'em.

Obviously different locales will have different solutions. As an electrical engineer I imagined setting up a million volt tesla coil and ... :twisted::twisted::twisted: ... might as well have some fun and lightning. Hmmm, could probably build one for a few hundred ... hmmmm...:awe:
 
I have a hard time figuring out how someone is smart enough to have earned enough to afford a multi-million dollar house, but stupid enough to pay $550 for something that takes 2 ten-minute visits & $50 in equipment. It would be like saying "if I lived in a $100,000 house, I'd expect an electrician to charge $100 to come and replace an electrical outlet. But, if I live in a multimillion dollar home, I expect that the electricians in that area charge $1000 for the same task."
 
Dr Pizza ... we can't just walk out the back door & shoot a 45. As far as the electricians charging a $1000 ... maybe not that much but 100s, that's the white guy. I have done all kinds of crap myself. But this is when we call the in the guys from Ecuador or Paraguay. Legal and better educated actually. But first, *I* no longer give a rip about doing that crap myself. I want to do something else. Why? Because I can. Surely you are not as thick as you are sounding ... ? And, I actually quite enjoy helping a small family owned business.

Even back on the farm my father, the farmer, wouldn't have wanted to just shoot the critters. But we did know 'my excellent compatriot hunters & loved to eat them which might have been the option for pesky ones. We would not have wacked them with a shovel & let them go off & die a slow death. Suffering is not good. If you injure what you are hunting, then you *have* to go find it & kill it. ASAP
 
my parents recently paid $500 for bats that were in their attic. i don't blame them though, don't wanna fvk with bats freaky mf'ers
 
Just be careful these guys:
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don't bring back this guy:

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I used a product called Critter Ridder.
It is a combination of pepper extracts in ground up bead form.
It messes with their sinuses and they leave the area.
It wears off after a few days, so you have to make sure you see them leave, then board up their entry.

When I used it for a my excellent compatriot in my attic, I could hear him sneezing for like 5min, then he came outside. 🙂
 
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