Bold raccoons....

[Greene's Basin Girl]

Originally Posted by Argie's Wife

It hasn't happened very often in the past, but the last week or so we've had raccoons in our trash almost every night. They are BIG and BOLD.

Argie put a big rock (like 20 lbs) on the lid of one of the trashcans - the raccoons moved it off and tipped the thing over to get the lid off it. They were chirping and chattering the whole time - happy as heck I guess...

I heard the racket and went out to chase the suckers off - they would not leave. There's two of them... they're not scared of people... I finally hit the panic button on my car's key fob and then they booked for the trees...

Anyhow....

Any deterrents we can use? We don't have a place to put garbage anymore (our carport was crushed back when the tornado hit Alton)... The rock on the lid of the trash can didn't slow 'em down...

Last night we had three young raccoons climb up to our deck on the second story of our house. We have a bird feeder up there, but they couldn't get at it. I turned the light on and opened the door. I greeted them and then they proceeded to climb down the pillar to the ground floor.