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Back & Forth
Topic Started: Nov 4 2004, 05:05 PM (181 Views)
mychrissy
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Chrissy
In a previous thread I was complaining about the racoons getting in the birdfeeder.
Well Frank has been working around the house lately and trying to get his Private Investigator's business going so I don't dare ask him to trap the racoons at this time. Personally, I think he would rather dispose of them in another way. :dunno:
So, I have decided before we go to bed we should take the feeder and put it in the garage. No problem, but that means I have to get up early the next morning 8:00am and put the feeder back outside.
Now, my question to all the experts on this forum, when do the racoons know it's time to leave and go elsewhere? I'm tired of going back and forth.
Chrissy

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MDPD6320
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Frank - Gainesville, Florida
MyChrissy,

I have already suggested a final solution

Frank
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TexasShadow
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I only see two solutions other than killing them.
you can take the feeder inside at night
or you can live trap the critters and haul them out of your area....several miles.
we do the latter, but you have to be careful handling a trap with an angry 'coon in it. :sweat:
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mychrissy
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Jane,
Now remember I'm a city girl and I'm not about to trap a racoon or anything else.
That would scare the heck out of me. I'm a big woos....
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Heathertee
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Heather-Central Connecticut
Oh, Chrissy, what a shame ! We have a BIG Havahart live trap that is just the thing you need; you could've taken it with you. We have caught raccoons in it; you just lift it into the trunk and take the critter for a ride.

Other than that, all I can suggest is a big plastic "bell" like the one that keeps the critters from our feeders. They are sold in all the major store garden centers. We have raccoons, but not a one has ever got into the feeder with this bell on it.
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mychrissy
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Chrissy
I'll have to look into that Heather. Would that scare the birds away?
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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
One other solution, provided fox are natural preditors of racoons...

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One source. Most garden centers and nurseries carry it.
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mychrissy
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Leave it to you Chris to come up with something like that. I'll let Frank do the ordering. You're just a wealth of information regarding the critters I have in the yard. :P :P :P
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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
Better than the final solution.

Raccons might be too big to fear fox though. But ask at nursery.
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Heathertee
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Heather-Central Connecticut
Chrissy, there is one on our birdfeeder pole outside the kitchen window, and you saw how many birds we have. It never has scared the birds, at least after the first hour or so. They get used to it.
It is funny to watch the squirrels try to climb it, especially the young ones in the early summer. It is clear, so they can see the feeder through it, but they just cannot get past it.
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Outback Annie
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I've never seen a racoon. We don't have those in Australia and I haven't seen one in the 6 years I've been here.

How big are they? I'm assuming they are bigger than a squirrel?

:dunno:
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Heathertee
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Annie, they sure are. They can grow to as much as 50 pounds, and a full-grown raccoon can kill quite a large dog.

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MDPD6320
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Frank - Gainesville, Florida
We have the "two platoon" system in effect. I bring the feeder in at night and
Chrissy puts in back out in the morning. So far so good.

Frank
" The government big enough to give you everything you want it is big enough to take everything you have."

"Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue"

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Heathertee
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Frank, I measured the baffle on the feeder and it is 8" deep at the center, and 14" across. I think it came from a gardener's catalog. You could have a look online.
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Frank - Gainesville, Florida
Thanks Heather,

If I can't buy one I'll try to make one.

Frank
" The government big enough to give you everything you want it is big enough to take everything you have."

"Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue"

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
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