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Some wild animals here are a little too among us. A family of (adorable) raccoons tore a hole in our roof and are living in our garage. Weāre working on getting the hole patched, but does anyone happen to know a good way to drive the little bandits out? So far Iāve considered spraying ammonia, which they supposedly hate, and playing crashing noises from YouTube videos that are supposed to scare them out, but Iām worried they may just tear another hole and move back in, especially with the weather getting colder. I donāt want to hurt them in any way. We already had to cut open a wall back in the summer to rescue one of their babies that got trapped down there and I donāt want it happening again next year.
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We have a family (A family of raccoons, btw, in case this gets viewed out of context.) that comes around here. I tell them firmly to get lost, and no of course that doesnāt work at first. Theyāre very bold, and mostly fearless. But when I donāt back down and instead start walking towards them brandishing a stick, they get the idea.
Also important, if like me, you leave out stuff like food for the stray cats, to take it in at night. The stray cats know they can come up and ask for it and Iāll bring it out for them while Iām on the porch, but when I go back inside, the food does too. And the raccoons now know that thereās nothing up here for them.
They are so cute though, I feel like such a monster chasing them away. But I know that if I donāt, they become little monsters.
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Great name for a band, eh?
or an epithet for the gop
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Hey, what about da muskrats, eh?
I thought goon hockey players were the most distinct animals in Canada.
Okay, the Hanson bros. are hard to tell apart, but only from each other.
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Ew. I aināt watching that.
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Update on the raccoon situation: We hired a handyman to fix the hole in the roof the raccoons were using to access our garage. I hadnāt had a chance to try to evict them yet, but I told my sister okay, just make sure to leave the back door open so any left can get out. Came home to find the motion detector light on and a raccoon pawing at the windows like a mime in an invisible box. She did not leave the door open.
I opened it and waited at a distance but didnāt see anyone coming out, so I left it like that and moved on to other things. After a while I heard a scratching noise while in the room above part of the garage, so I decided to go down and see if I could find the raccoon and startle it out the open doorā¦ only to come down and find a freaked-out looking raccoon already scurrying into the back yard and the garage main door wide open. I assumed my sister had done it with a remote, but she hadnātā¦ somehow, even as I was walking downstairs, the raccoon opened the door on its own and the resulting noise scared it out the back door. I have no idea how thatās possible, as both the buttons for the garage door are on walls, well out of a raccoonās reach. Maybe the opener itself has a button somewhere on it you can hit to make it activate, but the chances of a raccoon climbing down right in that spot and just happening to hit it have got to be very low.
In any case, I then closed both doors and though Iāve been keeping an eye and ear out for signs of any additional trapped raccoons, all has been quiet. I guess the eviction was a success!.. unless they decide to tear another hole in the roof.
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Theyāre going to swipe the remote and go in and out as they please next.
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We set up a cheap motion activated trail cam after we fixed the hole we thought a squirrel was using. Just to make double sure we got all the holes and none had been trapped inside
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Thatās one of the things weāve done. Itās popped up a few alerts but as best I can tell those are just when the daylight changes enough to turn the night vision on and off.
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Caitlin Doughty did a video about that incident a while agoā¦
She was a kid and living in Honolulu when this happened.
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I think this counts:
Dozens of monkeys on the loose after escaping research center
Police say residents of Yemassee, South Carolina, should keep their doors and windows locked until the primates are found.
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