How To Stop Racoons from Taking Over Your House
Racoons are very intelligent, bold and curious omnivorous mammals, with a clever ability to open closed containers and doors. They're night crawlers, and known for being cunning and destructive.
They normally destroy cornfields, pull off siding and tear openings to
get into houses, hence the need to get rid of them.
Here are some tips to help you do just that:
First, deny them food and openings into your house. Restrict their
access to birdfeeders, garbage cans, and entrances such as chimneys, which will
eventually make the raccoon move to another area.
But, in case a raccoon has already taken up full-time residency in your
house, maybe in your chimney, use a method called "exclusion" to get
rid of it. This involves waiting until nightfall when raccoons are most active.
When the racoon leaves to find food place a wire screen cover on the opening so
the raccoon will have no way to get back in. And in case your garden is
invaded, use fence wired with an electric to give them a mild shock every time
they attempt to climb over the fence.
Installing a floodlight is another proven method to get rid of raccoons.
Setting up motion-activated lighting will discourage them from operating in the
night. But it must be a strong flood light, like the quartz halogen fixtures
used for driveway illumination and security purposes. Racoons really don't like
these.
Alternatively, use chemical repellent that has a long-term effect, for
at least 25 days, both indoors and outdoors. You can also get electronic
repellent, which produces motion and heat sensors that trigger a fear responses
from animals, including raccoons.
Furthermore, send fear into raccoons because they naturally have a high
fear for both human presence and voice. So you can capitalize on this by
placing a radio, protected from rain or water near their nest, tune the volume
a bit high. Then leave it to play day and night, and it will definitely scare
the raccoon away.
Additionally, setting up live cage traps with a raccoon's favorite food
as bait, will make the task simple. Different sizes of traps are available, but
check up with your local community if you can use trap for raccoons.
Send them packing with ammonia. Raccoons are naturally clean animals;
they 'wash' their food before eating and continually keep their nests clean.
They also don't like strong smells. Place a few Ammonia soaked rags near their
nest and they should naturally go away.
Finally, once any of the above methods work for you, and you're sure the
raccoons are out, promptly seal off all access to your home, while you repair
every hole and opening with heavy wire cloth, steel flashing or solid wood.
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