Good on you for trying to be kind. Sorry for mucking up your thread a bit and good luck with the interlopers.

OP you need to close up their entry point solid and tight like a mofo. Raccoons are tougher than you think and have good dexterity so a sloppily nailed board is no match. Steel mesh will be torn through easily as they are relentless. Mama's remember good nesting locations so it will come back year after year, even if they skip one year. Good possibility offspring will remember the location even if you get rid of the mama.

Rocket pls


Also understandable that people would have a hate on for various animals if they have dealt with these things doing significant property damage or killing chickens or other animals.

However, I’d say it’s very normal to not want to drown or gas animals who have done no harm to you and the opposite is probably a bad sign.

Kudos for the humane solution.

Repped.

Make no mistake about it. These critters are leaving my attic. Ideally, I relocate them alive to somewhere that they are not a nuisance, but if I have to kill them to get them out of there, I'll kill them.

I closed up the spot that I'm 99% sure they were using to get in and out and trimmed the tree branch back to prevent access. It's possible that they've found an alternate route, but I've got no idea where it could be.

Don't lie. You actually call them dinner, and from here you're up there.

Actually wanted to circle back to this thread because I do think of the moral implications of things like what I say and do.

I recently removed a 5 foot plus bull snake from my front walkway

A few days later I had to remove a baby bull snake from my basement that my wife almost had a heart attack over and is still freaked out going into our storage.

I didn’t kill them and had to even remove the big girl twice while she was pissed off as fuk at me using a window cleaning rod lmao.

But they are great for the eco system, they prey on the rodents and even sometimes rattlesnakes which are starting to get pushed into my area


Rodents and scavengers like raccoons take huge advantage of human presence. We provide trash food water. We kill predators like that snake I saved which tips the balance even more so towards the pest behaviors before we eradicate everything with poison.

So idk I think I just have a different way of looking at these things

But raccoons are a scourge on the ecosystem with the manner of lifestyle we help provide them to grow in population much more so then they otherwise would of. I won’t go out of my way to kill one in the wild. But if he’s living off my house…

Well, we're down one. The one I put outside the house that the WR lady insisted mama would come and get, well she didn't. At some point he made his own way into the back yard and my dog got him last night. There's still a couple up in the attic, but they're getting a reprieve for a few days as I just got the call to fly down to Mexico for a few days for work. They'll be back at number 1 on the list when I get back.

Thats illegal, reporting you.

When I was younger, we lived in some ran down little house and we started hearing noises in the roof/ attic. Eventually saw evidence that racoons were climbing inside from some hole in the roof (SRS).
They were fighting, pissing and hanging out up there. The house was such a ****hole that when we moved out, they just demolished the whole house LMAO (srs)

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