OK! I'm DONE! Effing around with these effing racoons in my garbage!!

[lindysalsagal]

Sick and tired of cleaning up after them! They dump over my garbage can and I get to put on the gloves and get the shovel and clean up after these monsters!

I bought a rubbermade rolling 50 gal garbage can that I can tie shut with poly twine. I tied 2 hook/hasps on it so the garbage men can get it open, BUT THE RACOONS CAN'T!

You can't see it in the pic, but the top hugs down on top of the rim and I can set a hook in there. It also has moulded handles on the can and lid and I tied the lines around both so I won't lose the top and it will stay closed.

Oh, yeah- Plus I put 8 bricks in the bottom! GOOD LUCK, critters!!!

[Wounded Bear]

1. Might slow them down, I guess...

but poly twine? They'll chew through that.

[iemitsu]

2. Good luck. Raccoons are smart.

[4139]

3. Take vegetable oil, add cayanne pepper and warm on stove...

Then paint the cans with the oil.

[lindysalsagal]

7. I need the local garbage men to still empty it...

[4139]

14. Raccoons have a much keener sence of smell, you wont notice it.

I used it to stop a raccoon from shinnying up the corner of my house. Use cayanne mixed with water and a little soap to keep deer and raccoons away from tomato plants

[4139]

16. Heres one link but google it

http://www.havahart.com/articles/best-method-for-raccoon-control

For the can I would make the oil as I won’t wash off when it rains

[htuttle]

4. Looks kind of like this one

[Lochloosa]

5. ....

[Laffy Kat]

6. But won't the bricks fall out when the trash gets dumped?

We have big trucks that pick the cans up with automatic arms and then turns the can upside down.

[lindysalsagal]

8. No: They do that with the recycling but not the trash.

[NCjack]

9. Modify the can so the raccoons get trapped inside. They get added to the trash in the garbage

truck and get dumped at the collection center. No your problem anymore.

[Laffy Kat]

11. That's mean.

[NCjack]

12. Not really. It's just a few pass to be best food in town.

[lindysalsagal]

13. The men pick them up by hand: Don't think they want a live one in there.

[Laffy Kat]

10. We once had this huge plastic jug of rabbit food outside.

It had a five-inch wide lid that we kept screwed-on tight. Somehow the coons unscrewed that jug and ate every last morsel of food. I'd give anything to have simply seen how they managed that with their little hands. Wondering if it was a group effort.

[whistler162]

15. Don't be such a good cook!

[sinkingfeeling]

17. Uh, they can eat through a plastic can if it's worth it. I suggest

an old time metal can with lid and side handles for a bungie cord.

[lindysalsagal]

20. Too large and heavy for me.

[sinkingfeeling]

21. You should be able to find a small one online. I used one as a diaper pail back in the day.

[lindysalsagal]

18. Ha! This morning, it's untouched!

[Orrex]

19. Where's Aerows when we need her?

[GallopingGhost]

22. LOL, your post reminds me

of the raccoon scenes from The Great Outdoors with John Candy.

"They put rocks on top of the cans. That never works!"

They are persistant buggers.

[lindysalsagal]

23. Morning 2, still untouched.