Moving a young raccoon

[WinterDeere]

I'm not going to train him, but move him out back.

Train him to use the neighbor's yard!

"New roach spray... doesn't kill them, but fills them with self-doubt as to whether they're in the right house."

 

[MossRoad]

I'm not going to train him, but move him out back.

The only feeding of wild animals we do is for the humming birds now and put feed out for the birds in the winter time.

There is no feed or trash what so ever around the house for wild animals to attract them.

If he's smart, he's got tired of me putting a light on him during the darkness with the dogs out, so he's moving further away.

A game camera and a motion sensing sprinkler can be fun.

Friend of mine uses one to keep deer out of his garden. I mentioned before, he also got his mother in-law picking tomatoes.

 

[Sigarms]

We need a thread where you can answer multiple threads with one post.

When I saw your response, I was thinking it was the "you know you're old when..." thread LOL

I remember watching the movie in the early 70's.

 

[MossRoad]

 

[Hay Dude]

Train him to use the neighbor's yard!

"New roach spray... doesn't kill them, but fills them with self-doubt as to whether they're in the right house."

Related: I used to love when my neighbor put out his Japanese Beetle “bag” traps. You know, the yellow bags that hang on a little stick you put in the ground?

They would attract all the beetles from my roses at my house to his.

 

[WinterDeere]

Related: I used to love when my neighbor put out his Japanese Beetle “bag” traps. You know, the yellow bags that hang on a little stick you put in the ground?

They would attract all the beetles from my roses at my house to his.

I used to hang those things up, in the middle of the lawn away from the birch and elm trees that were getting decimated by those damn beetles. They worked, until occasionally some critter (skunk? racoon?) would find them, tear the bottom out of the bag for a snack, and let any live ones escape.

But yeah... don't hang them too close to the thing you're trying to protect, they do attract neighboring beetles. I'd fill 6 bag traps per week, literally a trunk load of those damn beetles over the course of 3 - 5 weeks they'd be running each summer.

Getting my neighbors to start applying grub control, along with being more careful timing of my own application, seems to have knocked our local Japanese beetle population way back. Catch the grubs in early June, to avoid bugs in late June / July.

 

[Jstpssng]

We don't have Japanese beetles here yet. They've made it to about 40 miles south of here.

But please don't live trap them and release them here...

 

[Sigarms]

We don't have Japanese beetles here yet. They've made it to about 40 miles south of here.

But please don't live trap them and release them here...

I'm assuming the black flies have been out already?

I don't miss fly or mud season up there LOL

Very few insects could can you crazy, but black flies are one of them...

 

[Jstpssng]

I'm assuming the black flies have been out already?

I don't miss fly or mud season up there LOL

Very few insects could can you crazy, but black flies are one of them...

Yes, it finally warmed up and they are out with a vengeance. I've been doing brakes on my pickup in the driveway and they've been "helping". I'm tempted to bring a floor fan out and run it on high while I finish up.

 

[Bad Boy Biker]

Older lady across the streets feeds everything. We trap and dispatch coons on a weekly basis. Ground and tree rats are just dispatched almost daily. Tree rats get a break when the Oak Trees have acorns. We let them hide the acorns then get rid of the tree rats. Let them do the planting. Got a cat issue now, she is feeding them too.