| Racoons invade attic - HELP! [message #311275] |
Thu, 10 April 2008 22:59  |
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 Bob Leonard
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Registered: July 2006
Location: Boston, MA |
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First of all it's a 100 year old house.
OK, the f%&ing racoons have about done me in. It started with a 2nd floor dormer when they pulled off some ceder siding and found their way through the porch overhead to the wall behind it and tore out some pine board to get to a closet. I got them out with a stick and closed off the holes.
Next they tore off some facia over another section on the back of the house, made their way through the attic and into the living room at 3am. My oldest daughter thought it was the infamous piss cat, turned on the lights and shit her pants when mama coon jumped off of the book shelf at her. She ran down the hall yelling for me, I grabbed a hockey stick and started wailing on the racoon until it went back into the attic. I called the cops, they rolled fire trucks, we all had a good laugh while the firemen poked at it with a ceiling hook, I boarded the hole and called it a night.
The cops can't shoot the racoon in the house, and neither can I.
Now as I type there is a family of the little fuckers tearing my attic apart directly over my head. I need suggestions, and in this state kill traps and firing guns in the house are illegal. So I have some thoughts.
DECON laced bait.
A spear gun.
Bleach
Piano wire snare.
Sharpened rake
FOX Piss
Moth balls
Nail gun
Tiny Tim at 135db
Penn 6/0, wire leader and a shark hook
120v electrical trap
Any other suggestions? 
The roar of the grease paint, the smell of the crowd.
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| Re: Racoons invade attic - HELP! [message #311285 is a reply to message #311275 ] |
Thu, 10 April 2008 23:14  |
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Eric Deweese
Messages: 91
Registered: January 2005
Location: NW Arkansas |
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I dont know that I could keep from just shooting it with my 22LR (expecially since they have subsonic ammo now!). But may I suggest instead a high power Pellet rifle? I have taken a fair share of groundhogs and skunks with a pellet rifle.
On a personal note I think that some laws are moot when it comes to personal property (i.e. shooting guns, hunting your own property when you do your own wildlife management, seatbelts, etc etc)
edit: I was beaten due to my lengthy post, instead of being to the "point" pun definitely intended.
[Updated on: Thu, 10 April 2008 23:15]
Eric Deweese
Black Pearl Sound
"simmer down now!!!!!"
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| Re: Racoons invade attic - HELP! [message #311313 is a reply to message #311312 ] |
Fri, 11 April 2008 00:01 |
Brad Ferguson
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Registered: November 2006
Location: Toronto, ON |
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get yourself a trap, put it wherever, put sardines in the trap, you'll have the little bastard soon enough.
Having trapped and/or shot probably about 30+ raccoons on my parents' farm, I know of what I speak.
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Brad Ferguson
Toronto, Ontario
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| Re: Racoons invade attic - HELP! [message #311314 is a reply to message #311275 ] |
Fri, 11 April 2008 00:05 |
Andy Zimmerman
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Registered: April 2004
Location: Illinois |
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| Bob Leonard wrote on Thu, 10 April 2008 22:59 |
First of all it's a 100 year old house.
OK, the f%&ing racoons have about done me in. It started with a 2nd floor dormer when they pulled off some ceder siding and found their way through the porch overhead to the wall behind it and tore out some pine board to get to a closet. I got them out with a stick and closed off the holes.
Next they tore off some facia over another section on the back of the house, made their way through the attic and into the living room at 3am. My oldest daughter thought it was the infamous piss cat, turned on the lights and shit her pants when mama coon jumped off of the book shelf at her. She ran down the hall yelling for me, I grabbed a hockey stick and started wailing on the racoon until it went back into the attic. I called the cops, they rolled fire trucks, we all had a good laugh while the firemen poked at it with a ceiling hook, I boarded the hole and called it a night.
The cops can't shoot the racoon in the house, and neither can I.
Now as I type there is a family of the little fuckers tearing my attic apart directly over my head. I need suggestions, and in this state kill traps and firing guns in the house are illegal. So I have some thoughts.
DECON laced bait.
A spear gun.
Bleach
Piano wire snare.
Sharpened rake
FOX Piss
Moth balls
Nail gun
Tiny Tim at 135db
Penn 6/0, wire leader and a shark hook
120v electrical trap
Any other suggestions?
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Bob, doesn't MA have animal cruelty laws? I think that Tiny Tim at 135db would qualify. At ANY level, come to think of it.
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| Re: Racoons invade attic - HELP! [message #311359 is a reply to message #311275 ] |
Fri, 11 April 2008 07:12 |
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Bob Leonard
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Registered: July 2006
Location: Boston, MA |
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So the weekend approaches and it's a rare wekend without a gig. I'm going to start with a combination of ammonia and bleach and spray it around the section of attic I can get to without the coon jumping on my face. I have to crawl on my belly, so get the picture, no place to run. Then from the outside it's wire snare time around the entrance hole they built, a baseball bat and a Sheriden Blue Streak to the head. If that fails and they won't budge I'll get a humane trap, sardines, then the bat and pellet gun. Then Tiny Tim, but it might revive the bastard just long enough to bite my face off.
And Charlotte, if they start speaking Yiddish I going to haul ass and they can keep the attic. 
[Updated on: Fri, 11 April 2008 07:14]
The roar of the grease paint, the smell of the crowd.
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| Re: Racoons invade attic - HELP! [message #311387 is a reply to message #311275 ] |
Fri, 11 April 2008 08:38 |
Chris Semler
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Registered: June 2007 |
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Perhaps you could move your radio equipment to the attic.
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| Re: Racoons invade attic - HELP! [message #311396 is a reply to message #311393 ] |
Fri, 11 April 2008 09:03 |
Tony Martin
Messages: 179
Registered: October 2007
Location: Great White North |
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My ex-wife used to foster orphaned baby animals for an animal clinic in our area.
On a couple occasions, we played host to baby raccoons in our home for a 3-4 month period.
Cute critters, and very playful and fun when they are accustomed to being handled.
Curious, adventurous, stubborn.....all the things that make them endearing as "guests" also make them a PITA as intruders.
My suggestion??? Get or improvise a large live-trap. Peanut butter smeared on still-warm toast makes wonderful bait.
Catch them, then relocate them 30 miles or so down the road.
Odds are they'll find something else to tear up long before finding their way back to your house.
Take some pictures of yourself doing it. Might make for some good "humanitarian" advertising for your company.
Owning an expensive hammer does not make you a carpenter
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