I use a deck box as outdoor storage for garbage. I cannot believe the racoons figured out how to open or even have the power to lift, but yup. Garbage all over this night.
Everyone says other mammals like dolphins are more intelligent, but I feel like trash pandas should be at the top of the list.
Rant over.
If it makes you feel any better, one ran out in front of my car on the commute to work yesterday and I don't think it survived.
Trash pandas….. Your title made me think you had people going through you trash.
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They have opposable thumbs...they will soon run this place.
Hopefully the will do better. Not too high of a hurdle
Hello from Tennessee, in the mountains here they are a huge issue, lot of people swear by using mint around your cans, cut up fresh mint, or a mint scented body spray around the bottom of the can. I'm sure there is a minty raccoon-off product out there also. It works for me, but I have Southern raccoons so who knows.
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>but I have Southern raccoons so who knows.
I love this.
Don't put food in your trash. Compost it. It's so nice not having to worry about raccoons in my trash. Before I composted, they were there every week. Once I forgot to take the middle section out of the pizza box. There must have been cheese and grease on it because a huge raccoon got it. My husband heard it on the side porch. He turned the light on and it was the fattest raccoon he had ever seen. He calls him King Coon (after King Kong, for clarification). Our neighborhood must be part of his nightly rounds, but that was our only trash visitor in a decade.
I’ve had coons shuck my corn off the plant this past summer. Literally peeled open like a human did it.
Legit this lol, I was like who's rummaging through household garbage? Dumpsters near big stores maybe, but not residential trash lol
That might work, except your neighbors in Kentucky might have to worry that the local raccoons won't just start making mint juleps!
Padlock it. I’d love to see one figure out how to pick a lock. Carabiners aren’t good enough.
Use bungee cords.
I had a raccoon problem once, then I smacked it with a cast iron pan, it growled and ran off, never came back.
22lr is a cheap way to fix it.
The mechanism requires one to twist the lever, then pull it out.
They didn't break it. They figured it out.
They are crazy smart
I don't shoot my neighbors
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They can rip through chicken wire, so yes, they are pretty dang strong. And highly food motivated.