HELP! -raccoon problems

[Rabid]

I understand not wanting to shoot it in Boulder but that is going to be the only surefire way of doing it. Try putting predator urine around and under the shed?

[hatidua]

Shoot it and then throw it in your trash, problem solved. Send me a PM.

I live squarely in the middle of town. Killing it, by any means whatsoever (poison, trap, bow, airgun, Etc.), get's me a free 90 day stay in a cement building on the taxpayers nickel. That's simply not how I envisioned my next three months...I'm not opening the gun safe to solve this problem, but thanks.

[Irving]

Well, serious questions.
1) Do you want it gone, or dead?
2) How are your neighbors?

I think the ammonia and moth balls is known to work to get them to move, but just out of the area. It will still be around to menace your dogs, especially once you get rid of the chemicals to let your dogs back out.
On a side note, I just happened to be looking out my front door two nights ago at about 1:30 am when 5 raccoons came up my walk to my front door. It was a mom and 4 babies. The mom, was one of four babies last year. I think my raccoon problem is about to be compounded this summer.

[copfish]

Rat poison worked for me... Look here. I just rolled it into meatballs and left it near her nest.

[kwando]

Trap that bitch and take it somewhere to release it. I'd personally shoot it

[fitz19d]

For trap food, I seem to recall canned cat food or tuna works great?

[hatidua]

Well, serious questions.
1) Do you want it gone, or dead?
2) How are your neighbors?

1. -either one works fine.
2. -I live in Boulder.

[TheGrey]

I've spoken with some of my neighbors to see what they do- and they've all used Shake-Away coyote urine to do so.

Be careful if you're combining chemicals.

Irving: 5 raccoons? Holy crap. Time to make life very unpleasant for them before those babies are grown!

[hatidua]

For trap food, I seem to recall canned cat food or tuna works great?

yeah, I suspect either of those are foul enough to do the trick!

[Skully]

I had several neighborhood Racoons and I actually liked them hanging around.

I also did not have them taking up residence in my shed in the back yard or attic. It is a conundrum, if you poison it / kill it and neighbors see it, animals have more rights than people specially in Boulder.

I heard the ammonia thing works most of the time the other thing is the sonic pest controllers work.

I doubted it myself but a coworker had problems with squirrels (worse than Racoons) in their shed and attic and they said they were super skeptical about it at first but it worked and the batteries in the thing worked for half a year.

An alternative register the raccoon as a member of the Tea Party and wanting a tax exempt status, this will have the IRS audit them and send them to jail for tax evasion.......................