Way OT - How to get rid of raccoon in shop

Walked out into garage this morning to find out I had a guest. Noticed what I thought was cat s**t on floor and was cussing the cat when i heard something hissing behind me...... Rac**** is up on top of roll around table pushed up into a corner and acting like I'm i his space not the other way around. I opened the exterior doors and garage doors and said he will leave on his own. That was two hours ago ond he is still there. I tried prodding him with broom handle and think I only succeeded in ******* him off.

Any ideas or thoughts??????????

 

You got a pellet gun or anything like that? Don't send the dog, ****s have rabies...

 

They are just like insert ethnic group here, if there is one there's more. A friend traps and has a neat little pipe looking thing just for ****s. You put a treat in the pipe, he smells it and sticks his hand in to get it and it traps him. Works every time, won't catch cats or dogs, they are too stupid

 

Be very VERY careful around a raccon (or any other nocturnal animal) you encounter during daylight. We had a rabies epidemic here about 10 years ago - to the point that the wife & I had to have rabies innoculations due to 'second-hand' exposure (we handled our dog after she killed a confirmed rabid '****)

Rabies will present in two ways; 'stupid', where the animal will act as if in a daze and stumble around - and 'agressive', where it will try to come after you. The one you have may just be aggressive because it feels trapped in your garage. Don't take any chances - maybe best to call animal control if they have one in your area.

As for me, I adminstered high-velocity .38 caliber sleeping pills; 9 confirmed; does that make me an 'ace'?

 

LMAO

did you search the board for this? hehe for a second when i read the ***le i thought this was the same thread that we had goin last fall about fuzzy shop terrorists

i agree... send lead, not your hound. it aint worth losin your dog cause you dont wanna make noise widda firearm.

 

If you're not comfortable shooting bullets...

...reach for the 12 gauge.

JH

 

if you dont have a gun or may get in large amounts of trouble for shooting it off in your town use your weed wacker fire it up leave the doors open and go after it should run it off due to the noise if its gas powered i know it works on big *** possiums and if the noise dont run it off a few wacks with the blade will get it to leave

 

You guys better hope that Pam dosen't hear about this! haha

 

Weedwacker sounds like a good idea, however he is off the floor on a table in a corner with all kinds of stuff on top of the table. Anything else that will get them to move, the only direction he has to go is past me....

 

Carbon Monoxide---

 

Be REAL careful around ****s. In addition to rabies, their dropping, (that's **** to some of you), can transmit some REALLY nasty disease to humans. Them critters is smart, so you got to remove whatever it was he found that attracted him in the first place-maybe dog or cat food, trash, water, etc. (anti freeze will kill him and them too). That weed eater idea is pretty good-a bad experience will probably run him off for good. Be careful-a tame animal can hurt you - a wild one will be fighting for his life.

 

Call your local animal control. They're the ones that can handle this if you don't want to and they can test the animal for rabies.

Me, I like the 12 guage solution, 'cept for all the mess!!! Know any bow hunters? Bows are nice and quiet.

 

I've had this problem before also with a possum and a ground hog. Only one way in and one way out of the shop. Both times they were in the corner of the shop. The possum was spared his life because we have this old mechanical claw that was used to take klinkers out of old furnace stoves. Just grabbed him around the neck and put him in a empty trash can. Then took him down the road and let him go. The ground hog wasn't so lucky. Too big to grab with the claw and pretty aggressive. The final fate was a pump action .22 . Had to make sure it counted because there was a cement block wall behind him.


The Zettle Bros.--- "Have .22, will travel!!!"

 

Got a .22 rifle? If you're close enough to prod him with a broom handle, you're close enough to scratch him behind the ear with the business end of a .22. A lot less mess than a shot gun, and less secondary damage. Just be sure to check what is on the other side of his head, because the bullet will go thru. Better yet, go to Wal Mart and get some .22 bird shot, and use that. Absolutely no worries about what happens after the projectile leaves his furry little head. An arrow will go thru him, and won't make it dead instantly. You'll look pretty damn silly running around with a bow in one hand, swinging an arrow around to fend it off.

And yeah, what everybody has said about ra****s and desease is a very real concern here. Rabbies or distemper. That thing should be very affraid of you...worried enough that it would run out of the shop at the first opportunity. ESPECIALLY if you're seeing this thing during the daylight hours. As pointed out, they are nocturnal. The only time you'll see them during the day is if they're very old and have cataracts (which makes them think the later afternoon/dusk is later than it actually is), or when they're sick.

One you do kill it, handle the dead body very carefully--you don't want blood to get on any open cuts, hang nailes, scratches, etc. Put it in a plastic bag and dispose of it.
-Brad

 

Several years back I had a family of ra****s living in the fireplace of my downstairs family room.It was sealed off from the rest of the house by a gl*** screen so them getting into the house wasn't a problem.

They had entered the house through the chimney on the roof.Blocking that off would have eventually killed them but removing their remains could have been a problem.

I was all set to call a local pest control outfit when a friend of mine gave me a quick and inexpensive(and humane)solution to the problem:He asked if I could get fairly close to them without endangering myself and I replied that there was a capped off pipe where a former owner had tapped a wood stove into the chimney.We had removed it for safety reasons.

He told me to get a rag and soak it in ammonia and put it into the hole.The ammonia is so strong smelling and the ra****s' noses so sensitive that it would drive them out in a hurry.

I did as he told me and it took about a minute and a half for the ra**** family to exit the premises.I then capped off the chimney and haven't had a problem since.It works in priciple similar to using turpentine to throw off a tracking dog's ability to find their quarry.

 

1. Start car

2. Exit garage

3. Shut door

4. Wait

5. Dispose

 

This is an old **** hunter's trick. You drill a hole in a log or a piece of wood and put a treat and/or shiny object in there. Then you drive nails in all around the hole at an angle to where an open paw will slide in but a closed paw gets caught on the nails. Then, you put it where the **** can find it. The stupid thing is that if they'd just drop the treat/object they'd get away, but word is they won't let go for nothing...

 

especially in a garage, smaller would be better. .410 shotgun or .22 and we're in business. we take care of them with box traps and then "set them free" if you get my drift. just way too many of them, and letting them go elsewhere only transmits the problem to someone else. i think last year we got around 30 out of my grandma's back yard here on the farm.

what i would suggest works great for a buddy of mine who owns about 12 acres of wooded land smack dab in the middle of town where rac****s are even worse than out here in the sticks. get a .22 rifle and some .22 shorts or better yet, .22 subsonics. less power and range than standard .22 long rifle ammo, and if you are worried about the noise, the subsonics, made by remington, are barely louder than a pellet gun, no ****. these will be powerful enough to kill it and not do much more damage to anything else.

if you have a semi-automatic rifle, the subsonics (and i think shorts, too) will not cycle the action because they aren't powerful enough and you'll have to manually rechamber for additional shots.

 

Put him to work sanding bondo. He'll disappear quick.

 

I wouldn't use a firearm in my garage.

 

Get some fly bait from the hardware store, and pour it in a pie tin with some mountian dew, nite nite ****.

 

Mr Zenor, you're always a voice of reason in a world spiraling out of control.

 

try some M-80's...toss a couple next to him and get out of his way. i promise he'll never come back.

you think it's bad having a '**** in your garage? try having to round one or more up in a cluttered semi trailer. used to manage a warehoue for a moving company and one day the dispatcher said that animal control was coming to help get a couple ra****s out of a trailer that had bitten a guy unloading it but couldn't get it out. animal control officer gets there and asks everyone for some help and since i've worked with all kinds of animals all my life i volunteered, (there's a lot of ra****s in indiana where i grew up.) well we open the trailer, toss our stuff in and hurry to get in the trailer and close the door. it's just me, the animal control guy and the dispatcher in there with a couple flashlights in the dirtiest tractor trailer i've ever seen, hunting for an unknown number of rac****s. also according to the driver, one of em was supposed to be huge.

well we started carefully going through things, i had a catch stick (long pole with a light cable noose at the end) and my dispatcher had a net while the animal control guy had a long pair of tongs and a .22 loosely holstered. you ever been in a semi-dark enclosed space looking for a known dangerous animal(s) like that...it's a little nerve wracking. we got most of the way through the trailer so we knew that the critters had to be at the front so we went to the back and had one of the brave guys crask the door to watch behind us in case the rac**** got past us, he'd close the door and we'd know to look behind. well just as we are getting to the last few feet of trailer we hear "OH ****!!" and it gets pitch black in there. flashlights on and there's a '**** right at the back doors. i charge up there and the thing starts climbing the wall, it gets about 7' up and then turns and starts hissing at me. i get the noose around it and pull that mother****er as hard as i can and then the ra**** got really pissed. that thing was growling, howling and hissing and spitting like MAD. i yanked the thing off the wall and pinned it to the ground while the officer got the carrier ready for it and then stuffed it in.

we went through the rest of the trailer and there was only the one '**** in there, just barely full grown too. reason we had to catch it was because of the guy that got bitten, needed to test it for rabies and such and since the ra**** was from indiana (ironically enough) it couldn't get out into utah.

one last thing, the **** head that got bitten by that rac**** got $50k for a nibble on a finger...i need to get bitten by a rac**** at work!

 

no ****, start the car, shut the door, and take the family out to dinner... not a problem.

 

Fire up the air compressor.

Shoot some air out of the air nozzle in his general direction.

I've run a few cats out of the shop that way.

 

Take a radio in the shop and turn it on to a talk radio station and crank it to 11. ****s hate people talking for some reason. If you can put it so that the raccon is between the door and Stern, you should have him gone in no time. It works in crawl spaces, so it could work in your shop.

 

He ain't real clever. He probably wants to leave, but only knows one way, the one he used to get in. Make sure it is available to him, and then try the noise/ammonia/whatever.

 

I have had the rabies series because I work in the Vet school. No fun. The animal may be trying to find a place to die which means it is sick. Especially if you cannot lure it outside the garage with food. It is a wild animal and it will attack especially if it is sick. If you use a fire extinguisher you may just piss it off worse. If you cannot get wildlife folks to help, I would leave the door open enough for it to run out. If it does die in your garage, I would contact your physician and get the series (done in the arm NOT stomach). Because after it is cleaned out you will have to take the series..... period.

 

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