Skunks are OK and if de-scented make good but, illegal in Ontario, pets. Use grub controls on your lawn and they'll rarely bother you, rabies excepted. Raccoons on the other hand should be fed to the coyotes.
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Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?
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Possibly but radiator antifreeze is the stuff that used to do in cats. Apparently they now add a foul taste to the stuff.
A few humans have offed others with antifreeze cocktails. It turns into formaldehyde in the body and is a slow painful death, wiping out internal organs.
Cousin had a rat problem under his shed...and then a skunk moved in. The skunk killed all the rats and was a great neighbour for about 4 months until he disappeared.
My cousin is still sad the skunk left.
There will be no poisoning of the 20lb animal. Many parts of the attic are inaccessible. A decomposing mouse smells bad enough, I prefer not to move out for a few months and then having to re-drywall the spot where it turned to goo.
Last dog got skunk sprayed 3 maybe 4 times , I’m not a skunk fan.
If your raccoon has babies , the animal control guys can’t touch it until the babies are ready to leave , by then you’ll have 100lb of coon poop and 50L of pee running down the wall . Get rid of it now .
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If your raccoon has babies , the animal control guys can’t touch it until the babies are ready to leave , by then you’ll have 100lb of coon poop and 50L of pee running down the wall . Get rid of it now .
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A plan is in motion. It slept somewhere else last night.
I had a service call to a house for after the owners got back from their vacation. Then they said come now as plans had changed.
Just before they were to leave they noticed a black spot on the wall where an old fireplace had been drywalled over.
It was the nose of a raccoon chewing through the board. Envision a family of raccoons left to squat for a couple of weeks.
Raccoon and kits can stay but your kids have to move out because raccoon crap contains a parasite that goes airborne and infects the people that built the house. "But they were here first."
Why don't the first nations use that logic. They were here first. We should leave.
My neighbour has a cottage up north and left it for the winter. Came back in the spring only to find a mother racoon and her babies living in the closet. Half the cottage had to be renovated as it was destroyed.
Kill it now @GreyGhost. Kill it in whatever means necessary.
Raccoons are not native to Japan but a lot of Japanese thought the kits very cute and imported them as pets. As they grew the owners realized what a bunch of un-trainable, stinky, disease spreading pests they were and, not unlike people here, they turned them loose.
They bred and multiplied, moved into ancient temple and have destroyed them. They're about as welcome as another A bomb.
Squeeze and I lived in a rental decades ago and we could hear the coon scratching around in the attic directly over our bed. Didn't sleep real good wondering what would happen when a confused coon landed in the waterbed with us. If I recall a radio left on in the attic sent him on his way.
Most of these animals fear people. AM talk radio left on near where they are will often get rid of them as they will think there are people near them. Talk is important, music is just noise to them.
This has worked for me.
This has worked for me.
Next dr neighbours and I share a cat. The rats went west a long time ago, but she's friends with the skunk.
I had a family of them under my trailer deck yrs ago. They'd walk amongst us at night, around the fire. If not startled, they're mellow.
I don't trust this current freeloader..he looks ½ porcupine..
DownUnder
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That's the glycol in antifreeze yea.
Apparently grubs are plentiful in my yard this year because for the first time skunks are spending hours each night digging it up. They’ve destroyed about an acre so far. Whenever I go outside to get rid of the skunk the wild turkeys start hollering from the tree line which warns the skunk and it runs away. Country life problems.
I’ll look into some grub control next year.
I’ll look into some grub control next year.
I don't even want to do mine. I just know my wife won't get around to it until it is green and she wants to be swimming. Pool is supposed to be her problem as she is the one that wanted it. I'll fix it when it breaks but maintenance is on her list (supposedly, it normally ends up on my list).
AllistonGT
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Grub control doesn't really exist unless you bring it in from the US. I've tried whats available to us here. In my experience it's a waist of time.
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