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A couple of years back we had a large belligerent racoon take up residence as a squatter in a little shed on our deck (one floor up) during the day, bold as you please. It got quite aggressive when we prodded it to move on, and water pistol treatment didn't faze it much. I rang up the wildlife people who said that they do all sorts of useful things, but, sorry, they don't trap racoons (presumably they now do cats). They suggested unhelpfully that I might like to do that myself, if I could rent a large cage. The solution that finally worked would have made Hemingway proud. I got out our vacuum cleaner and taped its accessory hose to a fairly long stick, to be able to stay out of reach of the beast, then approached it, prodding, accompanied by this ominous sucking sound. The combination of the racoon feeling bits of its fur being sucked forcefully into the hose end and the loud noise from the vacuum made the animal nervous and very cross (anthropomorphising here, but I'm pretty sure it was cross). This finally persuaded it to back off, climb down and not come back. Steve in Halifax Quoting annabelle <hamst@xplornet.com>: > Hi Jim & anybody else that is interested, We successfully live > trapped one a few years ago & let it go far from here. As far as I > know it didn't come back. We also live trapped a squirrel that got > into the house! >
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