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Home remedies work about as well as commercialized spray and
powder repellents work when it comes to getting rid of raccoons
or keeping them away from your property. Not at all.
You may have heard of the almighty mothball which will make any
critter flee without looking back. If a raccoon smells food on
your property and wants to get to it, an additional mothball
smell won’t deter it whatsoever. The food is always more
important. If the raccoon has already set shop in your attic,
it’s more than likely a female raccoon that has a litter. It
won’t prematurely expose its young to the outside dangers just
because you’ve made it rather smelly in there.
Spreading human or dog hair doesn’t work either. If the animal
wants to go on your property, the theory is that the raccoon
will think a human or a dog is around, and it will be too scared
to further advance. Well, raccoons are becoming bolder and
bolder, and they don’t fear us as much as we might think. They
have no problem with attacking dogs in order to defend
themselves, so the dog hair smell isn’t such a big red warning
sign for them. Again, if they’re already familiar with your
property or they’ve already made themselves comfortable in your
attic, you must be joking if you’re thinking that the smell of
hair will make them leave.
I could keep going on debunking all sorts of oldwives’ tales,
but the story is the same with each and every one of them,
really. The raccoon just won’t care. Or if it does indeed care,
there are stronger incentives for them to come on your property
or remain there, incentives that are deep rooted in their DNA,
and that will always outweigh any slight discomfort we may cause
them with our funny home remedies.
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Of course, you can try any and all of the suggestions you get,
but it is my educated opinion that you will just lose time and
energy by doing so.
‘What works, then?’ Well, making sure that there’s nothing on
your property that might attract the raccoon is one thing that
could work in terms of prevention – no accessible garbage cans,
no pet food, no fallen fruits or nuts. In terms of repellants,
eviction fluid is the only one that might work, but this is not
a home remedy, it’s a commercialized liquid or paste that is
made with male raccoon gland secretions and urine. This might
work with making a mother raccoon leave an attic and move her
litter due to fear of a male killing her young. The other thing
that works is having a wildlife control expert take care of the
problem.
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