I am so fed up with them and the damage they are causing I could scream
Last night they were at it again; the result was two broken clay pots, a lot of muddy footprints even inside the lanai and two very nasty piles of shit by the swimming pool.
I have two urns on each side of the path that leads to the pool and night after night the raccoons knock down the one on the left…never the one on the right. I upright it every day and they turn it over in the night…it is as if they are defying me, they are doing it mischievously and in your face.
I don’t want to hurt them as I love all animals but I wish there was some kind of deterrent, some way of making them avoid my back yard short of putting out rat poison.
The thing too is that I find them adorably cute.
What it looks like to me is that the city or the county refuses to do anything about this health hazard...it is well known that racoons carry ring worms, rabies and all kinds of threats. The city and county are very diligent in collecting my property taxes; it is almost impossible to get a permit to build a fence...in fact it is easier for an oil company to get a drilling permit in the Gulf of Mexico. Your fence and other things that are not as threatening as racoons...like if your post holes are deep enough, etc. than the elimination of the racoon population...they could set traps and then release them in the wild...which is near enough and large enough (The Everglades)
I just had to let this rant out of my system. I hope you followers don't mind.
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