Living in the suburbs offers many benefits, including the chance to have your own yard to share with your family and your pets and to feel closer to nature.
Butyou may feel a little too close to nature
if you have pesky creatures breaking into your garbage cans.
Not only does it make for an unpleasant mess, but it can also attract additional wild animals of all sorts.
It can quickly pose a serious danger or damage to your chimney, your roof or other parts of your property and become a nuisance to you and your family.
There are many types of creatures that seem to enjoy breaking into your garbage barrels and strewing your trash all over the place in order to locate tasty morsels that may be mixed in among the rubbish.
Some of these include stray cats and dogs and even bears. Perhaps the most famous culprit is the one who looks like a burglar: the raccoon. (they’re also called coons)
One of the unique coon behavior characteristics is a talent of getting into people’s garbage looking for food. It can be extremely difficult to find a trash can that’ll prevent these clever little little critters from opening it.
Anyone who has had raccoon problems is aware of the hassles these pests cause.
Problem raccoons:
- damage facia boards
- eat from your bird feeders
- enter an attic
- get in a wall (crawl spaces too) and
- eventually you’ll find a massive raccoon in your trash.
And you’ll quickly get a home improvement bill to match all the shenanigans these guys pull.
Cleaning up trash that they’ve spilled is no fun.
These wild neighbors will make it especially inconvenient when the weather is bad or you are particularly busy, but you certainly can’t delay this task unless you want a whole horde of wild creatures in your yard.
What’s the really dangerous raccoon problem?
In addition to the inconvenience they cause, raccoon’s present another problem: they’re biology and behavior lends itself to the danger of rabies.
A rabid raccoon’s bite is dangerous to human health and requires immediate medical attention. Most people think that they will be able to identify a rabid animal by the famed “foaming of the mouth,” but signs of the disease are not always so obvious.
Ultimately, if you have a raccoon problem, it’s essential to deal with it with due haste.
You can contact the department of conservation, hire someone to trap and remove them or just protect yourself with garbage cans that can withstand the meddling of these pesky critters.
It sure beats the alternative of managing raccoon problems by a do it yourself trapping and removal method.
These little critters can be a real wildlife problem, causing damage in urban areas and quickly become a nuisance. Remember these are wild animals after all.
So forget animal control, don’t call the university of Missouri, forget about trying to trap them. Just go about managing raccoon problems the simplest way…
Hide the food and lock it in racoon proof garbage containers.