Raccoons Research Paper

Raccoon repellent.

Repelling raccoons from your property can be a very expensive and very time-consuming exercise. To start with raccoons who are strangers to your property are quite easy to deter and convince that they should look elsewhere, but if a raccoon is either already in residence on your property or considers your property as part of its already established territory then it is going to be rather difficult to chase that raccoon away. The first thing you must do as part of the repelling process is remove the animals food source, there is no way around this, I have heard of people erecting electric fences and buying metal garbage bins with locks that would deter locksmiths, and that might stop the raccoon from actually getting at the food but it hasn't removed the food from the raccoons point of view, so the record and will keep trying to break down your defences and in the process can be extremely destructive, (read expensive).
Another very effective deterrent is motion activated sprinklers, even though raccoons actually like water it turns out they don't actually like getting sprayed with water or maybe it's the noise of the sprinklers that put them off but it works. There are also available both granular and spray repellents which work up to a point, that point is usually the first time it rains and washes the repellent away, after which the home-owner forgets to replace it. Finally there is electronic repellents, most of these seem do only annoy the neighbors and not any of the local animals, including