[Dragonfly]

I've never had this problem before (So Cal). Any suggestions are appreciated.

[agla]

Are they in your building, or raiding you?

[Fine Edge]

Put your trash in the neighbor's yard!

[Dale Wiley]

Go to a hunting supply store or Cabelas and see if you can get some wolf or coyote urine. Sprinkle it around and the coons and every other animal will steer clear of the yard.

I have 2 wolf / malamute dogs and we have no trouble with any intruders 2 or 4 legged.

[familyguy]

A local senator got in trouble for using a .22

[Ston Wurks]

I don't know about trapping, it seems like I jst read something where in Ohio you have to put down any trapped raccoons-no catch and release.

[Dragonfly]

They are tearing up a clients annual beds.

[NCSULandscaper]

have they actually seen that its racoons tearing it up?

[Pelican]

Firearm of your favorite caliber. I've used a mag-lite to dispatch possums, but a racoon is probably to quick for that.

[Timber Lane]

If feasible, use electric fence with fiberglas poles. It can be put up temporarily, and after a few weeks (or less) the raccoons will have learned their lesson and be gone.

I fence my property with electric fencing supplies from Kencove. I run a strand of wire 5" above the ground, then another 10" above the ground. Once they put their little nose on that 11 volts of juice, they won't come back. It's easy to set up and plugs into a 110 outlet.

I also have a strand of wire at 24" and another at 48", and this definitely turns back the deer. I run 600' of fence X four strands and the whole works cost me between $200 and $300. I swear by it!

[Dragonfly]

She has seen them, electric fence is not an option, discharge of a weapon in an urban area gets you a trip to jail for 10 years no if ands or buts. Dale I will try your advice first. I can't wait to have to explain "urine treatment" on her billing.

[Mark Oomkes]

You could try a silencer.

Or a high powered air rifle would take care of them.

Might not make the billing explanation any easier.

[NCSULandscaper]

set out traps and catch them, take them somewhere down the road and let them loose in the woods

[ckcland]

I live in a rural area and many neiboring farmers simply use oatmeal and rat poison. Be carefull if dogs are present!!!

[cutntrim]

Trap and release is probably the best option. A friend of my father-in-law has caught and released half-a-dozen raccoons into a local provincial park already this season. He's also trapped and released 17 squirrels, which I find funny, but he doesn't want them digging up his flower beds for nuts.

If you can't find the wolf urine, just tell her husband to pee in his garden every night. That'd probably keep them away too...although I'm not sure how it'd go over with the neigbours.

We had raccoons using the side of our house as their own litter box for one summer, and I lined up my footballs outside the back door for some target practice each night around 9:30 when they'd come around (whole family of them). Didn't keep them from coming back but it was alot of fun. Eventually my neighbour left a couple of Warfarin (rat poison) tuna sandwiches for them in her yard, and that was the end of them.