You know when you have been bad...

[Rich Z]

It's written all over your face....

[CHASZ51]

Do you kill them or move them somewhere else?

[Rich Z]

I relocate them. I don't think I would have the heart to kill a raccoon.

[CHASZ51]

I think that is what keeps getting into my garbage can. Gonna try moth balls.

[Rich Z]

Game cameras are rather inexpensive and are great for figuring out something like this. Just set it up pointing at your trashcan overnight, and you will have your answer the next day.

I had to modify a squirrel baffle on the pole to one of the bird feeders in order to keep the raccoons out of it. I didn't realize till I saw the captured images that they could just reach around the baffle, grab the pole above it, and pull themselves up and over it to get to the feeder.





So I had to modify the baffle a bit by putting something on top that extended a surface that the raccoons couldn't grab onto.



And that did the trick. They haven't been able to get into that feeder since the modification.

[85vette]

The slinky trick would probably work for the squirrels but I don't think they're up to the task for Raccoons.