Is it possible to convince a raccoon to leave your property by trying to repeatedly murder it and deprive it of sleep?I recently had a male raccoon take up residence inside of the joist bays of my attic. It was living up there for probably three or four weeks. Apparently my neighborhood is so yupped out it's illegal to shoot them with my .22 and the raccoon was in an inaccessible part of my joist bays anyway due to a renovation of the attic into a living space. Some dude who can trap and relocate them came over and used those havaheart traps and they didn't work for shit. It fucking outsmarted the trap and stole the bait every single time. I caught multiple innocent possums on accident. I got so tired of it living in my walls that I went into my garage and underneath my lower attic/crawlspace at dusk and dawn and started jamming a hockey stick and rake into the ceiling where I could hear it walking to go out for the night. There's a few holes in it anyway because my brother used to play hockey in the garage a lot and threw dozens of pucks through the drywall so it didn't really damage anything. When it tried to leave through a second garage attached to the lower level of my house (on a steep grade), I ran down the hill and did the same thing. After a while, it retreated to my interior walls. I took my dog, put it in my truck for a few hours with some food and the windows cracked, went back in the house and blasted high frequency noises that hurt animals' ears with a guitar amp at the raccoon through the wall. Every time it moved to a different part of the wall to escape the noise, I did the same thing. When I woke up this morning the raccoon was gone. It has been gone all day. Do you think it is truly gone or will it return? Would this mischievous, intelligent and highly rugged creature really just leave my attic because I was mean to it?
>>5137205>joist bays>steep gradeAre we just making up words like in A Clockwork Orange now or are you having a stroke?
>>5137233A joist bay is the spaces in your house between framing joists, the thick planks of lumber that support a floor or wall. I probably could have said on a hill for steep grade. My house is laid on the hill such that the basement actually opens up to the outside in the backyard. That is where the other garage is and where the raccoon was getting in. I was sitting down there with a shovel, smoking weed, waiting for the raccoon. I was probably chasing it between the two garages for seven or eight hours. No shit, the raccoon technically has to go down three stories of floors to get from its den and latrine in the attic to the garage down the hill. I found the animal to be very persistent. You would think that a less cunning animal would have set up shop in a place that was harder to access. In the end, this strategy allowed me to harass the animal while it transited the space below my floors and ceilings.
>>5137205it'll come back once it rains
>>5137233There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up rassoodocks and Joist Bays and having a glass of the Steep Grade. "Alrighty righty then, time for a bit of the old 20 on 1 against some racoons droogy mine" said Georgie
ceiling coon guy here. Are you a good shot with either a bow or a slingshot? Ideally with 50 cal ballsEducated guess is even if you went up there and pelted it with non fatal harassment day and night it would not be enough firepower to turn the tide. And if you can only get a shot when it goes out at night or returns then you've lost
>>5137205Just let a couple big snakes loose in your walls/attic.
Buy some bear spray or even just cayenne pepper powder and spray that everywhere.
>>5137233>This guy doesn't know shit about basic construction terminology.You could have said nothing, but now we all know you're either a tranny or a faggot.
>>5137205I assume you can't shoot it because you don't want your neighbor to report you? What a fag.Just 'leave' some antifreeze out. Come back later to throw the thing away in a garbage bag. Neighbor is no wiser. Can just say it left...
>>5137299>>5137337Fuck>>5137338I think it would be a felony to release boa constrictors into the wild here but they will probably die in the winter>>5137341I will try this if the fiend returns >>5137376I think almost everyone around my house will report me. I live in an upper crust suburb well inside the center of a major city. There is actually a police station and fire station up the street with some of the most aggressive police in the state. I bet they might even have one of those listening machines that detect gunshots and they'd probably detect it considering I am merely 10 blocks away. I was going to try to shoot it during a thunderstorm last week and let the thunder cover up the shot but the storm kept the raccoon from leaving. I could poison it but there is the issue of the raccoon crawling up in the joist bay to die where I can't retrieve it. The guy who suggested a bow or slingshot might have a point. I was also considering sharpening a spear and stabbing it while it crawled through the attic. Removing a piece of drywall in the garage to remove it would be no big deal- there is a huge hole in my garage ceiling where my hunting dog fell through it while foraging in the attic, and broke her leg, but survived. She died of old age. I miss that dog a lot. In any case, the raccoon has yet to return. It's been 2 or 3 nights since I've evicted the bastard and we've heard nothing.
>>5137305Got me good>>5137348Literally no one talks like this or about this, I assumed he was European or from one of the coasts
Guys I just moved into a new flat and my downstairs-neighbor is so fucking noisy.. I think he's angry because he can hear me walking around, but he's also yelling about having some fucking holes in his walls so what can I do?!
>>5137555I'd recommend getting into his trash and looking through it to make sure he didn't accidentally throw anything away that he wanted to keep. If he has any noisy chickens nearby you should kill every one of them too so they don't wake him up early.
>>5137241So you have a fucking hole in your house? Close up the hole you dumb fuck.
>>5137387Oh, it's a "I have a problem and nothing you suggest will solve it but I will respond with long meandering vague bread crumbs about my life and situation." threads
Had the same problem op. Best advice is to catch it and dispose of it however you feel like. They hate the following things>peppermint You can get some essential oils and soak some cotton balls with them, throw where they like to hang out.>bright lightsSet a strobe light up in your attic>fox urine They will flee if they think a predator is close, but its gross because your putting animal pee all over.Even if you catch them and choose to release them, you need to do it minimal 10 miles away from your home. They will find there way back if not.Try not to poison them. You dont want some dead animal rotting in your attic in a space you can't reach them.If you manage to capture them and are unable to dispatch them with a firearm best bet is to either drown them, or use some sort of an "escape chamber" to suffocate them. Think a big rubber maid storage container with a helium tank pumping gas into it. These options are kinda fucked up to be honest.>the longer you allow them to stay in your attic the more expensive it becomes to repair the damage they do.I spent $18,000 in repairs last summer. >Find their access point>Try the peppermint oil. >once they're out seal it up.If they return do what you must. Godspeed.
>>5139005>If you manage to capture them and are unable to dispatch them with a firearm best bet is to either drown them, or use some sort of an "escape chamber" to suffocate them. Think a big rubber maid storage container with a helium tank pumping gas into it. These options are kinda fucked up to be honest.How much of a sadistic shit do you have to be to go through effort of capturing it alive just to kill it anyways
>>5137205>it's illegal to shoot them with my .22that's one of those "crimes" that are essentially impossible to prosecute unless you confess.
>>5141093Common af in the occupied territories where neighbors shit and piss themselves over a gunshot.
