Help! How do I stop the animals!?

[Hotred911]

Sorry if this has been suggested already, but I know Rubbermaid makes a storage center that is for storing your trash cans. I think they hold two trash cans.

Something similar to this

 

[Willing and Unsure]

Sorry if this has been suggested already, but I know Rubbermaid makes a storage center that is for storing your trash cans. I think they hold two trash cans.

Something similar to this

If you bump the rubbermaid one just right it falls apart. We had one where I worked once for storage and seriously, we bumped it twice accidently and it pretty much fell apart.

 

[sheath]

Ummm....

Okay. I have bungee cords. I also have a drill and hardware.

Unfortunately, it is not near as interesting as it sounds.

We're going to try this, see what happens, and I am thinking of trying something really obnoxious on the bags. Or the ammonia idea. I just have to keep in mind that the garbage workers pick those bags up every Friday! I don't want to get THEM with whatever I choose to get the animals with.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try one at a time and if all else fails, frozen paintball pellets sound like a fine idea.

S.

 

[lost5pints]

Ok I understand where your coming from.....we have a raccoon outside the base police station that is practically a mascot.....I apologize if someone else suggested this.....the raccoons know they will get food so they keep coming.....If your garbage men are actually willing to remove the garbage bags instead of dumping the can in the back.....if they are be as nice as possible.....use smaller bags and weigh down your cans.....I would drill a gole into the bottom of the can and tie a cinderblock in the bottom..... also i would start looking at the hardware stores for some old fashoned metal cans.....your run of the mill squirell or other small rodent wont be able to naugh through it.....the just tie down the lid,,,,,,,L5P's

 

[Missingmeds]

I have this vision of sheath, all humkered down in cammies waiting with paintball gun at the ready, filled with frozen paintballs....lol...

Sorry sheath but I can't seem to sleep and I am getting silly. Now everything will be a visual and some of them can get right down silly.

 

[car nut]

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[car nut]

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[Hisownprecious]

2. Give it a chance at life by putting food in a trap, when you catch it spray paint it chevy orange then drive it a few miles away and leave it. If you find a chevy orange racoon in your yard again shoot it.

Would John Deere green work?


This is way too funny...Sheath, if you try this one post a pic before you shoot the thing would ya?

 

[sheath]

LMAO!

You guys are hilarious!

Ummmm...okay, let's see, update. Last night I was pretty angry about something completely unrelated to the coon/giant jackrabbit/bear/whatever, and I walked out the back door in a fury...and the screen door snapped back when I hit it full-tilt, and slammed against the side of something very large that was trying to get into my trash cans. I'm not sure what it was, since it disappeared too quickly, but that thing was...ummm...*gulp*...LARGE.

So, attempt was thwarted last night...and today was trash day, so there isn't anything in the can for it to get to. In a few days, though, let the games begin!

L5P: Thanks for the idea. I have to take the trash to the curb in the mornings, though...and it has to be in the can, apparently to keep animals out. Well, we already know THAT doesn't fucking WORK, but hey. Rules are rules.

Missingmeds: That gave me a chuckle, too. I'm imaging walking into the Fort Campbell Surplus Store and telling them I need cammies...head to toe...and some of that face paint, too, 'cause this situation is SERIOUS, man!

car nut: Hell...I don't even know where to BEGIN with those suggestions! LOL

Hooch: All I can say to that is to repeat an oft-used old southern phrase in defense of murder: *growling* "He just needed a-killin'." On second thought, now I need to be more careful about what I put in my garbage cans!

Hisownprecious: If I can catch that thing, I'll take enough pictures to blind it with the flash so that it can't find its way back to MY place.

S.

 

[Missingmeds]

LMAO!


Missingmeds: That gave me a chuckle, too. I'm imaging walking into the Fort Campbell Surplus Store and telling them I need cammies...head to toe...and some of that face paint, too, 'cause this situation is SERIOUS, man!

S.

Want me to call ahead for you? I can just about hear them now....a large furry thing did you say?

 

[cyberski]

Sheath,
Go here: http://www.stupidvideos.com/
Look to the left for the search feature and type in "Garbage", then when the video "The Garbage Truck" comes up, click play and there's your solution to your problem











Oh BTW.......yer welcome

 

[sheath]

Want me to call ahead for you? I can just about hear them now....a large furry thing did you say?

You know, come to think of it...we could just call up there and request one of the 101st Airborne to come out on their off-time and deal with the problem. Personally, I would rather watch a handsome man crawling around in camo than wearing it myself...the camo, I mean...you know what I mean.

S.

 

[sheath]

Sheath,
Go here: http://www.stupidvideos.com/
Look to the left for the search feature and type in "Garbage", then when the video "The Garbage Truck" comes up, click play and there's your solution to your problem



Oh BTW.......yer welcome

LOL!

Now THAT is a solution not yet mentioned!



S.

 

[Willing and Unsure]

LMAO!

You guys are hilarious!

Ummmm...okay, let's see, update. Last night I was pretty angry about something completely unrelated to the coon/giant jackrabbit/bear/whatever, and I walked out the back door in a fury...and the screen door snapped back when I hit it full-tilt, and slammed against the side of something very large that was trying to get into my trash cans. I'm not sure what it was, since it disappeared too quickly, but that thing was...ummm...*gulp*...LARGE.

I dont know what type of area you are in, but if any of your neighbors have larger dogs, it could be a dog. Our neighbor's dog had been getting into our garbage for awhile and we actually had to put the garbage cans in other places (like in the garage) to keep them out of it.

 

[sheath]

I dont know what type of area you are in, but if any of your neighbors have larger dogs, it could be a dog. Our neighbor's dog had been getting into our garbage for awhile and we actually had to put the garbage cans in other places (like in the garage) to keep them out of it.

I'm in Tennessee, the western/central part of the state.

No...it's not a dog. It was the wrong shape, and it was moving too low to the ground, and in too much of a 'waddling' kind of manner, to be a dog. My first thought was, it's the biggest coon I've ever seen...my second thought was, wait, I didn't see a tail...then I thought of the idea of a bear. Though I don't think a bear would high-tail it out of there that fast. Who knows, I might be wrong...

Whatever it is, it scared the hell out of me. lol

S.

 

[Willing and Unsure]

okay maybe it's a possum... sometimes those can be large. Raccoons can get to be the size of a small/medium size dog.

 

[Missingmeds]

You know, come to think of it...we could just call up there and request one of the 101st Airborne to come out on their off-time and deal with the problem. Personally, I would rather watch a handsome man crawling around in camo than wearing it myself...the camo, I mean...you know what I mean.

S.

Now that is a bonafide solution to any problem.

 

[watergirl]

oh, my

Sheath -

you definitely live in interesting times, woman! good luck with the critter!

 

[car nut]

You can always put a bucket of lighter fluid on top of the garbage cans, when it knocks it over it gets a shower. You hear the noise and run out with a blow torch. No more giant animal.

Tenessee sells some intresting explosives they call "fireworks" (or is it kentuky that sells all the good stuff??) You can always set the garbage can up to explode upon someone tampering with it

Or if your feeling like having some fun, hide by the garbage cans with a blanket and a glof club/baseball bat. Animal comes by, you banket the lil bastard and teach it a lesson. Dont look under the blanket after though it wont be pretty.

Really i would just use rat poison though.

 

[sheath]

Okay...any ideas for someone who is generally non-violent?

S.

 

[CottonSilk]

Well if you make some sort of way where two things need to be done to open the can it should effectively be locked. Even if you have a group of possums or a racoon family they typically can't use team work intentionally.

Remember that the animals useing a learned behavior so maybe a different style of garbage can with some sort of different lock might help? If it's plastic you might even try drilling a hole or two and useing a pad lock or a cheap combo lock at night for a while until the animal gives up.

 

[Cardinal]

12 guage.

 

[midwestyankee]

Okay...any ideas for someone who is generally non-violent?

S.

I still highly recommend hours of Rush Limbaugh. That should take care of any sentient creature.

 

[Nightbird]

Going back to the paint ball idea.. I don't know if you have this down there but here where I am if you soak paint balls with WD40 it turns them very very hard and they do a lot of damage.

Just how big was this thing? Are we talking dog size or a really fat cat?

If it waddled that sounds a lot like a raccoon.