• The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
    Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
    Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.

  • Today marks the 24th anniversary of 9/11. I pray that this nation does not forget the loss of lives from this horrible event. Yesterday conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was murdered, and I worry about what is to come. Please love one another and your family in these trying times - Spark

Help! Raccoon in my wall!!!

FortyTwoBlades said:
In my apartment there's blocked off door-like thing on the back wall that leads to an attic-like crawl space on the back of the building. I can hear a raccoon in there scratching and chirping and it's freaking me out. I checked outside for how it got in and there's a small gnawed hole in the side of the external structure. What do I do???:eek::mad::(
Click to expand...

Buy a gallon of cheap prestone. Get a couple of cheap bowls. Throw a 'racoon' party, and provide all the free drinks! Everyone goes home happy. The racoons will drink the nice, sticky, sweet liquid, and modern chemistry will do the rest. Just make sure that other, wanted, domestic animals don't join in....or they'll join the racoons in their fate.
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
I can hear a raccoon in there scratching and chirping and it's freaking me out. I checked outside for how it got in and there's a small gnawed hole in the side of the external structure. What do I do???:eek::mad::(
Click to expand...

Sleep with one eye open tonight my friend ....... It's Rocky Racoon and he's looking for a fight :foot:
 
CAS6591 said:
Buy a gallon of cheap prestone. Get a couple of cheap bowls. Throw a 'racoon' party, and provide all the free drinks! Everyone goes home happy. The racoons will drink the nice, sticky, sweet liquid, and modern chemistry will do the rest. Just make sure that other, wanted, domestic animals don't join in....or they'll join the racoons in their fate.
Click to expand...

You are not paying attention. Poison is not the answer. Having the raccoon die inside the wall is worse than having him alive and leaving.
 
Live bait it but until then put a radio by the spot he's scratching at and leave it on all day and night and a high volume if possible.
 
I've had this exact problem myself. Our guest house has a crawl space which unbeknown to me, had a rip in the upper left corner of one of the vent screens. This screen, of course, is meant to keep critters out. I waited up til I heard the varmint, (in this case a skunk), leave, (about 2:00 am). I immediately went to the opening and blocked it up, til I had it fixed with hardware cloth, (steel mesh).
 
i've read that if you bore a hole in a piece of wood(heavy big piece), put something shiny in it, then put a nail or something at the end of the hole so the raccon can't pull his closed fist out. saying goes that a raccon would sooner die than leaving something shiny. works to trap one alive so you train dogs with a live raccon.

but user experience may differ, wait for the pest control. but a REAL man would just go up there after him with a small shovel trench warfare style! :)
 
Ok, here's a diagram since it was hard to explain accurately. It's not just in a normal wall. There's a crawlspace thing behind the wall that's blocked off, and the raccoon gnawed through the wall on the outside. We're on the second floor, hence the stairs in the back of the building.

raccoonproblem.jpg
 
Try earning his trust by talking with him. I'm sure after a while, he'll learn that this whole thing is childish and just walk out on his own.
 
I mean, if he helped me pay the rent it would be one thing, but I'll be damned if he thinks that couch surfing is ok at my place! :D
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
I mean, if he helped me pay the rent it would be one thing, but I'll be damned if he thinks that couch surfing is ok at my place! :D
Click to expand...

Hmmm.... aren't you the one that suggested that a machete is prefect for any job? :) We have had the same problem at my house too. Comming back from a long weekend away, finding the trashed cause of the wild parties, my homepage changed to mammals gone wild, my Into the Wild DVD chewed... what a mess... :D

Seriously, I have gotten racoons to follow a trail of apple slices and peanut butter a couple of times, to get them out of our place, then boarded the hole up. Hasn't been much of a problem over the last few year with both dog around all the time.
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
I'd prefer to avoid lethal measures if at all possible, as I don't believe in killing something unless I either have to or plan on eating it.:o
Click to expand...

:thumbup: You might be able to borrow/rent a Hav-a-Heart trap from the Humane Society. The raccoon likely wants to get out of the walls as badly as you want him out. :)
 
Fortunately my landlord decided to pay attention this time and he'll be calling someone out to the apartment pronto. Glad he's on the ball for once!
 
I would just call the landlord and not really care if he got in the apt or not.
 
wulfshrunting said:
I would just call the landlord and not really care if he got in the apt or not.
Click to expand...

Already did message him, and he's calling a place to take care of it. See my above post. ;)

Also, I have lots of pets and food and stuff in my apartment. I kind of care about it getting in, since I have a cat who thinks he's real tough and I'd hate to see him get torn to shreds by a stupid raccoon that shouldn't have been there in the first place. :grumpy:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top