Find out where they sleep Mook. Actually, if you put out a salt lick or something, I'd bet they'd show up. Now you just need to think of a creative way to make the little bastards suffer!
Do it. All vermin should just die. I live in a pretty fucked up part of Philly (in a rowhouse), and the owners in the adjacent apt are renovating, and since then, I've been noticing mice in my apt. I've already caught two of the little shits in traps. Hate seeing them around. I've set traps all over and even have a few of those ultrasound things that emit a noise these things apparently hate.. I have dealt with mice in labs, and have once ("sacrificed" in the scientific realm) about 10 in an hour to harvest their spleens. I think they're getting back at me by appearing in my apt.
Lol, ya. It just pisses me off, because I try to keep my place as clean as possible, and they still like my place for some reason. I don't like cats.
I've tried baiting the fucker with a banana smeared with peanut butter. My brother suggested that the bait said more about me than people should really know. Something about Freud. Anyway, the raccoon was not impressed either. Also doesn't seem to care for toast or carrots. Did catch a squirrel, though. Let him out. I think I need to go with meat. I've been disinclined to do so because there are so many damned cats in the neighborhood, and cats aren't my quarry. Then I thought, "Fuck them." The trap doesn't really harm the critter, and it'd do some of the cats around here some good to spend the night in stir. I might have to hold off for a week, though. I gotta go out of town, and I want to have my undivided attention focused on the beast.
Mook, the pros who trap raccoons in my yard use Fig Newtons, of all things. And they work. Less smelly than raw meat. IMO, anyone who does not like cats deserves RATS! Not the nice tame lab rats I used to keep as pets. RATS!
I remember feeding a family of racoons in our backyard with raw hotdogs. They couldn't get enough. Maybe go that route?
Ooh, Ooh, I know that one. Your father was Jimmy Carter and you loved him (the peanuts gave it away). How did I do?
http://www.ehow.com/how_4882040_trap-raccoon-using-bait.html http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how to trap a racoon&aq=f
I like the fig newton idea. We also have some old hot dogs too I forgot about. It's all coming together. If I get him trapped I'll shoot him with my bow. He'll be done for before he knows what hits him. Not particularly sporting to shoot a caged animal, but I want to dispatch him quickly. Then I've got to convince the wife that raccoon is good eatin'. She grew up on marmite, so maybe it wont' be hard. If we both chicken out, we can always serve it up to the dog.
