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Electric Fence: Fish Protection (see pond protection) Pond Protection Kits: Repellants: Traps: Ultrasonics and Strobes: Water Sprayers: |
Raccoon Repellants Coyote Urine and Dispensers Raccoon repellents can be highly effective. But they vary a lot, and certain ones tend to do some jobs better than others. So one should try to choose a repellent well-suited to the task at hand. Coyotes treat raccoons as big wandering pot roasts and devour lots of them. So when coyote urine is around, raccoons tend to go elsewhere. Raccoons also have a refined sense of smell far more delicate than ours. So a small supply of coyote urine spread around a yard can be undetectable to people while scaring the dickens out of raccoons and other medium to large critters (up to and including deer) that coyotes hunt. Coyote urine’s big disadvantage is that it doesn’t last. Rain washes it out, and in 2 or 3 weeks it is gone and the raccoons have returned. Therefore, this repellant must frequently be renewed. It can be made to last longer by deploying an outdoor hanging bottle dispenser (the one offered below, product 11-23, keeps the scent potent for a month) or plastic capsules planted in the ground. The less obtrusive capsules (product 11-24) generally keep the repellent active for at least one month, sometimes up to two. Simply fill the capsule (each holds a twentieth of an ounce of urine), cap it, carry it to the place you want it, undo the plastic cap, and poke the pointed end into the ground until the top of the capsule is even with the soil’s surface. To make this really effective, the capsules should be placed in a line and situated about a foot apart, which makes them well-suited to guarding flower gardens and other small areas. They do a less reliable job of protecting vegetable gardens or trash areas where there is a good food source, because this gives the raccoons or other animals an ongoing incentive to explore–which may cause them to realize there are no coyotes, and hence over time they may come to ignore the smell. Shake-Away™ Deer and Large Animal Powder
Shake-Away™ is a more refined form of coyote urine (see above) that comes as a powder. One 20-ounce container (see below) holds enough to create a protective strip one foot wide and 600 feet long around the perimeter of a vegetable garden. Shake-Away™ can also be sprinkled lightly over vulnerable bulbs, bushes, and flowers (which it will not harm) for maximum coverage. The 20-ounce bottle of Shake-Away™ comes with a limited manufacturer’s guarantee of effectiveness. This product lasts considerably longer (4 to 6 weeks) when used indoors or in outdoor areas protected from the weather. To apply it in such areas (in attics, basements, garages, sheds, greenhouses, ground underneath buildings, etc.) put two or three ounces on a paper plate and locate one plate in each 10-foot x 10-foot area to be protected. You can also place 2 to 3 ounces of Shake-Away™ in cut-off pieces of nylon stockings with the ends tied. If the area to be protected is hard to reach, toss one of these stocking balls into each 10-foot x 10-foot area. Keep in mind that coyote urine may not keep hungry raccoons away from established food supplies–so that Get Away® and (especially) Ropel® are the first choices for preventing attacks on garbage, while the best defender of stocked fish ponds is an electric fence.
This versatile raccoon and squirrel pest repellant (a sprayable liquid mix of mustard oil and chile extract in a vegetable base) works both by odor and by taste. So it is good at discouraging raccoons and opossum attacks on garbage and can keep these animals from digging in gardens, lawns, and landscaped areas. It resists washing off, and its pleasant lemon scent is inoffensive to people.
This repellent's time-release granules are most useful indoors (when hung in mesh bags) at keeping raccoons out of areas (like the attic or wall voids) that were once infested. Outdoors, expect a 20-ounce jar of granules to treat 250 square feet of space and last up to 2 months. Indoors, the same 20 ounces can treat 500 square feet of attic space and last up to 3 months.
Ro-pel® gives a harmless but very bitter taste to all chewables and edibles that you want to protect. This product has a well-deserved place in the work of repelling not just raccoons but also deer, rabbits, squirrels, woodchucks/ground hogs, and a further list of interlopers including beavers, cats, dogs, birds, mice, opossums, rats, and others. For catalog web sites dealing with these various creatures, return to our home page, scroll halfway down the page, and click on the appropriate site. In dealing with raccoons and opossums, use Ro-pel® to treat areas where they have been digging, things they have been chewing (where you want them to stop), and entrances and exits to formerly infested areas once you have plugged them up. Ro-pel® also protects seeds and bulbs. A simple soaking for one minute in Ro-pel® before planting will make your seeds and bulbs unpalatable to foraging animals.
This repellant is designed for spraying over a fairly large area. It discourages raccoons, moles, voles, gophers (pocket gophers), squirrels, armadillos, etc. from digging up your landscape or gardens by giving the sprayed soil a bad taste. Whole Control won’t harm plants, turf, or soil and is non-toxic. The container comes with a hose-end sprayer for easy spray dispersal and covers up to 5,000 square feet. |
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