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  • From: nancy szerlag <szerlag@earthlink.net>
  • To: "larrymaxcy@earthlink.net, gardenwriters-on-gardening" <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [gwl-g] Raccoon repellent
  • Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:13:16 -0400

How about this. Tape sheets of cardboard to the steps and slather the
cardboard with Tanglefoot. We have also had good luck ringing our garden
with a solar powered electric fence by Fi-Shock. Www.fishock.com.

Nancy Szerlag
The Detroit News.
> Thanks, Jean. The best suggestion so far is a shotgun, but that's not
> acceptable to my significant other. Or at least not yet. She lives on a
> bluff
> overlooking an inlet of Puget Sound, and a extended raccoon family
> cohabitates
> there, too.
> If I get a useful suggestion, I'll post it.
>
> Larry (now in Olympia, Washington)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jrnatter@aol.com
> Sent: Oct 3, 2005 10:32 AM
> To: gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [gwl-g] Raccoon repellent
>
> Actually, a reply, on list, would be helpful. Other folks have the same
> problem but haven't yet found a "fix."
>
> Jean
> in Portland, OR
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 11:21:34 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
> From: larrymaxcy@earthlink.net
> Subject: [gwl-g] Raccoon repellent
>
> Can anyone recommend a surefire raccoon repellent. I would like to keep
> raccoons
> from messing on a long wooden stairway which goes down a hill toward
> water.
>
> In the same vein, does anyone have any experience with Havahart
> granular
> repellent as opposed to their spray-on one?
>
> Please send any responses to me off-line, at larrymaxcy@earthlink.net
>
> If you know something which will work, you will save me hours of
> scraping and
> tossing, and I will be forever grateful!
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