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After battling and documenting raccoons tearing into our trash time and time again and trying a whole slew of different types of methods to avoid having to pick up garbage left behind strewn all over the walkway we discovered an organic way to deter the little bastards.
Red Pepper Flakes!
Since the Mrs has been sprinkling red pepper flakes all over the lid and top of the trash bags we have been without incident in over a month! Thank god because I’m such a pussy I don’t even want to open the door to club them over the head with a baseball bat and this seems like a whole lot easier method than going all Rambo on them.
Saw this guy in the back of a pick-up truck this morning after being caught in a trap. The owner of the pick-up truck is doing the humane thing and bringing it to the woods where he will pour gasoline on it and let it on fire release it back to the wilderness.
This was a post from a couple years ago-
3:45am Visitors
Posted on August 1, 2009 by Joey C
Boom!
I shot up out of bed like a rocket figuring that the maniac (Snoop Maddie Mad) finally figured out how to climb out of her crib and had landed with a thud.
The Mrs, startled said no, it didn’t sound like a small child hitting the floor and we would have heard her wailing.
Then silence and we hear shuffling outside… GODDAMN RACCOONS!
We’ve been having a problem with them for about a month and last week started putting bungee cords over the lids of the trash cans. Little bastards still got into the trash.
Video at 1PM
3:45am Visitors, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Click the picture below for a video of the brash raccoons
Good Morning Gloucester 
count your blessings – could be the ones with the stripes going longwise wearing chanel #5..
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Before having a garage to house garbage, I remember this scenerio well. Red Pepper Flakes were always recommended. Glad they worked for you. Dating myself, the raccoons could also open up the old under-ground garbage bins with the heavy metal covers…Clever devils.
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they have thumbs…
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…and lots of time.
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Joe, the problem is yours. You are not securing your trash properly – sorry for the tough talk.
I had a similar issue and Andrew revised our trash can to be one that shuts with a bungee cord holding it clamped. No problem. The trash must be properly secured….sh properly. We’d be happy to share the solution.
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I’m not sure my delicate sensibilities will ever recover. 🙂
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“We’d be happy to share the solution”
Bear Trap?
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