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Post by chils on Apr 27, 2020 18:22:35 GMT -6
I don't think there is any animal in that attic based on what you said. You need to make a motorized propeller with those as the blades rigged to spin on a motion sensor. Gamecam filming required.And a power washer for the blood and guts. When I was battling coons tearing my bird feeders apart I would put my feeders in my grill nightly. They figured out how to open the vent and reach down in the grill. I put a mousetrap in the feeder right under the vent one night. Next day seed looked like it exploded in the grill. I can imagine that coon nearly jumped thru his own butthole when that trap snapped his hand.
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Post by Ken on Apr 27, 2020 19:27:36 GMT -6
And a power washer for the blood and guts. When I was battling coons tearing my bird feeders apart I would put my feeders in my grill nightly. They figured out how to open the vent and reach down in the grill. I put a mousetrap in the feeder right under the vent one night. Next day seed looked like it exploded in the grill. I can imagine that coon nearly jumped thru his own butthole when that trap snapped his hand. These things are very smart and they adapt well. They used to get into my garbage cans. First they would tip it over and after that it was easy. So I would bungee-cord my garbage cans to my fence so they couldn't knock it over. They flipped the lid off, climbed onto the neighboring can and went to town. I separated the cans, I bungeed the lids down (and the kids would complain that it took 30 minutes to take the garbage out!)... they just find a way. Claws, teeth and the ability to not give a feck. I also saw a guy who had a pool and hot tub and the birds would sit on the edge of the tub and shit all over and also bathe in the tub so he would find feathers in there. He rigged a motion-sensored sprinkler right next to the tub. As soon as the birds flew in and landed... instant soaker.
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Post by chils on Apr 28, 2020 18:50:02 GMT -6
When I was battling coons tearing my bird feeders apart I would put my feeders in my grill nightly. They figured out how to open the vent and reach down in the grill. I put a mousetrap in the feeder right under the vent one night. Next day seed looked like it exploded in the grill. I can imagine that coon nearly jumped thru his own butthole when that trap snapped his hand. These things are very smart and they adapt well. They used to get into my garbage cans. First they would tip it over and after that it was easy. So I would bungee-cord my garbage cans to my fence so they couldn't knock it over. They flipped the lid off, climbed onto the neighboring can and went to town. I separated the cans, I bungeed the lids down (and the kids would complain that it took 30 minutes to take the garbage out!)... they just find a way. Claws, teeth and the ability to not give a feck. I also saw a guy who had a pool and hot tub and the birds would sit on the edge of the tub and shit all over and also bathe in the tub so he would find feathers in there. He rigged a motion-sensored sprinkler right next to the tub. As soon as the birds flew in and landed... instant soaker. Crap like this was why I gave up trying to keep them out and started trapping and relocating them. I hauled over 20 off to the lake down the road over a couple years. I could not keep them out and it made my bird feeding a PITA. My FIL recently did like I did and trapped ~20 or so tearing stuff up.
I wish I had made some videos of some of them in the cage. Whew, one was a demon. I very carefully opened the cage from the side and stuffed a stick in the door to hold it up, got in my truck and waited for him to exit.I had no worries about him jumping out of the cage when I opened the door cuz he was face to face with me eyes locked and popping his jaws and growling the whole time--never knew the cage door was open for ~5mins.
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Post by Ken on Apr 28, 2020 19:12:33 GMT -6
I'm generally good with "wildlife" until they want to destroy things or make my home their home. Once that happens, all bets are off. Yesterday I did a decent job covering the access point and today I went and got some "hardware cloth" which is a weird name for stainless steel screening. I cut it and screwed it in place to block off the other stuff I put up there with wood. When my exterior guy comes to do this professionally, I'm going to ask him to make the repair "robust" and also hit another spot where nothing has happened yet but it's a very similar spot. Belts and suspenders.
These things have chewed up garbage cans, chewed through low-voltage wiring in the backyard, woken me up knocking over garbage cans, etc. It's enough already.
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Post by chils on Apr 28, 2020 19:17:23 GMT -6
I'm generally good with "wildlife" until they want to destroy things or make my home their home. Once that happens, all bets are off. Yesterday I did a decent job covering the access point and today I went and got some "hardware cloth" which is a weird name for stainless steel screening. I cut it and screwed it in place to block off the other stuff I put up there with wood. When my exterior guy comes to do this professionally, I'm going to ask him to make the repair "robust" and also hit another spot where nothing has happened yet but it's a very similar spot. Belts and suspenders. These things have chewed up garbage cans, chewed through low-voltage wiring in the backyard, woken me up knocking over garbage cans, etc. It's enough already. Get you a trap dude. Set it in the back yard and see what you catch. I used to make a divot in the ground, put a little lunchmeat in the divot and set the trap on top of the divot with the trigger plate over the meat. Worked every time and I never had bait in the trap.
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Post by Ken on Apr 28, 2020 20:15:54 GMT -6
I feel like your neighborhood is a little more conducive to doing that... you're a little more rural. What am I going to do with the trapped animal? Take it to the Target parking lot and let it go? If they want to come and poke around my yard for grubs while I'm sleeping, fine. Walk across my front yard? Good. But not live on my property or in my attic, no sir.
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Post by chils on Apr 28, 2020 20:29:59 GMT -6
What am I going to do with the trapped animal? Release through the Klopeks doggie door?
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Post by Ken on Apr 28, 2020 21:52:12 GMT -6
What am I going to do with the trapped animal? Release through the Klopeks doggie door? Yeah, see now that I could get behind. Actually... if this thing really did chew a hole through my soffit and only stay for a short time (which is good news), maybe it kept going and sniffed around the Klopek's house. That would be epic. Maybe I could even rent them my camera.
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Post by neddles on Apr 29, 2020 14:10:17 GMT -6
Okay, you asked for it. I should have put something in the pic for scale but I did not. Each piece is probably the diameter of a quarter. If your lucky it developed a GI bleed from the fiberglass it ate and is now dead.
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Post by Ken on Apr 29, 2020 14:52:18 GMT -6
Okay, you asked for it. I should have put something in the pic for scale but I did not. Each piece is probably the diameter of a quarter. If your lucky it developed a GI bleed from the fiberglass it ate and is now dead. I don't think it ate fiberglass. I think it took a dookie ON the fiberglass and when I picked up the dookie some insulation came with it.
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Post by neddles on Apr 30, 2020 7:18:16 GMT -6
If your lucky it developed a GI bleed from the fiberglass it ate and is now dead. I don't think it ate fiberglass. I think it took a dookie ON the fiberglass and when I picked up the dookie some insulation came with it. Doh! I didn't realize the poop had been transported for the pic. That makes sense.
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Post by deerslyr on May 5, 2020 8:15:28 GMT -6
I don't think it ate fiberglass. I think it took a dookie ON the fiberglass and when I picked up the dookie some insulation came with it. Doh! I didn't realize the poop had been transported for the pic. That makes sense. Brick pavers are the new thing for attics don't ya know!? I've got a couple of stories about racoons from a Summer Camp experience with my son... The group I was with, did a mega-dutch oven dessert one night. Used something like 8 dutch ovens. At the end of the night, they were all relatively cleaned (a lot of foil had been used) and stacked underneath the bench of a picnic table. Didn't stop the coons from trying to get into them. But the lids were too heavy for them. For 20 minutes, you'd hear them try to open them and the lid clanging down. It was actually hilarious. My tent was maybe 10 yards away and right next to the Scoutmaster who kept yelling at them. They finally moved on when they realized they didn't want their claws broken by the lids. Next day, we went to one of the activity centers. Each space with a structure has a fire barrel filled with water in case of... well... a fire. At this one, a juvenile raccoon had fallen into the barrel, but couldn't get back out and drowned. For as much garbage as they eat, they actually try to be clean. They think this one was trying to wash up a bit and fell in. There was nothing in there that would have created a smell to think it was food. Just water.
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Post by Ken on May 5, 2020 8:25:11 GMT -6
Still waiting for my exterior guy to repair the hole professionally. In the meantime my not-so-handy work is holding. The other night I was returning my neighbor's wheelbarrow (about 8pm... still light out) and a fat raccoon was walking across the street about 100' from me. Then I got a beer and got into the hot tub (this was after 10 straight hours of shoveling mulch) and I look at the fence that is about 20' from me and there is a raccoon walking across the top of it. I'm yelling, Hey you! No sir! Seriously!? You get the #### outta here! and my wife comes out asking me who I'm yelling at.
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Post by chils on May 5, 2020 12:00:41 GMT -6
Still waiting for my exterior guy to repair the hole professionally. In the meantime my not-so-handy work is holding. The other night I was returning my neighbor's wheelbarrow (about 8pm... still light out) and a fat raccoon was walking across the street about 100' from me. Then I got a beer and got into the hot tub (this was after 10 straight hours of shoveling mulch) and I look at the fence that is about 20' from me and there is a raccoon walking across the top of it. I'm yelling, Hey you! No sir! Seriously!? You get the #### outta here! and my wife comes out asking me who I'm yelling at. That's what I was talking about when I said they aren't too jumpy unless cornered. They just amble along and take their time
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