Raccoons in Your Trash

Nothing could be finer than waking in the morning, getting ready for the day and then walking out your door to find the trash you placed in the bin the day before scattered all over your porch, steps, and yard. Each morning before I head out now, I place my hand on the door handle and take a moment of silence to pray that I will not find a sea of carnage before me upon the start of my glorious day in the world. I have started to think that if I open the door and my garbage is not sprawled all over the place, this is the sign of a good day. However, when I see the ghastly sight of banana peels and tissue paper and cans before me, this is definitely the sign of a very bad day. If you are like me, and the raccoon bandits are the determinant of having a bad day or good day, it is definitely time to make a stand and do something about it. The racoons are going to have to find a new trash can to dine from.


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I personally love raccoons. I think they are awesome creatures. However, if you have ever come face-to-face with one in the middle of the night when they are getting ready to dine on your trash, they are not so cute anymore. Oh, no . . they can in fact become a bit scary, especially if they are very big raccoons. You know what I am talking about if you have had raccoon bandits. You can try to shoo them away and they don't move. They just kind of sit there and look at you like they are saying, "What is your problem." Now if you are successful in getting them to leave, ha ha, they will come back. They will sit and wait out in the backyard until you are safely tucked away in your house, and they will once again advance to toss around your trash and have some dinner. Look out your window when you are in the house, and you can see their little eyes glowing like moonbeams in the pitch black. Yeah, raccoons are really cute for sure.

I tried to find a way to tell my unwelcome guests that they would have to move along. I have tried all sorts of tips and tricks to get the message across to them. I even felt I began playing some type of game with them at one point. I could envision their little raccoon cackles in the middle of the night saying, "Yeah, the lady pulled a good one tonight, but she lost again," with their moonbeam eyes welling up in tears with laughter, while mine were welling up in despair.

I finally conquered my raccoon bandits. I won the game. Who is laughing now Rocky raccoon? Here is a secret, if you are finding raccoons in your trash and fighting a fierce battle with the raccoon bandits, try using some bungee cords on the barrels and also placing clothes soaked in ammonia around them. If you do this, they will not bother you anymore, and you can once again look at the raccoon as an awesome creature instead of the trash-thieving scoundrel it truly is.