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Shanabana
Citizen
Username: Shanabana
Post Number: 316
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 2:22 pm: | 
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Literally, crap! behind the garage, in between roots of a big old tree stump, is what looks like a one-foot-square amount of blackish poop. Not covered, too large to be cats. Just piled up. Do racoons use one spot to poop in over and over, like a toilet? (Recently we had racoons IN our house (it/they ate leftover pizza from the garbe can they tipped over! We closed all basement windodws, and solved the problem.) It's either that, or a really rude neighbor! |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 2843
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 2:33 pm: |
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I apologize, but I really had to go  |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 6084
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 2:42 pm: |
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Shanabana,
Sounds like you have a Mad Crapper in the neighborhood. Good luck. |
Shanabana
Citizen
Username: Shanabana
Post Number: 317
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 3:18 pm: |
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Oh please tell me it's just racoons! |
eliz
Supporter
Username: Eliz
Post Number: 1404
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 3:45 pm: |
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Be careful what you wish for:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/nwgardens/243582_lovejoy08.html
Use the google images feature to search raccoon droppings and you can find some lovely photos to help you identify the 'crap'!
Good luck! |
mtierney
Citizen
Username: Mtierney
Post Number: 925
Registered: 3-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 5:23 pm: |
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For perhaps 10 or more, our second floor "sleeping porch" roof has been the nightly toilet for raccoons - a couple of generations worth I guess. The room, now insulated and heated, is off our master bedroom and we use it as an upstairs den. Every night around 11 p.m. we hear the raccoons walking overhead. I know it's the raccoons since, with the lights out, we can watch them climbing up our pine trees to get to the second level! They sometimes look in at us - or our TV!
They leave a deposit in a corner of the roof near a chimney. Stuff resembles deer poop, but bigger. No unlike the deposits in our cat's litter pan. I can sweep it off the roof from a third floor bedroom window.
We have tried many things - special coatings to discourage these visits, tin pans tied to the trees, and other stuff. They are apparently creatures of habit and must train their young in where the best boilets are located.
As long as they stay on the outside, we are cohabitating. We have our garbage carefully stored and they do not seems to be eating here!
Now squirrels are another story! Those beasts have caused much damage over the years and expense. |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 2846
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 12:15 am: |
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obviously you haven't tried a pellet gun.... |
Shanabana
Citizen
Username: Shanabana
Post Number: 319
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 6:29 pm: |
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Holy ••••, this is a problem. There is a little pile growing next to the big pile. The little pile has little poop. I guess that's where the mom has taught her young to poop.
eliz: Thanks for the website link--now I know to be VERY carefl.
mtierney: how horrid! |
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