hey everybody I'm here today to tell you
how to get rid of raccoons easily
I'll also be telling you how to prevent
them from coming back again now let's
get right to it I'll be going over five
simple things that you can do to make
sure that you get rid of raccoons okay
now let's get right to it
the first thing that you want to do is
actually clean your garbage bins now you
might not have any food in your garbage
bins right now but if raccoons are going
through your garbage bins or the area
around your garbage bins chances are
that there's some food waste that is
stuck on the bins on the inside in one
way or another so just use some plain
dish soap and water and scrub those
garbage bins I know that it might sound
gross but scrub those garbage bins and
clean them you want to get rid of any
scent and any sort of anything that's
left over on or in the garbage bins with
regards to food waste and stuff like
that so step number one is clean your
garbage bin step number two is to
actually lock up and secure your garbage
bins now raccoons are very very smart
and adaptive animals that means that
they can easily open garbage bins that
are high off the ground that have heavy
lids but they can open garbage bins that
are simply secured shut and I can open
garbage bins that are locked shut there
are many things that you can do to lock
your garbage bin closed and secure the
lid use one of the methods and secure
the lid shut you'll probably hear the
raccoons sort of batting at the lid at
night trying to open it up but if it's
shut eventually they're gonna give up
they might try for 20 minutes for half
an hour but they're gonna give up and
that's what you want you want the
raccoons to try and open that lid but to
give up okay
the third tip the third thing that you
want to do is double bag any food waste
now if you put your food waste in a bag
and you tie it up nice and tight okay
the raccoons can probably still smell
the food waste okay and this can include
any food waste any food waste at all
because raccoons will literally any food
waste it doesn't matter what it is so
anything that you eat or any part of a
food that you removed before you eat the
food you got a double bag that and
that's what what
lock the scent of for the raccoons they
will have to be much closer to actually
smell the food if you're putting
double-bagged food waste in the garbage
bin and then locking the lid
chances are the raccoons won't be able
to smell it easily enough and they'll
give up much faster because the smell
won't be as strong when they're trying
to open up that lid okay
the fourth thing that you can do is
clean up any stuff in your yard that
might be attracting the raccoons okay
now this can literally be anything that
they can eat and believe it or not one
of the most overlooked things is pet
food some people give their dogs treats
outside and the dogs eat the treats and
then the treats the subparts of the
treats the crumbs and the falling on the
floor or dogs come outside eating their
pet food and then some stuff some parts
of the pet food fall on the floor and
what happens is raccoons will not pass
up the opportunity to eat food to them
that's just as good of food as anything
else so with that being said make sure
that you're cleaning up any things that
your pets are eating and anything's in
the yard that the raccoons might be
attracted to with regards to eating or
being interested in and last but not
least the fifth tip is to close any
entrance points so you have to figure
out how the raccoons are getting into
your yard okay
look around the fence look around your
house you want to look for any holes
that have pretty much like a three inch
diameter or above and what you want to
do is you want to secure those holes so
you want to either replace the fence
boards if that's what it takes that have
holes in them or you want to put a
little board at the bottom of your fence
if you have a gap at the bottom of your
fence that raccoons are climbing under
you want to use a mesh net of some sort
some steel mesh and sort of secure it
against the holes you want to do
whatever you can to secure those
entrance points and if you do this
eventually the raccoons are gonna find a
different area to go to because they're
gonna come to your house even if you've
secured all of the entrance points and
they somehow find a different way into
your yard they're not gonna find any
food so they're gonna give up with your
garbage bins and by you securing the
entrance points you are pretty much
ruling out the idea of them getting in
and even if they do get in because
you've cleaned the garbage bins
and you've secured them and you've
double bagged your food and stuff like
that you've gotten rid of the pet food
on the on the lawn all of that stuff is
gonna cause them to give up much faster
than if they saw the opportunity you're
pretty much saying hey raccoons look you
can't get in and even if you somehow
managed to get in in some insane way
through a tree branch or something then
guess what you're not gonna find
anything here so they're just gonna move
on to the next spot because they're not
gonna keep coming to the same yard
without getting any food and getting a
reward and that's basically it in this
video I have told you how to get rid of
raccoons easily and how to prevent them
from coming back I hope that you've
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