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Home & Lawn Pest Control : How to Keep Raccoons Away

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Hi, I'm Jim Harmon with California Pest Management here in California and we're going to talk

today about how to keep raccoons out of your yard and away from your house. Well the first

thing that you have to understand is why they're over here anyway, they're looking for a place

to make a house and or food. So with those two items and you understand that, then let's

first say let's get rid of the food. So we look over here, we got garbage sitting out

open without a top on it, that's just asking for trouble, but even if we put a top on,

this is a plastic can they can still get chew through and they'll get into it just like

rats or any other animal. They want it, they're going to get it. Sometimes going to a metal

can is going to help, but eliminate the food source. That's number one. If we get rid of

that, they're less likely to hang out. Now many homeowners have aquascapes, they're small

ponds, koi ponds and such in their backyard. Now it's great for the house, it improves

the value and it's very serene and relaxing, but unfortunately koi in a koi pond to a raccoon

is a sushi bar. So you'll be lucky to keep them. That's a whole different topic we'll

get to later. They like to wash their hands and wash their food so having a small little

bit of water source is just a perfect way to entice them to come in to your backyard.

So we have our trash and then we have our water source, this is raccoon heaven. All

we need now is a place to hang out. This is also a smorgasbord salad bar for any raccoon

that comes through the neighborhood. So you just have to be aware and a lot of times you're

going to have to put chicken wire up around your home garden and prevent the raccoons

from getting into it. And sometimes even put it on the top. OK now one of the other reasons

why raccoons are going to come into your yard is because they're looking for grubs. If you've


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