Steve:
In a past life, I made my living for several years as a professional hunter/trapper (treeing and or trapping roughly 2,500 raccoons among other animals) and can tell you w/o exception that playing a radio won't deter raccoons. They will grow accustomed to it and if they're hungry, they will continue to fish in your neighbors pond. They'r extremely intelligent animals and figure things out fairly quickly. They'll probably come to enjoy the music while they're fishing as they become accustomed to it.
Live trapping, or some other equally offensive strategy, such as dogs, are the only thing that will definitely deter them
Dennis Plante
Jordan
>From: "Steve Brandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [Mpls] Urban Wildlife
>Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:06:22 -0500
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>The raccoons have been harvesting fish from neighbor's backyard
>artificial pool. She's rejected her husband's offer to employ lethal
>force and my offer of my live trap. She's in the middle of trying an
>interesting technique--playing the radio for six nights. So far she's
>raccoon-free for two of three nights. She may have been playing the
>wrong station that one night. I've suggested she play talk radio, since
>there seem to be lots of querulous voices.
>
>Do anyone else have suggestions for how to fend off fish-hungry
>raccoons?
>
>Steve Brandt
>Kingfield
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