It's official... we have raccoons in our attic

JustDave said:
I use that poison all the time, and never ended up with one of the dead mice in my woodshed. I wanted them gone, because when I left them alone, I had copperhead snakes move in. But once I had something in there that was gobbling up the poison. And also chewing up gloves, both rubber and leather. It went on for weeks. So I went out and bought a live trap and put some of the poison bait in it. The next morning I had the little devil in my trap, but it wasn't one of those ugly Norwegian Rats.

It was a large, but rather elegant looking critter. Slim and trim and longer legs. I sent a picture to a knowledgeable friend who identified it as a wood rat, a type of rodent that didn't require human garbage to live on. I took him out the woods a mile from my house and released him into the wild. I hope he was OK, because that rat poison is nasty stuff. Hence the rubber gloves in my woodshed I used to handle it.
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I used to live on a high bank of a river here that had several slew run offs that went into the river where copperheads went to feed
all the time. That is when I became addicted to weed whackers and leaf blowers to keep my yard clear as those snakes would be under
a pile of leaves digesting and I had kids playing in the yard. I have killed many with a shovel. I sure don't blame you on not wanting those in a dark shed.
 
I live in a residential neighborhood and I've caught a bunch of possums, skunks and feral cats through the years in live traps using cheap canned cat food for bait....I haul them across the river a few miles away to a wooded area and release them unharmed.

We must not have any raccoons in the neighborhood because I've never seen or caught one.

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