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- From: charleen@ADS.COM (Charleen Bunjiovianna)
- Newsgroups: ba.general
- Subject: Re: Raccoons?!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.150731.24822@ads.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 15:07:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul20.201102.20008@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> rfrench@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Robert S. French) writes:
- >There are a couple of large raccoons that have figured out how to go
- >through my cat door and open the kitchen cabinets. I stopped them for
- >a while by pointing a flood lamp at the door, but last night they came
- >in again. Does anyone have any ideas of how to discourage them
- >further? Or does anyone have an animal trap I could borrow for a few
- >days so they can be "relocated"?
-
- Call the Humane Society of Santa Clara County. They'll put you in
- touch with the folks who have the raccoon traps. I think you have to
- reserve one ahead of time.
-
- I looked into this once because we had a Terminator-sized raccoon
- making nocturnal visits and our cats started disappearing. The Humane
- Society thinks that cats are too large to be prey for raccoons, but
- I've heard differently from other sources.
-
- Charleen
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