Raccoons v.s. Electric Fence

Well it’s not as exciting as we had hoped. Clearly the first night, they sent a scout, as they always do when things change. The second night they returned to see what they could get for food. It appears that either they are not well grounded, or have a higher tolerance for electrical shock then I thought.

When I got up this morning I had much more footage from the night. I’m in the process of downloading it now to review to see how much of it is our friends, and how much of it is the camera being oversensitive to light changes.

2 Comments

  1. Sharon
    Posted May 14, 2007 at 3:33 pm | Permalink

    Hi,
    I have a worse situation in which robins have built a nest under my deck and we have raccoons. They already got to one nest and ate the eggs luckily before they wer incubated. This nest I’m wondering if I should knock down if it doesn’t have eggs in it before they get to it. I can’t see your videos. Did the electric fence work? Did you ever try a spray or granules repellent?

    Thanks,
    Sharon

  2. Posted May 15, 2007 at 10:35 am | Permalink

    Sorry to hear. Th electric fence worked well, but might be difficult to use around a deck. . .

    I’ve taken down the fence and am trying a product from Haveahart called Critter Rider. I’ll let you know if it works.

    I believe you need to have the flash plug in to view the videos.

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