How to Keep Raccoons Away From Your Home

While raccoons look quite cute, they should not be a welcomed guest in your yard. Many carry diseases and will bite pets or people if they feel threatened. Here are 3 tips for keeping raccoons out of your yard.

  Make it Light  Raccoons are active at night and prefer being in

dark places. To combat this, have one or more motion-activated lights on your property to spook raccoons into running away.

Some Deceptive Sounds  Raccoons prefer to avoid human contact, so you

can trick them into thinking people are around and that will make the raccoon less likely to stick around. One way to do this is to set up an outdoor radio by your trash cans. Set it to a talk station and raccoons will avoid the area.

  Cover Your Trash  The main reason a raccoon will enter someone's

yard is for food.

If you don't secure your trash, then you may be host to nighttime feeders. Using a lock or bungee cord on your trash cans can help keep raccoons and other pests from coming around for a bite.

  These tips will help decrease the number of raccoons who hang out in your yard. Some raccoons are stubborn though and will hang around even with the most sophisticated measures. If you have a stubborn raccoon, check this website for raccoon removal in Burlingame.