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Will Ammonia Get Rid Of Raccoons

Raccoons are a serious problem especially during baby season, dissuading them from coming to your property either because they are living there or coming to make a latrine is something that many people would like to find. Sadly, as with many animals that live in a city they have no animal predators. While coyote urine …

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Will Ammonia Deter Raccoons?

It’s not ammonia that deters them, it’s the urine of their predators. Wolves and coyotes are their predators. Canines like dogs hunt feline creatures like cats and raccoons. Humans cannot eat them as our bodies have gotten used to cooked food over the past seventy thousand years. We cannot eat any meat that is raw, …

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Why Do Raccoons Come Out At Night?

It’s because they are nocturnal. All nocturnal animals sleep during the day and come out at night. They also tend to be coloured for the night which is why their fur is grey and black with dark rings around the eyes. Have you ever seen a football player rub black grease paint under his eyes? …

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Why Are There So Many Raccoons In Cities

Raccoons are specific in their function in this ecosystem. They have been here before humans and evolved, like us, from the very first mammal morganucodontids, which is a tiny shrew or mouse-sized creature that lived in caves and burrows beneath the might of the dinosaurs 210 million years ago. The raccoon is very much that …

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Where Do Raccoons Live During The Day?

Raccoons are nocturnal and carnivores, they are related to the feline and have the ability to eat almost anything including long-dead cadavers. This makes the raccoon an excellent night stalker and allows them to eat just about anything. In the daytime they tend to sleep in their dens, females during the baby season will often …

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Where Do Raccoons Go During The Day?

Raccoons are rarely out during the day unless they are sick or starving. Raccoons return to their den when they have finished hunting for food. They are nocturnal for that reason. Squirrels and humans are diurnal which means we prefer sunlight to darkness. This is consistent between dogs and cats. Cat people tend to be …

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What To Do If a Raccoon Approaches You

Raccoons, especially adult males can grow up thirty percent larger than the female of the species. They are also more aggressive and while they do not take part in child-rearing their singular goal aside from eating drinking and defecating is to hunt down every last baby raccoon that he did not create himself through mating. …

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