Raccoons On Roof
Barry Brown
Greg...
Raccoons can jump quite a distance. Unless you have trimmed everything
for some distance from your house, don't be surprised if you find that they
are jumping from a tree to your roof. As far as vertical climbing of walls,
I've not seen a raccoon do that. They are not built to be mountain
climbers....but they do jump and they climb trees well.
Take a walk around your house again and look at it from a raccoons
perspective i.e. how would you get on the roof if you had to?
I wish you luck in your quest.
Barry
Greg P. wrote in message <01bd561e$0046f5e0$a014c2cf@default>...
>I have trimmed away all trees and bushes from the perimeter of the house,
>but still
>they are getting up on the roof and tearing up the cedar shingles.
>
>Does anybody have any ideas.....can they climb a vertical cedar siding
>wall, or a chimney ?
>
>Any thoughts as to how to find out how they are getting on the roof from
>anybody
>who has encountered the same problem ?
>
>Thx in advance,
>
>Greg
>Vancouver
Greg P.
Barry Brown
Greg...
Only if they can jump at a downward angle onto the roof...but a straight
across jump, I don't think so. Are you sure that it's raccoons on your
roof? If you live in the forest, the forest rats get pretty aggressive at
night. They will access all kinds of areas...even crawl along power/phone
lines etc. And, they get pretty big. Aside from that, I'm out of ideas.
If you do see raccoons on your roof and want to keep them off, try
spraying water from a garden hose onto the roof. Raccoons are pretty smart
and once they get conditioned to the fact that they're going to get wet when
they climb onto the roof, they should stop. But that means getting up in
the middle of the night when you hear them on the roof...which is a pain.
Let me know what eventually happens...
Thanks..
Barry
Greg P. wrote in message <01bd56c0$53222c60$2014c2cf@default>...
>Thx for your's Barry...
>Do you think they would jump ,say, 5 feet....that's about the distance from
>the nearest tree
>to the house ?
>Greg
>
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Greg P.
JUNGLETMR
Most lotors (coons) can readily climb vertical chimneys and do so with ease,
it seems that you may need to address why they are wanting to tear up your
roof....in early spring in the south butterfly pupae tend to congregate on
cedar shake siding and shingles for a few weeks before they change from
catipillars to butterflies, raccoons LOVE these little snacks..I ve seen a
large clan ripp a roof apart over night that was covered with pupae.....
An effective deterent to them getting back on the roof is spraying the roof and
siding with a light mixture of capsacin (pepper cream)
while using a face mask.....it burns a little and causes no discoloration, last
about to four months and deters all types of pest, rodents and bugs. this
causes no harm to the coons and they usually are bright enough to remember not
to visit YOUR roof ever again........Also, placing handfulls of dog hair ( see
a local groomer) around the edges of the roof and walls in the flower beds
,ect.. is fairly effective and cheap and doesn't have the risk of you being
Peppered by accident.....oh by the way.....most adult boar raccoons and sows
can easily leap over nine feet when tempted , ticked off, or teased. usually in
a downward motion.
>can they climb a vertical cedar siding
>wall, or a chimney ?
>
>Any thoughts as to how to find out how they are getting on the roof from
>anybody
>who has encountered the same problem ?
I own a humane wildlife management company in N.C.
and this is a common problem I encounter on a regular basis....
Thanks!
SWSOUTHARD
No matter what you do they still can climb your roof
I am a nuisance trapper for our city, I use live traps to reloacte the
racoons. you should call your local law enforcement to see if they have an
animal control officer. they will trap and relocate the coons. Just a fact
about coon,,, right now they are nesting to have little ones. these sows will
cause tremendious damage to homes including open chimneys, eves and attics.
they will cause alot of damage, example, a woman asked me to remove one and
it was found that the sow had several litters up in her attic. I found urin
stains on her walls in the room below her nest. Also found urin stains on the
drywall ceiling. She had over $7,000.00 dMge to her home from the animals
feices and urin and damage she caused building her nest. Now If our local DNR
doesn't allow hunting and trapping for these animals, our Home Owners
Insurance will go up! It's importain for us to do our share inn the
conservation of our wildlife! Hope this helps SWS
JUNGLETMR
In my state all raccoons have to be put to sleep due to the very high disease
rate, but >No matter what you do they still can climb your roof> is not true. I
have been a nuisance trapper for over
fifteen years and there are alternative means to keep them off of your
roof.......It just means that you may have to experiment..try the pepper and
dog hair solutions first, then get more aggressive if that doesn't work....feel
free to email me for any suggestions or write to : Jungle Tamers Humane
Wildlife Control & Management
1200 Blain Street
High Point,N.C. 27262
enclose SASE or Email me at "JUNG...@AOL.COM"