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Citizen complaint of the day: Sweet Jesus, that's a lot of raccoons

A lot of raccoons

A South End citizen pleads with the city for help with raccoons at Shawmut Avenue and Haven Street:

Family of raccoons living in our neighbor's garden, our fire escape, and our upstairs neighbor's roof deck.

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Give me the TLF any day.

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The little F&*Kers?

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An organization of feathered freedom fighters mostly based in Brookline dedicated to the eradicatoon of human overlords or at least the annual massacre known as Thanksgiving. Their director of social media is known to frequently post calls for an uprising here on Uhub meant to inspire trepidation in the hearts of readers that we could all wake up from a triptophane inspired nap and find ourselves in a Boston version of The Birds replete with Franklin's feathered heroes ripping our eyes from their sockets.

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Cut, giblet, complementary subscription to our newsletter.

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The Alston Christmas is getting out of control!

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Raccoons stay with their mom through teenagerhood, and mom raises them, teaching them how to do stuff like climb and find food. That looks like a mom and four kits. It's pretty cute.

There is a whole documentary about it on Netflix about urban raccoons in Toronto. It's very interesting.

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I saw that documentary too, and while it was interesting, it's not so cute of those things are in your yard or in your cellar or house. They are urban pests.

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..."so what do you want us to do about it"?

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Is the actual complainant posing in the picture, as in what has become par for the course in Citizens Connect complaints lately. Come on, South End Citizen, pose in the picture along with the raccoons!

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the property owner's responsibility to deal with? If they can't manage it themselves, they can hire a wildlife removal service.

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If it is private property, it is the property owner's responsibility. The city will only do something if it is on city property or in a public area.

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to secure their trash. That's what attracts the raccoons. If your neighbors won't secure their trash, call the city -- code enforcement.

http://www.cityofboston.gov/publicworks/codeenforcement.asp

They'll come out and help your neighbors see the value of making sure their trash doesn't attract vermin.

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They're foraging for food. Trash needs to be secured, meaning in something too sturdy for them to gnaw through (plastic barrels won't cut it) and locked so they can't open it (not just fastened, they're clever and can open fasteners, although you might manage it with steel cans where the lid is tied down with rope through the handles). Gardens need to be critter-fenced. They will strip a garden bare and scatter your trash all over the yard. This is the property owner's job. If your landlord doesn't provide steel barrels or a suitable enclosure, you may need to pony up for one yourself -- they're about $25 at Home Depot -- or just not put out your food scraps until trash day (always a good practice).

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I loop a 3 foot long bungee cord through the top of the trash can and hook both hooks--a single cord is not enough to keep determined varmits out. I think the racoons are kind of cute too but they are wild animals with teeth, claws, and diseases.

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I remember driving into the parking lot behind my building one evening to see two HUGE raccoons angrily staring back at me from the garage. I guess I interrupted their dining experience...
/West Roxbury wildlife

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Rakins are probably eating weed.

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They are obviously coming there because they are attracted to something like food or trash, make it unattractive to them and they will go away. Living in the woods 1-0-1.

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raccoons leave them for the next scavengers.

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