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They are sneaky and crafty killers for sure. We used to have three pet turtles that we kept outside. They had a bunch of grass and dirt to roam around in and t
by edm0nd 6y ago
They are sneaky and crafty killers for sure.
We used to have three pet turtles that we kept outside. They had a bunch of grass and dirt to roam around in and then at night we would put them in a plastic container.
One day we woke up and only had two turtles. A thief has struck! I thought it might have been an raccoon so I added a window screen as a top and weighed it down with two large bricks to make sure it stayed on.
The next morning I woke up to find the top knocked off and now we were down to zero turtles. The raccoon simply figured out how to knock the bricks off and get the two remaining turtle snacks inside.
Very crafty indeed.
- gkop 6y agoThis podcast did a good deep dive on raccoon craftiness and mitigating it with engineering: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/raccoon-resistance/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/raccoon-resistance/
- saalweachter 6y agoYou need surprisingly large bricks and blocks to keep raccoons from pulling them aside if they think there is food on the other side.