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Hi; thanks so much for all these replies! Wanted to thank you all individually but it's a lot of handles! So here's the deal: no, wasn't feeding tux. Neighbor w/2 big dogs (inside except when walking) is feeding tux. They also have bird feeder. Neighbor on other side has apple tree and thinks composting means throwing fruit rinds on soil.
I really just used a teensy bit of the coyote/fox urine granules at selected points around house. Just no idea what distance scent carries. Am also going to get peppermint stuff but amazingly they don't have any in stock in any hardware store nearby. Peppermint just supposed to repel chipmunks (and worse) but not cats.
Because rain does wash all this stuff away, wondering if raccoons won't get used to not going into yard and then stay away. Again, want the cats but nothing else. I think i definitely saw a few raccoons because they had the right shape, they were making this weird little clicking noise, and they didn't seem to be afraid of me until I started squirting them w/h20. But on the other hand I definitely know the 2nd cat (the one that made a reappearance after tux left) was definitely ducking under the greenhouse the few nights previous to the raccoon (poss. possum?) sighting. I would see it slinking under there when I was watering.
If the 2nd cat was not a tom and had kittens under greenhouse, when I saw shapes leave greenhouse they were too big to be kittens. Any thoughts welcome!
I really just used a teensy bit of the coyote/fox urine granules at selected points around house. Just no idea what distance scent carries. Am also going to get peppermint stuff but amazingly they don't have any in stock in any hardware store nearby. Peppermint just supposed to repel chipmunks (and worse) but not cats.
Because rain does wash all this stuff away, wondering if raccoons won't get used to not going into yard and then stay away. Again, want the cats but nothing else. I think i definitely saw a few raccoons because they had the right shape, they were making this weird little clicking noise, and they didn't seem to be afraid of me until I started squirting them w/h20. But on the other hand I definitely know the 2nd cat (the one that made a reappearance after tux left) was definitely ducking under the greenhouse the few nights previous to the raccoon (poss. possum?) sighting. I would see it slinking under there when I was watering.
If the 2nd cat was not a tom and had kittens under greenhouse, when I saw shapes leave greenhouse they were too big to be kittens. Any thoughts welcome!