we live in the country and have chickens, raccoons are a big problem
they are very easy to trap with those live traps, use table scraps of meat for bait. Our problem is the woods are full of em and you can't get em all
we just have to lock the chickens up at night and not forget
never had em bother our plants, the deer do that
these seem to protect my plants pretty well
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