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From: mmvvmm@mixcom.COM (Daniel Offutt)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Raccoons in my belfry
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Date: 9 May 91 02:41:51 GMT
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afsipmh@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA writes:

>Sorry if this isn't quite the proper forum but:
> I have a raccoon and its pups in my attic.

Go buy a box of mothballs, grind them up (to increase the surface area), and
spread them in your attic where you can sweep them up later.  Close all the
windows in your attic, but leave a small opening -- an easy path out of the 
attic for the raccoons.  You might want to try to seal the rest of the house
off from the attic.  Then wait.  As the naphthalene fumes become more
concentrated in the attic, the raccoons should become more and more inclined
to leave.