How can I discourage this unwanted visitor?

I think under the circumstances you would need to
call WildLIfe and Game or whatever name they go
'by in your location and have them come and move
Mr. Raccoon to a different location instead. no harm
to the raccoon or to you and no more problems.

Ewwwwwww, I don't blame you one bit for not wanting that animal around! Yes, they can be very mean, even if they're not carrying rabies. Since they enticed it up there with food, I'm going to suggest something that's probably going to sound a bit strange. I use cayenne pepper in my birdseed to keep the raccoons out of my birdfeeder. It doesn't bother the birds, but the raccoons hate it!

So, my suggestion is to put a piece of bread out there and heavily lace it with cayenne pepper. (Maybe put a little margarine on it first so that the pepper sticks on better) Once it has a taste of that it may decide that the food source there is not good anymore and avoid it like the plague. Basically, cayenne acts on them like it does on us humans...it's hot! I can't think of any other method outside of trapping it in a live trap and relocating/releasing it to a woods somewhere. I know that the cayenne in the birdseed works extremely well and they no longer come up by my house or my feeder. It might be worth a try?!

So that's where you've been! I've been wondering where you were. I had no idea that you were moving and all. Good luck at your new home!

If there is not animal control - like there isn't around here. You can use a "live trap" trap it and take it somewhere else and let it out of the trap. I have no idea what a live trap costs because my husband made ours.

But it does solve the problem and the animal is set free to live somewhere else. No harm done. Good luck.

poison it, you have yours and your family's life at risk

OH man is it ever Great to see you back!!!I'm not sure what to do about your Raccoon. Maybe Grandpa Bob will take him. Read his post when you have a minute. Between Minnie and her dad they have adopted a raccoon. I sure wouldn't feed him. If it were me I wouldn't want him there at all either so I would go to the animal shelter and get a cage and cage him then the animal shelter could put him out in the wild or whatever they do???

CrazyN, I would call wild life control, they will trap him and set him out to better hopefully non human inhabited woods....This is the problem when people befriend wild life.. They become dependent and unafraid. As cute as he maybe he is still wild and you are very right about the rabies threat.

He is only coming around because the last people fed him. Once he knows he won't be getting handouts from you, he will probably go away. Make sure there is no food left outside and that he can't get into your garbage can. If you see him outside, clap your hands or make noise to scare him away. You could even keep the hose or a powerful squirt gun handy to turn on him. It won't hurt him, but it will break his trust in humans and he will hopefully return to more "natural" ways. If he continues to be a pest, call animal control.

Thats gona be a problem!the raccoon is used to be feed so this will take a wile for him to figure out the previous owner has left.Just make sure not to feed him not even once or he wont leave.
I had one coming the place I used to live in the mountains,but he keept finding a way to get the trash till I had enugh and shot him with a bbgung.Wich dident work and I`m happy about it (later on I seen her babys:O )But the raccoon accualy stopt going for the trash mabay because she got scared instaed waitet for me to give her something:)))))
good luck.

Lol!! this is a very cute unwanted guest that you having, i initially thought that could be some sort of sales person who insists on selling you something. Anyway, I think to teach them a lesson not to get to your house compound (eg. shouting at them, beating them hartly) would be quite a decent method to discourage them.

Do you eat raccoons? Well if you do you can feats on your problem, their fur can keep you warm during winter, infact encourage them, breed them and you can start a whole designing label, and a small can food factory.
If you do not eat them, well you can call the animal control.