Safer 5929 Critter Ridder Animal Repellent Granules - Repels Raccoons, Skunks, Dogs, Cats, Chipmunks, Squirrels & Groundhogs - OMRI Listed for Organic Use - Protects up to 300 Sq Ft

Okay…so earlier this week I spent several hours deep in reviews of products on Amazon to get rid of whatever animal is living under my porch. Raccoons were suspected but I thought it could be opossum or groundhog since I’ve seen all of them in my yard. I happened upon this product and the review that talked about shaking the bottle down the chimney and the mother left with her babies sold me. Added to cart. But how was I to know when said anima vacated and it was safe to board up the hole I’ve been dealing with for years not knowing when I would be trapping an animal under to perish? Added a $40 security camera to cart. Items arrived and I waited for Friday night stakeout. Around 7:30pm I doused this product liberally into the opening and around it. At 8:25 a motion alert on the security camera went off. Raccoon was identified and it seems be be turned off on what was sprinkled around. (Noticeable scent of pepper to me). I don’t know if it was coming back or came out due to the substance. By 9:44pm the mama raccoon was leaving with her two babies. I quickly jumped to action and blocked the hole. But one of the babies followed me back in the house and I screamed and had my daughters sleep over terrified of the intruders. It found its way back out quickly when I opened the door. Sleep over never to forget. This is a tue story. I don’t know if the repellent is the star of the show here or the security camera and they were already going out for the night foraging but I would buy this and do the exact same thing again. Hopeful the groundhog under the shed gets the memo and moves out too since I splinkled it al over.

I had really high hopes for this product based on the reviews, but I have a very serious problem with cats getting into my car from underneath and then basically hiding under the hood, etc, and these are part of a cat colony that I am TNR-ing and they trust me, so I guess they think they can trust my car. Are used up the whole canister sprinkling the granules all around my car exterior right at the side of the wheels and I got up this morning and the first thing I see are the kittens coming out from underneath the car yet again walking right across the granules without a single problem. They’ve been back-and-forth across it a bunch of times and it does not have any effect on them. They don’t seem bothered by the smell at all and now I do not know what to do. I feel like I wasted $24.99 and money is insanely tight right now so that’s not cool, and I still have a problem. I thought about attempting to get a refund, but I don’t know how I would do that since I don’t even have the canister since the trash picked up last night and I don’t have any product left.

Most recently I used this to discourage the naughty groundhog from eating my chard and Brussels sprouts. It does work well but, of course gets absorbed and washed away when there is rain. The thing is, he seems to get used to it. Because he’s persistent, I have this in a cycle of 3 products used to protect the veggies. In the end, I won. But this takes some consistency on the gardener’s part. All in all, it not offensive to humans (as are putrefied food repellents). It washes off easily. And, it works.

Rain and lawn sprinklers negate the effects of this product. Not very useful

I had a family of raccoons that took up residence in my basement fireplace. I found out when fleas mysteriously invaded the basement (yuck). Up until the fleas, I had honestly thought I just had chimney swifts again (common in my area) due to the high-pitch chirpy noises being made by the raccoons. ... then I saw the mother raccoon climbing up my gutter onto the roof one afternoon.I watched a video where a guy used this product with good results, so I figured why not? My goal was to evict them without torturing the babies or killing any animals in an inaccessible part of my chimney.Day 1: cautious sprinkle down the chimney and wait... unhappy baby noises from time to time but no luck.Day 2: another caution sprinkle. No results.Day 3: heavy application down the chimney... basically the rest of the bottle. We got more unhappy baby noises followed a couple hours later by the beautiful sight of mama raccoon carrying each (large) baby out and into the woods. I then promptly installed a proper chimney cap. Problem solved... except for the fleas in the basement, which was a 3-week battle of its own.Be carefully if you're using this in windy conditions... you're basically handling oily, peppery cayenne powder.

I use a combo of repellents and methods ... but I have witnessed this deter groundhogs ... gotta reapply liberally after rain and time and sun ... so there is the $ things but right now has been well worth it. The vendor sent the wrong item by mistake initially, but resolved things very efficiently and amicably. We all make mistakes ... what do me make of them? That is the question ...