OT - How do you keep the fricken fracken animals away from garbage can?

[MartiesMom2B]

This is the third time that I've had to clean up garbage from my back yard and I'm sick of it!!!! If I catch that dog/cat/raccoon or other beast going through my garbage, I'm going to give it the boot.
We don't have a garage or any other enclosure for the trash cans to go into. Anyone have any good ideas or know of any animal proof trash cans????

Sonia http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/character/1/character03.gif
Proud Mommy to Martie

[jk3]

We are dealing with this too. In our case, it's a family of Raccoons. I think our solution will be to buy that storage bin for garbage cans by Rubbermaid. I don't know why we (and when I say we I mean my dh!) hasn't purchased this system already because this is a nightly battle with the animals. HTH!

Jenn
DS 6/03

[urquie]

maybe bungee cords to secure the lid.

maybe scatter moth balls around it... animals are "suppose" to not like the smell.

[Marisa6826]

Sonia-

You don't use 'sposies do you?

We have the same problem, but I've found that if I scatter Sophie's wet dipes throughout the garbage (like two or three in each garbage bag), the animals tend to stay away.

I don't think they like the smell of people urine ;)

-m

[brigmaman]

My parents had this problem several years back. Raccoons (I saw one one night and I swear it could have been a horse it was so big!) actually ate through the can lids. We bought my father this

http://www.bettymills.com/cgi-bin/store/index.cgi?search_stores=&cart_id=9284991.1479&pid=2205

for Father's Day. It's the only solution we've found.