Keeping Raccoons out of the pond

My suggestion, which won't do you much use, is to make your pond with the
sides going straight down. The only way that I have found to deal with
raccoons is this method (also has kept out the herons from my pond but I
have considerable growth around the pond and my sides go down almost 3').
If you want shallow edges you can still have them but then in the center go
straight down on the sides and put crates along the sides to put plants and
form a barrier to keep fish from going into the shallow edges. If you build
a pond, wildlife will come. I know the fish lovers in here will flame me
for this but I come down on the side of the wildlife which we are decimating
by building over their habitat.

DK

"Dean Krick" wrote in message
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Hi... has anybody had success in keeping raccoons from attacking their
ponds? Raccoons have ate of my 50 or so fish in the pond down to 10. The
pond is shallow, 2 feet at the deepest (but very long). Animal control
has provided me a humongous trap, but I can only keep it for so long
and also have only caught my cat's and dogs. Thanx